Fireworks aare NOT carbon neutral.

[oggbashan]

Fireworks are NOT carbon neutral.

At Present the UK is hosting COP26 about Climate Change.

But yesterday was November 5, Guy Fawkes Night, and this evening is the closest Saturday.

Yesterday evening and tonight, people have been letting off expensive fireworks all around me, and on the beach. Each firework releases carbon into the air. Thousand of pounds have been spent over the last few days for a few flashes and bangs, and the air is thick with the smell of gunpowder.

Do what we can to help the planet?

Fireworks are NO help at all...

 

[ShyBiGuy954]

Awwww, you poor snowflake!!

Lets all give up our freedoms and minor enjoyments just to satisfy you.

Psssst, how many private jets flew around the world to visit these climate meetings in the last few weeks???

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[adrina]

What gets me is the amount of plastic in the things. Plastic debris all over the place after a night of shooting off fireworks. It gets all over the place.

 

[ShyBiGuy954]

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[oggbashan]

Tonight at 22.45 the fireworks are still going off. The neighbour's dogs have been howling their distress since 17.30 when the barrage started.

There was a large public display to raise money for charity a few miles away. The organisers promised to plant a tree for every firework - a minimum of 500 new trees. They are also asking for donations for the charity, and for more trees. If the previous display was any indication (cancelled last year for Covid) that should be nearly 1,500 trees.

 

[oggbashan]

So, shyBiGuy, if your house is destroyed by flood, hurricane or forest fie, it's not your fault?

Sad.

 

[WillJ8787]

At Present the UK is hosting COP26 about Climate Change.

But yesterday was November 5, Guy Fawkes Night, and this evening is the closest Saturday.

Yesterday evening and tonight, people have been letting off expensive fireworks all around me, and on the beach. Each firework releases carbon into the air. Thousand of pounds have been spent over the last few days for a few flashes and bangs, and the air is thick with the smell of gunpowder.

Do what we can to help the planet?

Fireworks are NO help at all...

I feel your pain Ogg.... Pennsylvania legalize fireworks a few years back and now we have fireworks going off her round and then 24/7 for weeks around holidays. It sucks in so many ways including the environmental aspect.

Much like plastics and plastic bags....they should be highly regulated and not for consumer use

 

[BidudeinWi]

At Present the UK is hosting COP26 about Climate Change.

But yesterday was November 5, Guy Fawkes Night, and this evening is the closest Saturday.

Yesterday evening and tonight, people have been letting off expensive fireworks all around me, and on the beach. Each firework releases carbon into the air. Thousand of pounds have been spent over the last few days for a few flashes and bangs, and the air is thick with the smell of gunpowder.

Do what we can to help the planet?

Fireworks are NO help at all...

You’re an ignorant, government pablum swallowing douchebag. “Global warming” renamed for political reasons, “climate change,” is a COMPLETE FARCE, designed to fuck western countries out of $$$. (Not the UK, cuz it’s a Third World Country!)

 

[oggbashan]

ShiBiGuy is a climate cahnge denier. I hope he doesn't pay the price for his ignorance.

 

[Champakian]

Really Ogg?

Fireworks?

Let me tell you who is the main culprit in the excessive use of fireworks: China.



However, I don't think that they are one of the strange attractors
in the chaotic system known as "the climate."



I pray that this is some sort of parody thread.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I don't like fireworks either. Neither does Larry.

 

[bellisarius]

Fireworks ARE carbon neutral. Atoms of Carbon were neither created nor destroyed. They're all still there, floating around somewhere. The equation is perfectly balanced.

KNO3 + S + C = K2S + CO2 + N2

 

[oggbashan]

Fireworks ARE carbon neutral. Atoms of Carbon were neither created nor destroyed. They're all still there, floating around somewhere. The equation is perfectly balanced.

KNO3 + S + C = K2S + CO2 + N2

While they are still in the firework, yes.

Once it is lit, they are discharged into the atmosphere.

 

[oggbashan]

Really Ogg?

Fireworks?

Let me tell you who is the main culprit in the excessive use of fireworks: China.



However, I don't think that they are one of the strange attractors
in the chaotic system known as "the climate."



I pray that this is some sort of parody thread.

Agreed. Most of the fireworks sold in the UK are made in China.

Parody? No. Apart from the carbon, the residential fireworks upset many family pets. You can now buy 'quieter' fireworks, but they don't sell well. People seem to prefer bigger bangs, totally unsuitable for tiny suburban gardens. Locally 100-shot fireworks are priced at £99. Last night I heard dozens of them. Two years ago I retrieved 12 x metre-long rocket sticks from my garden and house roof. If those had hit a pet?

 

[Champakian]

I'm not talking about them making them,
I'm talking about them firing them off CONSTANTLY!

Everything they do, celebrate or venerate is punctuated by fireworks,
and I don't mean kids running around with sparklers, I mean copious displays of gunpowder...

 

[JohnnySavage]

Why can't they just shoot off their AKs like the rest of the "developing" world.

 

[Champakian]

They don't bug my dogs.

Then again, I call them stupid for a reason.

Additionally, they quickly became conditioned to gunfire...

This is redneck country.

 

[Champakian]

Why can't they just shoot off their AKs like the rest of the "developing" world.

Tee hee.

I do that.

Who cares about the neighbors' roofs?

They don't seem to give a shit about mine...

 

[bellisarius]

As a side note, the largest manufacturer of smokeless powder in the US is right across the street from Barnes Liquor store.

 

[Champakian]

On a similar note, and I've posted this before,
but here in Redneckia, the Walmart really freaks me out
because you can walk in, buy a gun, ammo, bow and arrow,
alcohol, tampons and Midol™ without anyone batting an eye or calling 911...



They might as well just sell bomb-making material.

 

[bellisarius]

On a similar note, and I've posted this before,
but here in Redneckia, the Walmart really freaks me out
because you can walk in, buy a gun, ammo, bow and arrow,
alcohol, tampons and Midol™ without anyone batting an eye or calling 911...



They might as well just sell bomb-making material.

They do. Everything needed to make explosives is under the sink with your cleaning supplies, in the medicine cabinet with your OTC drugs, and/or on the shelf with your gardening supplies. Technically virtually every household in the US could be charged with "domestic terrorism."

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'm not sure where the tampons and midol come into play when making bombs.

 

[Champakian]

The guy loaded up and liquored up has a little lady at home...





Think about it and then think about just how mean country girls can be.

(It kind of makes them hot.)

 

[Earthlyone]

I'm against fireworks being on general sale to the public but not for environmental reasons. They terrorise wildlife and are dangerous.

 

[bellisarius]

I'm not sure where the tampons and midol come into play when making bombs.

Tampons + Nitric Acid = Gun Cotton. (Although Cotton Balls are cheaper and work better.)

Not to sure about the Midol but the starting ingredient for Picric Acid is Aspirin.