Franny's "guilty pleasure"

As long as she is below the average of the 6 billion or so of us in energy usage then she can hold the moral high ground I reckon..

That settles it! I’m going to do my part by not eating off-season blueberries! Not a big shock that Franny is like the rest of the lot. Do as I say, not as I do.

And her fancy Levis? Flown in from China?

She’s the kind of child of whom the CRU said in 2000: ‘within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.’ (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html)
Now if someone could just find a picture of her throwing a snowball last winter, it would really make my day!
Or perhaps a stupid video:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRD8lpY_ifI

peakbear says:
October 7, 2010 at 3:32 pm
“As long as she is below the average of the 6 billion or so of us in energy usage then she can hold the moral high ground I reckon..”
To the contrary, I expect she is part of the 20% of the world’s population which consumes 76.6% of the world’s goods (and the energy needed to make them) while 80% of humanity gets the remainder. Seems fair to me?

Actually, Franny did fly to the US for her premiere – and Phelim McAteer got manhandled out of the press conf for asking her about it.

I bet he’s glad the RED BUTTON hadn’t been invented then.

Well, that’s why it is a “guilty” pleasure. Duh.

Of course, some are more carbon neutral others.

nice one Anthony, yeah you can always trip the AGWer’s up with that one. Most consumer goods AGWers buy are moved half way round the world, therby guzzling carbon at ludicrously inefficent rates, while at the same time they proudly boast about offsetting their carbon footprint with effectively pityfully weak gestures.
It would be nice to start a meme going, if some AGWer broadcasts some carbon offseting token gesture they’re doing, then they get a photo with an arrow pointing to some consumer good they’ve got on them, easiest thing their clothes, the arrow says where this item came from ( other side of world ), how much carbon it took to travel to them, and how long it would take for their carbon offset routine to pay off that consumer item, like serveral hunderd hours.
It would really nail them to the cross of hypocracy.
Of course, they can’t get us back for us ‘cos we know carbon burning is good! 🙂

Typical for a “climate campaigner” to be clueless about her own direct and indirect CO2 footprint.
A well-to-do friend of mine has fully bought in to climate alarmism and is pressing me for silly measures at work to reduce our energy usage. Since she and her husband travel a lot in their private jet, I indicated that when she stops traveling, I will get to work on my office energy saving program. Her reply? “My travel has nothing to do with this.”
Where do you even start with these people?

A pious piece by the Picaso pusher on why you should support 10:10

“….they had a team of interns there who used to sleep on the floor of their offices and forage for their food out of dustbins, now that’s dedication…”
(Looks like only Franny got the blueberries – hence the guilt.)
“…these guys seem to have some kind of direct link to the Zeitgeist…”
(Hence the splattered children.)
There are some very curious close ups – I eventually realized that these are designed to capture the dainty 10:10 bracelet – not some kind of fascination for the camera person vis a vis Fred’s trousers.
(I would recommend that anyone seen wearing 10:10 jewelery be avoided at all costs – they may have a button box)
I’m not sure that it would be possible to make this stuff up. Be sure to watch it before it is taken down!

Is it just my imagination running wild or does that 10:10 symbol really look a bit like a pair of handcuffs!!

Most consumer goods AGWers buy are moved half way round the world, therby guzzling carbon at ludicrously inefficent rates,
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The distance goods are shipped has little to do with the amount of carbon used.
Assume her jeans are made in Asia. They will have been railed, shipped and railed. All in relatively large consignments. The fuel usage will be minimal really.
Blueberries from Chile are trucked, flown and trucked. In order to keep them fresh, I bet they are refrigerated most of the way too. That’s a pile of fuel for a small pottle of blueberries, despite them coming from much closer.
The distance = inefficiency meme needs to die. Support shipped and railed over flown and trucked by all means, but straight distance comparisons are meaningless.

AndiC, yes blueberries only started to appear in the UK in any numbers a relative handful of years ago. They were virtually unobtainable – for anyone not in Franny’s circles at least – before that.

“Was a drummer, became a filmmaker, turned into a climate campaigner.”
At least this climate racket is keeping more of the otherwise unemployable off the streets.

