Comments on: How About a Global Carbon Labelling Law?

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[...] that account for all the carbon in our economy. Then we have to make this information available and as easily accessible as nutrition information is on food. That means we need lots of people counting lots of emissions, and the big accounting firms are [...]

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By: russ

russ — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:21:36 +0000

Michael – I agree that nature is balanced or comes into balance in one manner or the other.

Do you really believe that mankinds activities are covered by the natural controls and balances. That the billions of people on earth have no part of throwing the natural balance out the window?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:48:07 +0000

I don't understand the attention that manmade or man related CO2 is attracting as a greenhouse gas. There are many greenhouse gases and CO2 is a minor player. Atmospheric water vapor is a far, far more important greenhouse gas.

CO2 is produced by volcanos, decomposition of vegetative material and microscopic organisms in the soil and in the oceans and by billions of wild animals, birds, and fish. These sources produce thousands of times the amount of CO2 that man related activities produce.

Mankind's contribution to greenhouse gas production is MINISCULE! It is a very, very small fraction of one per cent.

All mankind production of CO2 could stop tomorrow and the world would not notice any difference at all.

By: Birte

Birte — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:49 +0000

Carbon emissions must be controlled. It does not matter where we start, as long as we start.

Carbon taxes seem a great idea, whether accepted internationally or only by separate governments, to start with the more developed countries. It seems only fair to start there. They were the first to spill out huge amounts of Co2 and in the process teaching the rest of the world.

Other countries will follow, as they have and will continue to follow in the footsteps of the developed world.

Seems like a simplistic point of view? Maybe, but oftentimes governments make an issue so complicated that no one can follow. Oftentimes it's the simplistic way that will cause most of us to follow.

By: russ

russ — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:11:08 +0000

I am all for it – show what each and every item costs in carbon emissions. Such as how many tonnes of CO2 are generated in the manufacture of one tonne of steel.

One major point though – the UN would need a rather large carbon accounting police force to insure compliance and accuracy. Guess that would create jobs at least.

As there would be no penalty for misrepresenting the carbon number (of any significance) I can see products from many companies in Asia coming in with negative carbon numbers – even government certified numbers!