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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Despite being responsible for one of the most repellent pieces of film-making imaginable, I guarantee these endlessly creative media types will soon be casting around to make something else hard hitting and even more effective. Perhaps instead of threatening to kill all us ugly, surly non-believers they might try to persuade us to terminate ourselves instead. Once they have a World fit for Trendy Media Types they will be able to guzzle NZ Sauvignon Blanc and blueberries without guilt because the Earth will be happy, the supermarket car parks will be dug up and turned into vegetable gardens tended by re-educated, salt of the earth proles. TMTs don’t need car parks, they always travel by cab.
Imagine if you can the montages of Polar bears frolicking with penguins, the stately groves of strip-bark bristlecone pines, devastated by centuries of helicopter logging, sweeping down, once more, to the sea. Los Angles and London with their glaciers restored to their former beauty. Goldman Sachsony (formerly USA) and its magnificent capital, Goreopolis………. Ah, if only….
How about this then blatant lies, media manipulation:
That is interesting:
On 10/10/10 the number of people on the website went up to 96,000 plus…
(the day before ~73,000)
ie to back up their CLAIM that a 100,000 people in the UK had signed up..
Even though one at least was – Exploding Mr Cresote –
(I have a screen cap, if Watts up wants it)
Now, today. it is back down to 73,000.
http://www.1010global.org/uk/partners
cheating *****
When I googled ” blueberry harvest England”, the first return was from freshplaza.com, 9/2/2010.
They state ” recent wet weather has produced a huge crop of blueberries”.
You were told two days ago that blueberries are a European crop. Do you never `factcheck? Who writes your stuff Wegman?
Maddy Carroll:
“I am trying a full year of public transport having found myself carless for the first time in a decade.Strangely liberating.”
That doesn’t sound to me like she was totally committed to public transport before she became carless if she had been driving for a decade. A decade of driving!!?? Not exactly an eco warrier then.
“Favourite 10:10er Vivienne Westwood”
Vivienne Westwood’s clothes – fabulous but the woman’s barking if you’ve ever heard her speak, especially about “global warming”.
I notice that she was head of PR of Ecotricity. Ecotricity is a company I know well – and ask Christopher Booker about them – I cannot continue as the rest of this response would be a long line of expletives. Suffice it to say that Ecotricity are trying to put up wind “parks” where they are not wanted, where there is not enough wind, close to houses, and won’t take no for an answer, presumably because of the squillions they can extract through subsidies. ‘Nuff said.
These people make their living moving around from one green sanctimonious project to the next, never actually “doing” anything productive, hectoring and lecturing all the while, and drawing a salary (where does the money come from?).
I would find it “strangely liberating” if she went back to archeology, presumably something she knows about – how about sending her on a dig to discover Viking settlements in Medieval Warm Period Greenland?
Ugh.
mrsean2k:
‘so I don’t understand why you’re parading this particular woman’s head on a pole.’
That’s pretty rich since that seems to be precisely where they would like to see Anthony’s and the rest of us realists, even dissenting schoolkids. They need to be shown for the hypocrites, deceivers and gravy-trainers that they are.
Perhaps the 10:10 crowd could borrow the fake, repetitious “bio” data from the Catlin group in order to avoid the embarrassing CO2-loving guilty pleasures they enjoy.
Sure, it’d be fake… but at least it would be “realistic.”
Then they could team up together for an Arctic expedition to search for blueberries and wine…
Robert of Ottawa says:
October 11, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Grief. So those awful people really are runnign and hiding; rightfully so for the scum snuff movie they produced. Shame!
WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.
Jimbo @ur momisugly 1:13am.
Avocados growing wild in the UK? We’ll need a heck of a lot more global warming before that happens!
Blueberries and New Zealand wine being flown into the UK? Franny and Maddy ought to be glad that the “no pressure” red Button exists only in their wildest fantasies otherwise they might find themselves on the recieving end of it 😉
A lot of people seem to be missing the point. This post is up because the children at 10:10 are apparently embarassed by their own admissions (or should it be emissions?) and have attempted to hide the page from public view. I think that action, more than anything else, makes them fair game for critical comment.
Re John McManus
I Googled “blueberry consumption in England” and got from a Latin AQmericam web site (http://www.latinamerican-markets.com/chile—blueberry-production):
“We’ve seen an explosion in UK blueberry consumption over the past two to three years,” says Hortifrut’s Francisco Ortuzar. “Unlike some other parts of Europe, the market is familiar with blueberries and category managers have done a good job of promoting the fruit.”
The Chilean season began in late October and while it is early days, marketers have reported a good start to the season. “For the past few weeks, weather conditions have been excellent,” Ortuzar said in mid-November. “We’re in good shape for the new season in terms of volumes and marketing activities.”
Now where in England do you suppose blueberries are grown during the winter?