From a 2009 interview by “Reign of Terroir” [sic] with Franny A [h/t Gareth @ Bishop Hill]

While An Inconvenient Truth deals with the science of climate change, The Age of Stupid looks at the human impact and moral questions…

So that’s the level of her science “knowledge”

When do we sleep? Badly, because of all the time zones…

What with all that flying…

At the moment I seem to able to get through to anybody! …Yeah, it’s a stunning thing, really. It’s surprising to me that you can just make a film and then suddenly you become somebody that’s involved in the debate. I’m speaking to all the people who are making the policy! And I’m throwing ideas in and they’re like ‘Oh! That’s interesting. I think I’m going to look at that.’
I mean the people who are in power are just ordinary people like us. They just happen to be in power.

Did the rather shady Common Purpose promote her quietly, like I suspect they did with Rob Hopkins of Transition Towns (where I met Franny)

Another thing that’s scary is that they swap departments, you know? So one minute they’re doing Education and then suddenly they’re on Climate Change. And they don’t know anything about climate change; they get briefings and stuff, but they don’t actually know that much. (laughs)

Marion says: October 7, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Is it just my imagination running wild or does that 10:10 symbol really look a bit like a pair of handcuffs!!

My thought too

Now that’s just plane stupid.
Ha! Clever!!!!!! 🙂

Can I introduce a note of reason into this (admittedly delicious) strand of Franny-bashing?
The “food miles” canard was one of the “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus” moments that stepped up my scepticism from passive to active. In my case it was Kenyan green beans, not South American blueberries, but the principle is the same. The warmies assign CO2 emissions of airfreight on a pro rata basis (or claim to, I bet they load it up, but that’s another matter). I have a background in airfreight. In fact the vast majority of this kind of commodity only flies when there is an abundance of spare capacity (usually due to a directional imbalance in the market) available at low, “backhaul rates”. As such, the “carbon footprint” of its journey is negligible – a small increment in fuel burn, but comparable, say, to a single circuit in a holding pattern, which happens all the time. The effect of removing it would be that the aircraft from which they are removed still flies, but under-utilised – great job, warmies.
High-quality horticulture is one promising way for 3rd world economies to develop away from the primary resources/tourism paradigm in which so many find themselves – it ought to beggar belief that people who profess a concern for the “globe” should be so keen to shut it down. (Curtis is a prominent agitator for African development, which I originally thought was his reason for subverting the 10:10 outfit in the way he has)
So Franny, stop feeling guilty about eating yer blaeberries – you’ve got more to worry about – like being a deep-sea, ocean-going, copper-bottomed, first-rate AIRHEAD, who’s been told all her life how wonderful and creative she is, and now finds herself unprepared to confront a real world that doesn’t entirely agree.

It looks as though from a google, that these could be had in-country with a little effort. However it also appears that the air delivery will shortly no longer be necessary:
http://www.seasonalberries.co.uk/?folder=000029&document=000115
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10760020
http://www.pickyourownfarms.org.uk/index.php#listings
http://www.dorset-blueberry.com/index.html
http://www.blueberrypicking.co.uk/
Not mentioned is that blueberries also require very acid and iron rich soil which usually requires significant soil pretreatment and along with the long chill times can foil amateur gardeners:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1422.html

May the Lord spare me from these, holier than thou -” help us save the World and or Universe too by going green!” fanatics.
Too much time on their hands and an obvious lack of analytical skills because of being out of the queue when the grey cells were distributed, leads – to making bad life choices.
And, preserve me from ever meeting up with this lass, I may just tell her what I think and if I didn’t and allowed my better nature to prevail in the meeting, was polite and gentlemanly (which I would), would that then make me, a hypocrite?
Probably.
Hmm.

Ahhhh! But what does she do with those blueberries? Hmmmmm?

