Apple today announced a first-of-its-kind carbon removal initiative — called the Restore Fund — that will make investments in forestry projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere while generating a financial return for investors. Launched with Conservation International and Goldman Sachs, Apple’s $200 million fund aims to remove at least 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually from the atmosphere, equivalent to the amount of fuel used by over 200,000 passenger vehicles, while demonstrating a viable financial model that can help scale up investment in forest restoration.
“Nature provides some of the best tools to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Forests, wetlands, and grasslands draw carbon from the atmosphere and store it away permanently in their soils, roots, and branches,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, in a statement. “Through creating a fund that generates both a financial return as well as real, and measurable carbon impacts, we aim to drive broader change in the future — encouraging investment in carbon removal around the globe. Our hope is that others share our goals and contribute their resources to support and protect critical ecosystems.”
This effort is part of Apple’s broader goal to become carbon neutral across its entire value chain by 2030. While the company will directly eliminate 75 percent of emissions for its supply chain and products by 2030, the fund will help address the remaining 25 percent of Apple’s emissions by removing carbon from the atmosphere. Trees absorb carbon as they grow, with researchers estimating that tropical forests hold more carbon than humanity has emitted over the past 30 years from burning coal, oil, and natural gas, despite ongoing deforestation. The partnership aims to unlock the potential of this natural solution by scaling it in a way that makes it attractive to businesses.
To ensure that the carbon stored in forests is being accurately quantified, and permanently locked out of the atmosphere, the Restore Fund will use robust international standards developed by recognized organizations such as Verra, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the UN Climate Convention. And it will prioritize investments in working forests that improve biodiversity through the creation of buffer zones and natural set-asides.
Conservation International is a co-investor in the fund and is ensuring that projects meet strict environmental and social standards. Goldman Sachs is managing the fund. The three parties will identify new projects later this year.
“Innovation is core to Apple’s approach to climate solutions, and Goldman Sachs is proud to partner with them and Conservation International,” said Dina Powell, Global Head of Sustainability and Inclusive Growth at Goldman Sachs, in a statement. “We all agree that the urgency of climate transition requires private capital to work alongside new and established efforts aimed at sustainably removing carbon from the atmosphere with rigor and high standards. We believe launching this fund can catalyze significant additional investment capital for climate impact.”
Apple’s Forestry Efforts
The Restore Fund builds on Apple’s legacy of work in forestry conservation. For three years running, Apple has used 100 percent responsibly sourced fibers in its packaging and improved the management of more than 1 million acres of forests globally to date. Apple has also pioneered groundbreaking carbon projects with Conservation International that protect and restore grasslands, wetlands, and forests.
“Investing in nature can remove carbon far more effectively — and much sooner — than any other current technology. As the world faces the global threat climate change presents, we need innovative new approaches that can dramatically reduce emissions,” said Dr. M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International. “We are excited to build on our long-standing partnership with Apple and believe the groundbreaking approach with the Restore Fund will make a huge difference and benefit communities around the world with new jobs and revenue that support everything from education to healthcare.”
In 2018, Apple partnered with Conservation International, local government, and conservation organizations in Colombia to protect and restore a 27,000-acre mangrove forest in the country. The aim is to sequester 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over the project’s lifetime. These mangroves not only protect the coasts and help support the livelihoods of residents in those communities where they grow, but they also store up to 10 times more carbon than forests on land. This project is the first to use “blue carbon” methodology to rigorously value the entire mangrove system — both above and below the waterline — for its climate mitigation impacts.
Apple and Conservation International have also partnered with local conservation organizations in Kenya to restore degraded savannas in the Chyulu Hills region, an area between three national parks in Kenya and just across the border from Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania. Scaling up this work across the degraded rangeland and natural savannas across Africa could remove hundreds of millions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year, while also benefiting local communities and wildlife.
Apple’s customers can also take part in supporting these efforts. For each Apple Pay purchase from now through Earth Day, Apple will make a donation to Conservation International to support its efforts to preserve and protect the environment.