I figure that their bios are fair game — they are not anti-science — they are no-science! Read their bios completely — forget their guilty pleasures!
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about/inside/team/
We are definitely talking about religion here. Maybe even a cult! 🙂
So these are the gentle people who thought that depicting young children’s heads exploding in a classroom was “extremely funny”…
This organization needs to be defunded NOW!
And I will NOT do any more business with Sony, O2, and any of the other companies that originally supported these deviants…
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Cadae says:
October 11, 2010 at 11:12 pm
The pronunciation is a no-brainer, but the choice of spelling is tricky – do you emphasize the consumption or the hiding – Berrygate or Burygate ?
Tony B (another one) says:
October 11, 2010 at 11:46 pm
@Cadae
It has to be Buryberrygate, surely?
Sounds just like a disease to me, which is exactly what these eco-mentalists are.
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Thank you both, I laughed so hard I choked on my coffee 🙂
I see Maddy Carroll studied archaeology. Didn’t she notice the Phoenican warm period, the Roman warm period, the Medieval warm period, the Little Ice Age, etc etc? Did she ever wonder why the MWP is also called the MCO – Medieval Climate Optimum? You know, optimum, like best? Honestly, I have to wonder whether they even teach people to think these days.
Blueberries and ice-cream for tea tonight, I think.
Jason F says
“Ha, I bet they all puff away on tobacco as well…”
Of course they do; more smoking = shorter life = smaller population, one of their primary goals.
Be fair to Sony, they were oblivious to the video.. and they pretty much immediately pulled out..
Unlike O2
QA_NJ – speaking of Orwell:
“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which”.
– Animal Farm, George Orwell 1946
Hmmm?
Pulling the bios was just plain silly. In today’s connected, always on, never off, ship anywhere, buy anywhere market economy it would be darn hard to not incur some element of 1000km plus transportation in everyday life. The only sensible thing you can do is try to reduce it by practical means – for instance I grow veggies, keep chickens etc – can’t do much about clothing and other items – not really practical to make my own socks…
I’m also fond of NZ wine, but I don’t beat myself up over it – BTW the best NZ wine remains in NZ…
It’s a pity that Montgomery Burns isn’t a member of the Team. His guilty secrets might raise a few hackles as he brags about his gorilla skin vest, and donuts made from the tallow of three different animals – 2 of them now extinct.
Vince Causey,
Excellent suggestion!
From the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website–Their “Guilty Pleasures”?
Conservation is an Everyday Commitment
at the Aquarium
“We believe it’s important to “walk our talk” in the ways we do business every day….
In our store, we won’t sell dried seahorses, shells or other sea life, and our restaurants have phased out plastic water bottles and paper cups. Additionally, the Aquarium is currently pursuing a Green Business certification with the city of Monterey. We know there’s always room for improvement so we’ll continue to explore creative ways that we can “go green” at the Aquarium.”
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/aquarium.aspx
Next time you’re at the aquarium, check out the wonderful things in the gift store….just don’t look at the labels that say “Made in China”
Ed says:
October 11, 2010 at 7:23 pm
one local charity shop sold honey from Chile when there was a struggling farm selling honey up the road.
Going back a few years in the UK the high street Charity Shops didn’t have to pay business rates… so with a few volunteers, tax breaks plus some government grants and subsidies they decimated the local high street while swelling their coffers.
With all this additional money they then increased their publicity budgets and fund raising activities so they could open even more Charity Shops… now that is what I call a really good business model… especially as some lucky Charity Executive could then jet-off with the small change to some poor benighted sunshine state where their good works would undercut and decimate local businesses.
I think they called this original business model Sustainable Development because it helped the Charities grow into big businesses aka NGOs… but still they wanted more… so now this business model has expanded into Renewable Energy which is managing to renew their coffers while decimating more that just the western high street… I think they now call this business model Killing The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
‘Hide the decline’, ‘delete the emails’….. in another forum I look at that’s completely unrelated to AGW, it had an off-topic thread it where an AGW believer attempted to sway disinterested bystanders over to his side. When the thread ballooned to 66 pages with over 650 replies, many containing questions that completely undermined his original assertion, he ultimately just deleted the whole thing.
And, as I pointed out in my 7/6 American Thinker article, “Smearing Global Warming Skeptics” ( http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/smearing_global_warming_skepti.html ), the 1991-era ‘smoking gun’ document that supposedly proves skeptic scientists are paid shills of big coal & oil has been HIDDEN from the public ever since 1991 despite all the viral internet references to it, but I found it tucked away in Greenpeace archive scans. When folks are embarrassed by something, they hide it.
Looks like
Franny took a spill
On Blueberry Fill
Russell C. that’s like hiding a full catbox when company comes.”What’s that smell?”
10:10 efforts come to mind, too.
good article for perusal…