Ah yes naughty naughty Franny ye have sinned and thee shall repent for thy sins…… unless of course you buy some carbon credits and then you can go straight to heaven.
Its actually possible that by eating blueberries imported from Argentina Franny is contributing less to the environmental cost than buying locally grown berries.
She’s likely not aware of this and has a guilty admission instead of a carbon emission.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/food-miles-does-distance-matter-401558.html
The greens had such fun with the carbon footprint and food miles scenario insisting we save the environmental impact by only eating locally produced. Unfortunately the reality is that produce can often be produced overseas (sometimes the other side of the world) and freighted using less “carbon” that when produced locally.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/food-miles-does-distance-matter-401558.html
Excerpts
The July 2006 Lincoln Report (from Lincoln University in NZ) has shown that even taking into account the environmental cost of transporting goods to the UK, NZ uses considerably less energy than the UK in the production of sheep meat (NZ is four times as efficient), dairy (NZ is twice as efficient), and apples.
The production of British lamb produces 2,850kg of CO2 per ton. New Zealand lamb shipped to Britain produces 690.
A new report from Lincoln published in July looks at the CO2, methane and nitrous oxide emissions associated with NZ and UK dairy production. This provides a more in-depth picture of the environmental footprint of dairy production, and is more precise than looking at the carbon footprint alone. The report shows that, even after taking into account the energy used to ship dairy products to the UK, the NZ dairy sector generates around three-quarters of the greenhouse gas emissions (per kilo of milk solids) produced by UK producers.
Eat as many imported blueberries as you like Franny and you can keep both the admissions and emissions down. But stay away from any movie making huh.

Everyone who knows anything about blueberries and the environment is that you have to hand-pick your own blueberries in the wild. Then you need to hand-clean and wash them. And they taste 10 times better than the ones you buy in the store.
How many environmentalists have their own garden? None, of course. How many have picked wild blueberries? None, of course.
We all know what Franny has to do now …
…. She has to give up blueberries for 10:10 (unless she picks them herself).
And that is the least we can expect (from someone who thinks it might be okay someday to blow people up).

Gosh, a whole post dedicated to nothing but an attack on someone. How repellent. Besides being a simple bully, you must be very ignorant if you think that importing fruit is a significant source of CO2. It is trivial. If she drove to the supermarket to buy the fruit, that would release more CO2.

Well, I am not flying to Spain for a picnic. Nor am I going to keep my house at 92 degrees all winter. There! Glad I got that CO2 saving crap over with, same justifications as herself.
Beat those savings, 10:10’ers!
Now, where’s my free money?

Franny’s other guilty pleasure: getting satisfaction from telling other people how to live their lives and wagging her bony finger at them in horror.
You tell them Fanny. You know what’s best for us all.

I feel sorry for Frannie. She needs help. She looks young, ignorant and gullible enough to have been completely fooled by the man-made global warming propaganda.
I feel sure that in the proper environment and with a fair education system she would never have grown up to believe in such nonsense.
What a shame. Poor misguided girl.

Last one escaped before I had finished, the lesser capital expenditure would be to replace with LED lights on an as needed basis, which would still work out to be in excess of $200 per tonne of avoided CO2 on a simple payback basis.
Mike

Stevo says:
October 7, 2010 at 5:44 pm
If she drove to the supermarket to buy the fruit, that would release more CO2.
Do you think she has them shipped directly to her house?

One also wonders how much energy is used in the entire process of film making … me thinks the creation of propaganda doesn’t come cheap!

Say No to O2:
http://grumpyoldtwat.blogspot.com/2010/10/say-no-to-o2-campaign.html

Since the good people at 10:10 are convincing so many others to reduce their emissions, shouldn’t they be able to cheat a little and eat their off-season blueberries and drink their bottled water, etc.? A type of offset: get two people to pledge to reduce emissions and you don’t have to.

Stevo;
“…If she drove to the supermarket to buy the fruit, that would release more CO2.”
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Even if your claim was true, which I doubt (I actually couldn’t care less. One person’s infinitesimal CO2 emissions are meaningless even if CO2 was harmful) do you think Ms. Frannie always walks to the store?
Ms. Frannie appears to have a problem with McDonalds’ fast food, and enetrtains notions of sabotaging McDonalds’ property.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/10/06/positively-giddy-franny

I suppose “off season” means “frozen”? Here in Norway such berries grow everywhere. We pick them in late summer and put them in the freezer. You can get them in the shop as well, usually frozen.

She could do better. Our ex Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took 114 people to Jokenhagen with him, including his hairdresser! All in the supposed name of reducing footprints eh? Yup.. hypocrites..