Working Forests and Responsible Packaging
Since 2017, 100 percent of the virgin wood fiber used in Apple’s packaging has come from responsible sources — the same sort of responsibly managed working forests in which the Restore Fund intends to invest. This represents the company’s first closed-loop material as part of its goal to one day make products using only recycled or renewable materials.
Progress to this goal has involved steady innovations that have the potential to change the future of sustainable packaging. After launching the first iPhone with majority-fiber packaging in 2016, Apple’s newest iPhone 12 lineup now arrives to customers in packaging that comprises 93 percent fiber-based materials. This includes the fiber-based screen cover that protects the display and for the first time replaced the standard plastic film.
Apple has also taken direct steps to support the responsible production of wood fiber. Through partnerships with The Conservation Fund and World Wildlife Fund, Apple has improved the management of more than 1 million acres of working forests in the United States and China since 2015.
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews Note: Find out more about Apple and the environment here.
“Climate Change” Is A Hoax
Like some suckers still do, I once believed that “science” was a rigorous process where you tested theories and revised those theories in response to objective evidence. But in today’s shabby practice, “science” is just a package of self-serving lies buttressing the transnational liberal elite’s preferred narrative. Our alleged betters hope that labeling their propaganda “science” will science-shame you into silence about what everyone knows is a scam.
Nah. “Climate change” is a hoax.
When you say “climate change is a grift,” and you should as often as possible, you are pointing out that this green-on-the-outside/red-on-the-inside fake frenzy is really just a set of intertwined grifts transparently designed to separate you from your freedom and your property in the name of somehow adjusting the weather.
Observing that “climate change” is steaming garbage served in a dirty ashtray is not disputing that the climate changes. That the climate is not static, and never could be static, is one of the myriad reasons that this whole idea is ridiculous. The planet gets hotter, it gets colder, sometimes quickly, sometimes over eons, and there are a bunch of reasons why, like the sun and volcanos. Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors, but there’s simply no evidence that it is a significant one. Of course, if they really cared about carbon, they would be up in arms about China and India, which are upping their output while we are slashing ours. Yet the object of their ire is your New York strip. Gosh, does that seem consistent with 1) someone truly concerned about atmospheric carbon, or 2) someone who trembles with joy at the notion of bossing around you rubes out in gun/Jesusland?
The underlying premise of their claims seems to be that there is a “right” temperature for the earth; watch them sputter when you enquire about that perfect setting for Earth’s thermostat. Remember, if you ask questions you hate “science.” If they did stop telling you how you hate “science” long enough to respond, they might explain that of course there’s no perfect temperature.
But then, what are they comparing the present climate to in order to declare that our climate is “getting worse?” If you establish a climate baseline, then you can compare what’s actually happening to the baseline and that might demonstrate that the whole thing is baloney. That would be awkward.
It happened after Katrina. “Oh, Katrina’s proof positive that Gaia is really ticked off and…and…and…” then we had a bunch of years without much hurricane action at all. You might think that this would be evidence that maybe the climate wasn’t in chaos, and that they would be happy to be proven wrong, but no, it doesn’t work that way. Every time the weather fits the narrative, you see, it’s proof that the climate kooks are right, and every time the weather fails to fit the narrative, well, weather’s not climate. At least until the next heat wave or storm; then weather will totally be climate again.
Heads, you must give us all your freedom and money, and also tails, you must give us all your freedom and money.
Now, we’re being told that we’re all going to die in…I guess we’re down to what? About 11.5 years this go ‘round? Of course, we’ve been told many times that we’re doomed and the deadlines have come and gone with the doomsdayers not missing a beat. They’re like old timey Elmer Gantrys promising the apocalypse over and over again, with their hardcore true believers regularly showing up for the rapture over and over again no matter how many times the Four Horseman fail to turn up.
We haven’t even seen one horseman.
