Comments on: Popping the cork spills carbons too

Champagne makers toast to reducing their carbon footprint.

[icrave]

Is that net carbon emissions?

I wonder if this study which found that 200 grams of carbon are produced for each bottle of champagne remembered to account for the carbon dioxide absorbed by grape vines growing the wine grapes.

[MadLyb]

What about soft drinks?

I think there might be a tad more production and consumption of soft drinks than champagne.

[SWBBPhil]

so does breathing, and biofuel manufacture.

We are a carbon based life form and emit CO2 when breathing. Cyclists expel increased levels of CO2 when pedalling along so they aren't zero carbon either.

When sugars or starches are fermented to the biofuels beloved of environmentalists about half of the mass of the feedstock is emitted as CO2 and the rest becomes ethanol. That's before we even start on the emissions from fuels used to grow and harvest the crop or to process it.

[rant1946]

Reduding personal carbon emmissions

I have decided to reduce my personal carbon footprint by stopping breathing. I've estimated that if I do this for long enough I can compensate for all my past CO2 production. Except of course for the decay afterwards. But then, knowing Greedy Gordon the Scots Tax Grabber, we'll have a post life carbon allowance to be regulated by OffCarb. Provided we make a pre-death payment to compensate for the post death.........AAAAAGh. Loonies are running the asylum