New Weapon Against Warming: "Flatulence Cards" Offset Dog, Human Emissions

[The Straight Story]

New Weapon Against Warming: "Flatulence Cards" Offset Dog, Human Emissions
Sean Markey
for National Geographic News
March 6, 2007

While global warming is nothing to laugh at, an Australian company is providing some comic relief, selling carbon credits for flatulent pets and people.

So-called carbon emissions, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are greenhouse gases that are thought to be key factors in climate change. These emissions can be offset by purchasing carbon credits, which may be used to fund environmental programs.


For 35 Australian dollars (about 27 U.S. dollars), customers of Sydney-based Easy Being Green can offset a year's worth of carbon emissions linked to their dogs, from trips to the vet to, yes, breaking wind.

Making your cat carbon neutral for a year costs U.S.$6, while U.S.$16 offsets two years of flatulence from that special someone.

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Company spokesperson Murray Hogarth concedes that the "flatulence cards" fall on the "gimmicky" side of the company's otherwise serious product line, which is designed to help consumers and small businesses address greenhouse gas emissions.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070306-warming-credits.html

I'm going to need a lot of those :)

[Forkboy]

1. I've got a full house!

3 flatulances over 2 belches.

[unpossibles]

2. I think I know what I am getting my father-in-law for Christmas n/t

[The Straight Story]

3. Hmmm maybe we should send some to bush, he is full of shit....(nt)