Newest cause of global warming: Fatties
posted at 9:13 pm on April 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Two possible solutions: Rationing food or extermination, which makes sense given the warnings about cannibalism and reproduction taxes if we don’t get our carbon output under control.
If we can figure out a recipe for soylent green, we can solve this whole problem. Dibs on the 200-pounders.
Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a tonne more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.
It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.
The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.
The environmental impact of fat humans is made even worse because they are more likely to travel by car — another major cause of carbon emissions.
Solution: Kill them, let animals feast upon their carcasses, then let humans feast upon the animals, yes? What could go wrong, Darwinists?
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It is all about power and control. Everything about the climate change movement is.
Jamson64 on April 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM
God already created a phat Obama.
omnipotent on April 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Her name is Michelle.
omnipotent on April 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Ready for MORE regulation?
artist on April 20, 2009 at 9:58 PM
OK……… I’ll say it,
………. this has really gone to far.
Next up…….
………… the “PHAT POLICE“: judgement if you are too ‘phat’ or not will depend on your political affiliation.
Seven Percent Solution on April 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM
I’m a closet foodie. What is this “Ma & Pa” you speak of? Is this something I should know about?
anniekc on April 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM
The more expensive food and for that matter “comfort” goods gets, the less middle income people will want (better word needed) to have children. The message that has been played by the left for quite some time now is that if you want happiness, you should wait till you are 40+ to have children… An economic slowdown is celebrated by the left so long as the unions stay afloat.
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:00 PM
This was a good link Allah!
http://www.bakonvodka.com/
Bakon Vodka my new drink of choice
I’ll take a case please
kangjie on April 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM
See, this is why I hate liberals. Not only are people to blame, but the worst people, the fat people. Doubtless they are grouped in with the smokers, the breeders, and the bigots. Clearly, it would be better for the world if they did not exist; better if, refusing all rational argument and claiming some sort of genetic predisposition, they were simply loaded onto railcars and sent to Alaska or (why waste the gas?) to a nearby crematorium. The thinnner, healthier, more pro-active members would be set apart and above, not because of any survival ability, but because someone (not God, certainly, but perhaps Gaia the Mother) recognized their inherent self-respecting and respectful for all others under a pink canopy of hopeful jargon and unceasing blah blah blah…
It was the rock that the builders rejected that became the corner stone, I am reminded.
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM
And the middle class will continue to subsidize poverty and the reproduction of poor people here and around the world.
DerKrieger on April 20, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I’ve normally scoffed at fears that the government would come for them. However, recent events have convinced that maybe just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. However, the agency that might come for me was somewhat surprising…
And now this…
michaelo on April 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I don’t follow it too much, but I’ve seen some news networks covering the Obamas eating out at local, small restaurants – definitely not “healthy” food.
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM
How many tonnes of excess carbon dioxide could we save if we just dump the trolls?
Limerick on April 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Until there are only two classes of people
The poor and the super rich, politically connected
Sounds like the so called Bush doctrine, when in reality this is exactly what the left wants… Conservatism is about empowering the individual instead of regulating them to a collective group of non-thinkers.
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Shouldn’t we rape their wives and convert them to Christianity, or something?
km on April 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Don’t worry about it, getalife. They say it’s not the size that matters, it’s the “motion of the ocean”.
capitalist piglet on April 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Sorry, I saw the title “Fatties” and mistakenly thought this was part of the marijuana 4/20 thread.
Farm out, man.
Del Dolemonte on April 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM
…somebody ought to alert Mel Brooks to a Broadway opportunity: Springtime for Totalitarians!
Used to be, what you smoked was other people’s business. Then, it was if you smoked. Then, PETA and other do-weirders said that they have some say in what you ate. Now, the fact that you ate whatever it was — even PETA-approved chow — to excess means that you surrender your personal sovereignty to the Borg Collective.
Which group will we demonize and then attempt to disenfranchise next? We’ve done Old White Men, smokers, the effort against Christians is still afoot, and parents are on the way out.
Maybe we can pick on left-handed people for contributing to some mythical climate-related outrage. Maybe we can diss war-wounded veterans for whatever emissions their motorized wheelchairs emit, and the pollution created when their prosthetics are manufactured.
