Test yourself ... Climate Hero Carbon Calculator

[T & P]

I've just done the test twice, once telling the truth about us being child-free, and a second time telling the test we in fact had three kids.

The results given were exactly the same for both tests.

Utter, utter fail of a test.

 

[yield]

It's not about individual choice.

The top one hundred polluting companies & the richest seven countries produce the bulk

 

[NoXion]

I've just done the test twice, once telling the truth about us being child-free, and a second time telling the test we in fact had three kids.

The results given were exactly the same for both tests.

Utter, utter fail of a test.

Oh wow, so it's even more garbage than I thought. The cheeky fuckers are asking for money and all!

 

[mr steev]

Apart from going vegan rather than veggie and being more on it with plastic all my other down points are money related (old, not recently insulated house, old petrol car, no solar panels etc). Unfortunately (and ironically) my job of running a project that diverts around 6 tonnes of food from landfill to peoples plates every week, doesn't pay enough

 

[girasol]

Virtue signalling app. Doesn't matter how much individuals do until governments sort their shit out. And what yield said. Most people do the best they can but the constant competition and showing off gets my goat.

 

[Funky_monks]

It only specifies Beef and Lamb...no other meat mentioned.

This is because pork and chicken don't emit anthropogenic methane and therefore are considered to have a lesser carbon footprint.
I disagree with this analysis

 

[gentlegreen]

1.7 tons CO2.
vegan on a diet with no life.
I got no credit for being on a caloric deficit

 

[Aladdin]

I just left it blank.

Apparently my score is 4.5 tons co2 per year despite having a well insulated house, solar panels, biomass heating and recycling everything I can, no car and don't fly anywhere.

Secret burger basement?

 

[Aladdin]

I've just done the test twice, once telling the truth about us being child-free, and a second time telling the test we in fact had three kids.

The results given were exactly the same for both tests.

Utter, utter fail of a test.

Why? It's only your personal result.

Come to think of it...
I dont know why they ask about kids

 

[Aladdin]

Oh wow, so it's even more garbage than I thought. The cheeky fuckers are asking for money and all!

Well.. no..you don't have to pay...

 

[Aladdin]

It's not about individual choice.

The top one hundred polluting companies & the richest seven countries produce the bulk

So nothing I as an individual can do will halt global warming? that is very demoralising.

 

[gentlegreen]

I only got off lightly because I buy renewable electricity.
I use 4059 kwh a year - 774 of those are for heating
If that was from coal generation it would be 4 tonnes of CO2

 

[petee]

i started the test but it's pretty invasive (as others have said) and stopped. anyway, I'm absolutely a carbon hero.

 

[Aladdin]

i started the test but it's pretty invasive (as others have said) and stopped. anyway, I'm absolutely a carbon hero.

How do you mean "invasive"?
It's anonymous....

 

[Orang Utan]

How do you mean "invasive"?
It's anonymous....

hardly

 

[Aladdin]

hardly

I gave my name as Sugar and didnt give any email address.

 

[Orang Utan]

I gave my name as Sugar and didnt give any email address.

they still have your IP address

 

[yield]

So nothing I as an individual can do will halt global warming? that is very demoralising.

Posted this is in response to an article PM had on the climate change thread

More than half of all CO2 emissions since 1751 emitted in the last 30 years – IEEP AISBL

ieep.eu

Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don’t Let Them
May 14, 2021
A new Harvard study highlights a decades-long trend — how industry creates systemic problems and then blames consumers for it

Of course, consumers aren’t entirely blameless, particularly the world’s wealthiest individuals, but the idea that oil is a purely demand-side industry is ridiculous. In the 1980s, for example, when the oil crisis was finally over (oil prices had risen by 300 percent at one point) oil companies were very worried about the fact that Americans had gotten good at saving energy, so good that demand seemed to have permanently dipped.

Did they reduce supply accordingly? No, they looked for ways to drive demand back up, tinkering with production and lobbying for policies that would incentivize increased fossil fuel use. More recently, as companies have grappled with a natural gas glut, they have not stopped fracking, but merely found a new revenue stream — plastic.

Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Four years old but I doubt much has changed? Maybe cryptocurrency mining?

 

[Saul Goodman]

they still have your IP address

I don't think "Have you recently murdered anybody?" and "Are you a Russian spy?" were on the list of questions.

 

[Aladdin]

they still have your IP address

My phone's ip..
And I can change that.

 

[Orang Utan]

Privacy Policy - Climate Hero

climatehero.me

 

[Aladdin]

Privacy Policy - Climate Hero

climatehero.me

Lucky for me then that I didnt click the accept cookies button and my location is always off on my phone...and I didnt sign up with my email.

I'm not bothered that they collect my replies. Or know the pages I looked at on their site.

 

[WouldBe]

Secret burger basement?

Don't think it's down to meat consumption. I put 1-2 per week. 1 is spag bol which won't have much beef in it. The other is a kebab.

 

[NoXion]

Well.. no..you don't have to pay...

Hence why I used the word "ask" rather than "demand". They're still asking for money at the end of a "test" that's completely worthless.

 

[NoXion]

they still have your IP address

So what? IP addresses are rarely static these days and are unreliable for geo-locating. My IP address often puts me in another part of the country entirely.

 

[NoXion]

Why? It's only your personal result.

Come to think of it...
I dont know why they ask about kids

Kids are a major source of CO2 emissions. Not surprising considering you're raising at least one entire person to maturity.

 

[Aladdin]

Kids are a major source of CO2 emissions. Not surprising considering you're raising at least one entire person to maturity.

Yes ...
True.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I only got off lightly because I buy renewable electricity.
I use 4059 kwh a year - 774 of those are for heating
If that was from coal generation it would be 4 tonnes of CO2

I'm pretty sure my result is off because I get power from a grid that gets about 50% of its electricity from renewables and is on track to get 100% of its power from renewables by 2030. I also use a fairly low amount of power per year and drive considerably less than the lowest option. The app doesn't account for those factors.

 

[iona]

It only specifies Beef and Lamb...no other meat mentioned.

It only specifies beef and lamb eaten for lunch or dinner, having steak for breakfast apparently has no environmental impact

 

[Artaxerxes]

First question fail, my flat is the world's smallest studio flat.

Also there's no option for I'm a tight arse who won't put the heat on (we added like 15 to the gas numbers over last 18 months)