sick of contrarian cynacism towards green issues

lostexpectation

just dug out a copy of wired from june that left me flabbergasted in contrast to the tread about being turned off green issues.

the june issue of wired was a contrarian look at the environment, but it was so stupid page 158 they say

a/c is ok, so a/c has bad rep for using up co2 excesses power etc.

while wood fuelled stove is al trendy and green

but they say because when its 0 degrees outside you've got to raise the temperature to 70 degrees to get a comfort level but when its 110 degrees you only got reduce it by 40 to a similar comfort this somehow means a/c is better? i dunno?

the us cooling with a/c expresses less co2 then heating so somehow a/c is ok
i mean wtf

when its hot it hot and when it cold its cold they have nothing to do with each other and well so what who said heating was better or worse then cooling.

ah found the linkl
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_02ac

CJhaughey

WTF are you trying to say? I lost the gist of your diatribe around the a/c part.

SeanW

my thoughts exactly: would you care to rewrite that in English please?

Though if you were trying to say that you don't agree with the article, fair enough, I find it somewhat logically insolvent myself.

lostexpectation wrote: »

just dug out a copy of wired from june that left me flabbergasted in contrast to the tread about being turned off green issues.

the june issue of wired was a contrarian look at the environment, but it was so stupid page 158 they say

a/c is ok, so a/c has bad rep for using up co2 excesses power etc.

while wood fuelled stove is al trendy and green

but they say because when its 0 degrees outside you've got to raise the temperature to 70 degrees to get a comfort level but when its 110 degrees you only got reduce it by 40 to a similar comfort this somehow means a/c is better? i dunno?

the us cooling with a/c expresses less co2 then heating so somehow a/c is ok
i mean wtf

when its hot it hot and when it cold its cold they have nothing to do with each other and well so what who said heating was better or worse then cooling.

ah found the linkl
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_02ac

Sonnenblumen

Probably depressed because the Minister of Sandwiches has gone stale, whilst the Minister for Bulbs has popped and gone out!


The greens are a disgrace and their silence throughout the proposed discriminatory Medical Card controversy is repelling so much so they should be banished come next election.

I hope there is a FF back bench revolt and that day will come sooner.:mad:

Húrin

People adopt contrarian attitudes as a reaction to the self-righteousness of some climate campaigners, and also because of their failure to internalise the seriousness of the climate issue.

lostexpectation

my point is read the article i couldn't understand the resoning either

CJhaughey

Ok from reading the article it seems that the Author is basically complaining that Air conditioning is getting a bad rap for Co2 emmissions.
His comparison between a person burning firewood in a stove as compared to an airconditioner running in a desert climate is not valid.
The two are not comparable, firewood is a co2 neutral fuel and electric power is generally made from nuclear energy.