Guest essay by Eric Worrall
British green campaigner Angela Terry has plumbed new depths of arrogant hypocrisy, by demanding a ban on home conservatories during a TV interview – while sitting in her own conservatory.
People in glass houses! Green campaigner lectures GMB viewers on damage that conservatories are doing to the planet – while sitting in her conservatory
- Angela Terry has called for new conservatories to be banned while sitting in hers
- The environmental scientist from Somerset said it was ‘having a no regret’ policy
- But she seemed to exclude herself from the rules as she spoke from her own one
- Presenter Susanna Reid pointed out the hypocrisy asking her why she keeps hers
- Ms Terry suggested that because her house came with one already she was fine
By JAMES GANT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:36 AEDT, 20 January 2022 | UPDATED: 21:30 AEDT, 20 January 2022A green campaigner has called for conservatories to be banned – while sitting in her own one.
Angela Terry said Britons need to dump the glass houses because they ‘act like a furnace’ for the rest of the home.
The environmental scientist, 47, claimed the move was about ‘having a no regret’ policy and protecting the planet.
But she appeared to exclude herself from the rules as she brazenly spoke from her conservatory in Wells, Somerset.
GMB presenter Susanna Reid pointed out the hypocrisy asking why she can have one but ‘nobody else is allowed one from now on’.
Ms Terry suggested because her house came with one she was exempt from new legislation.
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Read more (includes video): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10421987/Green-campaigner-lectures-GMB-viewers-damage-conservatories-sitting-hers.html
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. In essence this is no different to climate campaigners turning up to a climate conference in a private jet, and demanding ordinary people cut back on flying. But most of them have the sense not to flaunt their hypocricy right in the middle of a TV interview.
I would like to follow her around for a week and remind her not to drive a car, no flying, no heat allowed, no imported food, no plastics or paints, nothing petrochemical, no phone..etc.
Her hair looks clean. Fossil fuels are used in shampoo. Why hasn’t she stopped cleaning her hair?
Did she use hot water in the shower? Not to mention the cost of cleaning up and piping that water to her house.
MarkW, you are asking Andy if he was in the shower with her.
My stomach just heaved…
Hers might have too.
My wife has just confirmed that seeing me in the shower would make any woman’s stomach heave.
must be them home made soap. Goat fat-good strong lye and bol’ed water
Those window frames look vinyl, and the amount of natural gas it takes to melt sand to make glass is ginormous…and without the windows her house would require a lot less heat.
Speaking of windows, but OT:
Whenever you mention bird kills from wind turbines to greenies they say, “But more birds are killed annually flying into windows!”. I just reply with, “well, whenever you find a working alternative to windows, get back to me…..”
Ah, but she’s obviously cut out the hair dye. Her roots are growing out. So that’s OK then. Saving the planet!
Here’s “Greta Thunberg’s perfect petroleum-free world” posted as Friday’s Funny here at WUWT a year or so ago. LINK If you follow the link get the point and tire of reading, make sure to read the last line (-:
Thanks Steve , missed it last year
It’s a no-win situation. She’ll declare that increasing amounts of people monitoring the size of other people’s carbon footprints is ground zero for the alarming rise in carbon emissions.
Is it okay if I tell her to stuff it where the sun don’t shine? I have other choice phrases.
If a conservatory is attached to a dwelling and adds heat to the home in winter, isn’t that a GOOD THING? Environmentally sound, as no fuel is used? Just askin’, because she comes off as a rather rancid BIMP.
Today was a lovely sunny day here in Southern England. Temperature outdoors around 6C 43F.
In our south facing conservatory 69F (20.5C) In our room next to it 65 f around 18c, in our north facing kitchen only 13C 55F. So our living rooms were made habitable without further heat by solar gain The heat drifted upstairs whilst the kitchen needed heat. A couple of days ago there was no sun and everywhere in the house was around 15C and it all needed heat
In the summer we close blinds and curtains to keep the excess heat out so the conservatory is definitely reducing heating and CO2 and arguably therefore ought be be subsidised. We could call it a transparent solar panel
tonyb
I live in the Pacific Northwest, which at this time of year is mostly overcast. 90% of the windows on the house face South/Southwest, so when the sun is shining, it will burn is out. The largest window is about 5 feet high by 10 feet wide, the others are slightly smaller. When it’s overcast, we get nothing.
