The one I read on a similar vein is that every American is towing around the energy equivalence of a full grown humpback whale.

Regarding ClaudeA’s response, I largely agree with Chance, but whatever the cause of global warming, there are a multiple of other reasons to become energy efficient, sustainable, and protective of our home (the earth). Big Coal is destroying whole landscapes in Appalachia and around the world with open pit mining, as the oil shale industry is destroying whole landscapes in Alberta, Canada. Our appetites for more stuff and bigger stuff and more meat and more children and more of this and more of that is creating a deteriorating quality of life and happiness and is imperiling future generations.

Nick – I saw a show on discovery that mentioned a girl had invented a small version of an air filter aimed at cleaning the carbon dioxide out of the air. She wanted to built a 100 or so out in middle of no where and let them do their thing. The thing we really need to stop doing is burning coal, sorry ClaudeA, coal is not a “clean” energy source. It’s actually very dirty, and I’m not just talking about the emissions from burning it. Every part of the process in using coal is damaging to the Earth. Wind, Sun, and eventually nuclear fusion no the answers to both our energy crisis and global warming, which wasn’t started by the humans (it’s a natural process of the earth), but humans sped up the process many times it’s usual speed. I feel sorry for ignorant people like ClaudeA here that thinks it’s all make believe, some conspiracy by scientists to trick us into reading their papers and magazines.

May I assume that by saying ” . . .solving global warming . . .”, you are actually attempting to validate the fault-riddled proposal that humans can cause Earth temperature change? That silly theory is so infinitely riddled with ridiculous assumptions it has gone the way of Darwin’s own refuted theory that species evolved into each other, and from some goofy mass of elements.

However, with the many, many sorces of energy now used, and upcoming on Planet Earth, for powering Man’s great experiment with his own elimination as a viable product of that silly evolution theory (See the NWO documentation on Human Race Elimination here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones, we have hundreds of sources of clean energy, even coal, as we apply the knowledge we have to supply all we need in energy to every aspect of our lives, in any part of Earth.

If, as I am assuming at this point, you propose that humans can change Earth’s temperature by their activities, let’s get that silly notion out in the open, and show it for what is really is, a shill to detract from Third World Development, in order for the NWO to more easily eliminate 99%+ of those peoples from the face of Earth, per the above “Guide Stones”‘ revelation of the agenda of the NWO.

Take the entire population of Earth, transport everyone to the State of Texas, and you find that every human being alive has give or take 31 square feet to live in. Now, take the entire surface of the State of Texas, and render a comparison between its surface and the rest of Earth.

With that result, now calcualte the scope of the energy utilized by the entire population of Earth now residing in Texas, and draw up an equasion where the carbon dioxide naturally produced by Earth is compared to that produced purely by Human Being occupation of Earth.

Now, practice what no al Gore(He refuses to openly interview with the founder(Now deceased) of the theory of Global Warming-as-caused-by-mankind), AFTER he uncovered many flaws in that theory which render it completely invalid – speaking TRUTH about this silly notion of humanity caused global warming.

Better to be politically incorrect, than to follow liars into their loss of respect, and the infamy of disrespect for everything afterward proven as fact.

Whoever figures that out is going to be the first titan of the carbon age, and go a long way towards solving global warming (unless of course they accidentally eat all the CO2 and all the plants die, taking us with them. )