People send me stuff. This was in my Inbox this morning:
Hi Anthony, My name is Wren and I’m a physics and applied math major at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, which is notoriously supportive of CAGW (they hosted Michael Mann a couple semesters ago for the “New Hockey Stick” something or other). We have a new coffee shop on campus called Argo Tea and all of their products have links to StopGlobalWarming.org. It sounded like a good laugh, so I checked it out and found some hilarious stop global warming jewelry (pretty much consisting of multiple items picturing the planet on fire). It’s very funny!
Here’s the link:
http://www.coolplanetjewelry.com/viewCategories.asp
My dad showed me this site [WUWT} two or so years ago and now I check it out most every day just to keep myself sane! Keep up the good work!
–Wren
Thanks Wren.What they say on the webpage at the main page is interesting:
Stop Global Warming Recycled Green Jewelry
The heat is on – and it’s getting hotter.
Cool Planet Jewelry invites you to join us in the campaign to Stop Global Warming. We are proud to partner with StopGlobalWarming.org to present the Stop Global Warming Collection of fine jewelry. Each piece is made from recycled precious metals using entirely eco-friendly manufacturing techniques. They are cool, responsible, and a beautiful reminder that we must all work together to stop the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change.
Join Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Daryl Hannah, Terry Tempest Williams, Kathy Mattea, Bill McKibben, Simone, Kristin Cavallari, Gretchen Bleirer, Michael Franti, David Henrie, and people across the globe to take action and make a difference. Take action and make a difference today.
100% of all net proceeds are donated to StopGlobalWarming.org and the Natural Resources Defense Council (N.R.D.C.).
Um, no thanks.
OTOH, add an olive wreath and it could just as easily pass for the United Nations logo on fire. I might actually buy that one.
A button showing a pair of upraised shackled hands snapping a hockey stick (with its blade upturned at the right) in half. It is based on the well-known (to warmists) logo of the War Resisters League, in which the hands are snapping a rifle. It would be witty and annoying to warmists. The legend around the rim would read, “Gore Resisters League.”
Cafe Press doesn’t do lapel pins, but “lapelpinsrus” does.
🙂
Barclay E MacDonald says:
October 18, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Anthony, You are overlooking the possibilities! WUWT should follow their lead and sell diamond jewelry! 🙂
Cue vision of Anthony with a diamond pendent affixed to a pierced belly button…… Who’s next with the mind-bleach?
A university supports a “send me your money” outfit?
If nothing else, we should give them credit for being ardent capitalists and supplying a market demand. Sad thing, they problem don’t and can’t appreciate that.
Look at all the CO2 being generated by making, packaging and shipping these trinkets.
I have a business proposition for these people, I will generate a virtual piece of jewelry and send it to each buyer via the internet, they can then print them with there 3D printer.
$49.95 with free shipping.
Also if they do not have the printer I will sell them a 3D printer for $250,000 each, with each printer I will enclose a free virtual piece of jewelry of their choice.
When arguing sea level rises, claim made to me about sea levels rising in Maldives. I said why had our beach not disappeared if that was the case. Nasty comment about my intelligence. Filled a cup with water and poured it on the table, whoops I thought it would stay in a heap. Silence on sea levels rising after that, think I made my point. What intelligence, doesn’t seem to exist in some. Like curtains fading with daylight saving. Couldn’t believe I heard somebody making that claim, fell about laughing.
Ditto what D Matteson says. I worked at a little bronze foundry a while back, such businesses would encounter nothing but sheer wrath from environmentalists over their emissions.
‘Each piece is made from recycled precious metals using entirely eco-friendly manufacturing techniques.’
Wow, you mean before this we were just throwing gold, platinum, and silver away. Now, thanks to our Eco warriors we’re actually reusing our gold pieces and not blissfully throwing them in the garbage? Who would’ve thought?
sarc
They copied this trinket.
Looks somewhat militaristic.
http://www.flyingtigerssurplus.com/product-images/lg/ODC185_lg.jpg
(fulfilling the proverbial ‘show photo, or it never happened’ internet adage)
http://oi39.tinypic.com/5ttbud.jpg
One more comment. I actually traversed over to their website. They have a 14K gold label pin for $150. Well, it’s nice to know they recycled that gold instead of throwing it away like we know everybody else would just routinely do without these morally superior people to show the way. Sustainable gold – who would’ve thought? I do wonder, however, what kind of environmentally friendly, non-combustion, heat source they used to cast it. Oh, and one more thing: They don’t have a photo available of that label pin. That must be an exciting new sales technique; selling jewelry sight unseen. Hey, but when you got the bucks, what’s a few hundred here and there – a fraction of the cost of those private jets.
