The 40-day period of penitence before Easter typically sees observant Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians give up meat, alcohol or chocolates.
But this year’s initiative aims to convince those observing Lent to try a day without an iPod or mobile phone in a bid to reduce the use of electricity ”” and thus trim the amount of carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere.
Let’s see…plants use carbon dioxide as a food source, so in a way the good bishop wants to starve plant life to assuage any guilt for living as a carbon-based life form “polluting” the air with every breath he takes. Sigh!
Maybe he could do a global warming fast, and stop spewing hot air.
Silly people (those bishops, I mean).
Ludicrous and faddish, and of course WAAY behind the times. The English media is far ahead on the US organs in publicizing the fraudulent politicized climate science pheomenon.
“British bishops urge ‘carbon fast’ for Lent”
How about these bishops urging each church-going parishoner to bring at least one non-church-going person to church for each Sunday of Lent?
LeightonC is not far off the mark. I run greenhouses for a living, and plants will begin to suffocate at CO2 levels much below 200 ppm. Most greenhouse operators install CO2 generators because whilst current atmospheric CO2 levels are just under 400 ppm, most plants do best at CO2 concentrations around 1500 ppm.
Interestingly enough, 1500 ppm is pretty much the long term average concentration of atmospheric CO2 since the appearance of [i]Rhynia[/i] and other early land plants about 400 million years ago. Present levels are nearly the lowest in Earth’s entire history; 500 million years ago CO2 concentrations were fifteen times what they are today.
It would appear that far too many bishops these days understand neither the ages of rocks … or the Rock of Ages.
I promise that I will not eat concentrated carbon in the forms of charcoal, graphite, and diamonds.
Everything that is edible has carbon in it (except, possibly, McDonald’s Hamburgers – but then I did say “edible”) so how can I be expected to fast from carbon?
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
Fish: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html
Barrel: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece
Shoot: yourself, bishops, in the foot(s).
Everything that is edible has carbon in it (except, possibly, McDonald’s Hamburgers – but then I did say “edibleâ€) so how can I be expected to fast from carbon?
Sounds like this fast is going to be a little more earnest than we thought. Six weeks of no food.:-)
Sherri2, I believe that sand (SiO2) would be OK. You can wash it down with some water (H2O).
Pica – the new Anglican Lenten diet!
LOL. And ow. I’ll stick to water, thanks!
#10. robroy,
[blockquote]Pica – the new Anglican Lenten diet![/blockquote]
Pica is a disease, not a diet. what kind of prescription is that?
[smile]
I will be giving up being cold for Lent and will throw extra logs on the fire before retiring for the night, since we have reverse “Global Warming” here in Northern Virginia.