FSU vs. UF + Crist = carbon bowl

News release from the Crist press shop:

Gov. Charlie Crist Saturday will attend the first carbon-neutral college football game between Florida State University and the University of Florida in Gainesville. At the game, the Governor will commend the University of Florida for its efforts to become the first university to attempt to offset greenhouse gases created by fans attending the game.

“Florida is leading the way in addressing global climate change,” Governor Crist said.  “I applaud the University of Florida for being a leader within the NCAA for addressing green-house gas emissions. Florida has one of the greatest rivalries in college football.  To experience this setting in a carbon-neutral way sets a great example for the rest of the nation.”

The University of Florida, in partnership with the Florida Forestry Association and Environmental Defense, has taken steps to offset the carbon footprint of the football game.  According to the university, more than 1,750 metric tons of carbon dioxide is expected to be emitted into the air on game day, generated from travel, stadium operations and lodging associated with the team and the more than 88,000 fans.  This carbon footprint will be counteracted by an arrangement through the university and its partners to set aside 18 acres of rural North Florida land to be managed as a pine plantation forest for 10 years.

“As we enjoy the beauty and blessings of Florida, we must continue to be aware of the impact our activities have on our natural environment,” said Governor Crist.  “I am proud of the proactive steps the university and its partners are taking to host this game in a way that offsets this impact.”

Comments

place a cap on the Tebow Heisman talk - that hot air has got to be enough to melt Antarctica

Tebow for Heisman. He's the best player this year, no doubt.

Carbon-neutral -- who's playing, robots?

Is Charlie flying a green jet to get there? Football games being an environmental hazard? Me thinks this crap is getting out of hand. Al Gore never went this far.

"... the first carbon-neutral college football game..."

OH... MY... FREAKING... GOD!

That's it, I'm out of here... beam me up Scotty, this place has officially gone bye-bye!

... btw, the noles suck!

[Tim]

Talk about a tin foil hat theory!

This must be a joke right? We are leaving a forest a forest and that makes a football game carbon neutral?

tree-mendous!!

What was that thing about a cherry tree way back when?

I think I will cut down a tree in my front yard in honor of the game...

for ten years, until the trees mature and are worth more on the market... with all this crap, I am sure they are also figuring out how to write off any of the taxes for the property now as well...

the hot air comes from the UF faithful going all Bob Allen over Tebow

[terminator]

Gator fans:
have you made your reservations for the Outback Bowl yet?
Auburn, LSU, Georgia, FSU.
Ouch, sir, may I have another!

[your papa]

poor termie and his Nole buddies, enjoy your pre- new years day bowl game....AGAIN!

What do you call a Bowden reject?

... a gator.

Cutting down mature trees is actually good for the environment. Trees absorb carbon, the key ingredient of alleged global warming. Mature trees do this at a much slower rate than young trees. By cutting mature trees down and using them for paper, housing, whatever, we are essentially taking the stored carbon forever out of the environment, where it can do no more "global warming". Normal timber harvesting practices call for planting saplings in the place of the harvested trees. These little trees process much more carbon out of the atmosphere than the old, mature trees, because they are actively growing.

Now that's what you call using science to better the environment, not this garbage about preserving trees.

Cutting down mature trees is actually good for the environment. Trees absorb carbon, the key ingredient of alleged global warming. Mature trees do this at a much slower rate than young trees. By cutting mature trees down and using them for paper, housing, whatever, we are essentially taking the stored carbon forever out of the environment, where it can do no more "global warming". Normal timber harvesting practices call for planting saplings in the place of the harvested trees. These little trees process much more carbon out of the atmosphere than the old, mature trees, because they are actively growing.

Now that's what you call using science to better the environment, not this garbage about preserving trees.

[terminator]

papa:
does it really make any difference?

The mighty Gators won't be in the SEC championship game and they won't be playing in a BCS bowl game, so what does it matter?

My, how the "mighty" have fallen.

Last year, you guys fell into a bucket of *hit and came out smelling like a rose" as the proverbial saying goes.

Enjoy you're stay in Tampa my friend.

If they get replaced with saplings... my guess is that there is no plans for use of the property right now, so it was a good sound bite...

Tell you what, I won't cut down my tree in my front yard, thereby reducing my carbon footprint... can I get a tax break for this?

¡Ay, Cristi!

Guess who represents Environmental Defense? Check out lobby registration on that one. Someone VERY close to Crist.

[Something Stinks in Tally]

What do you call a student who couldn't get admitted to the U of F?

A Nole.

12:40
What lobbyist are you referring to-
Jennifer Green?

7:48 - No, Green is cool (no pun intended Charlie (D) if you're reading this). Wrong gender anyway for Crist (D). What next, will Crist (D) pander to Code Pink?

7:55
OK -I will guess again- W. James Wilson or Andrew L. Woods?
(Never heard of either)

Environmental Defense
James E. Eaton
Jennifer Jankowski Green
Allison Hunt
W. James Wilson
Andrew L. Woods

[Lifelong Republican]

and?

Eaton is straight, Green and Hunt are female, so that leaves Wilson and Woods. So which is close to the Gov?

These policies (if you can call them policies) are half a mile wide and thin as paper deep. All of this carbon neutral stuff is ridiculous, there is no such thing. Our rivers,oceans,air are all clearner than they were 20 years ago.Now we just have to figure out how to turn garbage into energy consistently and we have really done soemthing effective. All the rest of this nonsnese is like the bags of organs stuffed inside a frozen turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving. I like equating concern for the planet with Code Pink. That way, at least in your universe, it isn't the view of the majority but some lunatic fringe that humans are causing the climate change. That. Dog. Won't. Hunt.

