Cristo clashes with Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook after the latest climate protests, calling her a “hypocrite” as she admits driving a diesel car and flew 11,000 miles for a holiday.
Gail: “You’re being a boring interviewer.”
@cristo_radio | @gailbradbrook
Originally tweeted by talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) on August 23, 2021.
HT/Shrnfr, Charles F
I’m a victim of the system! And it’s not my fault!
Sounds like someone who isn’t even trying to live the life she wants all of us to live. Hypocrite is too kind a word for people like her.
I come across older women cycling to save the planet on the way to work or back home now and then. So some are ‘pedalling the walk’, but not most of course, and never the most vocal
Of course not, that would be difficult.
Notice the 11,000 miles to travel to a luxury resort. Notice that she claimed that this was for some medical treatment that was not available in the UK because it is illegal. The interviewer didn’t challenge her on this, and I’m sure that she knew he wouldn’t, because ‘mental health’ is so important these days.
I would have asked if she flew all that way to smoke some weed. I’d put good money on being correct.
IIRC she flew to Costa Rica and did LSD, mushrooms and maybe other psychedelics. Not what most would consider to be medicine.
She did the stuff you can’t get in England, Psychedelic Gazpacho soup.
And notice how she tried to deflect when asked what kind of car. She looks off to the side as if she’s trying to remember. Who doesn’t know what make and model of car they picked out and paid for (or are paying for)??
She’s about as honest as Harry Mudd.
Does anyone have the address of Vlad the Impaler?
Transylvania.
1-800-blood11
I thought it was Transylvania 6-5000.
That’s an old reference lol
Hypocrites gonna hypocrite…
Yep same as Griff he still keeps posting killing the planet with his electricity use.
Yes, every time griff posts to WUWT he proves he’s a hypocrite by using the devices and technology he seems to believe ought not to be available if he had his way.
Maybe he’ll go away if he is completely ignored.
“We’re hypocrites in the face of this fight…”
So wonder how some of our regulars get around?
Griff should be a walker, he wouldn’t own a car and catches public transport to save Africa rallies.
Loydo should be a cyclist. She needs to get around to those eco warrior weekenders but wants to make sure she does it in an eco friendly way.
Nick Stokes is probably a Diesel SUV driver which he defines as eco friendly because he redefines the car, it’s emission and the fuel.
Myself I obviously drive a gas guzzler that gets 2MPG running on crushed Polar Bear and Seal oil. Everyone knows that animal oil is much cleaner than that horrible stuff you get out of the ground.
Polar bear and seal oil are renewable.
LOL. Since only one click of the plus is counted, here’s a +42
I do hope the seal oil is from baby seals. If only to irritate the Europeans.
I’ll tell ya this much, traveling through Germany I was questioned by an individual on how Canadians couldn’t be universally opposed to the seal hunt. I simply replied that I was amazed that Germans weren’t universally opposed to all the horses that clearly weren’t there for riding. One activity is widespread, the other isn’t.
You’re being an irrational female and a hypocrite to boot.
“You’re being an irrational female and a hypocrite to boot.”
Stupid sexist comment. Why is her gender relevant?
And…Does driving an ICE car make her a hypocrite? I don’t think so. No more than Anthony Watts having solar panels on his roof.
You are correct about the gender being irrelevant. But, Watts’ solar panels and the call to end all use of fossil fuels…are not the same thing.
The dose makes the poison.
Of course it does, modern medicine is based on that very principle!!!
…and they’re trying to dose the entire global population.
How can it be sexist and about her gender? Sex and gender are two different words and two different concepts. My comment was accurate. She’s clearly irrational and unless you know different, her SEX is female … therefore an “irrational female”. Her “gender” isn’t relevant or I would have mentioned it.
She is politically connected with a terrorist group that wants to cancel fossil fuels … because — CO2; yet she drives a CO2 belching diesel – a hypocrite. As for Anthony Watts … I don’t think even someone as dim witted as you can show how he is a hypocrite for having solar panels. Talk about a non sequitur.
You’ve been trolled. Thanks for playing.
You need to learn to read (and understand). I am saying it is not hypocritical for AW to have solar panels and be a climate skeptic, any more than it is for her to drive a diesel. If she drove a large V8 gas guzzler maybe, but many diesels are exceptionally economical and can do 1000kms to a tank.
And still a moronic sexist comment any way you cut it.
The thing is; it absolutely IS hypocritical of her to be driving a car of any sort, regardless of practicality, when she belongs to an extremist terror organization trying to stop everyone else from having access to all ICE vehicles. Trying to rationalize “some diesels” is just weak sophistry.
A skeptic is the natural condition of being a true scientist. That has nothing to do with how he powers his home (his being the only valid use of photo voltaic cells). You offered a non sequitur in place of a valid argument.
My comment was a statement of fact, not an argument … and not sexist. You can’t seem to get anything right, which doesn’t surprise me at all.
A distinction without a difference as far as principles are concerned comrade.
If you can’t refute the comment, accuse the commenter of being some kind of evil.
Typical left wing reaction.
Nobody said she’s hypocritical because she’s female, that’s your fantasy.
Anthony didn’t put up solar panels to save the planet, he did so to save money, since CA is willing to pay people to do stupid things.
On the other hand, someone who wants to use government to force restrictions in other people’s lifestyles, who doesn’t already live that lifestyle is the very definition of a hypocrite.
“accuse the commenter of being some kind of evil.”
But he didn’t! Quite the opposite: Being sexist, racist, and discriminating in any other way the collectivists hate is a sure sign of intelligence and a clear view of the world.
You need to learn to read (and understand).
Make the first step, you are not the one to comment about “learn to read”, Simple Simon. I just gave you the hint on an other blog.
The difference is, Antony doesn’t ask others not to use solar panels, but these XR fighter just ask not to drive cars using fossils.
That is the differnce to reading and understandig, aren’t you a fan of ? 😀 😀
“If she drove a large V8 gas guzzler maybe, but many diesels are exceptionally economical and can do 1000kms to a tank.”
