Answer six questions, and see how you affect the climate
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Answer six questions, and see how you affect the climate
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#2Interesting, I got +3.7F despite living in Manhattan, never using a car, not eating beef (silly Indian morality) - but all these boxen in my apartment are increasing my electricity bill. Also, those plane trips without carbon offsets...
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#3I got a +5.2F living by Edmonton, Alberta and we don't even have two cars. The poor world - what are we going to do to you?
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#41) Is the gas cost per year?
2) Is the electricity cost per year?
3) Am I more polluting because my government taxes energy more, which multiplies my electricity cost by more than a factor of 4? Probably better to allow people to enter the amount of energy.
4) Why only ask about beef, not about meat in general?
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#5I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/
Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.
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#6If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
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#7If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
Clearly, you produce too much body heat. We must eliminate you.
As an educational tool, this is flawed. Anyone with curiosity and an attentions span longer than 10 seconds will try the 'all zeros', and the message this sends is that purely by existing, you are screwing up the world. This is not true, as best I know!
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#8If you enter 0 for everything, the average global temperature change is still +1.8°F.
They're projecting using historical data, so that makes sense (if everyone stopped consuming over and above what they've been consuming the temperature would still rise.
From the how it works link: http://thealmanacapp.com/question_sources
Re: Answer six questions, and see how you affect the climate
#9I'm very confused by the other section and see no explanation anywhere but it takes up 75% of my pie chart :/ Edit: Even if everything is set at zero everyone still raises the earth by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. If this site wants to educate people they need to give out more information but as of now it looks like they are just gathering data and making a silly pie chart and map.
There is a how it works link: http://thealmanacapp.com/question_sources
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#101) Is the gas cost per year? 2) Is the electricity cost per year? 3) Am I more polluting because my government taxes energy more, which multiplies my electricity cost by more than a factor of 4? Probably better to allow people to enter the amount of energy. 4) Why only ask about beef, not about meat in general?
1), 2)--probably per month.
3) Well, of course the actual amount of energy would be better, but the poll did say "average American."
4) Because raising cattle is an incredibly expensive way of producing meat. For example, producing one pound of beef takes several thousand more pounds of water than a pound of chicken does. Did you notice how in their energy consumption pie chart how beef alone took up a big slice?
More sources on how expensive beef is: http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/environment.html