The lamestream media told you:
The NFL has moved to make the Super Bowl greener, to help offset greenhouse-gas emissions from the game, and will be “planting thousands of trees in Arizona’s forests blackened by wildfires.” The NFL has received praise from its environmental partners and public agencies, but some say the league isn’t doing enough.
“In the age of Al (Nobel Prize winner Al Gore) and with global warming worries at a fevered pitch, the NFL is taking visible measures to shrink its carbon footprint,” writes Scott Wong for the Arizona Republic, in the state where the game is being held.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Doing as they were instructed, the nation’s news media have reprinted handouts from the NFL claiming the Super Bowl will be more environmentally “friendly” because it plans to plant some trees.
How much CO2 a tree can absorb, how long that takes, where the trees will go, how much CO2 a single private jet emits flying cross country to the game, any inkling of how much CO2 an event this complex creates and anything even remotely logical, scientific or common-sense was noticeably missing from the stories. That’s why they’re called stories.
One report did indicate the NFL has a 3,000-vehicle fleet in Arizona for the game. If each vehicle uses a single 20-gallon tank of gas, (a gallon of gas creates about 20 pounds of CO2), those vehicles alone will produce 600 tons of the gas plants need to breathe — or double that if they refill once. According to the NFL Environmental Program, cited by “news” outlets, “350 tons of greenhouse gas will be generated by the NFL during Superbowl WEEK.”
Not mentioned are 50,000 spectators who will drive to the game, electric generation for a building big enough to hold a football field, energy to transport and prepare food for everyone, and this list goes on for miles, or according to the NFL, for a week.
Reporters did not return phone calls asking if their calculators were broken.
When asked if any human activities are “environmentally friendly,” environmental experts stared blankly and stood mute.
