Yes, secondary beer fridges in North American and Australian homes have a significant impact on domestic greenhouse gas emissions. So says a ‘study’ by Denise Young from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Joanna Yarrow, director of ‘Beyond Green,’ a ‘sustainable development’ consultancy in the UK. “Clearly the environmental implications of having a frivolous luxury like a beer fridge are not hitting home. This research helps inform people – let’s hope it has an effect.”
It certainly had an effect on me. My secondary fridge will need re-stocking with lager tomorrow.
Reported in New Scientist Environment: ‘Beer fridges’ present a gassy problem
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
If anyone wants evidence of money wasted on global warming research, here’s this study, and it was paid for with money taken from taxpayers.
A world without beer won’t last longer, it will only seem longer.
Besides insisting that people drink warm beer, the next thing you know, global warming alarmists will say that we shouldn’t cook on our outdoor charcoal grills. Talk about running off friends and ruining weekends.
But why do you need the second fridge? Why is one not enough for you? Regardless of the study’s aim and conclusion, what has been demonstrated here is a penchant for unnecesary excess. The fridge uses energy, but also must be disposed of at the end of its life. Considering the numer of poor throughout the world who will never get to own one fridge let alone two, why is it so hard for us westerners to have any sort of conscious towards these people and our future effects on the environment. Bar-B-Qs and beer are great, but surely it wont hurt you to just have one fridge?
Gawd, let’s get our words right this morning – that is “number” not “numer” and “conscience” not “consious”, which I am barely feeling after waking up. Maybe I need a beer from my single fridge…
Libby, I have five fridges in my house and two on my boat, and I am not talking bar fridges either. I hope this makes you feel better.
I have 2 fridges because the one in the kitchen is small and fits under the worktop, so we have a fridge/freezer in the utility room, off the kitchen. There are 5 of us in the house.
The good news is that I went shopping and lager was on 3 cases for the price of 2. No lager drunk tonight though – a bottle of Southeast Australian sparkling rose instead – chilled of course, sorry planet.
Well, by having by having only one fridge you can make savings on your electricity bill. I have electrcity efficient ligting and I switch appliances off when I’m not home and at night. I’ve made pretty significant savings off my bill.
For all those pragatists who understand the word MONEY, but find it hard to stomach the word ENVIRONMENT.
No one actually responded to her arguments?
SJT – “No one actually responded to her arguments?”
Great troll SJT!
The usual dickhead style of post you come to expect here, with appropriate comment from the usual blog nongs. Good in the propagandist sense of appeal to ridicule.
Rampant energy growth is an obvious issue for AGW, and what happens to old plant.
Everyone in China and India needs 3 fridges, 2 air-cons and 3 cars too.
Paul; an observation from an old dealer.
One of the great tricks in the business of warehousing, marketing, pyramid selling etc is to get all the plebs carrying your stock for the long term hence the specials for bulk buys i.e cost shifting down the chain.
Hoarders inc have more than a weeks grog up their sleeve and the fridges to go with it hey!
Given summer is right with us today I just grabbed a regular sized bar fridge at a GS over the gully to resell to another sucker some time soon however it only has a two star rating.
Anyone reckon I have purchased a lemon, based on its supposed efficiency?
“Great troll SJT!”
And which bar fridge do you live under Lawrie, with cockroaches for company?
Instead of baseless criticism, try some intellectual debate, if you dare.
Ok Louis Wu taking my lead from say Luke anf SJT:
BWhaaaaaaa ROFTL what a load of crock!
The usual dickhead style of post you come to expect here
Need I go on or is this too erudite for you?
The point is we are constantly told we can’t afford to cut CO2 production, it would kill the economy. The scope for cutting the use of inefficient, pointless appliances could be quite widespread, for example.
While we are on fridges, and the objective of shaming people into having one only, let us not forget that it takes as much energy to manufacture a car as it will burn in its whole life.
So mandatory reductions of cars to one per household will be on the agenda soon.
Don’t forget that while the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian middle classes want the same luxuries as we have now, and why should’t they, the population of the world is now expected to level out at 10 billion, up from previous estimates of 9 billion. Every one will expect to be entitled to emit the same GHG as we do.
The present global population density and ecological footprint averages 2.0 ha per person. The ecological footprint of the average Australian is about 8 ha per person, that is, we use about 4 times more of the earths resources to support our lifestyle than the global average. So we are in for some very unpleasant surprises in the future as global population increases and the relative wealth of the developing countries increases.