Franny Unræd, (meaning bad-counsel), otherwise (another pun) Æthelred the Unready.
Sorry, but English history courses through my veins, thankfully not windmill vanes!
Armstrong read zoology at University College, London and her thesis was “Is the human species suicidal?”
On 2 November 2009, Armstrong was threatened in the streets of north London by three girls whom she described as looking “like something straight out of central casting”. They pushed her against a car and pulled out an iron bar. She cried for help and was rescued by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who was cycling by. He chased off the attackers and then insisted on escorting Armstrong home. During this 20-minute journey, she suggested that he adopt the 10:10 policy for the tube and that he pedestrianise Camden Town. He replied that he wanted to pedestrianise areas across London.
Hell’s teeth, Boris Johnson has much to answer for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Armstrong

From her wikipedia page it would seem that she has very quickly reverted to type after the exploding kids debacle :
“We ‘killed’ five people to make No Pressure – a mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change,”
Insincerity, they name is Franny Armstrong.

a mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change

The sad thing is that it sounds as if she actually believes that. Climate ALWAYS changes. It is NEVER stable and there is no way to make it stable. So if climate always changes and people are dying from climate change, then it means that people are always dying, which we already know.
But I guess what I don’t get is why she doesn’t understand that many millions more people would die from a 2 degree cooling than from a 2 degree warming. And not only would people die but entire plant species would disappear from the ranges where they currently live.
We are currently about 2 degrees cooler than we were during the warmest period of the Holocene. Sea levels are about 2 meters lower now than they were at that time. While we have had periods of warming and cooling, the general trend for the past 2000 years has been one of cooling. Warm periods tend not to get quite as warm as the previous warm period and cold periods tend to get a little colder than the previous one. The Little Ice Age was the coldest period since the Younger Dryas and that covers pretty much the entire Holocene. Let me state that again, the recent Little Ice Age was the coldest period we have seen in about 13,000 years and we have still not recovered to what the temperatures were before that period. It would appear that we have recovered to about all we are going to as the 1998 peak was lower than the 1933 peak and the 2010 peak was lower than the 1998 peak and indications are that we have a cold stretch coming ahead of us.
She actually believes that things WE are doing are impacting climate enough to kill 300,000 people. She probably believe switching in a curly lightbulb will impact her local climate in some measurable way. The greatest consumer of the very energy sources she hates most and the one whose consumption is increasing most rapidly is a country that is exempt from all international treaties regulating the emissions resulting from that consumption (China). They add a coal power plant every week or two. They are exempt from Kyoto and all other agreements. Does she believe that is an accident?
If the entire British Isles were sterilized and all human life scrubbed from the surface of the earth there, it would not make even the tiniest bit of difference. China’s emissions will increase enough in 18 months to replace all that the UK produces today. She has no sense of scale. She can work all she wants to have emissions reduced 10% or 20% or 50%, it won’t make a damned bit of difference.
She is what amounts to a religious fundamentalist and her religion is “climate change”. She just “believes” and she can not see that it is really a futile exercise. But I am sure she can recite her scripture chapter and verse.

Another foot shot by a greenie group.
Sea Shepherd accused by former skipper of sinking protest boat
Ady Gil deliberately scuttled after collision with whaling ship, says Peter Bethune in public feud with group’s founder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/07/sea-shepherd-accused-protest-boat

Perhaps the blueberries deserve credit for inspiring Splattergate. Imagine the scene (h/t Calvin and Hobbes) where Frannie is making up her favourite smoothie while thinking of what to do with all these naughty denialists. In they go to the food processor – what’s to be done with them? In goes the banana – aren’t those Miliband boys nice, and so understanding of negative feedback! She ponders the bright shiny red Go button – just like the Red Noses for Comic Relief, there has to be an angle here somewhere. she presses the button. Splat! Eureka!!

RE the off-season blueberries and the maintenance of blatantly false supporter names: Just more evidence that Greenies are cretins.

Well Franny, you saw your own nasty little emission cut off within hours of hitting the web. How’s that “no pressure” thing working out for you right now?

Anthony,
It is a legal requirement under the data protection act that all data recorded is accurate and used appropriately – so you have a resource if you want your name removed from their web-site;
http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guide/the_principles.aspx

As a huge blueberry fan – I mean a huge fan of blueberries, not a fan of huge blueberries, most of the berries sold in the UK are flown in from Poland. You can buy organic blueberries here (in Tesco), but they only last a couple of days or so in the fridge before mould takes over. In order to prevent this, here’s a tip: put your berries in hot water (not boiling, around 70 degrees) for 30 seconds or so and then dry them on paper towels. Once dry, put them back into the fridge. They’ll last for a fortnight.