Back in the 70s, I remember we were promised an ice age if we didn’t give liberals our money and freedom. Then in the 80s, we were promised death by ozone hole if we didn’t give liberals our money and freedom, and then doom by acid rain if we didn’t give liberals our money and freedom. By the time they started promising that we were all gonna die from global warming if we didn’t give liberals our money and freedom, I was still wanting my ice age. It would be nice to have a white Christmas in LA.
So, where’s my damn ice age?
Oh right, only a climate denier – Climate, I deny thee! – might wonder why we should hand over one, ten, a hundred trillion bucks to people who have never once been right about their predictions. You evidently hate “science” if you expect the “science” people to be correct at least one time in a half-century.
And they’re not even good at short-term prognostication. Heck, for several days Hurricane Dorian was supposed to slam head on into Florida and then…it didn’t. The Obamas just bought a $15 million pad on the beach – what’s that say about their faith in “science?” But don’t worry, the guys batting .000 so far will definitely get the temperature in 2129 right if we only just write them a huge check and transform ourselves from citizens to serfs.
That’s another big red flag – have you noticed how “science” always tells us that the only possible response to the climate hullabaloo is to give liberals exactly what they always wanted anyway? How lucky are the leftists to have had an existential problem drop in their laps where the only solution is to give them everything they could not otherwise convince us to give them? What a remarkable coincidence!
And what’s also weird is how nothing that we must do “right now no time to debate it’s a crisis think o’ the children” in any way inconveniences or calls for sacrifices from our climate crisis-pushing elite. Boy, they really scored with climate change – if they were going to manufacture a crisis in order to get the power and money they craved, how would they do it any differently?
Now, they might claim that they too will have to sacrifice to the Angry Weather Demon, but it’s unclear how. I suppose they might stop flying across the globe to climate finger-wagging festivals in private jets, but call me jaded for thinking that if it’s such a crisis today and they have not stopped doing it yet, they won’t stop jetting about down the road. Oh, but you will. You most definitely will stop flying and driving the vehicles you choose and eating cheeseburgers and using straws that don’t disintegrate into gummy sludge in your Dr. Pepper. But them? Pete Buttigieg explained away his zipping around in Gulfstreams as necessary because it is important for him to be pestering people in Des Moines. Bet you that pretty much everything our betters want to do will turn out to be “important.” And I’ll bet that nothing that you peasants want to do will.
One might think that if stopping carbon was important, you might want to explore nuclear power. But you would think wrong. After all, if there’s plenty of electrical power, the elite loses the political power that comes from divvying up a scarce resource. If they control the power, they control you. Cheap, plentiful power makes you freer, which is a bug, not a feature.
Oh, and those many millions of people in Middle America who directly or indirectly rely on fracking and the rest of the fossil fuel industry? Better learn to code or something, because your good job is history. Weird how all the sacrifice once again falls on those out in the hinterlands and not on the blue coastal city swells, huh? But you’ll be able to rest easy knowing that our moral superiors in Brooklyn and Alexandria and Santa Monica enjoyed showing you sweaty rubes who’s really the boss by impoverishing you. Because that, and not the weather in a century, is and always has been what the “climate change” hoax is really all about.
— Kurt Schlichter
There were only three actual scientists who ever thought there was going to be an ice age. That was disinformation from oil companies (and their media) that already knew that global warming was going to happen. The ozone hole and acid rain were mitigated because we dramatically reduced CFCs and sulfur emissions. The fact that we solved these problems does not prove we never had them. And if you equate sulfur emissions with “your freedom” then you are a brainless corporate stooge.
Schlichter is the same guy who gave our ex-President the argument that the US has no obligations towards the Kurds because they weren’t alongside us in Normandy on D-day. To coin a phrase, ‘nuff said.
You’re the guy who pushed the Russian hoax, Ukraine impeachment, The Wuhan Flu from America and the Flynn verdict.
So I’ll raise that coin, too much said.