So yes, just like transparent solar panels.
I also live in the South of England (I’m a good old Bromley boy). I have never, ever met anybody complain that their conservatory is “making their house too hot”. I’ve only ever met people like your good self who are in exactly the same position, home heating wise, as yourself.
The woman is a weapons grade moron.
She’s a typical hypocrite liar. But point that out, and someone will take out that stupid cartoon about “We should improve society somehow”. Because a “witty” cartoon will explain away any kind of double thinking and hypocrisy. For sheep, that is.
Few seem to realize how long-standing is Angela Terry’s style of response to a lost confidence in rationality itself that drives her seemingly ad hoc lying hypocrisy. This ‘post-modern’ mindset has for over a century now settled instead for personal power wielding via conjured narratives, while feeling no conflict even in self-contradiction as no confident grounds is acknowledged for any truth! Does this explain more than a few instances of such story-telling substitutes for verifiable information that you’ve encountered recently?
Seriously
Angela who? A demolition seems in order
A return of the window tax no doubt as these folks are even into taxing a colourless odourless gas. End result would appear to be the same-
Window tax – The National Archives
“A demolition seems in order”
Round up a dozen or so of the lads, go pull it down, and cart it all off… gratis.
I’m sure she’d be eternally grateful to be relieved of the anguish of her guilt.
or a few bricks
Looks like she could house a dozen or so homeless in that mansion.
Homeless are usually from her country, so no. More like refugees to keep her woke.
A dozen of them in her home for a week and she WOULD wake up.
You think she’d last a week?
Her “personality” would keep them at bay for 3-4 days, them sodomizing her would take would fill at least 3 days, so 7th day she might actually wake up to reality. Or she would enjoy the whole process. All bets are off then.
It’s an unintentional display of ignorant hubris when folks who claim to be the saviors of the masses just can’t help showing off their own lavish lifestyles and their vast array of possessions.
It is not hypocrisy. Peons simply have no rights, and the restrictions only apply to us peons. As one of the Elect, she can do as she pleases.
Why no conservatories? Because they could create unwanted solar gain, that’s why.
link
This is such a non-problem. Anyone who’s worked anywhere near a greenhouse knows there are a bunch of techniques to control heat, starting with ventilation. link Plus, at certain times of year, greenhouses can reduce your home heating bills.
Having said the above, conservatories can require a lot of heat. link That problem will decrease if the globe gets warmer.
So, Angela Terry isn’t just a hypocrite, she’s also clueless.
That’s the loony left modus operandi. Dream up BS then don’t apply any real world knowledge to test it. Then insist that anyone who disagrees with you is some kind of far-right nut case.
Well said. My conservatory – already here when I moved in – gets sun all day and at either end of the summer when the heating is off, opening the doors to the house can provide some nice warmth. By the same token, at other times the doors stay shut to keep out the cold or heat. the radiator in there was turned off as soon as I moved in as heating it would be very inefficient. But in time I intend to put a wood burning stove in as I have plenty of fire wood available.
Gerry, something that works well for heating glass or poorly insulated structures is infrared overhead heating. It will heat the surfaces and objects in the room without drawing air from the room for combustion.
Just a couple of LED chicken house brooding lamps might do the trick for a small area that’s largely air-tight.
Here we use overhead radiant in greenhouses powered by LP gas and exhausted into the growing room to raise humidity and CO2 concentration.
Why not just replace the current glass panes with what is called thermopane over here in the US of A? That’s windows with glass that consists of two VERY thing sheets of glass, with a vacuum between them, sealed shut. My living room has a big bay window that faces south and in the winter, the room is so heated up that the furnace won’t run.
I have the thermostat set at 73F. The indoor temp is 75F in the winter – WITHOUT the furnace running, thanks to this type of window. Saves a bodacious lot on the gas bill, too.
The only time I ever feel the cold when indoors is when someone’s spoiled rotten little black cat decides to try to pry the windows open and let in cooler air.