She drives a gas guzzling 4×4. Thanks for playing Simon.
Simon says “You need to learn to read (and understand). ”
Speaking of hypocrisy. I’ve read and understood enough of your posts to realize you don’t practice what you are preaching there my hypocritical friend.
Simon says “I am saying it is not hypocritical for AW to have solar panels and be a climate skeptic”
Indeed it’s not, because he’s not claiming people should not get solar panels on their homes if they want them. He’s not blaming the ills of the world on people putting solar panels on their homes. He’s not trying to prevent other people from putting solar panels on their homes if they so choose. In short there’s nothing about his skepticism of CAGW that is in any way related to whether or nor someone should put up solar panels on their home if they so choose.
Simon says “any more than it is for her to drive a diesel.”
and that’s where you are wrong. She’s all about the “evils” of fossil fuels (like, you know, diesel) and is actively trying to make is so that people (like you and me) can’t drive fossil fueled vehicles like the one she drives. She’s doing something that she wants to prevent other people from doing. That’s the hypocrisy (as you’d well know had you ever learned to read and understand).
Exactly right, John.
Actually she’s a stupid brainless bitch.
Stop the “sexist-wokist” crap!
Only a girl with 1 1/2 brain cells could possibly come out with such utter bollox.
I’m happy to see the kind of level these E-R plonkers work at.
It’s a revelation!
Hysterical “of the womb”. Nervous disease originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus.
This is a perfect example
Yeah, my Ford Ranger gets 1300 km per tank
Think I forgot to mention it has a 145 litre tank, but a tank is a tank.
“She is politically connected with an violent extremist terrorist group.”
Fixed it for you. 🙂
“She is politically connected with a
nviolent extremist terrorist group.”Fixed it for you.
“She is politically connected with a
nmostly peaceful violent extremist terrorist group.”CNN fixed it for you.
How many times have you used the phrase “irrational male” Rory? I bet it’s close to 0.
Face up to it, you used an unnecessarily sexist phrase in an other-wise perceptive post.
I calls ’em as I sees ’em, Andrew. It might have been “sexist” (not necessarily a bad thing) if I had said it was because of her sex. I have no interest in politically correct speech. It was how we got ourselves in the dangerous position we’re in.
Note: I might have said violent male, if that’s what I observed. Males are more often violently irrational. Females are more often passive aggressively irrational.
Sexist phrases like “irrational female” that were used by arrogant males in “the” 70’s are now only used by arrogant males in “their” 70’s. Thankfully it will be not long before both are gone.
It has been exhaustively explained to you that here is absolutely nothing even mildly sexist about the phrase “irrational female”. Calling me an “arrogant male” is a compliment, regardless of the fact you intended it as a slur. I have much to be arrogant about :-; Alternatively you’re a wimpy crybaby. Commenting on an unattractive female trait is not sexist any more than commenting on the propensity of male violence.
BTW it is ’70s … not 70’s
Now that IS a hateful comment, typical of the twisted little Fascist you are.
you are clearly as stupid as the very stupid woman in the vid.
Sex has nothing to do with it, stupid does as stupid is!
I love how you just assume that Rory uses “irrational female” a lot, and “irrational male” never. You are revealing more about your own biases than you are Rory’s.
My biases? I’m biased towards equality of the sexes, that’s all.
As I say, I bet Rory never uses the phrase “irrational male”.
He’s spent a lot of time posting replies in a vain attempt to excuse his sexism. He’s desperately over compensating. It’s a shame, as the rest of his comment was totally spot-on.
Anyway, that’s enough thread de-railing from me. Let’s get back to laughing at the hypocrisy of the XR morons.
The equality of the sexes is a Marxist myth. There is no such thing except in law … and the idiocy of gender politics.
I’ve already used it at least once, on this thread.
I’m not the only one trying to explain to the foolish “woke” people who are misusing a term with a specific meaning. Males and females are not equal. In fact they vary in every way except the law, contrary to gender politics.
You are part of the problem facing rational people today.
Keep going Rory, I’m sharing this with my daughters. They are loving it.
Good for you. It must be a pleasant change for them, learning something factual for a change. Gawd only knows what utter rubbish you subject them to.
WUWT…. the only site this side of the dark web where a guy can make a patronising sexist comment like “You’re being an irrational female” and get 40 up votes for it. Actually on the brighter side, maybe we should just celebrate the diversity of ideas here.
Of course it’s patronizing. The woman is a terrorist and an hysteric. As for being “sexist”, you have been corrected by everyone on that score. You’re as wrong about that as you are about human caused “climate change”. Clearly you missed my mention of irrational males … like you, for instance. Am I sexist calling you irrational? Your entire discussion of this subject has been irrational.
I doubt they are enjoying their dad making a total idiot of himself. Don’t embarrass them any further.
Thats a clever put down. Come up with that yourself?
Oops, I’ve got a lot of down votes for calling out Rory’s sexism.
Oh well.
Over the years, I heard French male politicians being called all sort of negative names. Only when female politicians became newsworthy (when, at last, some top national candidates were female) and when they were called bad names too, it was deemed “sexist”.
After many years, most people in France accept the fact that Ségolène Royal (the ex of former President François Hollande) is in fact a remarkably inane person.
after which you also have to admit that “rottweiler” the Hollande “partner of a day” having become particularly vain, became a real bitch, when she was shown the revolving doors…
Bitchiness, is not sexist, Ségolène Royal was a cluster-fck attempting to be elected president, an Hollande was one of the most stupid politicians ever to serve in presidential office…attempting as he did to shut down a large proportion of French nuclear power in favour of wind and solar….
It takes monumental male stupidity to attempt to ruin a successful industry, and serial problems with his zipper to get landed with multiple incredibly stupid women!
Stupid frogs do as stupid frogs are..
Diesels are quite good in terms of CO2, or at least they can be. It is the other pollutants that makes them unattractive to environmentalists, along with inefficiencies on short journeys.
