well that means we don't even need an asteroid anymore.

Self inflicted extinction.

It will make for a really interesting Business Case Analysis at MBA schools throughout the land.

Not to mention the number of trees saved, it will also save C02 emissions from the recycling process of old newspapers, in addition to the savings of emissions from the distribution of said papers. Although I don't think we will ever see the complete elimination of the newspaper, we will and are seeing fewer of them published.

Some critics are saying that the newspaper industry cannot go out of business fast enough.

Yeah shaken, like me!

First they came for the _____ and they didn't speak out.

Then they came for the _____ and they didn't speak out either.

Then th

The first cohort of trust fund journo graduates from the mass production progressive marxist kindergarten on up educational system set up shop after being carefully taught how to avoid any original thinking that might impede their grasp of the correct leftist mindset. Poor things never realized the cohorts behind them were being taught how to avoid wasting time on stuff like original reading.

Wow that's a lot of gas! Newspapers should do the right thing and shut down now!

But they want to hang on and continue polluting the atmosphere until the government takes over paying their employees through Americorps.

"It also wants the federally-funded AmeriCorps to finance jobs for journalists" - worldtribune dot com

Interesting....Maybe if we got rid of the useless people that done the study there will be even more savings...

Self-interest is a motivating factor in long term successful capitalist enterprise. The key words would be 'long term' and 'successful'.

This is how government financed sciencists are treated.

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/11/australian-government-allegedly.html

This one in Australia, and the guy is even an AGWER, but noooo, he didn't follow the Lysenko line, so he is trashed.

Don't let anyone say science financed by BIG corporations is corrupt while that financed by BIG government is pure and true.

The local weekly *newpaper* is the only one that comes in our house these days - it's free. I check it out then it's recycled as direct energy to start the wood stove. It's more than enough.
Some time ago we use to have subscriptions, read newspapers almost daily wherever we were, not any longer.

By the way S-I-L living in southern Ontario has noticed that their recycle box is dumped right into the garbage truck with the rest of the garbage these days...so she asks me: Why am I recycling?
I just smiled and told her we don't even bother with the blue box any longer.
Great size to hold kindling though...

This justin*.

Warmite eats wombat and small dead animals; one claw at a time; burrows for more.
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“Australians care less about climate change

A new international survey has found Australians no longer care about climate change as much as they do about domestic issues and the financial crisis.

The survey looks at attitudes towards climate change in 12 different countries and found concern in Australia dropped in the past year by 14 per cent, the largest drop among the developed nations surveyed.

The Climate Group, which advises governments and businesses on low-carbon policies, was one of the groups that commissioned the survey.

The group’s CEO, Steve Howard, says Australians do still care about climate change.

“Around the world, 4 out of 5 people want to see a good global deal in Copenhagen,” he said.

“Are people a little bit less concerned than this than 12 months ago or 2 years ago? Yes they are, but we’ve just had a global financial crisis and I think we’ve seen a reordering of people’s priorities.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/02/2730362.htm?section=justin*

800 million tonnes , seems a bit high
sounds like something the MSM would say about the vast right wing conspiracy.

Can someone please explain exactly what "intellectual pollution" is? I'm guessing it has something to do with being "green"...

The Centre for the Study of Physical and Intellectual Pollution? You have got to be kidding.

"Can someone please explain exactly what "intellectual pollution" is?"

In a nutshell. Thought Crimes.

Interesting artical by "Borg Lomborg"

This year, the Copenhagen Consensus Center commissioned research from top climate economists examining feasible ways to respond to global warming. Their research looked at how much we could help the planet by setting different levels of carbon taxes, planting more trees, cutting methane, reducing black soot emissions, adapting to global warming, or focusing on a technological solution to climate change.
The Center convened an expert panel of five of the world’s leading economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, to consider all of the new research and identify the best – and worst – options.

The panel found that expensive, global carbon taxes would be the worst option. This finding was based on a groundbreaking research paper that showed that even a highly efficient global CO2 tax aimed at fulfilling the ambitious goal of keeping temperature increases below 2oC would reduce annual world GDP by a staggering 12.9%, or $40 trillion, in 2100.

The total cost would be 50 times that of the avoided climate damage. And if politicians choose less-efficient, less-coordinated cap-and-trade policies, the costs could escalate a further 10 to 100 times

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lomborg53

"Can someone please explain exactly what "intellectual pollution" is?"

Its when people like Al Gore speak.

"The Center for the Study of Physical and Intellectual Pollution"??? Sounds like something from Mad Magazine or "The Onion"...

this report sounds like the "wholistic approach" where total energy input to make a product is tallied. A waste of effort, given no one really knows the useful lifetime of the product produced.

along with reduced newspaper circulation is reduced newsprint production......and related jobs.

our bluebox is more full of "stuff" than the garbage bin by week's end. the downside is another truck has to run around to pick it up.

Its like being "green" and eating meat, PETA says you can't be both or you are a hypocrite. Newspapers are not "green" so don't subscribe and be an enabler for the destruction of the world. You go first, I will follow later. Cheers.