Since she doesn’t like greenhouses, presumably she is also against the greenies calling for more home insulation.
The very concept of a Passivhaus would have her reaching for Mother’s Little Helpers…
I was and still am confused as to why would any intelligent person seem to think that a greenhouse (conservatory) is a bad idea?
I wonder if these same poor souls advocate solar heat pump systems for housing energy needs?
Hypocritical and rather ignorant.
“Son, fat dumb and stupid is no way to go through life.” (Dean Wormer)
The UK Climate Change Committee is worried that people might overheat in their houses at some point in the future and so is recommending that all new conservatories should be built so as to reduce this risk eg, by having smaller and fewer windows.
It also suggests building the conservatory separated from the house (WHAT?) and having no internal heating of its own. In which case the conservatory could have larger windows.
These people are mad
How many super-hot days do we get compared to cool and cold days when the solar gain would be useful?
That said, a number of people have told me that an insulated roof and full length windows make a conservatory useful all year round.
Also if you want to reduce solar gain in the summer, have a 2ft overhang on 8ft windows. This will keep direct sunlight out of the conservatory in the hottest months, in the UK, and still give the benefit of solar gain in the colder months when the sun’s angle is lower.
I notice that she is wearing lipstick. Lipsticks contain elements of fossil fuels.
Why does she need lipstick? Was it already on her face when she moved into her body?
The woman is a grade A hypocrite.
And beef.
Also a complete waste of resources as it doesn’t make her any better looking…
We’ve all the heard the phrase “lipstick on a pig”
You’ve no right to assign a particular sex to this person. You need to ask her first to what sex she assigns herself. And you really will need to ask her for her preferred pronouns if that’s not a leading question.
Just the latest example of the realtime Progressive “Animal Farm” we’re now living on.
I’m not. Even though I live in Libtard Central, my brain is a libtard-free zone., except when I come on here for a laugh at the crackpots.
These people really are this stupid…..
Forgive my ignorance, but how is a hot house supposed to contribute to climate change? Are all those hot conservatories going to heat up the earth?
If we tore down all the conservatories (including hers) how much would we expect the climate to cool?
I thought her mates in Insulate Britain said houses were too cold?
The woman is an idiot.
I would suggest that the architectural term for the room be changed to “liberatorium”. I think she would not have any issue with others owning one of those.
The ‘logic’ seems to be that conservatories will contribute unwanted heat gain to the houses they’re attached to. link To know how stupid that is, check out Gerry’s comment above.
I once read a science fiction story about a world where women had taken over all the positions of power. That caused me to wonder whether that would lead to a kinder, gentler world. Nope. Just look at all the woke crappola with which we are increasingly infested.
We have the wise words of Vladimir Putin, as quoted by Jordan Peterson. He’s pointing out that what’s happening in the West is what happened in the Soviet Union. We all know how that worked out. The quote is rather long so I won’t include it all but I did enjoy this part:
Defund the universities.
“how many characters of what color or gender should be in a movie”
Like Denzil Washington as Lord Macbeth…
I’ve always been fascinated by how the people who would be the first to be offended if a white person was cast in a non-white role, will be the first to celebrate when a minority is cast in a white role.
another is the Broadway musical “Hamilton”. As described in Wikipedia: “Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda.” He has Puerto Rican ancestory. Now, I have no problem with “people of color”. In fact, I think that’s a raccist term. But, I’d prefer movies and theatre to be realistic- that characters should look like I think they looked. And yes, with Hamilton- it’s one big rap session. It’s been extremely popular but I wouldn’t pay to see it. I read a great biography of Alexander Hamilton not long ago. He was born in the Caribbean of British parents. He probably had a modified British accent.
Personally, I’m waiting for a Klingon to play the part.
or a “grey” alien to play the life of Joe Biden
I do have a problem referring to people of colour/color, we are ALL coloured as before Feminist/PC dictatorship took hold of the world, white used to be a colour/color!!! The level of hypocrisy in society today is unbelievable, I guess it’s all part of the system of manipulation & control!!!
How about getting someone white to play Kunta Kinte in “Roots”?