Franny is a big fake.
She describes herself, in breathless biographies in the Guardian etc, as an “ex rock drummer turned self-taught film maker.
In fact she’s a second generation, upper middle class, activist media brat.
Her Daddy, Peter Armstrong http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/113201 , was a senior documentary maker for 20 years at the BBC (where else!) until he bought out the multimedia technology he had developed there and floated “The Multimedia Corporation” on the junior stock market – it later bombed in the dot-com crash. He now runs his own international activist organisation
Daddy worked with her for 10 years on her first film “McLibel” – http://spannerfilms.net/films/mclibel – about the two hippies who were sued for telling lies about Macdonalds. (British left wing media types HATE Macdonalds because their food is enjoyed by the people they most despise – Americans and common people).
She still runs a website providing anti-Macdonalds propaganda to activists.
Her step mum is also an activist film maker and Mummy and Daddy still work with her at her film company – http://spannerfilms.net/node/424.
“Greenery” is just her latest vehicle for self promotion.

I signed up to the 10:10 campaign, just to check whether there is an option to sign off again. There is not.
Then I signed up again (with another address), just to check whether there is a mechanism to remove duplicate names. There is not.
Their claim of 100,000 supporters is a bit of an exaggeration.
I wonder, has Michael Crichton signed up yet?

No blueberries in England – nonsense! We call ’em Whinberries here in Shropshire, and you can pick ’em free.
Article in Independant :- http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/days-out-atildeiquest-pickyourown-whinberries-on-the-stiperstones-641751.html
The Stiperstones Inn buys up most of the crop that is now harvested. Landlord John Sproson reckons that, in a good year, an expert picker can make up to £2,000 in the season, which lasts until the second week of September. But now the pickers are mainly pensioners, using a variety of methods. “Some pick clean, one berry at a time,” said John Sproson. “Others use a comb, and then a hairdryer with an attachment to get rid of the twigs and leaves.

Shropshire, England’s best kept secret. If Franny and her “oh so superior friends” got out a bit, they’d learn a little about their own countryside.
And as for their web manager, yesterday I pointed out that he wasn’t too clever, leaving pages up with “Access denied”, but still available (twit), but now he allows people to sign in strangers with no checks. It is a very silly and juvenile site, but allowing Moncton’s name to be loaded::: now that’s one name I wouldn’t take in vain, all hell is about to break over this site, and a good thing too.

I see that Nessie of Loch Ness has joined the campaign, and thrown her support behind 10:10. Excellent news!

It’s 11.00 hrs in Uk this morning, and this page:- http://www.1010global.org/uk/about/inside/team
is still up. Recent signups include Nessie of Loch Ness, Elvis Presley, Michael Chrichton, and would you believe West Dorset District Council. Well, it’s all good knock about fun isn’t it?
But you have to ask yourself, did Sony actually look at the Team Photo at the top of the page, and then still they decided to give them money. This is a big solid company like Sony, who make zillions of high quality products – they put their good name in the hands of these kids, all wet behind the ears. They must have been absolutely bloody mad.

Occupation : Asking powerful people for money…
That’s what pirates, kidnappers, robbers and hijackers do too.

““Where did Armstrong’s climate-change obsession come from? “I must have been 14,” she says, “and I remember my teacher telling us about something called the greenhouse effect and that in a century’s time the planet may not be able to sustain life. I thought, oooh, that sounds quite a big deal.””
I remember, (just) being at school in the latter stages of the cold war when S.A.L.T. talks were taking place and one lesson we had about multilateral vs. unilateral disarming.
Some girl of about 14 became nearly hysterical screaming that if we exploded a nuclear weapon near a fault line in the earth’s crust, that the earth could explode.
The last I heard, she became a Greenham Common protester against nuclear weapons.
I guess that some ignorant young women can become tripped by being exposed to these seriously scary scenarios at such a young and impressionable age.
Still, she has a significantly higher carbon footprint than I have, so she is a hypocrite.

