It’s not hard to find something silly to catch eco snuff film producers 10:10 doing these days. It’s so easy to do, it’s almost a guilty pleasure.
Speaking of which, readers may recall when I called out Franny the founder on some hypocrisy over emissions cuts, denouncing air travel, and “blueberries not in season” coexisting on the same page:
I pointed out that the blueberries have to be flown into the UK. Oops. Then somebody didn’t like that, and signed me up as a supporter. That meant calling them out to remove me. Double oops. Then it was discovered a whole bunch of the signups were bogus, and 20,000 plus supporters disappeared overnight. Triple oops. Then, the whole silly story got picked up in the UK by the Telegraph and by the Herald Sun in Australia. Oops again.
Tonight, after the “global day of doing”, I thought I’d have a look to see if anything changed on the 10:10 UK website. Wow did it ever! They deleted the whole UK team from public view.
It used to be that you could navigate to this page using the website menu system:
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about/inside/team
That’s where I found Franny’s page on her need for blueberries.
But it is gone from the menu now, you can’t get there from here:
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about
The page is still there, and the navigation indicator shows the menu path you would take, but the click path has been scuttled from the left hand menu:
They hid the shame of those guilty pleasures that each team member has, like imported wine transported from the other side of the world in New Zealand. It’s no biggie, just 11,682 miles (18,800 km) and certainly justifiable when you take public transportation in London, right?
But, unless you know where to look, the bios on the entire UK team and the guilty pleasure things have been removed from general public view by taking them out of the website menu system.
Yep, it was the blueberries wot dun it. Heh.
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Don’t you know you’re supposed to do as they say, not as they do?
Here’s a collection of 10:10 related video.
I notice that a “1010fail” has made multple spoofs.
Other over the top eco scare stuff is included.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7C79DEF1EE25E880
that’s something that bothers me about the tentennies. They want to reduce emissions, and they also (many of them that I know) are passionate about Fair Trade food.
I’ve nothing against Fair Trade food, except when – for example – one local charity shop sold honey from Chile when there was a struggling farm selling honey up the road. But if you think that emissions are causing climate change, surely you would be against Fair Trade? As one writer said, to hold both views simultaneously takes a lot of therapy.
Maddy Carroll – ancient history, restaurant management and now lecturing the world on the environment- with no science in between.
Science– We don’t need no stinking science!
Now that 101010 is over I hope this means that we won’t be hearing any more from these yahoos…
Wistful thinking?
HAHAHA, The 8th deadly sin, blue berries, Guilty as charged!!!! Now where is that red easy button, Oh Noooes it’s blue now, Ps: don’t press the blue berry button, because it is not really blue, it’s green!!!!! HEHEHEHE!!!
Top quality hypocrisy spotting.
Grief. So those awful people really are runnign and hiding; rightfully so for the scum snuff movie they produced. Shame!
lol, first they hide the decline, then they hide the data, now they’re hiding the bios!……..that’s it, just pretend it never happened! hahahahaha
Note to mods: runnign is an ancient Lapp word meaning “avoid being eaten by fast animal”; see Q.E.D. sec 11 para 2, 1103 edition (just below the ornate Sabre Tooth Tiger shaped letter “T”)
Too funny, they both wear eye glasses, I guess they’d be pretty blind if it wasn’t for industrial ways. But then we’d hear them complaining about another topic I’d guess!!
Franny’s laugh/sigh at 1:31 says it all:
The hypocrisy is stunning…
Making a mockery of the organization for their “No Pressure” video was entirely appropriate, but when we continue to make fun of individual team members for their inconsistent (but ultimately trivial) food choices, I feel that’s taking things bit too far. It achieves nothing and borders on just being mean.
Golden rule. Let’s not forget it.
