Should fireplace fires be banned? (because they add to global warming)

good lord.. first my beer fridge is the cause of global warming and now my fireplace.. gimme a break
only in America.. we hope

Then we're going to have to ban forest fires too.

Its carbon neutral if the wood is coming from a managed woodlot. Corn stoves are a good, cheap source of heat and aren't quite the chore that fireplaces or woodstoves are.

All I want to know is what the Global Warming alarmist think of this wonderful cold winter we are having.

Isn't the idea of Global Warming is that our earth is getting warmer? -19C/-1F is not warmer to me and a few degrees warmer would be nice right now.

fireplaces aren't even part of the real problem here , what a silly idea . sure theres lots of them but only in homes and in mainly rural areas .

and the wood comes from forests mostly ones which are managed or partly cut . so it's not like the wood had any other use anyways .

Research La Nina....

If they were predicting the coldest temperatures ever recorded then maybe you'd be on to something.

Let's see what happens next El Nino.

In most larger municipalities and almost all Canadian cities, anything other than gas or propane fireplaces are already prohibited. Inversion layers and tricky wind conditions make smoke and ash a problem for many neighborhoods.

Yes, ban fireplaces! It's far, far better for people to freeze to death today than to see the sea levels rise catastrophically by a disastrous and, did I say catastrophic?, few millimeters in the next, GASP!!!!, !!!!

Don't forget bagpipes! They are a cause as well.


I am really beginning to think that the econuts are gonna talk themselves right out of an arguement with foolishness like this.

fucking bullshit. the fireplace is the way my family has always heated our homes for the whole 18 years of my life. hell, the current house we live in has no alternative to wood fire, same for the neighbours.

Fuck this shit.

i agree..

hey tritium, thats a great xmas pic.. mind if i borrow it ??

those bastards wanting to enjoy a fire a couple times a season (sarcasm). as if banning fires will make up for all the driving that these people do. the amount of co2 that is released from a fireplace makes no difference to global warming, its just alarmist bullshit.

not to mention its in San Fransisco, and that i don't think it gets all that cold there which is the main reason people here like to make a fire.

I would like to see these people come out in the bush where I work (and live) for months at a time. we heat our cabin with diesel fuel, heat our office with diesel fuel, we burn our garbage (OH NOES!) and guess what?

we know more about nature than any of these shmucks and we do more to help it than these guys could ever dream about.

Don't forget bagpipes! They are a cause as well.


I am really beginning to think that the econuts are gonna talk themselves right out of an arguement with foolishness like this.

Quoted for truthiness. I thought the Sheryl Crow toilet paper thingy or the German whacko who wanted Knut (the orphaned polar bear cub) euthanized was the nadir of enviro-tardness but somehow they still mangage to get even dumber. Hopefully, one day, one of them will say or do something so stupid that even our cretinous Canadian media won't be able to ignore it.