I know! Asians as a group, according to statistics nuts, over-achieve in academia. Let’s pillory them. Call ‘em sneaky and clannish and disloyal to the common good. It’s worked for thousands of years with the Jews!
Pretty soon, we’ll have nobody left to speak up and run things but the Vanguard of the Proletariat…and we’ll that, I suppose, is how they want it.
…and we’ll probably have to purge a lot of them, as well. Anybody got an ice axe?
Puritan1648 on April 20, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Look, I’m on the borderline here. I’m near 200lbs and I hate paying taxes. I need a diet that really works. Which one of these would make me stop eating: Atkins? Palm Beach? Nude pix of Helen Thomas?
ScottG on April 20, 2009 at 10:09 PM
“OUR STARTING POINT IS NOT THE INDIVIDUAL, AND WE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEW THAT ONE SHOULD FEED THE HUNGRY, GIVE DRINK TO THE THIRSTY, OR CLOTHE THE NAKED . . . . OUR OBJECTIVES ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT: WE MUST HAVE A HEALTHY PEOPLE IN ORDER TO PREVAIL IN THE WORLD.” JOSEPH GOEBBELS, MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA, 1938
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:10 PM
get a life is trying on this thread
but is failing
epic
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM
getaclue has had something dripping off of her chin ever since O’bama started running for Chief Stooge.
Del Dolemonte on April 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I might trust Michelle’s “appetite” to lead me to a new restaurant, but President pantywaste seems like a bad bet. He seems like he’d be a high maintenance eater.
anniekc on April 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I just ate a big bowl of strawberries…was that bad or good? I can’t keep track.
Bob's Kid on April 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Why all the fuss? The rules for your National Health Care will take care of the problem. Fat? You die! Smoke? You die!
Don’t run 3k a day? You die! Problem solved.
Limerick on April 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Two wrads… Barney Flank.
RalphyBoy on April 20, 2009 at 10:13 PM
I don’t like onions!!! My mother never made me eat them!!!
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM
…tough call….
…on the one hand, they’re red. That’s a plus.
…on the other hand, you didn’t say how they arrived at your store. By a ozone depleting truck? And, did you go to the store in a car to fetch ‘em home? Did you offer to share one with a homeless person? Person of color? Homeless lesbian person of color?
…everything is political…even fruity desserts….
Puritan1648 on April 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Option Three:
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
Joe Caps on April 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM
This will be the case for those of us that obey the rules. Since when do lefties obey the rules? This is one reason Obamacare is a bad idea…
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Jesus was fat?
Rosmerta on April 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Further, were they picked by illegal aliens?
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I’ve made a back-of-the-envelop calculation that, if there are 200,000,000 adults in the United States, and they average just 10 pounds overweight, the energy in that fat mass equals a year’s electrical power for some 600,000 people.
Obviously, I had too little to do.
Kralizec on April 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM
OMG.
Look who he shook hands with now:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2009/04/summit-of-the-americas-behind-the-scenes.php?img=2
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Seriously, pomerpants, that Goebbels quote was scary.
I knew all this was only a matter of time. Of course fat people are going to be accused of wasting resources. Let’s get on the alcoholics next … how much carbon goes into all that booze? Hmm. Hey, now that I think of it, bulimics are even worse than regular fat people because they waste food without even digesting it. Death to the upchuckers!
Rosmerta on April 20, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Stay on topic. Are you a chubby chaser or the chased?
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Fat as your name, ‘Murtha. Though I do recall something about the meek inheriting the earth — do you think that would include these smug, self-rightious, prigs preaching population control and fatty-extermination? Hmm, do you?
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:20 PM
No such thing as ‘chased’….it’s ‘caught’
Limerick on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
The Democratic Party:
The party that
takes awaypromotes civil liberties…Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Thank God! I only thought he shook hands with tin-pot, anti-american dictators. I approve!
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
As in “caught in the headlights of denial?”
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
since 50% of Americans are overweight and it is causing disruption to America I propose the following punishment for the fatties; If you are a red stater your burden is to carry Al Gore on your back one mile each day until you drop below 200 lbs. If you are a blue stater you get to carry Rush Limbaugh on your back for one mile each day until you drop below 200 lbs.