I never said that Russian assistance to the 2016 Trump Campaign was a hoax, that using extortion and bribery with taxpayer funds to induce Ukrainian intervention in American politics was not an impeachable offense, that the first widely-known cases of the novel coronavirus were not in Wuhan, or that Flynn should not have have been convicted after confessing and twice pleading guilty. I have seen absolutely no evidence to change any of those opinions.
Of course you haven’t.
That would be admitting you were an idiot.
No worries. It’s understood.
It’s understood that towertone hasn’t backed up his opinions with any objective facts, ever.
Thanks for posting honesty, TXUser. The idiots who attack you on this forum do so because they lost every debate. All they can do is paste misinformation that they think justifies their endless selfishness, and take juvenile swipes at every one else. It must be exhausting for them to be so far removed from civilized progress.
Actually it’s now understood you can’t follow a conversation.
I didn’t offer opinions, I gave examples of bullshits stories, EVERYONE OF THEM DISPROVED, that Txer pushed as true.
As a professional paid liar he cannot refute the evidence nor change his stance.
This has been proven over and over.
The fact you can’t comprehend the topic shows your depth of thinking.
The Russians helped the 2016 Trump campaign. Senior figures in the campaign welcomed their help. That has not been disproven.
Trump withheld aid from Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress, and strongly suggested, both directly and indirectly, that the funds would not be forthcoming unless Ukraine announced that it was investigating his most serious political opponent. That has not been disproven.
I have never suggested a non-Chinese origin for the novel coronavirus. The first human cases of which we are aware were in Wuhan. The bats that originally carried the virus were Chinese, but may have come from a different province. That has not been disproven.
General Flynn confessed to a serious crime and pled guilty to it… twice. That has not been disproven.
I “cannot refute the evidence” to the contrary because there is no credible evidence to the contrary. I do not share your credulity towards Trump Administration weak excuses, including those relating to CO2 levels and climate change. There is better evidence of the Easter Bunny.
And there you have it.
You will continue a lie, reality be damned, just to save face and keep it alive.
You KNOW what happened in the Flynn case and why, unless you are such a shitty lawyer you can’t read. No, you are propagating a myth for your own ego.
You KNOW the call to the Ukraine was lied about, this is common knowledge, but you will act like it never happened or the sources are unreliable.
You KNOW there is more evidence against Hunter and Hillary and other Democrats but it is not acted on and dismissed by the media.
Flail on, but you are nothing except a bought and paid for whore of the Left.
Your wife must be so proud of her ‘man’….
TowerTone awesome exchange of facts and expose of the Leftist Liar. Well done…
He was happy to submit the partial statement, with CNN & MSNBS, per a Trump statement (implying he’s racist) related to the Charlottesville event. Concealing information in favor of his narrative is one of his honed skills.
What the f*ck do the Kurds and Trump have to do with a most excellent stinging DETAILED critique, with sarcasm, wit and intelligence of the Global Warming hoax?
That’s easy, TxUseless 101:
DEFLECTION – Torments my heart…
DEFLECTION – Keeps us apart…
DEFLECTION – Why torture me?…
And the good MDN denizens.
Obviously, shooting the messenger to totally discredit and slander the author is your goal. Similar to Big Tech taking down legitimate NY Post stories that expose Leftists chicanery is the present day Leftist playbook.
Well, it doesn’t work anymore and seems no one sent you the
memo. After five years of what Big Media FALSELY accused President Trump of 24/7, created a woke backlash. The average dirt farmer in Iowa right now planting corn knows the honest score and has no time for Leftist obfuscation. Amen…
A recent report noted the concerning amount of CO2 being dredged up as a result of Chinese fishing trawlers that drag their nets on the bottom of the ocean. Add this to the Chinese love for coal and continued of building coal plants, making China the leader in CO2 emissions…by a wide margin.