If you don’t travel much, one of the most environmentally destructive things you could do is junk a diesel for an electric car.
Yeah … I owned a Nissen Diesel sedan a few years ago (when they were fashionable). My wife wanted to save the planet. However, it does produce CO2. That makes her a hypocrite … especially since she’s an extremist and a terrorist.
Simon, I’ll start believing that global warming is an emergency if the people who call it an emergency start behaving as if it is an emergency. You honestly don’t see anything hypocritical about a climate alarmist driving a diesel car? It is extremely obvious that climate alarmists don’t believe their own propaganda.
Refer to Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” to understand why activists bleat incessantly about a “climate emergency” yet refuse to think in geologic time. “True believers” glom onto a cause to fill up an emotional void inside. It makes little difference what the cause is; only that it give the true believer a mission and a sense of importance.
When the climate panic set in 30-odd years ago, even activists warned against mistaking individual weather events with “climate.” The distinction between weather and climate was thrown overboard years ago. Now a hot day, a cold day, a local downpour, etc. are routinely conflated with “climate” and touted as key indicators the world is PLUNGING OFF THE DOOMSDAY CLIFF unless we make drastic changes to relieve “THE EMERGENCY!”
Meanwhile evidence accumulates that most of these so-called key indicators are well within the range of normal. In short, the panic arrow is moving in one direction only, but the arrows of data are not.
Meanwhile most of the world is NOT insane. Asia, with 60+% of the world’s population, continues to industrialize while the West writhes with pointless guilt and self-flagellation, led by hypocrites who fly to conferences about the End of Times.
The fad will pass, and the True Believers will find another crackpot cause.
“ Now a hot day, a cold day, a local downpour, etc. are routinely conflated with “climate” and touted as key indicators the world is PLUNGING OFF THE DOOMSDAY CLIFF unless we make drastic changes to relieve “THE EMERGENCY!””
Rather simplistic of you. I think we are well past confusing weather with climate. I certainly am.
If that’s true, then you are just about the only climate alarmist who is capable of making that distinction.
Nope. You’re in a constant state of confusion. Confusing weather with climate is the only way to get any traction at all from “true believers”.
“You honestly don’t see anything hypocritical about a climate alarmist driving a diesel car?”
I think she has a point that cost can be prohibitive sometimes. ICE vehicles as many here has said on many occasions here, are cheaper to buy. Electric vehicles are still out of the reach of many and till they come down in price there is going to be trade off for people.
Simon, thank you for admitting that she is a hypocrite.
The gap in price between electric cars and ICE cars will increase in the future, not decrease. The main reason for the price differential is the battery in electric cars. As more electric cars are produced, the additional demand for the raw materials used in batteries will increase their price which will force up the cost of the batteries. This is basic economics.
“Simon, thank you for admitting that she is a hypocrite.
The gap in price between electric cars and ICE cars will increase in the future, not decrease.”
So you say she is a hypocrite then say she is right that electric cars are expensive. Huh?
Simon, you are conflating two entirely different things. But you are a climate alarmist and this is what climate alarmists do all the time.
But I don’t agree with your price increase thing. Battery technology is advancing at a pace like never before and much of what is being improved on is the materials going into them. The good news is we will see who is right.
EVs are a great idea: less pollution at point of use (and no, the CO2 an ICE produces isn’t pollution, it’s plant food).
However, if EVs become affordable it will be because of market forces, not because some commies forced us to buy them.
Not true, but then reality has never slowed you down.
Simon, your optimism about electric car batteries is not reflected in the real world.
Battery technology is what?
You have to be completely f..cked in the head!
There is nothing new at all, and this so called advancing technology is becoming so dangerous, hardly a week goes by without a new story of a major unextinguishable fire happening.
Go tell your fairy tales to Boeing about the dreamliner fiasco. You realise how much it cost to put right???
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lithium-ion-batteries-grounded-the-dreamliner/
Simon,
How about the 11,000 mile flight. That’s more than I’ve flown for holidays in 71 years!
You’re obviously suffering from the misconception that people who question humans role in the current warming, the people you like to refer to as deniers, are out to deliberately destroy the planet as quickly as possible.
Anthony is typical of most of us. Weighing up the pros and cons carefully about low energy light bulbs for example, Hg v Heat, cost v hours. Having solar panels and an electric car makes sense in urban California not so much in rural Perthshire Scotland. Despite all the known issues we will recycle more carefully that XR protestors AND take our litter home.
Unfortunately you are as misguided about this as you are about the climate
What silly is really trying to accomplish is to validate it’s own usage:
That is true hypocrisy and signs of mental imbalance, which is why silly is trying so hard to whitewash the XR cofounder and prime instigator of violence and society destruction..
https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/06/a-comparison-of-tea-party-rallies-and-recent-leftist-rallies/
ALL leftist “movements” leave loads of trash and damage, “right wing”, i.e. conservative movements, do not, because those movements consist of honest, hard working self reliant type people, not greedy a$$hats who want to determine how OPM (other peoples money) is spent.
And to Obama, he was a “community organizer”. That type of activist exists only to try to get government to spend OPM on what they will not do themselves.
60 years ago:
Community organizer = rabble rouser
Homeless person = vagrant
We need to return the vagrancy laws, requiring the overturning of a SCOTUS decision.
Also need to overturn another SCOTUS decision where the MEDIA can say anything they want about a “public person”, and must be PROVEN to have acted maliciously to be sued and forced to pay. Both decisions by the activist court of the 60s. Force the media to reveal the lying sources they used in the Russia, Russia, Russia coverage and you could disqualify half of OBiden’s appointees.
In politics language is everything … like the difference you provide between a “conservationist” (conservative) and an ‘environmentalist’ an otherwise meaningless Leftist PC slang.
With the emphasis on “mentalist”
“Unfortunately you are as misguided about this as you are about the climate”
You need to learn to understand when you read. I said I was fine with a skeptic having solar panels just like I am fine with someone concerned with the future of the planet driving an efficient diesel.
