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.
To commenter Douglas DC: ….perhaps a couple of full litterboxes. Thanks for the kind words, and there’s more articles expanding on the very same topic, http://www.americanthinker.com/russell_cook/ plus a chronology of the whole smear, http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6175
This whole otherwise unreported problem positively reeks.
thay all look like a bunch of left wing [snip] on the dole to me
1010 UK… are you sure?
Darn, I could have sworn that they were from Santa Cruz, California. It was the dirty hair & dirty T-shirts & wool scafs in summer… I mean, saving on shampoo & not doing any laundry either. Save the world… don’t wash!
Santa Cruz, after Burlington, Vermont, is the (2nd) capital of the world for old VW busses… they are everywhere! So well painted too… rainbows, rainbows, everywhere. And coffee shops blaring: “Free the chilly coffee pickers of Chile!” Rasta-mon everywhere… they don’t use shampoo & insist on wearing wool caps in the California sun… Puuuuuu
It must be fun, the life of an arrogant eco-fascist extortionist. Jet setting about, threatening corporations who don’t support your fantasy. Luxuriating in your self importance. Over-Utilizing the very trappings of the developed world that you then spit upon. Time to shine the light of truth on the Franken-Frannies of the world.
John McManus says:
“October 12, 2010 at 3:20 am
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?”
Blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus) grow WILD almost all over Europe, but they are not the same species as the farmed north american blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum and Vaccinium angustifolium). The european species tastes a lot better, but is only available fresh for a short period in autumn, and are not at all easy to farm.
You said something about factchecking?
I liked the low carbon chocolate cake. Hmmm cocoa and vanilla aren’t very British but I’m sure can be shipped over very efficiently but I’m highly dubious of fairtrade sugar (assuming that is something like sugar cane from the Caribbean or similar) when we grow lots of our own sugar beet, down in Norfolk in particular I thing (UEA land..)
Also when do the climate models predict Avocados in the UK… and Rambutans, Mangoes, Mangosteen and…. that doesn’t seem the most catastrophic part of a predicted temperature rise.
Lets see how long this method works.
You can still find out that Franny Armstrong likes out of season Blueberries by visiting the global site->about->team at http://www.1010global.org/global/about/inside-1010-global. You can also find out all the guilty pleasures of all the other global team members. Surprisingly most like long hot showers. I would have thought cold showers more suited to the green eco fraternity.
Note to Franny Armstrong (or who ever is reading this and supports the 10:10 campaign and is letting them know about these woopsies) – the cat is out of the bag. Taking the link off the website (but leaving the page active for deep linking) doesn’t stop anyone from finding out that you like Blueberries out of season (Oh, I’ve already saved a copy of the page too). Anyone searching for Franny Armstrong via google will probably find WUWT and this message and find out that Franny Armstrong is a hypocritical eco facist.
* Did I say Franny Armstong enought times for Google to notice? 😉
So let’s see, their contributions are – NOT doing things (at least they beat Gillian Anderson in that regard), and their favorite past times ARE poluting?
Anyone got a button for hypocrites like them?
“You were told two days ago that blueberries are a European crop. Do you never `factcheck? Who writes your stuff Wegman?”
You have missed the point completely. Her guilty secret is not blueberries as such but “blueberries not in season.” i.e specifically not the regional crop.
Their (and the producers, actors, etc) use of planes to attend movie premieres and the like is far more embarrassing than blueberries.
Wat:
Please tell me how the phrase “blueberries not in season” is not the regional crop. Blueberries can be stored.
What we have here is poor old Tony, desperate for attention, galloping to a conclusion without a fact to go on or a thought in his head. He obviously ahsn’t concidered blueberries and the chunnel. What makes this even more pitiful is the minor nature of the complaint.
Its OK. No pressure.
tty:
Factcheck please. High bush blueberries.
I don’t know what kind of blueberries she eats or where they come from, and neither does Tony.
But BURN THE WITCH. Why bother with evidence.
REPLY: Mr. McManus (if that is your name), please note the tags to the articles which is “humor” and “satire”. Of course nobody of your ilk complains when other websites satirize me or my work. Heh. They are allowed, I’m not. Good job defending free speech there pardner. Good to see you are taking up the causes of defending people that would explode children who dare criticize them, or even act indifferent. Be as upset as you wish.- Anthony
It was the
strawberriesblueberries . . .I liked Humphrey Bogart in the role.
[Consider, if not for her being a vegetarian . . . then it would probably have been imported New Zealand lamb.]
