{"id":1235,"date":"2009-12-07T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2009-12-07T21:33:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:33:51","slug":"41000-tons-of-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"41,000 tons of CO2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>41,000 tons of CO2 is the amount of &#8220;CO2 equivalent&#8221; that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.cop15.dk\/\">Copenhagen climate summit<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/copenhagen-climate-change-confe\/6736517\/Copenhagen-climate-summit-1200-limos-140-private-planes-and-caviar-wedges.html\">expected to produce<\/a>. No, it&#8217;s not the amount produced by Switzerland in a year, even though CNN&#8217;s Jack Cafferty said so, probably missing the phrase, &#8220;thousands of&#8221; in the column heading of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions\">Wikipedia&#8217;s statistics<\/a>. But it IS the amount of CO2 some smaller or less developed countries, e.g., Slovenia, Lithuania, or Kenya produce in a day. Another way of looking at it is that during its 12 days, the climate summit will be responsible for about 0.004% of the <em>entire world<\/em>&#8216;s CO2 output.<\/p>\n<p>No need to worry, I am sure there is a neat &#8220;trick&#8221; that can be used to &#8220;hide&#8221; this embarrassing little data point, too, lest it dilutes the message about the coming climate disaster.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1235' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41,000 tons of CO2 is the amount of &#8220;CO2 equivalent&#8221; that the Copenhagen climate summit is expected to produce. No, it&#8217;s not the amount produced by Switzerland in a year, even though CNN&#8217;s Jack Cafferty said so, probably missing the phrase, &#8220;thousands of&#8221; in the column heading of Wikipedia&#8217;s statistics. But it IS the amount <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1235' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weather","category-5-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}