Good for a Chuckle: The O-Fest’s Carbon Footprint
Thanks to the good folks at the Institute for Liberty for today’s chuckle. The pro-entrepreneurship and security think tank — taking the O-Ring at its word regarding its concern about the contribution of nasty greenhouse gases to global warming — has provided the valuable public service of estimating the “carbon footprint” of the festivities surrounding The One’s swearing-in.
The finding: the O-Fest will indeed be a Carbon Bigfoot, in the Institute’s words, slated to produce more than 570 million pounds of CO2. The tally includes more than 25 million pounds of CO2 from more than 600 private jets, another 262 million from personal vehicles and more than 400 pounds of CO2 from horses in the Inaugural Parade. And that doesn’t count the hot air to be produced by the politicians.
According to the IFL’s calculations, it would take the average US household 57,598 years to pump that much carbon into the air. I’ll work on it, though.
PS The forecast for the Inaugural? A brisk and overcast 34 degrees, nine degrees below the average January high.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin weighs on the significance of the official Inaugural temperature.
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Y’know - it’s an old adage in the business world that the louder someone talks the less action you see. The opposite of old TR’s attitude.
The inauguration’s footprint is pretty funny, but I think 2007’s report on Al Gore still edges it out.
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