D Caldwell says:
October 7, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Typical for a “climate campaigner” to be clueless about her own direct and indirect CO2 footprint.
A well-to-do friend of mine has fully bought in to climate alarmism and is pressing me for silly measures at work to reduce our energy usage. Since she and her husband travel a lot in their private jet, I indicated that when she stops traveling, I will get to work on my office energy saving program. Her reply? “My travel has nothing to do with this.”
Where do you even start with these people?
Well you are definately for the Big Red Botton 😉

I’ve noticed frequently on this blog that posters slip-in comments like “I don’t fly” or “My electricity usage is already low”, or “I eat canned vegetables in the winter” etc. I myself have a very low carbon footprint. I carpool every day, never use gasoline powered equipment to tend to my yard, burn wood for heat in the winter, and have a very low electric bill. I also try to eat local produce and rarely eat things out of season. I can my own jellies and vegetables I raise in my garden, I raise my own eggs, and make maple syrup in the spring. I also don’t believe in CAGW at all!!!! I don’t have a low carbon footprint because I think I’m saving the planet. I do it because I like saving money.
With other people’s comments here that lead me to believe they also probably have a low carbon footprint and also don’t believe in CAGW, I would like to somehow make a comparison. How can we compare the average carbon footprint of our most staunch skeptics against the carbon footprint of our most staunch Greenies? Or maybe compare the average skeptic to the average Greenie. I’ll bet the skeptics have an overall lower carbon footprint than the Greenies. And this is what fundamentally irks us about being lectured-to about reducing our carbon footprint. I guarantee my carbon footprint is a fraction of AlGore and probably these 10:10 folks as well.
This also makes sense in the context of psychological “projection” mentioned somewhere above. People hate in others that which they hate most in themselves. The Greenies know deep down inside they are ruining the planet (according to their CAGW philosophy). They also don’t want to really change their lifestyle. This causes psychological conflict. To create an offset for themselves, they threaten others to live the lifestyle they think they themselves should be living, thus displacing their own guilt.
I have no guilt about my lifestyle. I also don’t preach to others that they should live like me. My neighbors drive Hummers and keep their 6000 sqft homes at 90F all winter by burning oil. Their heating oil bill is $1200 per month. Mine is $400 per year. But this doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t see their lifestyle as ruining the planet. Live and let live.

Trying to pick on her for a very human like for blueberries is just petty. She’s human, has a sense of humour and self-deprecation – good for her! Really, I was disappointed to see this article on WUWT.
The job description “asking rich people for money/ and or emission cuts” – now that would have been something to fuss about. It is the real indicator of the self-serving greenie attitude: “Buy your indulgences here. A coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs.”

John Whitman says:
October 8, 2010 at 5:08 am
When first scanning the post I had a mental image of the scene from the movie “The Caine Mutiny” where Humphrey Bogart as the captain was being cross examined about the mutiny.
His classic line was “It was the strawberries . . .”
I now see old Franny at her desk saying “It was the blueberries . . .”
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That’s excellent!!!

So essentially until Franny’s, overly gas guzzling delivery, of off-season blue berries stop coming due to horrible petrifying godly terrifying death by a sizzling scorching 9 degrees centigrade of extremely warm weather we don’t really need to worry.
The blue berries are our canaries.

Anyone wondering about the Foamy moment

Or if the link doesn’t make it past moderation…
search for Foamy the squirrel going green on YouTube.
DaveE

I think it’s time to cut the overt Franny-bashing and go subversive. Everybody’s got the first-order message by now, and as someone said, the thing these people fear most is silence. Time, then, to go second-order. How about a sceptics’ lapel button – just red, no text – cheap, post-modern, -ish. Anyone out there in the novelty game?

JohnH says:
A well-to-do friend of mine has fully bought in to climate alarmism and is pressing me for silly measures at work to reduce our energy usage. Since she and her husband travel a lot in their private jet, I indicated that when she stops traveling, I will get to work on my office energy saving program. Her reply? “My travel has nothing to do with this.”
Where do you even start with these people?

What….??? That’s ridiculous.
People wonder about the psychology of all this. I wonder if it has something to do with the notion that the world is getting more populated, not just with people but with more educated people, there will be more competition, and those who currently feel are higher up want to retain their status by convincing the rest, particularly the 2nd world, to downshift their lifestyle, you know, for the planet.
Doesn’t the future just belong to whichever nation innovates the next great technical advance, creating real wealth? Will it be bioengineers in Malaysia, perhaps? Or China developing Africa, maybe?
My private jet has nothing to do with it…. “it” being the masses of new consumers and powerhouses of tomorrow… perhaps?