Your problem, and the reason you still believe in a “climate crisis” caused by CO2 is your lack of reading skills. If you tried to actually understand the science provided by skeptics rather than the politicized nonsense provided by AGW true believers, you might grasp why your comments are so universally scorned.
There is no excuse for her arrogantly hypocritical behavior.
There is no excuse if you really believe there a climate emergency.
Indeed, it’s not much of an emergency if you can justify driving a fossil fueled car and fly 11,000 miles for a vacation.
Let her take the bus, Tube, bike or walk.
Once again, Simon proves what a hypocrite he is.
It’s OK for someone who is richer than most of us put together, to buy an ICE car, because electrics are expensive.
On the other hand, this same someone wants government to ban the sale of ICE cars altogether, regardless of whether hoi polloi can afford electrics or not.
No money for an EV ? Take the bicycle, but not a Diesel as Simple as Simon. 😀
Well we can’t afford to do anything about climate change and that will be our trade off. We will tell them Simon says.
Simon says “I think she has a point that cost can be prohibitive sometimes”
Yet she wants it so that the only option for all of us is those “cost prohibitive” EVs. It’s the rules for thee but not for me. She’s a hypocrite. And there are other options she could take, if she wasn’t such a flaming hypocrite, such as walking, biking, public transit.
Pathetic drivel.
It’s clear to me you have neither worked in the motor industry, nor in any industrial mass production environment.
I’ll bet you work in the “service sector” in an office.
if it’s a true ” emergency” why is she driving at all? Wouldn’t a bike, walking or public transportation be appropriate for the leader her group?
Oh, no no no, Ron. Some animals are more equal than others. Isn’t that what she was saying?
If Nineteen Eighty Four is the holy book, then Animal Farm is the Hadiths…
That was very well put … brilliant, in fact.
I intend to use that often and with full self righteousness, s’il vous plait.
I’m sure Simon does see it as hypocritical, that’s why he’s spending so much effort trying to spin the ridiculous “sexist” angle.
Notice how Simon completely ignores the part about her flying 11,000 miles to go on vacation.
“Simon, I’ll start believing that global warming is an emergency if the people who call it an emergency start behaving as if it is an emergency. “”
Really? You will excuse me if I show a little skepticism on that one.
So, who amongst the climate alarmists is acting like they personally believe that there is a climate emergency?
It really is fascinating how the only thing you are ever skeptical of, is comments from people who disagree with your religion.
Simon, every climate alarmist who I have ever met has had a carbon footprint bigger than mine. I am pretty sure that you do too. I’ll set you a little test.
Do you have a car?
Have you been on a plane in the last ten years?
Do you have any pets or children?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you have a carbon footprint bigger than mine and you are a hypocrite.
Nothing sexist about it,stop being woke.
Pure poison compared to Apples?
Bizarre association, silly.
Absolutely typical of you.
Russia colluuuusion one trick Simon?
Sexist but right. And, yes, driving an ICE car makes her a hypocrite , because she’s the one preaching to the world about evil fossil fuels.
I have yet to see one sentence, in any context, decried as “sexist” or “racist” that was not an accurate description of reality. If your thinking isn’t sexist and racist you are either lying or fooling yourself.
Simple Simon says, used to love that game as a kid, playing it the car on long journeys!!! Just because someone isn’t a raving Greenalist it doesn’t mean they don’t care about the environment!!! I am also aware that many XR whacks used fossil fuel powered transportation to turn up at their destination, & home again!!!
I remember reading about one XR rally somewhere in Britain, where the organizers made a big deal about the solar panels they had placed near the stage, telling people that their event was solar powered.
What they didn’t tell people was they had a gas powered generator behind the stage that was actually providing most of the power.
The comment is unnecessarily sexist, that’s true, but your comment about Anthony having solar panels is way off the mark:
AW isn’t forcing everyone else to fit solar panels on their roof and driving an ICE vehicle whilst telling everyone else they’re not allowed to.
(The idiot Bradbrook allegedly drives a 4×4, which really doubles down on the hypocrisy.)
The fact that you labelled my comment “unnecessarily sexist” is the reason we’re in the mess we’re in. You’re pandering to political correctness and giving PC morons their daily buzz. Not only was it not sexist, it was absolutely true. Should I comment on your ad hominem … “The idiot Bradbrook”. No I shouldn’t because she does exhibit a tendency towards idiocy, in the same way she definitely IS an irrational woman.
She’s definitely an idiot. Just like many other men and women.
She’s definitely irrational and unlikely to be an actual idiot, just like “many other men and women”. The contemporary urge to label things, “sexist, racist, homo-trans-Islamophobic” should be resisted whenever you feel the urge. Resist using “gender” when you mean sex because you’re just giving Fascists and Marxist cancel culture encouragement.
My initial comment was specifically worded to trigger the irrational responses I got. “Climate change” is a similar trigger as is denialist.
Wait, she’s not female? Stop the presses, there’s something else she’s been lying about.
Sex, not gender. Biology, not grammar. Her sex is female. Her pronoun gender is feminine.
Thank you John. I’ve forgotten how often I need to explain that to people. Also, I’m not all that certain how “feminine” she is.
Yes the gender is relevant, because her behavior is typically associated with the female sex and therefore to be expected by anyone not totally naive. That’s why sane and successful societies used do not allow females in leading positions. “Sexism” like “racism” is a construct to force people into denying the obvious truth and everyday experience that there are two (only two!) sexes that differ fundamentally in their behavior and mentality, just as there are several races recognizable by their physiognomy, with very different physical and intellectual capabilities. The “average human” does not exist, no more so than the here oft-discussed absurdity of “the earth’s average temperature”.
Simon, you dumb ass,
She acknowledges that she is a hypocrite. “We’re all hypocrites in the face of this fight…”, she says.
She sees nothing wrong with being a hypocrite for the ’cause’.
She is the same as you, except that she admits it.
Is she not a female? Is she not being irrational?
She advocates that people should not drive ICEs, to save the world, yet it’s exactly what she drives. That does indeed make her a hypocrite. I don’t believe Mr. Watts ever told people not to get solar panels on their homes. You don’t understand the issues of solar energy.