Maybe Cook’s efforts to become neutral are in support of the Chinese…”we’ll cover your expansion with some trees…b/c we love doing business with you”? Of course ridiculous, but maybe not when one looks at Cook’s recent suggestion of sending the SEC on US companies that aren’t “abating” as he thinks they should, all the while saying and doing nothing to challenge the Chinese is this sector?
Moral and logic gymnastics happening real time with the Apple CEO…per China, especially.
The destruction of untold lives, marriages, businesses, mental health, economies, cities, etc. wrought by irrational, endless COVID lockdowns was all perpetrated based on obscenely wrong “models” from “experts.”
You know, like the global warming “models” from “experts,” over which the weak-minded like Cook and Jackson get their panties all twisted, demanding trillions be spent on “models” from “experts” that, of course, portend dooooom that conveniently never arrives, but it’s coming real soon now, so pay up, ya hear?
Wake up.
What is truly obscene is that after strong public health measures limited US deaths so far to “just” 564,000, there are still people who can argue that the coronavirus was never a problem. Those same people argue that acid rain was never a problem because limiting sulfur emissions mitigated it, and that the ozone hole was never a problem because eliminating CFCs limited the problem. Now they want to argue that because older models of climate change due to anthropogenic CO2 increases (the first of which was published in 1896) do not exactly match the observed rate of increase because of our efforts to limit emissions, we can safely drop the whole notion of CO2 having consequences. I suppose the next argument will be that we can stop all the anti-tobacco propaganda because lung cancer rates have fallen.
Why I don’t wear a mask (and neither should you)
I do not wear a mask. Many people think of me as selfish and ignorant by refusing to wear a mask. But I see it very differently. I believe that it would be unethical and immoral for me to wear a mask and feed into the hysteria surrounding masks.
The fundamental reason that I refuse is that masks simply do not work. The scientific consensus for the past 30 plus years has been unequivocal: masks worn by individuals of the general public do not reduce transmission rates or cases of viral infections. Not even a little. The evidence is clear and unambiguous. But do not believe me. I challenge everyone to look at the actual evidence of peer reviewed articles found at reputable sites such as PubMed or GoogleScholar. I’ll wait. A great place to start is the research articles by Denis Rancourt.
So if every legitimate epidemiologist and medical organization (NIH, CDC, WHO, etc) agreed that masks do not work, what suddenly changed in 2020? I don’t know, but it wasn’t suddenly discovered new data. The mask mandates are therefore based on a lie and therefore illegitimate and null.
Those who dare speak up about this discrepancy quickly have their reputation attacked by online mobs, their professional credentials threatened, coerced with fines for noncompliance and bullied into quiet with the threat by the state of revoking their licenses. Any rational dialog to correct this problem is effectively shut down.
When you see us in public, please understand that we are not being selfish or ignorant. Our intention is quite the opposite. It is an act of civil disobedience against an unjustifiable mandate. I would remind everyone of Thomas Jefferson’s admonishment that it is our moral duty to disobey unjust laws. I refuse to wear a mask because I know that they are useless and any mandate is coercive to the welfare of our nation.
Masks do not work and offer no benefit on viral transmission rates, no matter how much government operatives and media insist that they do. I follow the science.
Complying with the mask mandate not only feeds into this unhealthy hysteria that’s gripping our nation, but also enables and encourages incompetent politicians to dictate additional haphazard, incoherent and ineffectual solutions in the future. Can you really say that it feels like the government knows what it’s doing?
I know that this letter will infuriate many people. I fear that no amount of rational debate or education will convince them that they have been hoodwinked and manipulated by the media and our governmental leaders. They are lost in the delusion created for them by others that masks matter (they don’t).
For those of you who wish to join us, I welcome you to join in this polite form of quiet civil disobedience of not wearing a mask in public spaces. If you do decide to protest, be polite, don’t put yourself in harm’s way and don’t bother trying to argue your point or convince someone of your views. You do not need to justify yourself or provide any evidence of special circumstances. Don’t respond in anger, even if attacked. Simply state that you are not complying because the mandate is unjustified. Your respectful act of defiance speaks for itself. Know that you are on the right side of history.