For God’s sake save the rain forests.
Bradky on April 20, 2009 at 10:22 PM
As in caught by the chubby chasers :)
Run, LeRoy! Run!
Limerick on April 20, 2009 at 10:22 PM
For a second there I thought tin-pot = Pol Pot… phfeew
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I’m not fat, but I’m 6′ 4″ & 218 lbs. Am I on the environmental wackos’ death row, too?
jgapinoy on April 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Stay out of my bedroom cons.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM
If I’m to be eaten, I wanted to be lovingly roasted over a fire and basted frequently with a coconut milk glaze. You may also turn parts of me into bacon, because bacon is awesome.
Bill Ramey on April 20, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Uh, this coming from the patriotic supporter of Dear Leader? Ironic, I think.
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:25 PM
It doesn’t matter. You fall in the category of right-wing extremist…
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
stay out of our kitchens and bathrooms moonbats….
sven10077 on April 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Excellent, Bradky, but I think the burden should be borne by those who choose it; for every apology that Obama makes, his adherents must flog themselves 10 times, in reparation for the awful sins of their forefathers; for each tree murdered add a lash. All I ask is that they put their principles into practice and in the name of GOD it seems reasonable to me.
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
That went without saying…I’m sure we can all agree on that. Your bedroom is that last place anybody here would want to be
trappedseen in.AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Michael Moore?? No one’s said a thing yet about Michael Moore!
JellyToast on April 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM
stay out of our kitchens and bathrooms moonbats….
sven10077 on April 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
And our garages and cars and yards and shooting ranges.
Bishop on April 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM
It rubs the lotion on it’s skin…
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM
But of course! Only out of respect for your room mate, Mrs. Peterson. By the way, only 33 minutes until lights out at Mallard Manor Assisted Living.
Goodnight.
carbon_footprint on April 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I suspect there will soon be a revision to the pop culture phrase – “you can never be too rich or too thin”. It presents too much of a quandary for the liberals.
sherry on April 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM
We already know you want Meghan McCain AP…
chicagojedi on April 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM
No, we were debating as to whether he should be eaten or not…
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM
This is politically correct eugenics at its best. Liberalism is a racially cleansed version of the National Socialism of the Nazis. Instead of dehumanizing just the Jewish people, the Left is dehumanizing everyone. With the war on CO2 heating up, those deemed not worthy of living will come under fire by the global warming alarmists. I am partial to my carbon footprint, but I doubt the new Leftist Totalitarians like it.
http://bluecollarphilosophy.com
Blue Collar Todd on April 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM
considering that half of the country is overweight and some 20% are considered extremely obese you’ve got a one in two chance that anyone you communicate with on the internet is someone you wouldn’t want to be trapped with.
Bradky on April 20, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Getalife, come play “Lambs” with me and my friend Cartman.
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Aw, thanks Todd.
carbon_footprint on April 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Is there a conflict on the left vis-a-vis minority fat people?
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I did!
first page
anywho
Who’s up for whaling?!?!?!?!
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Like a really fat hispanic lesbian. Isn’t she worth 2 or 3 whiteys because of the hopeanchangey she can bring to the dinner table?
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM
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Unhealthy in your political thought processes… You get fed greezy food until you’re fat, and then… You die!
RalphyBoy on April 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Looked happier shaking Chavez’ hand, warmer too.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM
What about a great big fat black man who is also a teacher of social studies at a public high school. I am confident that he is worth 5x a white man of equivalent mass, insofar as the teacher can add to society and the white man can only drink beer. Comments?
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Why? Will we disturbed the animals or other miscellaneous “hardware”?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 20, 2009 at 10:36 PM
*eats a bowl of beans and becomes a serial killer..
WOOHOO!
GoodBoy on April 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM
…can’t. Married.
…OH…you mean with harpoons….
Puritan1648 on April 20, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Apparently a thin vegetarian emits more methane than a fat carnivore.
UN to Discuss a Tax on US Agriculture.
Saltysam on April 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Post of the day.
Loxodonta on April 20, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Just the lack thereof, if you get my drift.
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Lashing out at “Mother” for sending you there in the first place?
Saltysam on April 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM
WTF wants in your bedroom?