“Like curtains fading with daylight saving. Couldn’t believe I heard somebody making that claim, fell about laughing.”
I used to tell people Arizona does not have daylight savings time because it is already hot enough and we don’t need an extra hour of sunshine.
Tom J,
I’ve often heard it said that over 95% of all gold metal ever mined can be accounted for today. Might be an urban myth, but has a ring of reasonableness. The % might have gone down with gold on electrical connectors that are dumped, like in old TV sets.
It’s also said that all the world’s gold, it made into one lump, would fill a room about 20m x 20m x 20m ( 20 m = 67 ft). See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21969100 for discussion.
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I’m intrigued how you melt bronze in an ecologically friendly way. Maybe they mean it’s melted with someone else’s fuel, as in China. Still, it’s an admission that warming can be ecologically friendly.
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Talking recycling, my 50th wedding anniversary is next June. (Gold). I have 8 crowns whose core is gold, removed from my jaw. Anyone know a place that buys old dental crowns to recover the gold? Not that I’m a tightwad.
“Each piece is made from recycled precious metals ”
Clever capitalism at work. Recycled precious metals – these guys know how stupid their customers are. Almost all the gold mined since the earliest times is still in use, precisely because it has been recycled over time. This will especially appeal to the middle and upper class folks who have achieved victimhood and the 97% of the climate consensus folks. I like the burning UN symbol as an antidote.
“Join Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Daryl Hannah, Terry Tempest Williams, Kathy Mattea, Bill McKibben, Simone, Kristin Cavallari, Gretchen Bleirer, Michael Franti, David Henrie”
Who?
davidmhoffer says:
October 18, 2013 at 11:48 am
Aha! We need our own bling!
David, I wear my “I Love Fossil Fuels” tee-shirt, and I live in California. Gets some attention, I must say.
It’s October. We currently have snow below 1,000 meters and the nights, even in my city, are close to freezing.
That global warming surely is a problem.
davidmhoffer says:
October 18, 2013 at 11:48 am
Aha! We need our own bling!
Seriously. A discreet but readily identifiable WUWT lapel pin to identify ourselves to one another in public.
Seconded, also seriously. Considering all sceptics are supposed to be eager go-gettin’ right wing free marketeers, there;s a definite trick being missed here. I vote Fenbeagle for designer.
Daylight saving and heat, yeah agree. Maybe I should have added that I live in Australia. Sydney West & North & South burning, huge areas, close to 200 houses already lost, and still counting. Today Extreme conditions, tommorrow worse, please offer up a prayer for all firefighters and volunteers incl homeowners would have only clothes they stand in, everything else gone.
Sydney Morning Herald running live updates http://www.smh.com.au
Actually a number of years ago Stefan Rahmstorff’s wife sold silver cylinders to be worn on a necklace with the number of a EU carbon credit stamped into it. Pretty ugly; kinda like EU post-modern prole slave chic. I asked Rahmstorff via e mail about the CO2 balance, pretending to be a believer, when he assured me that it’s all hunky dory but gave no numbers I declined to buy one.
Rahmstorff & wife stopped that business, probably too many assholes like me mocking him.
It’s just a sales pitch.
Geoff Sherrington says:
October 18, 2013 at 3:52 pm
“I’m intrigued how you melt bronze in an ecologically friendly way.”
Put it in a mixture of CO2 and water, shine some light on it and wait til it melts.
Geoff Sherrington says:
“Anyone know a place that buys old dental crowns to recover the gold?”
‘We Buy Gold’ ads are everywhere, in newspapers, on line, etc. Check with a few. [Some are ripoffa, some legit.]
Find out the fineness of your gold [24K, 14K, etc.] Don’t sell your dental gold for less than 90% of the net gold content, at the current spot price.
Daily spot price can be found all over, like here: http://www.kitco.com/market
another Bling solution!
Gizmodo: This Thermal Wristband Tricks You Into Never Being Too Warm Or Cold
The technology — developed by researchers at MIT and dubbed Wristify — relies on a phenomenon where rapid external temperature changes on a person’s skin can actually affect how their whole body feels. So the wristband — powered by a lithium polymer battery for up to eight hours — delivers rapid but subtle thermal pulses that change at a rate of 0.4C every second.
Raising or lowering the temperature of those thermal pulses will actually make the wearer’s entire body feel as if it’s getting warmer or cooler, allowing them to get comfy without having to touch a thermostat or change their wardrobe. It would also allow a building to reduce its heating or cooling needs if everyone inside had a Wristify strapped to their arm, which might not seem so implausible if the technology was built into the many smartwatches on the horizon.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/10/this-thermal-wristband-tricks-you-into-never-being-too-warm-or-cold/?google_editors_picks=true