You’d be able to hear the wokies heads exploding everywhere.
maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger- if he wasn’t so old
That’s unfair on Denzil. He’d make a great Othello.
” Forgive my ignorance, but how is a hot house supposed to contribute to climate change? Are all those hot conservatories going to heat up the earth? ”
No, you did not understand the core of the matter. It is not climate or global warming: it’s for your own good!
You see: if your house gets too hot, you may have an heat stroke! Because, she thinks, you are dumb enough not to open the windows and eventualy change place to a cooler spot.
So, to prevent you from inflicting self-damage, you will not be allowed to have a consrrvatory! You are not allowed to become ill! You are not allowed to put your life at risk!
Next step, because you may cut your finger when peeling potatoes, or may stab an eye by an accidental movement of your hand, you will ot be allowed to use forks and knives and keeping such dangerous implements in your home.
You mean I can open windows when I get hot? Damn, you learn a new thing every day!
Yes! And you can also pull down the shades of your windows!
What are these “shades” things of which you speak?
They sound like witchcraft to me.
Yes, there is a magic string or tape that makes them roll up or down… Some brands use a kind of crank. They are also called “blinds” because some brands can prevent the light from passing through.
These people want to make rules for others, not themselves. Their work is too important. They deserve rewards and luxuries not allowed for us proles. As a prole, I for one, am glad we have people like Angela Terry to tell us what to do, how to live our lives and how to think. The best thing we can all do is accept their diktats wholeheartedly and unquestionably.
Because all the others are stupid and only them are brilliant.
That’s cos they all went to Ooooniveristy & we proles did not, that means by default we’re all thick & dumb & don’t know what “common sense” actually is!!! ONLY those who have been to Ooooniversity know these things!!! FACT!!!
Yes, you are right! We stay thick and dumb and after a while we become, as the other old lady said, “deplorables”.
I bet she’s got at least 4 children but advocates a policy of limiting couples to only
21 child (to save the planet and the scarce resources).It’s gotten to the point that being a climate activist, and/or a socialist for that matter, affords well connected elites a secure and comfortable living well in excess of their societal contribution of goods and services. This is not only parasitical, it’s unsustainable.
What is a conservatory? A window? A sun room? I would think they should mandate them to collect the sun as there will be no fossil fuels for heat soon.
Yep. In the winter when the sun is low, like today, the sun heats the whole house via the sun room; the central heating hasn’t kicked in at all today although the shade temperature hasn’t been above 6C.
I’ve got mine and you can’t have yours. That sums up a lot of elitist policy priorities and lobbyist moves these days.
More like “I’ve got mine, and I want yours as well”.
Hypocrisy: If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
Here’s a You Tube of her “Sustainability New Years Resolutions for 2022”
If you want to avoid listening to her, here’s a transcript:
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So my main energy related goal for 2022 is to highlight to the public exactly where their carbon emissions come from so that they then tackle the energy issues in their lives that they can control so it’ll save their money and also reduce their carbon footprint and then that way they will know how to have the biggest impact and that will shift everyone from talking about plastic recycling onto the issues that really really make a difference
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She looks and sounds exactly like the stereotype that I have about such people.
Yep, someone else can “tackle” this sh!t. I’m too busy being a loonie (on the inheritance from her Daddy, presumably).
It does seem that the “climate change revolutionary” crowd wants to abandon all the previous purposes of environmentalism, and destroy culture as we presently enjoy it for the purposes of avoiding an invisible threat the computers and mathematics post-doctorates decree will occur “any day now”.
I confess that’s my stereotype.
“abandon all the previous purposes of environmentalism”
It used to be about saving the farms and forests- now it’s pave them over with wind and solar energy to save the planet.
There’s a reason stereotypes become stereotypes.
Trouble for me is that I couldn’t give a rip about my carbon emissions or my carbon “footprint” whatever that is!!! Carbon = GOOD!!! However, once it is redefined as bad, it’s amazing how much power, manipulation, & control over people’s lives the elites can have!!!
There is Talk Radio’s ‘Plank of the Week’. An hour long show on Tuesday night with guests nominating planks. Harry & Megan won it in 2021 for their plankish behaviour.
You can catch up with it on You Tube.
