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DIVERGENCE SHOWN
The Guardian reports:
A damning study from Cambridge University today exposes Guardian readers as being worse than readers of the tabloids or the Telegraph when it comes to insulating their homes …
The study by David Reiner, of the Judge Business School, comes up with the shaming statistic that only 42% of Guardian or Indy readers have installed insulation, compared to 72% of Express readers.
Dr Reiner concludes: “They show a clear divergence between their views as citizens and their actions as consumers.”
Similar green hypocrisy has been noticed in Australia.
I bet they don’t use those foam beer can holder thingies, either. Hypocrisy, thy name is Eco-Friendly!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 21 at 12:44 AM • permalink#3 or these either.
(Scroll down carefully, workazoids)
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 21 at 12:49 AM • permalinkYou may saa-ay I’m a hypocritical plonker
But I’m not the only onePosted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 21 at 01:07 AM • permalink“A damning study from Cambridge University today exposes Guardian readers as being worse than readers of the tabloids or the Telegraph when it comes to insulating their homes …”
What the hell else are they doing with their cop of The Grauniad? Can’t be reading it, surely?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 01:18 AM • permalinkI’m wrapping my home in whale blubber right now.
You can use whale blubber? Damn! All that fiberglass and styrofoam insulation that I just had installed is obsolete!! And here I thought having my house completely wired up for ethernet was the cat’s meow.
Stupid greenies, suppressing such important scientific discoveries. Bunch of luddites is what they are.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 21 at 01:29 AM • permalinkonly 42% of Guardian or Indy readers have installed insulation
Refreshingly, 100% have tin foil hats to insulate against rational thought.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 01:34 AM • permalinkThe Victorian bushfires witnessed the same phenomenon - the tree huggers were (and are) nowhere to be seen amongst the volunteer fire fighters.
Have you noticed that the greenies - who’ll chain themselves to a tree to defend a single bird nest - and the media have been silent about the massive loss of wildlife that must have occurred in the firestorms that have engulfed 700,000 ha of Victoria’s bushland? Silent because greenie-inspired policies are in large part responsible for this awful incineration of our forests.
leftards not practising what they preach- oh say it aint so
these hypercrites are killing mother earth the gorey way
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 02:10 AM • permalink“They show a clear divergence between their views as citizens and their actions as consumers.”
To us cynical Tim Blair readers, it comes as no surprise whatsoever. Har-har!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 02:19 AM • permalinkSo we can expect to see George Monboit calling for the hanging, burning and quatering of non-insulated gruinard readers in the event a Bangladeshi drowns??
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 12 21 at 02:22 AM • permalink100% of Sun readers like big knockers.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 02:40 AM • permalinkClearly this study was funded by the big Home Improvement industry and the evil Drywall lobby…
Seriously, who in their right mind doesn’t insulate their house at those latitudes? I could see the point of not insulating in warm climates where the temperature doesn’t get down low enough to require much heating, but when your living at a latitude not too far south of Alaska…
Guardian readers should use drowned Bangladeshis to insulate their homes. Make climate change work for you.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2006 12 21 at 03:00 AM • permalinkOther people are quite dreadful. ...
I think Oscar Wilde’s Lord Goring was a proto-Green. This is what this is all about.
A cursory glance at surveys about Green issues reveals that environmental degradation is all somebody else’s fault.
People like Monbiot, Flannery, Gore and other assorted gobshites have no intention of sacrificing their lavish lifestyles.
They want other people to do it.
#17 ian deans,
3 to 7 years for betraying your country- pathetic
or is this to give his former colleagues a chance to show him their appreciation in some dark alley when he gets out?
a while back some newspaper published diagrams of american body armour helpfully showing the enemy where it was most vulnerable- was anyone ever punished?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 03:06 AM • permalink#28: Prime example - Tim Flannery’s dreary doco 2 Men in a Tinny. His pointless ABC doco of him and John Doyle showing us how buggered the Murray River is.
If he really believed it, it would have been 2 Men in a Row Boat.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 21 at 03:10 AM • permalinkJumping to unkind conclusions against greenies again, people?
Stop and think for a moment. This is the Grauniad we’re talking about. Clearly, the headline would have told them to:
Start insultating now!
So they promptly painted something incredibly witty about Tony bLIAR on their cardboard sign (aka their north-facing wall) and did so.
Hardly their fault.
#31 & 32 - yes- treason in wartime is exactly what it is and a bullet is called for
that goes for the journalists and editors responsible for the body armour thing too
i understand there are people disagree with the war-i think they are deluded but they have a right to their opinions
just as i have the right to hold them in utter contempt
but there are lines that should not be able to be crossed without facing extremely serious consequences
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 03:48 AM • permalink#26, I could see the point of not insulating in warm climates
I can’t. Insulation is good for keeping heat out of the house as well as for keeping it in. Insulating your house is sensible no matter where you live. Consider Sydney last week. One day it was 37C and the next it was 14C. Bake or shiver. And that’s supposed to be a temperate climate.