REPLY: I hear you, but hey, I’d have nothing to talk about if they hadn’t taken out the bios. The golden rule is good, so is the first rule of holes. But after this, I can’t imagine they’d want to do anything else to call attention to themselves. So, it will probably fade away quickly, much like the Catlin expedition. – Anthony
Silicon Valley and the “virtual” world of the dotcom bubble only lost $5 trillion on the Nasdaq – CAGW can surely perform better!
10 Oct: San Jose Mercury News: Silicon Valley joins Global Work Party to combat climate change
by Sharon Noguchi
Silicon Valley on Sunday rolled up its sleeves to join the 10-10-10 Global
Work Party, intended to not only draw attention to the need to combat
climate change but also to do something about it…
With a grant from the National Science Foundation, students from five San
Jose State departments are designing a 100-square-foot zero-emissions home,
using sustainable materials, solar panels and battery backup. The idea is to
make the tiny portable home — large enough for one person, Thibodeau
said — so that it can be put on display in different areas. On Sunday, they
built frames to test the solar panels….
While the immediate point of the 10-10-10 projects was to make a practical
difference, another was to send a political message, 350.org founder Bill
McKibben said in a statement. “When they put down their shovels, many will
pick up their cell phones to call their leaders and say, ‘We’re getting to
work. What about you?’ ”
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_16305629?nclick_check=1
The best thing to do with this bunch of self-important misfits is to simply ignore them.
Not easy when they’re in bed with the Guardian perhaps but a sea change is coming to the UK. People are having to wake up to the reality of telephone number debt levels produced by a decade of socialist nut jobs in government. Dealing with that will hit the air-freighted consumer air-heads the hardest. Back to basics for the fluffy triviatta of North London then, no more blueberries and cheap imported designer label frippery. Let them eat cake, learn to love turnips and do something productive again.
The Delingpole article was very funny.
I wonder what their favourite movie was??? It didn’t say on the bios, But i bet it’s revenge of the nerds!!!!!! Someone should tell them that stuff only happens in the movies and not reality!!!!HAHAHA!!!
And I think I found Waldo in that Pic!! do you see him??? HAHAHA!!!
This Eco-economy that offers products made out-of-sight, out-of-mind is for the globalist corporate birds.
Put a cap on import quotas to make room for the struggling honey farms down the road.
When the struggling small business owners finally have a market in their own backyard for thier products, and begin hiring, only then will this Great Recession end.
Excellent. Very funny…I’m trying my best to have a global day of shirking. Getting quite good at it too.
We grow blueberries and Sauvignon blanc here in Washington State. I plan to continue picking my own blueberries but to the New Zealand winegrowers I pledge to take up the slack when Maddy Carroll gives up her guilty pleasure. And Maddy, if you stop by here, I’ll pour you a glass of Cloudy Bay.
There are SO many things
Foundations and all
Powered by C02, coal, petrol…
Everything, all the time,
There’s just no escape…
Everything shipped – C02
All manufacturing – C02
All food – C02
Bicycles – tires, spokes, aluminum, chrome, gears – C02
Public transportation – C02
Electric cars – C02
Trucks – C02
SUVs – C02
Lightbulbs – C02
“Green” lightbulbs – C02
Clothing – C02
Polyester – C02
Rubber – C02
Leather – C02
Pet food – C02
etc.
etc.
etc.
I’m with you Madds when it come to fine wines. The 19,000 kms “food miles” can go to hell and those eco fascist greenies you work with each day can go jump in the lake when it come to self indulgent pleasures.
Couldn’t make this stuff up.
Thanks for the laugh Anthony.
I notice that there was a 90 minute Dutch TV show on how to reduce your carbon footprint.
http://www.1010global.org/uk/2010/10/101010-television
I bet that used a lot of electricity. Not to mention that used by the viewers TVs!
Here is the irrepressible, unrepentant ,burner of fossil fuels in copious amounts,
Iowahawk:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/
caution, adult content, and lots of smoke and noise generated in the making of his current post…
Happy 10:10 -one other thing wasn’t 10:10 the anniversary of Che Guevara’s
well deserved death?