THE RULES: as long as you talk about energy conservation, and the dangers of weather, then you do not have to DO anything, because you are doing your part, pay it lip service, be a cheer leader, but you don’t have to sacrifice as do the peons, because you are doing all you can, just talking it up.
The fine print states that you must be someone influential for that rule to apply. Commoners may not exempt themselves from culpability by merely being climate ambassadors.
Doesn’t make sense. A conservatory is a solar heating system for the house. Very green. Even works (slightly) in winter.
I suspect that she is one of the typical multi-purpose rebels attracted by the zany antics of the left wing:
“What are you rebelling against?”
“What have you got?”
Bigot – sanctimonious hypocrite.
Maybe she is confusing greenhouse gases with real greenhouses?
I believe she will play a government spokesperson in the upcoming remake of “1984 – the movie”.
If she doesn’t die of lead poisoning maybe.
the upcoming remake of “1984 – the movie”
The one where Big Brother is the hero?
Botox futures are going through the roof. Something to do with a large cabal of greeniacs having to speak with a straight face.
I’m sorry she has a face like Micky Mann’s that just brings forth the urge to hit it.
As for the nonsense she spouts it’s just like his, all do as I say not as I do.
James Bull
And if you dare buy another ICE vehicle she’ll run you over in her Landrover.
There’s no aspect of our lives they don’t want to control, is there? What on Earth gives them the right to even try this? More to the point, what difference could banning conservatories in the UK possibly make to anything? Other than destroying jobs and businesses of course, which is sort of rote work for these lunatics. It wouldn’t matter if it wasn’t for the fact that our hopeless PM will probably get talked into it. I remember telling my kids that we lived in a free country- I must apologise for that- we shouldn’t lie to our children…
That makes it rather a shame all those people died fighting two bloody world wars to preserve freedom & democracy against tyranny & dictatorship!!!
I think it should be ok as long as one purchases sufficient carbon offsets to cover it.
Yep because carbon taxes decrease the amount of carbon, LMAO. Words don’t make actions
Don’t forget the silicon solar panels made with components from slave labor in western China and powered by coal plants.
Slaves are low carbon.
And very low profile in green media
After decades of being protected by the media, the left wing sense of invulnerability continues to grow.
The real entitlement
This really is True Madness coming from confirmed Puritans.
THE main requirement for UK houses is heating, NOT cooling and even in wintertime, glass houses capture (and haha Trap) heat.
Lord help us, how much Government money (and utility-company money enforced by Government) has been spent on home insulation?
This Climate Thing simply could not get any more stupid
(until tomorrow of course)
What is actually going on here is the machinations of ‘The Green Eyed Monster’
Simple as that yet they will *never* admit as much.
What do we think will become of a world entirely populated by liars?
Seems to me that this isn’t news. News would be when one of these activists actually lives up to their own demands.
she’s says they’re bad because the world is warming- then TAKE YOURS DOWN or at least put heavy plastic over the glass
So the greens are now complaining that gathering solar energy to warm your living space via a conservatory is an environmental problem? If the “furnace” complaint relates to excessive warmth in summer have they not heard of using blinds or opening windows to improve airflow?
She’s just virtue signaling. As a UK “environmental scientist” shs is expected by her social and professional circle to say all the correct climate nonsense talking points. It’s is the “Emperor’s New Clothes” self-deception nonsense in our modern era.
“No conservatory for YOU!”
The conservatory nazi.
Next come the natatorium nazis, Bruce. Bet she has one of those too.
Kind of like John Lennon singing about no possession, from his million dollar condo in NY playing on a piano who’s value could feed a third world village for years.
He was a Socialist after all!!!
Sorry, but how do you think the Kerrys, di Caprios, Harrison
FraudFord and other campaigners, can get the message out to us the unwashed if they do not have access to super yachts, fast cars, seaside mansions and private jets? How? Tell me.Conservatories reduce the amount of heating required, and thus, reduce greenhouse gasses. I thought that was meant to be a good thing- natural heating method and exactly what the greenies stand for.
If she so hates conservatories, perhaps she should remove her own one altogether to be a pioneer. Will other ultra greens follow the insane advice, like children being led on by the Pied Piper? Will some start to question the advice -wake up to green lunacy?