You wanna go over that irrational female thing again, Rory Forbes??????
Her irrational behavior probably has more to do with her use of psychdelic drugs and being a loud-mouthed, obnoxious, self-important twit than anything else. And yes, a hypocrite – definitely, but the rest of that?
She’s a snot-nosed bimbo who thinks she knows everything and doesn’t like her “authority” being questioned. Those “how dare you” rants come from GUYS, too, y’know.
Isn’t calling her a bimbo sexist?
Nahh! I’ve called guys “bimbos”, too. 🙂
Non sexist guys are bimbos?
You’re very confused … under no circumstance could a man be a bimbo
Wikipedia:
Bimbo is a slang term for a conventionally attractive, sexualized, naive, and unintelligent woman
Urban dictionary:
A girl who is stupid, wears lots of make up and is obsessed with boys and clothes. Generally blonde but there are exceptions.
Using bimbo in any context would be sexist. The woman in question is certainly no bimbo. She looks more like a train wreck.
Not a bit confused. “Bimbo” can apply to idiots of all sexes and genders and that includes the current crop of “Karens” or “Chads”. Most are self-involved brats who have public screaming fits, as this one did, over nothing. Meltdowns are quite common with them, whether they are He or She or It. 🙂
You obviously didn’t bother to avail yourself of the definitions I provided. Bimbo does not refer to the behaviors you offered. Just because you’re argumentative doesn’t mean you can use words however you want. Regardless of your incorrect usage, the word is a pejorative (at least you got that right) and using it would be sexist, unlike my use of irrational.
A bimbo usually looks like a transvestite’s idea of a woman … garishly dressed, overly made up and with too much cleavage.
Hi Sara,
I’ve called guys “irrational female” as well.
Does that mean I get a pass for using the same descriptor when talking about a woman? 🙂
It’s an insult to bimbos.
I understand your objection to “irrational female”, but until the era of cancel culture and the fraught, politically correct nonsense, an accurate comment like that would have gone unnoticed. It’s like saying George Floyd was a violent male … hurtful to some, sure, but accurate. People are now forgetting that no one has any obligation to make others feel good.
It’s her irrationality that gives her the feeling of entitlement to inconvenience others with a completely irrational set of beliefs. If people went back to calling things as they are we’d be a whole lot better off. We’d probably still have a rational president in power rather than an irrationally demented old man.
now you’ve gone and added old & man to your list of mean adjectives.
Yep, old I am and unrepentant about it. It seems as though straight old, white men are a fair target of malicious vitriol, from any quarter, without any intersectionalist push back. Hypocrisy and an irrational affection for illogic is the one consistency of the Left.
Oh, don’t feel alone, Rory Forbes.
It ain’t just the Old White Men sitting on the front porch in a rocker these days.
I sometimes think my cat is smarter than the majority of politicians everywhere on the planet. There are fistfights going on in the Armenian parliament this morning, and the participants came from both sides of the fence.
TBF modern adblue diseasels are fairly clean. Not as clean as petrol, though.
But she did say it was an old car because she bought it when the government mistakenly thought diesels were good for the environment.
Define ‘Clean’
My little VW adblue diesel is quite capable of 100 miles per UK gallon of diesel
Sadly what is a very willing and energetic (haha) little 2 litre engine is spoiled by its DPF, EGR and Adblue catalyser, to the extent it barely acheives 60 mpg
While its onboard computer encourages you to be constantly changing into higher and higher gears to ‘save fuel’
BUT, if you do follow the computer’s lead, (##) the EGR and the DPF fill with soot and carbon, necessitating a 4 figure (GBP) repair bill for each.
Where does that money come from, please explain the Broken Window Fallacy (again)
## Once you learn the symptoms, easily spotted in diesel engines without all that pollution control, the repair bills can be delayed.
Basically, careful gentle driving ‘glazes’ the cylinders and piston rings with the result that the oil-control ring stops working, letting engine oil into the combustion.
Result being = blue smoke from the exhaust
Normally, without ‘pollution control’, easily spotted and remedied.
The solution is to absolutely thrash the engine for as long, fast and hard as you can.
It de-glazes the rings, stops the engine-oil burn AND the resultant red-hot exhaust manifold & gases burns away the accumulated soot/carbon in the rest of the system.
VW engine management guidance:
If the cruise control stops working and or yellow dashboard lights appear, we are talking multiple hour-long at least, 80+mph blasts, in 4th gear out of six as a possible remedy.
If your fuel consumption gauge ever rises above 30 during those times, you’re not doing it right
Red-line it in 3rd instead.
(Those little engines have Very Long Legs – they do enjoy a ‘good run’ now and again. seriously they do. You will find it quite uplifting also as, running like an Inter City train at 90+, you witness multiple Puritanical Heads exploding along the way)
Mind out for speed cameras tho, Know Your Road
Missed the edit.
Just to say, you maybe now have a better understanding of German Autobahn speed limits…………
Yeah, there aren’t any!
When hiring a car in Munich once, the tag on the keyring said “please don’t drive me at more than 220 kph”. I laughed and said to the clerk “oh yes, you don’t have speed limits here”. He agreed, then suddenly looked very serious and said “But we do in towns!”
Sadly, these no limits areas are being eroded. We used to have one in the Northern Territory in Australia, a straight road for thousands of km from Alice Springs to Darwin. It is now regulated, although you can pay for it to be cleared for road tests. Apparently the sand drifting across the bitumen can cause serious problems over 200 kph…
In many western US states there were “safe and sane” speed limits between towns where there was nothing for 50 or more miles other than dust and open range. You drove as fast as YOU felt was safe for the conditions, including visibility. You could come over a mountain pass and see the next one more than 20 miles away. But you DID look out for cattle.
Even after the 55 speed limit, the county mounties and highway patrol would just flash their lights to slow you down, just to make sure you were paying attention, then turn off their lights and let you go on. That was while driving 80 mph at night. They knew where you were going (to work) and why you were going so fast (so you could sleep later).