Calvin Danielson, Austin Daily Herald, August 14, 2020
For those who are interested, this wasn’t an article, editorial, or even op-ed in the Austin, Minnesota paper. It was a letter to the editor. 5000 more Minnesotans died of Covid-19 after the letter was written. Curiously, those who find that helping to spread a deadly disease is a brave act of civil disobedience have a very different response to protests over police violence.
Note that, as usual, TxAbuser attacks the messenger, not the message. Can’t refute the facts or the links presented, so instead of being smart enough to stay quiet, TxAbuser gives away his stupidity with another baseless attack, refuting nothing.
Masks are just palbum for empty-headed fools who’ll do whatever they’re told.
That 5,000 Minnesotans died after the letter was published is meaningless. It didn’t stop those select business that were allowed to stay open from requiring useless masks for entry. If masks actually worked, those 5,000 Minnesotans would be alive today. If masks actually worked, no shutdowns would have been required. If masks actually worked, you could’ve visited grandma in the nursing home instead of her dying alone.
Masks are for weak-minded pawns which make them a perfect virtue-signaling empty gesture of servitude for gullible serfs like TxAbuser.
I was pointing out that you took the trouble to cut and paste a long post that is not from any sort of expert, but from a guy who writes letters to the editor between chasing kids off his lawn. It should be weighed accordingly.
How do you know that “if masks actually worked, those 5000 Minnesotans would be alive today?” For all either of us we knows, almost all of the 7000 Minnesota dead might have caught the virus because they followed the advice of “experts” like Mr. Danielson. We will never know exactly how many Minnesotans are alive today because they did follow the public health advice from experts looking at the best recent data, not a collection of old contrarian advice gathered from the Internet.
I posted that letter. And Face masks remain a joke and the data backs up my statements, not yours.
Since you are into cutting and pasting letters to the editor, here is one from John Ford to the Laconia Daily Sun, concerning your sole source of “scientific” information.
“In a letter by Charlie Gallagher in the July 8 issue of The Sun, he cites an article in the River Cities Reader, by Dennis (sic) K. (sic) Rancourt, which states that “Masks and respirators do not work.” The author of the article, Denis G. Rancourt, was dismissed as a professor of Physics at the University Ottawa in 2009 and is now a researcher for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association. He references a number of “peer reviewed” scientific studies to support his views and he concludes by attacking governments and the mainstream media for supporting the wearing of face masks during the current pandemic.
“If one reviews the studies that he references in his article, it becomes quickly obvious that he cherry-picked only those statements from the studies that appear to support his views, ignoring other conclusions supporting the use of masks. He also used a number of studies whose purpose was to compare the performance of N-95 masks, surgical masks, and respirators worn by health care workers to reduce their chance of becoming infected by their patients. Current face mask recommendations from the government and the scientific community are based primarily on studies showing that they substantially reduce the risk of an infected (and possibly asymptomatic) individual from transmitting the disease to others, although a recent study at Texas A&M University also indicates a substantial benefit to the wearer from being infected by Covid-19.
“If you are interested in Mr. Rancourt’s views on other subjects, you might try his Nov. 21, 2019 article in “Dissident Voice” entitled, “Dear Young Progressives: The White-Supremacist Anti-Immigration Anti-Political-Correctness Free-Speech Fascists Are Your Friends” or exploring his views on climate change. Thank you for wearing your face mask and distancing when appropriate — together, we can beat this pandemic.”
Why don’t you have a little chat with Ted Nugent about this.
Also don’t forget that without socialized medicine, your beloved orange golfer in chief almost martyred himself with his anti mask behavior.
Who knew that mask wearing was so much trouble for you selfish lazy idiots? If hygiene for the benefit of others is too much bother for you, one wonders why you would take the time to wash your dishes with soap. It’s too much work and keeping a clean environment isn’t important to you, right? In true anti-science fashion, you might as well just rinse and reuse. Or better, have your dog lick off your used plates. It’s easier for ya. That is the main value other than self-enrichment that y’all use when criticizing Apple every day. Being dirty and lazy is better to you, and you hate it when Apple does anything cleaner and better.