What would happen if radical greens ever took control of government???It would be like Mao’s little red book- some idea comes up in to his head. There is no debate on pros and cons (the cons would find themselves executed.) Mao (and the greens) are so totally certain of themselves-no need for debate-they are always right. Next thing, it becomes a full-on policy to be pursued with vigour, regardless of the harm it does to others.
Say what you will, but I want a “bad” girl by my side.
They act like a furnace for the rest of the home? So what? very nice in winter. I have south facing patio doors & when the sun shines in winter (it sometimes does you know) it provides quite a bit of warmth to the room. A bit of a pain in summer, but they can be opened or the curtains drawn. I am planning on putting some of that plastic coated reflective foil that they use for survival bags on them in the summer.
Isn’t that a good thing? Solar heating! It’s free! Less energy consumed during the heating season? When I grew up in England the heating season was about 10 months long, and in summer we opened the windows. When I lived in Scotland, I seem to recall the heating season being closer to 12 months. The estimable Ms Terry obviously needs a lesson in logic.
Or perhaps she needs a brain.
As you and many others have said, passive heating and cooling are A Good Thing[TM].
These have been the traditional ways of keeping indoor areas as pleasant as possible.
Indian verandahs transplanted to Australia to great benefit, and Mediterranean courtyards seem quite effective in Greece and Italy as well.
Don’t be silly, people like her don’t need a brain, otherwise they might have to do some thinking!!! Sarc full on!!!
83 comments and no one has said it yet. Bunch of illiterates!
People who live in glass houses….
Its not every day we get such a tempting target for scorn and ridicule. Pour it on, people. It feels good.
Throw a rock
People who live in glass houses….
Shouldn’t get undressed with the lights on?
Shouldn’t stow thrones?
Shouldn’t lie to TV Licensing callers?
Shouldn’t annoy the window cleaner?
By “throw a rock”, I meant give me an example.
Us illiterates need more literation.
The term greenhouse gases will now be replaced by conservatory gases.
It’s another step up the social ladder don’t you think?
Just don’t be so liberal with your gasses in the conservatory… I get it now!
The left are called looney for a reason: they are sick in the head. They admit this when asked:
(PDF) Mental illness and the left
News flash for Ms Terry. The UK is as far north as Labrador, so conservatories have long been used as sun traps that extend the growing season and provide warmth in a generally dark, cold country. If only her conservatory could dispel some of the darkness between her ears
I couldn’t face listening to her bloviation but I note she lives, coddled by the Gulf Stream, in balmy Somerset, she should try living through a winter in Sunderland or Aberdeen before she casts her first reactionary stone. She probably still does not understand that her own personal green house effect is from the glass blocking convection not from the copious, cringeworthy, CO2 she is graciously expelling. Now that would be something to consider banning.
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Yes, generally these rooms have windows that open so on the hottest days you just open them and let the heat out, it doesn’t have to heat the rest of the house.
The heat you purposely trap with them on cooler days reduces the Mount of fuel you burn to heat the house, plus these rooms allow extended growing season to allow you to grow food for yourself.
These room are a climate win for such as her and she’s too stupid to see it
Peak stupid revealed
Never mind the hypocrasy, just look at the reason given that the conservatory ‘acts like a furnace for the rest of the house’. What on Earth does that mean? This ‘environment scientist’ is obvious clueless and has lost the plot completely.
It doesn’t even make sense. Isn’t climate change policy supposed to mandate houses that retain heat better? A conservatory does help to do that. If it get’s too hot in the summer (for south facing conservatories), most people don’t go in them. Or they fit sun blinds.
I guess we still haven’t reached peak lunacy.
I just realised, I have a conservatory, so I’m even more doomed than I thought.
But, just a minute, a thought occurred. Maybe – and this is purely theoretical, just a shot in the dark – maybe I could – I don’t know – sort of – sort of shut the connecting door.
Yes, it could really work!
Thank God, the planet is saved once again!
Chris
even thicker as it would allow homegrown veg etc and save on winter heating IF they used thermal mass floors and coiled poly? oh except uk+snow lol