PP
Warm beer causes gas – greenhouse gas.
Slightly off topic,
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2007/12/03/cartoons_20071126?slide=9#showHeader
…and apropos of absolutely nothing at all,
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2007/12/03/cartoons_20071126?slide=1#showHeader
We must have Beer. Without it all the ugly people like Luke and SJT would never get laid. As it is it would take most girls at least a slab of beer before he started to look OK. Without it he is pure Kyoto Ugly.
Then again, I suppose he can always fall back on the paper bag.
LMAO. Pay that.
Pirate Pete will need more than a wooden leg and robbing the rich to get an equitable ecological footprint, as we wake up to what goes around comes around. He will be lucky to end up with a bar fridge and an ex-parrot. His sobering numbers on footprints in hectares tell the same so far inexorable and dismal outlook in CO2 terms tonnes /capita/ annum. Our globe has to accomodate average 4 tonnes annually from each of us, even from denialists, and as population doubles that will need to get down to just 1 tonne. But the average emitter with email averages more than 20 tonnes CO2/annum. Last cold drinks, anyone?
I am storing carbon with my beer gut. Probably enough to offset David’s extra boat fridge and allow Luke to procreate.
SJT is out of luck though.
It’s the women who are causing beer induced global warming in Australia.
Aussie women go on the binge
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1468899
Two out of three Australian women binge drink, with some knocking back more than 11 alcoholic beverages in a single sitting, according to a survey.
James, you have made some outrageous statements on this blog, but suggesting that Luke be allowed to procreate is beyond the pale.
Woody – the reason that so many Aussie women are on the grog is that they have to cohabit with and very occasionally mate with bush pigs like Mottsa.
Can you imagine the poor long suffering missus and kids subject to interminable soliloquies replete with rhetoric so gelatinous that they say “about half past 3” when he asks them for their opinion.
Tell the truth, Luke, you had a big grin of expectation when you saw the post about Aussie women binge drinking.
Some readers may not be familiar with the term “coyote ugly” from the film of the same name. It is a reference to the practice of coyotes, when a paw is caught in a trap, to chew off the paw to gain their freedom. And this term was used when someone woke up next to a complete stranger who was asleep on their arm, making it numb. That person is said to be coyote ugly if they are so repulsive that chewing off one’s arm would be preferable to risking waking them up.
Kyoto ugly is similar but applies when one is stuck in the company of a climate cretin and just about anything would be better than the tedium of maintaining a conversation with them.
Well two things happened – the urge to abuse Woody for displaying such a disgraceful untrue sexist statistic (can’t be right IMO) and a little demon popped up thinking of you.
As usual you seem to have expressed considerable knowledge in the area of random romance so I’ll let you tell your own life story of mating stochasticity from experience.
Unless of course you perhaps were day-dreaming again. The other close variant of the numbness urban myth, more relevant to yourself, is that those desperate for any attention from anyone or anything (typically accountants) actually lay on their own arm to make it go to sleep. They can then pretend it’s actually someone else.
That’s caused by denialism.
Only 2 out of 10 for that response.
What does it matter how many fridges a family has, or has switched on. If they are paying a premium for green energy haven’t they done their bit.
Good point Pandanus67. My forest absorbs more than 500 tonnes of CO2 each year. And that puts my family of five still 375 tonnes ahead of the game. So frankly, these emotional tight arses and aspiring Carbon Nazis can stick their beer fridge “concerns” up a scrub turkey’s cloaca.
And anyone who might send me a slab of XXXX Gold can borrow sufficient of my credits to cover their fridge guilt for the next 12 months.
Bugger the XXXX gold Ian Mott, bloody disgusting drink. I’ve just put down a home brew of Coopers finest. Should be ready for Christmas. Though I suspect that I should not advertise that too widely as some fool will wish to tax me for the emissions that occur as a result of brewing. Good grief where are we headed.
Somewhere in the bowel of officialdom is a lonely visionary who aspires to a career as a fart auditor, carbon branch, of course.
and while the fat slobs belch to their own self importance and ignorance, people are getting on and solving real problems
http://business.theage.com.au/air-car-to-call-melbourne-home/20071202-1ee6.html
Feeling a bit frisky are we Anthony? Any time you want your umbilical cord ripped out, boyo, just let us know.