Where I live is tropical. We have pink batts in the roof space but I’d dearly love to find some sort of insulated cladding for our masonry walls. They will, I hope, keep us safe if a cyclone comes but they’re a bugger for storing up heat during the day and releasing it at night.
#41 Surely Gore must be having a private holiday
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 21 at 06:48 AM • permalinkIan Deans, I was wondering what the impulse behind his treasonous acts could possibly be. I wondered if he had either converted to Shi’ite Islam, or was part Iranian, because otherwise I couldn’t understand why an Englishman would have anything to do with Iran. There just isn’t the same sort of fellow-traveller conflict that there was in the Cold War days. (Then again, I can’t understand the sympathy leftoids have for Muslim countries like Iran, which are the sort of totalitarian theocracies that they are supposed to hate and fear.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 07:27 AM • permalinkLefties love telling people what to do.
Ergo, government must pass law that anyone with a Guardian subscription must be compelled to install insulation within 6 months, under threat of heavy fines. Hang the cost and the difficulty, something must be done.
Given that most Guardian readers also seem to be rabidly agin fox hunting, I’d make them insulate with fox fur.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 21 at 07:33 AM • permalinkJANICE:
“Extruded polystyrene board”: hard to get in Aus., it’s a stiff board that comes in thicknesses from 5mm to 2 inches. You might be able to get it with textures on one side or put a thin layer under masonite or other interior cladding. They use the stuff to insulate cool-rooms and large refrigeration units.
#45 - Even in the Cold War days you had through-and-through Britons selling out - Philby and Mclean were as British as they came, but they gave secrets to Moscow. But admittedly, it seems a remarkably rare thing for a Brit to betray his countrymen.
I’ve always believed the Left sides with Islam simply because they still have the old cold war mindset - ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, whereas ‘the enemy of my enemy is my enemy’ is truer.
Philby et al had the whole “communism/international brotherhood” bs behind them, didn’t they? While on the other hand Iranians, despite being Muslim and thus supposedly part of a “all men are brothers” similar crock of poo, are intensely nationalistic. Of course, lefties are in denial about such things… only the evil West is nationalist, etc.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 09:33 AM • permalinkNewspaper makes a fairly good insulation material, particularly if it’s shredded and spread around in your attic (I think contracters use some kind of electric blower). May I recommend shredded copies of the Niagara Falls Reporter? It’s the kind of course, cheap newsprint that makes for great insulation.
Leftists are narcissists; it’s all about them. They don’t care about outcomes or effects; they care about how they feel about themselves and how other Leftists view them.
Posted by nobody important on 2006 12 21 at 10:12 AM • permalinkI installed insulation in my house and discovered the bleeding obvious - it slows the incoming heat on a hot day but also slows the outgoing heat at night. So I installed ducted evaperative airconditioning. That combination works very well in the low humidity early summer where I live. For the late summer high humidity days I use the old refrigerated wall unit in my lounge room.
The fact that liberals are all hat, no cattle is news?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 12:19 PM • permalink“I would like to insulate my house so that moonbat incursions are minimised. Any suggestions?”
Flying an American flag in front of your RWDB compound is an effective method to keep lefty trash away.
They hate that shit.
Shooting the little bastards on sight works pretty well too.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 21 at 12:24 PM • permalinkOT but important. I just left a comment at Crittenden’s blog about this post (linked to by Tim in this post).
I’ve accepted the Grimmy Challenge. How about you?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 01:26 PM • permalinkTime to empanel a Nuremburg type court to try these noninsulating wreckers, comrades!
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 21 at 02:50 PM • permalinkYou would think that the Guardian readers would be more receptive after having seen this Guardian article which claims 25,000 excess deaths in the UK due to inadequate insulation. I guess they raised the alarm out of fear of losing their readership!
Slightly O/T:
Our ABC Local Radio morning announcer recently took a week off to attend a local ‘Global Warming’ conference (on full pay, I’ll bet). Apparently, she pushed hard to be on it, according to her replacement. I guess that ‘Global Warming’ is a foregone conclusion to these types and their task is to come up with an action plan ... what would the rest of us do without them?
Guardian readers are a natural source of hot air. They don’t really need insulation. They really burn through the old carbon credits, tho.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 21 at 09:25 PM • permalink#67, DaveS:
The links to AnySoldier and Valor-IT were provided as examples to our fellow anglospherys that havent figured out how to actually get off their asses and start showing their troops some tangible love and support.
I suggested someone from the various countries who’s troops are being made to feel ignored to make contact with those organizations and get start-up hints and helps to create something ‘grassroots’ of their own.
If you are wanting to add your bit to the avalanche of support and love given our own troops, I would suggest contacting AnySoldier yourself to get the straight scoop on what’s what. You can even take a look at their lists that the soldiers themselves are posting as to what’s most helpful or in short supply.
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“A damning study from Cambridge University today exposes Guardian readers as being worse than readers of the tabloids or the Telegraph when it comes to insulating their homes …”
In their defense, it’s not that easy to insulate a cardboard box.