…yet Franny can have her off season jet set blueberries. No pressure to eliminate that. I guess Franny never stopped to think how “not in season blueberries” get to her local shop.
No surprise that she is a shallow, mindless hypocrite. Pretty much like every other eco-fascist.

Delingpole joins in:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/

Oh, BTW, keep one or two of your carbon-wasting ways til the 10:10 commando knocks at your door. They will ask you to reduce your consumption by 10% (or else…) so you better make sure you have some slack you can drop…

Really guys? “Blueberries not in season”? Come on…
I think we’re taking this blueberries triviality a bit far. It’s not like Ms. Armstrong is chartering a jet to shuttle each pint of berries from South America. Thanks to the miracles of modern global logistics, they’re loaded in bulk on a regularly scheduled transport flight, which would have flown regardless of whether it was half full or at capacity.
So let’s apply a bit of common sense here, to avoid looking as bad as the people we’re pointing fingers at.
And another thing (while I find myself in the strange position of defending alarmists). All things considered, 10:10 is probably the least bad of the climate activist organizations out there, for the simple reason that their campaign encourages people to undertake VOLUNTARY CO2 emissions cuts. I don’t think this point should be overlooked.
Were it not for their awful video, I might have almost respected them (with one important caveat… below) as being misguided, but principled. They weren’t forcing anyone to play along (at least not until they started blowing up anyone who didn’t volunteer).
That one big caveat… From what I understand, the second phase of 10:10’s plan is to lobby governments for legislation that would force CO2 emissions cuts. So, this bit would make them about as bad as the rest of the climate activist organizations.
But I’ll still give them credit for the voluntary action part of their mission. More than I can say for most activists whose first and only mission is to hijack the power of government to achieve their desired objectives.

Well, old Eugenie, Franny, Daniel, Lizzie and the whole 10:10 team are really not worthy targets . . . . . they are intellectually just the foot soldiers. The generals / admirals are elsewhere. Save your energy for the generals / admirals.

If we can make it uncool to be an eco-nazi foot soldier, then there won’t be very many of them, and the generals will be without an army. I suspect most of the foot soldiers are in it because it’s “cool”.
Just following Alinsky’s rule five: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. ”
Also rule twelve: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
“Turnabout is fair play”

Perhaps someone could start a company building greenhouses that could be cooled down to below 8 degrees C with large industrial cooling units for a sufficient time during the winter. That way the blueberries could be grown locally instead of flying them in!

Rather than spend the expense on the chilling units to get the chill hours that stimulates the production of blueberries, plant more plants. Blueberries (the berry) store very well when frozen. If you grew enough and stored enough, you would likely be able to compete with the cost of imported blueberries during the off season.

You would think an “actual job” involves receipt of monies for services rendered. In this type of business, what is she being paid for? Activism? By the wealthy?

she is the more equal [snip] i guess.

The Climate Cabal are a [snip – a bit OTT ~mod] off legitimate enterprise. Pandering and even extorting PR monies with the stated or unstated threat to harm those who won’t pay.

I get my thrills,
with blueberries chilled,
blueberries chilled,
with CO 2.
One button to push,
and all doubt is gone,
all doubt is gone,
I blew up you.
Science is settled.

Massaging the figures?
Today, 9 Oct, the 10:10 site shows 73,111 people on board not the 94,900 from earlier this week.