After the 55 national speed limit was revoked, the number of highway deaths in the US WENT DOWN. Fewer people falling asleep because what should have been an 8 hour drive became a 12 hour drive. Long stretches of interstate out west have 80 MPH speed limits now. I just completed an over 750 mile drive, the first 80 miles at lower speeds through a river gorge, in less than 12 hours, 6 of them in the rain. At 55 we would have needed to stop for the night. Almost 600 of the miles were at 85 to 88 MPH. Just set the cruise control on the diesel 1 ton pu, turn on the engine break and AIM the truck. Averaged almost 19 mpg, even with a truck set up for towing. If I had another gear, we would have been over 20 MPG. It was really nice to get back home before dark, the road to our cabin can often have deer crossing at dusk.
This blog sure does have some fun anecdotes… what a wealth of experience and what a treat reading literate contributors … thanks.
or you could advocate legal blasts at 70mph in 3rd. then you would be making your point without recommending criminal behaviour. Just saying.
When borrowing my mother’s car, many, many moons ago, I justified hard driving by believing I was decoking the cylinders. Sounds like I was right.
I must admit, when she lent me her twin turbo Volvo S80, I definitely made sure it was decoked. I never did find out the 0-60 time, by the time I looked, it was at 130 mph*…
(*this was in Germany, where it is legal)
Please buy a book on motor engineering.
From what I am reading here, popular myths and legends appear to be gaining ground.
Howdy, Peta.
I just bought a 2021 diesel-powered truck to tow a 16,500 pound trailer, so the truck has all the latest Government over-regulated doodads.
In the break-in section of the owner’s manual, the manufacturer actually did recommend “thrashing” it a bit and doing so from time to time thereafter. My truck automatically goes into “thrash mode” every so many miles.
Also – I’m U.S. – most states have an exception for EGRs if your diesel is powering a ‘farm vehicle’ which is typically a pickup truck. You are legally permitted to delete the EGR. You need a ‘Farm’ license plate if you’re belching a bit of smoke from deleting the EGR, though.
So, yeah, you have to thrash ’em a bit if you’re stuck with a modern, standard issue diesel. The U.S. manufacturers have built your advice into the engine management software.
“Basically, careful gentle driving ‘glazes’ the cylinders and piston rings with the result that the oil-control ring stops working, letting engine oil into the combustion.
Result being = blue smoke from the exhaust”
You are talking bollox.
It’s clear to me you have no idea how modern common rail electronic injector diesel engines work.
Cristo Foufas – an interviewer who actually asks searching questions. The hypocrisy of Gail Bradbrook is putrid. She is from the Al Gore mould although she is yet to work out how to make a swag of money from the scam.
Al Gore got his money through insider knowledge (government graft). He was first in on the Chicago Climate Exchange fraud. He got out (as an insider) being warned of its collapse and made ~ $65 million. He bought a TV network at fire sale prices with his political influence. He sold that at a profit of ~ $350 million to Arab oil money so they could have an influential foothold in American broadcasting. Gail Bradbrook had no such connections. She’s just a crazy lightweight who happens to be useful to the corrupt UK government … for the present.
Not to mention (re Gore) Occidental Petroleum – talk about the ultimate hypocrisy!
And the family tobacco farm, but we won’t mention that.
What, you mean the one that made him proud to be a tobacco famer in a 1988 speech (4 years after the death of his sister from lung cancer).
Yeah, that one, John. The one we’re not mentioning.
Yes, I’d forgotten that, thanks. Somehow he as given a pass for his connection to “big oil”, while Dr. Richard Lindzen was cancelled for having his airfare paid for to a speaking engagement.
What a joke this woman is, and now you can see the level of intellect on display….. and their minions must be so proud LOL
The more they kick off about climate the bigger the hypocrite they turn out to be
Middle class airheads
Unfortunately green warriors do not understand the concept of hypocrisy. There is a minimum requirement of intellingence for that.
I don’t know how likely this is, but its certainly possible that in the next few days we will see massive firefights breaking out at Kabul airport, involving large US and UK military casualties and even larger ones among the desperate civilians. Not necessarily as the result of a deliberate decision by the Taliban leadership. How much control they have is not clear, it could happen in spite of them.
There are also enough missiles around in all kinds of hands to bring down a loaded exit flight.
What the US reaction will be to this, if it occurs? Who knows, but its likely to be extreme. And the reaction of the other players to that?
For a couple of weeks now we have been watching events which have the potential to put all the pious worries of people like Bradbrook into perspective. I hope we get away with it.
Meanwhile, ER intends blocking central London in order to…. do what exactly? No one, including them, has any idea. And why, in the present circumstances, this should be a priority? Likewise.
Its a generation that has grown up in relative luxury and self indulgence and believing that nothing has any costs, there is no hard objective reality, and the most important thing is not feeling the least emotional discomfort while expressing yourself to the max.
One day we will pay the price for this. I hope its not in the next few days, but even if its not, we will pay it sooner or later.
They were playing musical chairs to Pan pipe music in Covent Garden
They are extortionists. After they get local government to wimp out, then everyone will learn want they want.
Control and money.
They see themselves as similar to Castro and his revolution.
michel: “[…] and believing that nothing has any costs, there is no hard objective reality, […]”
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Anyone who believes there is no objective reality should try standing on the railroad tracks at 11:59 pm when the 2:00 pm express freight train is due to pass through at 60 mph.
Then we’ll see if they really believe there is no objective reality.
Hmm wonder what she was doing legally in Costa Rica that she can’t do legally over here? Having holidayed there twice I’m pretty certain I know!
From her Wikipedia page:
In 2016, she went on a psychedelic retreat to Costa Rica, “where she took Ayahuasca, Iboga and Kambo, in search of some clarity in her work.”
….and now she’s clearly barking mad, just like the other co-founder Roger Hallam.
Here’s a 2019 poll for what it’s worth, they have very little public support and if they add more misery to peoples lives since covid, then that’s likely to fall even lower.
