Carbon Footprint in Mouth: "Carbon Credits" Examined

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Posted to SciTech on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 08:45:30 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

At the Academy Awards ceremony, Melissa Etheridge preformed her song in front of a slide show that urged viewers to reduce their "carbon footprint" (a measure of how much CO2 you put into the atmosphere) and Al Gore spoke twice about the importance of doing something to stop global warming.  But soon after the awards, the media cycle picked up a new story:  Al Gore's own lifestyle gives him a gigantic carbon footprint, filled with emissions from private jets and a heated pool house that burns $500 a month in natural gas.  Hypocrisy?  Not so fast.

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