Unless you have piles and piles of chocolate, ice cream and those cheesy poofs hoarded in there.
Oh wait, that must be how you “hunt” the domestic chub we call ManoSorras!
upinak on April 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Soon, they will want to regulate Hot Air.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Stay out of your bedroom cons? Is that some kind of trick you pull on girls to get them into…oooooh.
So this is a sort of friendly warning! Thanks, getalife!
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Stay out of my kitchen cons! Hahahahah
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM
“MAAA — MAKE ME SOME TOTINOS PIZZA ROLLS”
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Yes. Just remember though, it’s for a goooooooood cause.
Loxodonta on April 20, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Soon, they will want to regulate all political dissent.
Soon, they will want to regulate all altruistic activities.
Soon, they will want to regulate the national economy.
Soon, they will want to regulate your mother.
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 10:57 PM
The only good thing about that would be never to read a useless post by you again.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
OR…..
GetAClue would most likely be given oversight….
“yay”
sven10077 on April 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM
LOL… hear ya!
Just turned 50 two weeks ago… 6 ft even… 210 Lbs… bench 275… run at least 15 miles a week… and still ski the double blacks in Colorado, and drive my F’n SuperCharged Durango to get there!
Come and get me Eviro Wimps!
Romeo13 on April 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
This is a link to the guy who wrote the fat study, by the way. Good, going fat study man!
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/people/edwards.phil
I see he’s done a lot of shit in statistics, including this ripping yarn, “Edwards, P.; Roberts, I.; Green, J.; Lutchmun, S.; Deaths from injury in children and employment status in family: analysis of trends in class specific death rates. BMJ, 2006; 333(7559):119 ”
Who the hell cares about that shite, right? Except Dr. Phil!!
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 11:04 PM
ooooo
She used “they”
In other words (words that getalife can understand) GWB=Obama.
Upstater85 on April 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM
More and more research is suggesting this rising global obesity problem affects not just public health but the environment as well, and Edwards and Roberts decided to work out what happens to greenhouse gas emissions as the body mass index (BMI) of a population rises.
They used an accepted set of equations called the Schofield equations to work out the amount of food energy that is needed to keep a basal metabolic rate in two hypothetical adult populations of men and women: one with a normal BMI distribution where only 3.5 per cent are obese, and one where 40 per cent of the people are obese.
These two populations reflect how the UK was in the 1970s and what it is predicted to be in the year 2010. Another way to see it is as Vietnam is today and nearly how the US is today.
They also worked out how much extra greenhouse gas would be produced from the heavier population using more transport fuel.
The results showed that:
Compared with a lean population with a normal BMI distribution, a population where 40 per cent of people are obese, would need 19 per cent more food energy.
If the more obese population were 1 billion people (about 15 per cent of the world), it would produce between 0.4 and 1.0 more gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents per year than the lean population
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 11:20 PM
you forgot oxygen and dust and ash from volcanos and wildland forest fires and ocean fog… etc… etc…
upinak on April 20, 2009 at 11:20 PM
More active people are thinner, studies show. And more active people take more plane trips. Ergo thinner people contribute more to global warming.
That took all night.
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Does this mean we can use Michael Moore as famine relief?
irongrampa on April 20, 2009 at 11:32 PM
What is interesting is the Economic/Racial numbers are not mentioned at all in this…
I live in Suburbia in Colorado… and there is not a single obese person living in my neighborhood… every car has bike racks… everone has ski racks… The parks and trails are crowded every day as people run, bike, and walk…
Yet, when I go back to where I was born, in the central Valley of California… an area where the ethnic makeup has changed… and is a poorer area than when I grew up there… no one excercises… no one bikes… Gyms are empty…. and there are a LOT of Fat people you see running around…
Its Cultural… but with multiculturalism, we can’t talk about that….
Romeo13 on April 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I have a tattoo.
JellyToast on April 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I like to wear black.
JellyToast on April 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Johnny Cash is that YOU?
upinak on April 20, 2009 at 11:41 PM
I’ll bet one area is richer than the other, but what does that mean? No doubt there’s some leave-burning douchebag in suburbia who can cancel the deleterious effects of 50 urban fatties in a single afternoon!
pomerpants on April 20, 2009 at 11:50 PM
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