“Psychotria viridis contains N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic substance that occurs naturally in the plant.
DMT is a powerful hallucinogenic chemical. However, it has low bioavailability, as it gets rapidly broken down by enzymes called monoamine oxidases (MAOs) in your liver and gastrointestinal tract (2Trusted Source).
For this reason, DMT must be combined with something containing MAO inhibitors (MAOIs), which allow DMT to take effect. Banisteriopsis caapi contains potent MAOIs called β-carbolines, which also have psychoactive effects of their own (3Trusted Source).
Well, she sure wasn’t after any sort of reality.
Allegedly, Ibogaine is also used to break other drug addictions. I wonder why Gail Bradbrook needs ibogaine?
Lots of formerly smart people fool around with poisonous frog venom…
An update on their popularity in 2021.
Read elsewhere that she drives a Land/Range Rover of some sort, which doesn’t surprise me in the least. She wouldn’t dare drive anything smaller as that would reduce her standing amongst her peers.
You can go further on a gallon of diesel than you can in a petrol (gasoline) driven car of the same size.
Does anyone know if it takes more or less energy to make petrol than it takes to make diesel fuel?
In a refinery, diesel is the first refined fuel produced. But with diesel, you can burn almost any oil. There is a “state” in which a diesel engine “feeds” itself called “dieseling” where oil is fed and burnt. This is usually called a “runaway”. And you do need to run away if you can’t shut off fuel or air.
If disel is the first product, do you mean that you then do something to the diesel to make petrol?
diesel, even.
Silly computer can’t spell.
Read up on fractionation distillation As you go up the fractionating column, the hydrocarbons have lower boiling points and lower viscosity (they flow more easily)
Thanks for this, fretslider, I am now cross-eyed and punch drunk.
However, it seems to me that the distillation of most crude oils produces more diesel than is needed and less gasoline than is needed so some of the diesel is cracked to make gasoline.
In other words, on average diesel uses less energy to produce than gasoline. And takes you further per unit of volume.
So diesel must be better for the environment.
What have I not understood?
Modern diesel engines have a “fuel shut-off solenoid” that is “Off” until it is enabled.
Part of the ignition electronics supply power to the solenoid to open the fuel line from the tank to the fuel injectors.
Any problem and the power to the solenoid shuts off.
Diesel engines do not operated by “spark plugs”, the compression of the pistons is sufficient to cause ignition.
The only way to shut off a diesel engine is to interrupt the fuel supply.
I knew a guy who had a diesel truck with no battery. He’d always park it on a hill to ‘push’ start it, or just leave it running otherwise. Diesels are quite efficient when idling, unlike petrol engines.
So you have never hear of a three speed clutch, diesel spark plugs and a long wait at the parts department?
I understand that she also said that she keeps the diesel because she can’t afford an EV. It’s only a matter of time before some well heeled Greenie hands her a large donation. Maybe her on-air admission wasn’t so dumb?
she can’t afford an EV
Which means she doesn’t qualify to be included in the elite. Oh dear.
She *says* she can’t afford an EV. Maybe she can, but doesn’t choose to waste the money on a less useful vehicle, or doesn’t choose make the necessary “sacrifices” she wants shoved down the throats of everyone else in order to free up the resources necessary to “afford” an EV – or to not need one.
If someone as well off as she is can’t afford an electric, then why is she trying to force electrics on the rest of us?
The Sun says
Yet Bradbrook, who has posted about the need to ground aircraft, proudly put pictures on Facebook during her 2016 Costa Rica jaunt — which left a carbon footprint of 2.6TONNES of CO2 emissions. One photo was of her in a flowery dress at the beach taking snaps of monkeys.
She revealed that her holiday of self-discovery included taking hallucinogenic drugs that inspired her calling “to get with the spirit of the otter”
.Bradbrook said she contacted a spirit known as Grandmother Ayahuasca and got a “kick up the a*** on negative habits”.
Twice-married Bradbrook, who has been repeatedly arrested by police at protests, revealed last month how on her Costa Rica break she took West African hallucinogenic shrub ibogaine. She claimed it “rewired” her brain, giving her “the codes of social change”.
She added that she had undergone a “mystical experience” — explaining: “I lay down and a voice that felt very external to me said, ‘Gail, you create your own reality’. When I got home I ended a marriage and separated my family. It was a huge decision but it was the right thing to do.”
Extinction Rebellion founder blasted after 11,000-mile flight to Central America for luxury break away – The Sun
The New Yorker says
Bradbrook and Hallam met in person for the first time in early 2017, not long after Bradbrook returned from a psychedelic retreat in Costa Rica, where she took ayahuasca, iboga, and kambo, in search of some clarity in her work. Bradbrook had been involved in the Occupy movement and campaigns around peak oil, but they failed to take off. “I was just sort of, like, fed up with failure,” she told me. “I was willing to just try anything, really.” Together, Bradbrook and Hallam sketched the outlines of Extinction Rebellion.
Does Extinction Rebellion Have the Solution to the Climate Crisis? | The New Yorker
Yes, I should definitely take notice of what this person has to say.
“Twice-married Bradbrook”
How the heck did she find two fools willing to marry someone so nuts? Their names weren’t griff and Simon by any chance?
In short: stark raving bonkers.
I have always had a huge problem with hypocrisy. A number of times I have put out the following change to people who claim there is an emergency. I always get the same tired response like I try and use less XXXXX or it’s the governments fault. No one has ever accepted my challenge (but still want to debate) . Here is a sample
“To all my friends and family that attended, supported or posted about this laughably named climate “strike” today… I applaud you for standing up for what you believe in. It was claimed by the promoters that this is the greatest crisis to face mankind and it is an existential threat to us all.
I don’t agree
I think the greatest problem for us all is violence and particularly domestic violence (and wars) and to this end I do my small part by not beating up my family and also I am pretty sure I haven’t started a war. In fact the last time I remember being violent to another human was back in second form when I got into a fight with a guy called Rainer (I am sorry I don’t remember his first name). I don’t say to people “domestic violence is a huge problem so I only do it when I need to” and I don’t think planting a tree will absolve me if I have to hurt someone.