Yes, the overwhelming majority of masks DO NOT WORK, they are simply a feel good gesture masking the problem.
In December on the Dr. Michael Savage Show before it was retired, he hosted a PHD guest doctor from John’s Hopkins. I will never forget her common sense rationale and stunning comparison.
“micron. COVID19 has a diameterof approximately 0.06 to 1.4 microns. While particulate matter or organisms of any size can cause adverse effects to our health, particles below 2.5 microns in size are especially dangerous.” – Wiki
According to the good doctor, the openings in the average mask worn for protection, are 50 microns in size almost 50 times larger.
Now for her stunning common sense comparison. Wearing a mask is like erecting a chain link fence to stop mosquitoes.
Not to be reported in the Democrat Leftist woke Big Media sycophant shills for the Biden administration and certainly, the FAKE Faucci.
SIGNED — “The White-Supremacist Anti-Immigration Anti-Political-Correctness Free-Speech Fascist”… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Virus does not travel on its own, so its size is irrelevant to mask effectiveness. It travels in droplets generated by breathing, speaking, coughs, and sneezes. The size of those droplets averages about 8.6 microns, but can be as much as 100. A proper mask has multiple layers that stop the larger droplets and slow the smaller ones so that they travel inches, rather than 10-15 feet (which is why consumer masks only work when combined with social distancing). We wear masks to protect others and to show we care about their welfare.
If you use the search engine of your choice, you can find any number of relevant peer-reviewed articles by medical professionals who specialize in epidemiology and related fields. The consensus of those articles is that masks can reduce transmitted virus loads at least tenfold, and more if both parties are masked. Our immune systems can handle virus exposure at low levels, but not higher loads. I am more inclined to believe those articles than some random unidentified Ph.D in an unknown field who was invited to appear on a show hosted by a noted mask opponent.
I believe the good doctor from John’s Hopkins over a political lying shill like you…
I believe dozens of articles by people with names and actual credentials over an unnamed Ph.D. in an unknown discipline invited to speak on a talk radio show hosted by an ethnobotanist. Note: the novel coronavirus is not a tropical plant and homeopathy is not generally accepted science.
…and no one died from natural causes this year either. What can’t Covid do?
Oh God, here come the flat earth crew again.
Oh, God, here’s that idiot Tau again
It’s good business to reduce the amount and cost of your inputs. So if you can produce your products and services using less energy you’re doing well.
Some forms of renewable energy are now cheaper to build and maintain than more traditional sources when total lifetime costs are considered. In the cases where that is so it’s a sensible thing to switch to them. If there are added benefits such as producing less carbon for the same amount of energy and the cost is relatively similar why not switch now and encourage further development in those technologies so they actually do become even cheaper?
Shouldn’t we be focusing on tearing down these forests to install solar panels and wind turbines? 😉
No, we have huge open spaces, deserts, and rooftops for that.
Just more batsh*t crazy from Timmy and the gang who own expensive cars and jet around on private jets. Hey Timmy, why not just slash your profit margins 200,000,000 and pass the savings on?
Finally getting around to the concept of carbon income. You can deny climate change if you want, but it’s pretty hard to get around environmental change, drastic ones. I don’t have proof but I highly doubt that the night sky looked this bright at the start of the 1800’s.
Besides, trees are kewl.
Cities are bad and forests are the ideal?
Shall we return to 18th century when the skies were darker/stars were seemingly brighter and we worked the fields to hopefully provide the family enough to eat?
Honey, can you get the horses ready so I can make it to the doctor next week? I needs some leeches to take care of this lump on my breast.
