Does any body out there actually know how big their "carbon footprint" is?

Question

You hear a lot about this subject these days. Does any one acutally know the mass of carbon dioxide emissions they are responsible for? Is there a way to calculate it? Has any body actually bothered to see if a change in their behaviour has reduced the size of their carbon foot print?

I know there are many questions here folks, but any sort of useful info would be great...Just want to try and do my bit after all.

Answer 1

Here is a calculator that should help you out.

Answer 2

I take no resposiblity for any carbon in my shoes. Sorry

Answer 3

No, the whole thing is a bunch of baloney anyways, to think that humans can predict climate and/or change is incredibly arrogant. I'm all for conservation but give me a brake.

So...Mr Gore.....I'm going on vay-k in August....what's the weather going to be???

........Paaaleeeeaaasse!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

depends on your shoe size

Answer 5

Yes, I did one of the quizzes which asked a lot of questions about it and it told me that if everyone lived like I did, we would need 3.1 Earths or something along those lines.

Here's one if you are interested, but it's not the one I used since I can't find it at the moment:

http://www.zerofootprintoffsets.com/calc...

Answer 6

Mine is small, and the individual footprint is negligible when you consider factories and flights.

Here's a calculator

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

Edit: Just did mine for the house for the year and it measured 9482kg CO2, compared with 26,316kg CO2 for the average household.

Answer 7

The "carbon footprint" is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. There is a mass of foolish people falling prey this scam. People have to be nuts to follow Al Gore into the pit. Most people who are following Al Gore have no clue that Al Gore's power bill is more than many people's income for a year. And this is just his home in Tennessee, that has more rooms in it than some motels. This Global warming trash, was designed and started by the communist  Everything about Al Gore is a lie. Put the Global warming sermon to the test. The next time it gets really cold say -10 degrees below, with your car outside start it, then stand back from the car three feet, then dress down to your summer clothes, then meter the temperature with the car running. Because cars and man are direct cause of Global warming. surely within three feet of the car it would feel like summer. Of course this will not work, the problem is you will have to crank all cars on both sides of the block. Then in minutes,  within three feet of your car it will feel like summer. By now you know it doesn't matter if one car is running or a hundred cars running. It's still 10 degrees below. I told you it's all a scam.