Woods is a complete dork that plays on Connie mack. Complete dork

Yet another example of 'Blackjack Charlie' jumping in front of the cameras to support whatever he thinks will make him look like a nice guy. He's more concerned about popularity than principles. "Carbon-neutral football" - give me a break! Symbolism over substance!

[Chris Brudy]

23 in the air and 20 on the ground? Has any other Heisman candidate even gotten close?

[Andrew Jackson]

Why don't we talk about how the state underfunds both FSU and Hogtown University.

Some yokels out there want to treat all universities the same. Hello FSU deserves more funding than Tier 4 Universities like FIU, FGCU, and FAU.

[UF Student]

I wonder how this game is going to be carbon neutral? And to the idiot Terminator, tell me what bowl FSU is going to with their great 7-5 record after this week? And I actually hope UF does go to the Outback Bowl, I bought my tickets last month to that game hoping they would get there.

the whole carbon-swapping-banking-venue for making the Oscar's carbon nuetral is the most hypocritical excercise ever and constant with our proclivity to look for an easy way out. Match that with the fact that Venezuela, that thorn in our side, the "Iran" of our hemisphere is the 4th largest supplier of oil to the US and we have a funny situation...color it convinient greeen

If you want to be carbon neutral, cancel the game. It doesn't mean anything anyway. A POX on both your houses.

[joe]

Crist is full of crap as are the rest of the tree huggers. Why doesn't he go live in California with the terminator?

[MCO]

Oh my dear friend Terminator,

You're forgetting this was supposed to be the "rebuilding" year for the Gators. Then, after they beat UT by 30+, people started having unrealistic expectations. But the "mighty" certainly havent fallen. And they will probably beat FSU by at least 20.

A BCS game is definitely possible with the schedule of the Top 10 Teams this weekend. You just better hope your beloved (expanded gambling) semmy-noles can do better than the Emerald Bowl! :)

How can you be so on target on most things yet so far off on the one thing that REALLY matters? ha.

Hope the turkey was well dow in S. Fla today. Talk to you after the slaughtering in the Swamp.

A Carbon Neutral Football Game!?!?!? Crist (D) is such a pandering, leftist moron. Last I heard, CO2 (you know, the stuff we mammals exhale) is a greenhouse gas, so is everyone in the stadium going to hold their breaths for 4 quarters!?

Charlie, you are a bigger disappointment than "The New Coke." I hope you resign when Hillary picks you as her VP, and when you do, please take your rock-throwing Frenchman and his harebrained deputy with you.

UF Student - I say this not as a Nole fan, but as a Tampa resident - I am tired of UF going to the Outback Bowl. The hotels and restaurants in Tampa make some $$$ off of the fans traveling in to the game. If UF is one of the schools, the faithful go home by 4 pm. We want them to stay and spend more on the nudie bars and waffle houses.

[Xavier on the Bench]

I am going to the game and I can tell you I wont be carbon neutral. I am going to pollute pollute pollute.

FSU is such a great university it now has fewer students than both USF and UCF...Both of which will soon eclipse the Nole football program. Wait! One already has...Go Bulls!

I don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for the nole fans who are actually trying to talk trash about UF when they're entire program has been totally irrelevant for the past seven years.

Furthermore, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this pathetic attempt to manufacture a environmental conservation story. Perhaps Charlie's New Year's resolution could be to promise that he and his staff would avoid farting for a year. That might have more effect on the environment than this joke.

[FloridaTreeFrog]

The Florida Forestry Assn and Environmental Defense?? What a perfect pair!

18 more acres of unsustainable forestry practices...probably in Taylor County, donated probably by Buckeye, still daily dumping 60 million gallons of stink and nasty into an industrial-grade effluent based river. And, for your information, all pulp or paper mills are totally subsidized by your tax money, and have been.

This "announcment" is just what the pulp and paper industry needed - a smoke and mirrors cover-up of the huge amount of carbon dioxide the mills add to the atmosphere. Carbon cap and trade is an easy way to lie, to cover up, but not to stop greenhouses gases.

This move by Crist, Environmental Defense, the FL Forestry Assn, UoF and FSU, give the term "sell-out" a whole new meaning.

FloridaTreeFrog

9:16

have you ever heard of the phrase "available property"

jackasss

P.S. When USF wins 2 national titles - or even its own conference - then it might be on the realm of FSU.

[terminator]

MCO and UF Student:
just some good natured ribbing. don't have to take it seriously.
although, the Gators will be a favorite, the game should be closer than most expect.
the Noles don't want Tebo to have a breakout game and will play above their heads but don't think they'll be able to slow down the passing game (the secondary is our achilles heel).
expect the Noles to be competitive but while UF's defense isn't the best our offense won't be able to match touchdown for touchdown.
I'm a Buckeye born and raised. With LSU's loss it could vault us back into the national championship game. If not, the Rose Bowl's cool.
Go BUCKS!

Darren McFadden won the Heisman last night running all over LSU's environmental defense.

as we all begin to move out of this state because the price of everything will keep getting driven up by the policies of this adminstration, one thing is clear, we wont have to get disguted by the pr of a carbon neutral football game in Alabama or Georgia. How transparent and selfish of these far left people that want to pretend that they make a differnce.