I never said nor implied that one situation excludes another, though the track record for forest is substantially longer than cities. I don’t know if you’ve notice but the pandemic has cleared up the skies quite a bit and we still work fields to provide families with food as we have one for centuries.
I don’t think there is a need for horses, with your timely suggestion, house calls are probably more of the fare of the day.
A balance of cities and forests are the ideal but just remember one thing, the forests have done fine without the cities for a very long time. The converse remains to be seen.
Time for Tim to exit stage left.
Tim Cook, Steve’s biggest mistake…
Bill Gates wants to mimic the effects of a giant volcanic eruption by using “solar geoengineering” whereby thousands of airplanes would spray particles at high altitudes to create a chemical cloud that would cool the surface. Other than famine, flooding, drought and no more blue sky what could possibly go wrong. I pick Timmy over Bill on this one, even tho dead trees don’t permanently lock the carbon out of the atmosphere as the announcement states.
Exactly!
Tim Cook is ruthless on people (and loyal customers) and untrustworthy grandstander. One of his very first jobs after becoming CEO was to fire Scott Forstall. For all I know, Scott and Steve were soul mates sharing excellent common traits to become another great CEO after Steve, and Steve truly admired Scott from what I read. Cook fired him using the reason of crashing between Scott and Jony the Ive who was constantly trying to stick his nose into “software design” area (mostly aesthetic area of course such as insistence of “thin” fonts etc) as he was running out of any kind of “design”. Eventually, Cook showed Ive the door.
And Cook always makes a “personal” grandstanding as if he is the master of SJW. Really? There are many companies that are contributing to many social causes but many of them do so quietly. By virtue of the very reason that something is of charity or social causes, it has far more impact when done rather quietly (and concoct someone else to announce it). Let’s just take an easy example of Microsoft (M$) among Google, Facebook, Intel and others who all conduct admirable charity and philanthropical activities, perhaps far more than Apple in many areas. And everything Cook blows his own horn has a shadow of China and profit behind it.
M$ CEO Satya Nadella has a lot of “personal” contributions and donations to various charities and other noble causes. He announced that the profits from his book would go to Microsoft Philanthropies and through that to non-profit organizations.
Cook grandstands on anything but seems so phony. He even popped his head out when there was a controversy on transgender teens in schools with bathroom restrictions. Timmy, keep your personal profile low and let the corporation quietly does great things. How about you donate your money to worthy causes?
Re carbon neutral stuff, let’s just say it’s almost a hoax. It’s a big lobbying industry to get money from government etc ever since Inconvenient Truth was out. Now it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Earth itself is warming from inside, coupled with slight yo-yoing of earth rotational center.
Re carbon neutral issue (very plausible terminology), again taking a close example of M$ and our most accurate and reliable info source (Internet), they’ve been carbon neutral across the world since 2012 and commits to being carbon negative by 2030. Their goal is to promote sustainable development and low-carbon business practices globally through their sustainable business practices and cloud-enabled technologies.
I am not an admirer of M$ in any way or shape but only saying “Shut up Timmy and mind your assigned job!”
Exactly!
Referring to Dave’s post…
I have one more advice for Tim.
If you want to grandstand on SJW issues, let your Corporate PR Team handle them but without your personal name all the time.
It’s becoming obnoxious and sometimes even hurting Apple’s corporate image.
Did you type your screed on an Apple device?
You and the rest of the whiners here can earn some respect once you stop the incessant hypocrisy. If you hate Apple so much, put down your fruity electronics from which you DAILY broadcast your free speech, and support a more patriotic multinational mega corporation that truly aligns with your overwhelmingly strong politics.
Or you can continue to out yourself as complete dumbasses playing victim when you’ve always been handed privileges, including expensive Apple stuff, that most people can’t afford.
I love Apple products for the last 4 decades. I just do not trust Cook.
It does not sound to be self-serving as Fascist Rightwingers, Around Boys, Oathkeepers and Q-Anonists had hoped it to be.
That’s certainly one of the best things Apple has done after contributing too much to promote consumerism!