John
Anthony, you are a creepy stalker. Attacking the artists, female ones even. Too much pressure to dump as many articles as possible?
REPLY: Wow, this is the overreaction of the year. Anonymous cowards like yourself that don’t put their names to their words who can’t handle a little light hearted satire (note the post tags) call me a “creepy stalker”. You sure talk big hiding behind that curtain.
Yet with your anonymity and constant harassments here, that could also describe your behavior. Heh. Too much Greece in your food maybe? But just to be on the safe side, you are now safely and permanently in the troll bin. Only factual comments from you will see the light of day, attacks like this go to the bit bucket. – Anthony
mrsean2k, Would it be OK if we just called the entire carbon fueled world economy a guilty pleasure. Since we would be admitting guilt and all it shouldn’t be subject to scrutiny?
Notice that the 10:10 gang’s “guilty pleasures” are presented to either #1 show how environmentally pious they are because they tear their hearts out over the most mundane of environmental sins or #2 demonstrate how simple yet sophistiqué their tastes are. What a bunch of phonies. yet people will defend them to the ends of the Earth.
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Timoteo,
Come out of your anonymous closet and play with us. Direct sunlight is good for science and the philosophy of science . . . n’est pas?
John
@Justa Joe
Perhaps some people will defend them to the ends of the earth: I certainly don’t. I haven’t made many posts here or on other climate blogs, but finding any one of them would make it pretty clear where my sympathies lie.
My issue with this particular post is that it’s a rare dead duck; the hypocrisy being trumpeted here is already acknowledged as such in the original text, so the reveal falls flat.
And, IMO, it *does* leave open the door for people to accuse WUWT of unnecessarily harassing the individuals involved (and yes, yes, yes, I *know* it’s small beer compared to the sentiment of the original wretched advertisement, but our standards *should* be higher).
Anyway, enough time wasted on this particular tangent – the rate of CAGW fallout is so high it’s getting difficult to keep up.
And I object to blueberries on the principled grounds that they cost a fortune.
mrsean2k, I really wasn’t refering to you as defending the 10:10 gang. It was more directed at the trolls. I disagree with you that the 10:10 gang’s hypocrisy can be let slide because they acknowledge their own hypocrisy in selected minor issues. In fact it is silly to admit to minor selected “guilty pleasures” when someone like Ms. Frannie uses as much or more energy than anybody else does.
As far as piling on the 10:10 gang. All they’re getting is a few people poking fun at their pomposity. A slice of humble pie would serve them well. On the other hand the 10:10 gang and their fellow travelers are costing people their Livelihoods, retarding development in Africa, and costing people big money (that need their money), and they do this without batting an eyelash.
If you haven’t seen “Not Evil Just Wrong” there is a scene towards the end where a very sincere mother of a lower middle class family in Kentucky poses a question to the warmists as to why are they promoting policies (anti-coal) that would harm her ability to support her family. The warmist gave trite responses and pretty much laughed at her with one “green” gal saying that she would like to smack her. If there are people that need to be admonished for what they’re doing to others it’s the warmists not the realists.
I just watched the movie clips again, it’s always good to watch faces, over and over, you find the real truth in the “thinking” behind the reaction. In one of the movie clips, when the interviewer tries, again, to get straight answers from Franny, she looks at him with a clear facial expression of utter disdain, just before she turns away and just before the interviewer is booted out.
Real job: Extracting money from powerful people. Yeah, I hear ya! But can you possibly leave my taxes alone?
http://www.1010global.org/uk/about/inside/team/peter-yeo
Guilty pleasure: Crave warmth, so long showers (especially with an oil-fired boiler) and the odd sauna.
“Crave warmth”, Peter Yeo?
John McManus says:
October 12, 2010 at 3:20 am
…Who writes your stuff Wegman?
Loved the casual, and topical ad hominem.
Watch someone called Ed supporting 10:10 in Bangladesh..
“I’m visiting a sandbank….”
All ”apprently’ at risk due to climate change..
(why do they always leave out man made)
Not because they have homes, on sandbanks in the world’s biggest river delta.
Geography lesson required, for ersosion chnages in river flow, etc.
Someone said that 10:10 is just a small group with no influence..
Well.. Ed –
is ED Milliband – Former UK Minister of State for Energy and Climate.
He is now the Leader of theUK Labour party, in opposition to the new UK coalition government
Actually
ED Milliband – Former UK Minister of State for Energy and Climate CHANGE.
Franny Armstrong (1010) giving ED a hard time pre-Copenhagen
Climate change secretary feels the heat from the director of ‘The Age of Stupid’