New Zealand produces about 35,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Earlier in the year the sum of $15/tonne of CO2 produced was mooted by Climate Change Minister David Parker.
Run these figures through Junk Science's Real Carbon Footprint Calculator and we get ... flashing lights, the whir of high-powered machinery and this result:
Congratulations! You have just saved the planet warming by
0.0000000000151 °C
Just $600 billion (give or take a billion or so) for so for such an 'enormous' result. A bargain, don't you think?!at a cost of just
$595,403,130,086.39 per °C!
Now, what else do you think could be done with that money? [Go here for the working. Go here to try the calculation for yourself.]
And if you have a better calculation or a better calculator, then do let me know in the comments.
LINKS: The Real Carbon Footprint Calculator - Junk Science
Millenium development goal indicators (New Zealand) - United Nations Statistics Division
RELATED: Politics-NZ, Economics, Budget_&_Taxation, Environment, Global Warming
5 comments:
That calculator is worded very poorely.
If, as it claims, you have prevented .0000000000151 `C of global warming at a coat of $595403130086.39 per `C, then so what?
That means you have only spent $8.99. What a piontless summary. . . That's just obvious, if it costs $600 billion to offset 1 `C.
But the UN site must be correct....it has a picture of a smilling kid and everything.
Are you going to KILL that KID!?!?! If you're not part ofthe answer, then You're part of the Problem!!(c)!!
I just had to add another comment because my verification word was "spewn". That's just brilliant.
PC - what figures did you input to get those figures out, out of interest?
DenMT
I'm still of the opinion that the calculator doesn't actually produce any sort of meaningful calculation . . .
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