So my challenge to all of you is, if you think climate change is an emergency, don’t use any hydrocarbons for a month. This means no driving anywhere, no plane trips, no buses, trains, trams. Walk or use a pushbike. Turn your power off at the meter box, Turn your gas off. Don’t use your phone Obviously you already have a huge amount of plastics and cement in your house, you can use them but don’t buy any more for that month.
All these things are possible and under your control, if any one of you manage to do this for a month, then I will happily applaud you and then be willing to chat about why I don’t think it is an emergency. If not, then you are hypocrites and there is no point having that discussion”
That’s brill, I shall use it !!
Suggest you amend to- if you think ‘man made’ climate change is an emergency –
no driving anywhere for any reason (including emergency’s = walk to the hospital but don’t accept any treatments or drugs developed after 1800).
Only use fresh food (no cans or processed food, & nothing packed in plastic). No cards, only use cash.
& add taxis, ambulances, internet to the don’t use list.
Surely ‘ man ‘ made is not acceptable.
Person made…
made sounds too much like maid, so wouldn’t be acceptable either.
“non-gender specific person caused” is the more woke acceptable nomenclature. /sarc
They spend so many syllables trying to stay politically correct, they never get around to saying anything meaningful.
Which is probably a good thing.
They spend so many syllables trying to stay politically correct
Carlin had a really good bit on that.
The illustrious “leader” of Canada coined “peoplekind”. I shat you not.
“But, diesels are terrible”…
No they’re not – they’re brilliant. I have two.
Me too, two!
Although in separate continents.
Unfortunately I have to travel halfway across the world twice every year to use them both. It’s only 11,000 miles, though!
I still have no clue as to what this “crisis” is supposed to be?
Probably run on used chip fat from her local chippy.
So do I drive a diesel, a 6,000# BMW X5 SAV highway cruiser. I love it!
In 2016, she went on a psychedelic retreat to Costa Rica, “where she took ayahuasca, iboga and kambo, in search of some clarity in her work.”
That experience “made her change her approach” to campaigning. Soon after returning she met Roger Hallam (failed sometime organic farmer) and together they came up with Extinction Rebellion. – Wiki
And from the people who created Greta Thunberg:
“How is it possible for you to be so easily tricked by something so simple as a story, because you are tricked? Well, it all comes down to one core thing and that is emotional investment. The more emotionally invested you are in anything in your life, the less critical and the less objectively observant you become.” — David JP Phillips, We Don’t Have Time board of directors, “The Magical Science of Storytelling”
https://www.theartofannihilation.com/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
Good to see the central role the scientific method has in all this.
He wants the human race exterminated, why is he still alive? Lead by example.
The most amusing part of it all is that the idiot Bradbrook then went on the Twitters to claim she won the argument. People’s replies to her tweet ripped her to shreds. The ratio was a delight to behold.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gailbradbrook/status/1430128111438516233
Everyone does it…
China Coal Approvals Seen Adding to Confusion on Climate Action (yahoo.com)
Do XR actually DO anything any more? Is all their activity in England now?
You won’t find them in China or even outside the Chinese Embassy in London..
She brings a physical example of the term motor mouth to our screen. She blathers on and says absolutely nothing of any merit. She claims she can’t even remember the name of her car but admits it’s a diesel. With the lack of awareness she is projecting, one wonders if she has been to the Joe Biden school of misconception and confusion?
Anyway, let’s look on the bright side. If that represents the level of the top echelon of XR remembering that Carrie Johnson is a self proclaimed supporter, then XR won’t last long because they lack any sense or credibility to exist.
There is an existential threat, and it is to extinction rebellion.
The woke environmentalists seem to be actually defined by their hypocrisy. It’s on display everywhere and it’s not hard at all to see that the emperor is naked!
The British Eurocrats did in fact subsidize the purchase of Diesel cars in the 80’s and early 90’s as a green alternative to gasoline cars.
Later, they realized that NOX emissions were making people sick. Of course, most of these emissions are eliminated in modern Diesels by controlling combustion temps and after-treatment systems.
Solar powered Diesel truck (well, the radio and blinker lights) UTube.
Also stress testing solar panels with various caliber ammunitions.
“to avoid moron replies.”
Do you get a lot of grief from Griff, then?
I don’t know about the UK, but the US the diesel handle is green at most gas stations. She probably thinks it’s some kind of eco friendly fuel.
Wait, she flew 10,000 miles on a plane? What, was her broom in the shop?
Only moron comments get moron replies. 😀
So don’t wonder 😀
If they wanted to avoid moron replies, they wouldn’t be delaying your replies, they’d be deleting them.
And the Cuomo Emmy Award goes to ……….
Yeah, Gail, pointing out your glaring hypocrisy is a tedious job, but someone has to do it!
“We are all hypocrites”!
Yes, all Believers are. Some more than others. Especially YOU.
I see you still haven’t bothered to actually research the subject.
”Stupid is as stupid does.”
See, she is just driving a diesel because she needs it, Al Gore is only flying on his private jet because he can’t afford to waste time, but what excuse do you useless deplorables have to still exhale CO2?!
Try this instead of climate scams…..
Feds: $31M trip-and-fall scam used homeless people as pawns – ABC News (go.com)
Greta donna lika de planes
Hypocrisy is a natural human attribute.
True, but some make an art form out of it.
What’s the going rate for paid protesting in the UK and does it come with benefits and a retirement plan?
While the press and the commenters here have focused on her hypocrisy, I think the lead story should come from something else she said during the same interview:
“ ‘If I was really green, you would be saying to me: ‘Oh you want us all to go back in the caves like you Gail.’”
That is an admission that to be really green, as they demand, means going back and living in caves. Can’t be any clearer as to what they want.
Headlines should be: “Extinction Rebellion founder wants humans to return to caves”