Wednesday - December 05, 2007

Glowball Warming guilt? The Jews Blame the JOOOOOS!

From the Jerusalem Post:

In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.

The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.

“The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won’t need another miracle,” said Liad Ortar, the campaign’s cofounder, who runs the Arkada environmental consulting firm and the Ynet Web site’s environmental forum. “Global warming is a milestone in human evolution that requires us to rethink how we live our lives, and one of the main paradigms of that is religion and how it fits into the current situation.”

Can you believe this drek? Using the 15gm figure, and an estimated 13 millions Jews worldwide, I come up with just about 2000 tons of CO₂ produced overall.
I’m not the only one feeling the stupid on this one:

The response of several Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh was summed up by Rabbi Danny Schiff, community scholar at the Agency for Jewish Learning.

“You’ve got to be kidding,” he said, after hearing about the campaign for the first time. He went on to call it “an absurd notion.”

“If you’re serious about the environment, you have to look at who the big polluters are—major corporations and countries that have no controls. The challenge is not going to be lost or won by how many candles 13 million Jews around the world light on Hanukkah, especially since a large proportion won’t light any at all. I’d like to see a comparison on how far you have to drive your car to create the same amount of carbon dioxide as one candle.”

Ok Rabbi, here ya go: Using the 15gm figure, and an average car carbon emission of 1lb/mile, the CO₂ output of one candle equates to driving a car 175 feet; if no candles were lit for Hannukah AT ALL it would be the equivalent carbon offset of taking 1250 cars off the road for a year. With roughly 600,000,000 cars worldwide, this savings isn’t even a drop in the bucket - 1/5000 of 1%.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/05/2007 at 09:56 AM   
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