crosspatch says:
The sad thing is that it sounds as if she actually believes that. Climate ALWAYS changes. It is NEVER stable and there is no way to make it stable.
Climate is actually quite stable in the sense that short term changes (weather) tend to be much greater than any long term changes.
We are currently about 2 degrees cooler than we were during the warmest period of the Holocene. Sea levels are about 2 meters lower now than they were at that time.
Sea level often changes by more the 2m twice a day and people have been drowned by tidal changes.
While we have had periods of warming and cooling, the general trend for the past 2000 years has been one of cooling. Warm periods tend not to get quite as warm as the previous warm period and cold periods tend to get a little colder than the previous one. The Little Ice Age was the coldest period since the Younger Dryas and that covers pretty much the entire Holocene. Let me state that again, the recent Little Ice Age was the coldest period we have seen in about 13,000 years and we have still not recovered to what the temperatures were before that period.
This is the point at which the wheels fall off the AGW bandwagon. Even if current temperatures were a bit higher that they were a thousand years ago there would be no issue. How accurate are the methods of determining prehistoric temperatures anyway?
The AGW’s react by denying the LIA, MWP (and probably the RWP too). Even though these are well documented by the people around at the time. Then have the audacity to call anyone who dosn’t agree with them a “denier”.

Alex Cull says:
I see that Nessie of Loch Ness has joined the campaign, and thrown her support behind 10:10. Excellent news!
Presumably her relatives from around the world will be signing if she can manage to get a signal on her phone 🙂

LarryD says:
October 8, 2010 at 7:58 am
“If we can make it uncool to be an eco-nazi foot soldier[…]”
It has been uncool for as long as i can remember, so how would that stop them? Enviro-pressure groups thrive on hysteria, not coolness. (So, if 10:10 tries to appeal to coolness they’ve totally missed the target demographic anyway.)

I guess self important bourgeois that has aspirations of being a big shot “documentary” producer, jet setting around, and hob knobbing with rich celebrities the CAGW scam is the perfect vehicle to hitch your Spanner Films/10:00 wagon. What’s worse actually believing 300K people each year die due to CAGW, or cynically promoting the lie to line your own pockets?
Trying to rationalize the amount of CO2 for a given delivery of berries in order to excuse it is pretty ridiculous considering that the reason that berries could be imported with sufficient efficiency to make the economical is the fact that we have a worldwide economy and logistical infrastructure fueled by carbon based fuels

They still have all their pages up with Guilty Pleasures
Here’s one:-
Lizzie Gillett: Global
Job title: Campaign Director, 10:10 Global, London
Actual job: Enthuse people around the world to run 10:10 in their country.
10:10er since: Feb 2010 but was around when the idea was conceived back in March 2009.
10:10 plan: 10% more sleep (when you’re asleep you don’t consume anything or travel anywhere). Plus not turning on the heating in our flat.
Favourite 10:10er: Nina in Norway who started 10:10 Norge and has already signed up the City of Oslo, some of the biggest trade unions, the powerful Lions Club and 4,000 individuals.
Guilty pleasure: Out of season strawberries or blueberries.
Best/worst 10:10 moment: Best moment was seeing the 10:10 France and Holland teams plotting their country campaigns and realising they now have ownership of the campaign so it will happen with or without us.
Background: Lizzie Gillett is the producer of The Age of Stupid. On the five-year production she managed a crew of 105 people in six countries and raised one million pounds through the pioneering crowd-funding model. She organised the Guinness World Record beating Global Premiere, which over one million people in 63 countries participated in.
Try out the international crowd if you can bear it:-
http://www.1010global.org/global/about/inside-1010-global
Yuck!

Now exploding blueberries, particularly the guilty imported CO2 producing variety, that would have been a much more subtley brilliant device for getting their message across. They make such a mess … But hey , No Pressure .

Ms. Armstrong is [snip]. She obviously has come to the delusional belief that she knows best and that her means justify her ends, irrespective of the inconsistency of her actions with her words.

I thought she flew into Australia too. I heard her shrill voice on an interview on Sydney radio. She was calling for air travel to be cancelled immediately, we were all going to die in the next week, etc etc. and I wondered how she got here if not by air. The woman is a nutcase.

Has anyone noticed that the 10:10 ‘People on board’ counter has gone down to 73,523? Maybe this article has pulled their heads in a bit

What’s the carbon footprint on a can of blueberries?
Retrieve the iron ore
Diggers
explosives
rubber (for the tyres on the trucks)
gold (used in the computers)
oil (used in the exploration to find the iron ore in the first place)
aluminium (aluminum for our US friends) (for the plane that flew the prospector over the area to determine where to put the mine in the first place)
etc etc etc
(and I haven’t even thought about the sugar production, transporting it from Queensland / Fiji to whereever the cannery is, transporting the blueberries from the farm to the cannery etc etc etc – I’m sure you get the picture.)