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HOTTER THAN HURLEY
Back in March, the Independent was all huffy about Bigfoot-style celebrity carbon outputs:
Liz Hurley’s long-haul wedding has produced a carbon footprint so large that it would take the average British couple more than 10 years to contribute as much to heating up the planet as she and Arun Nayar have done in little over a week. It would take a typical Indian couple a massive 123 years.
A special study, by an Oxford-based footprinting consultancy, suggests the celebrations will release around 200,000kg of carbon into the atmosphere.
The consultancy, Best Foot Forward, reckons this is an underestimate. The couple are not giving full details of the festivities because of a contract with Hello! magazine, but last night environmentalists condemned their “conspicuous carbon consumption”.
Conspicuous? Hardly, when compared to Live Earth’s. The delightful Ms Hurley’s marriage caused only a mere 200 tonnes of carbon to be released. By comparison, Live Earth has puked forth - according to this estimate - some 31,500 tonnes of carbon. Factor in Live Earth’s TV audience and the carbon count apparently soars to 74,500 tonnes, or 372.5 times the carbon emissions condemned by Hurley-haters. Live Earth attendee Jayme Fine gets GoreCo off the hook:
“People leaving their lights on at home when nobody’s there is going to eat up electricity,” he said.
“If we all just remember to shut those off, it’s OK for us to have an event like this.”
UPDATE. Sydney’s Live Earth was a debacle:
Scores were seen leaving within the first two hours of the nine-hour festival, fed up with the lack of basic services, cutting their losses on a $99 ticket. Gate attendants were heard telling the human tide that they should complain to the promoter ...
“This is what happens when you let hippies organise a big event,” another said.
UPDATE II. Aieeeeee! It’s Hologram Al!
UPDATE III. It’s a religion:
As the Live Earth concerts rolled out around the globe, each blessed with Gore’s presence, either live or on giant screens, it became clear that the failed presidential candidate has metamorphosed into a prophet.
And the prophet sayeth:
“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are.”
Er, OK.
Eliz. Hurley’s off the market ?? DAMN !
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 07 08 at 01:34 PM • permalink“If we all just remember to shut those off, it’s OK for us to have an event like this.”
I thought the point of no return for the earth was 2010. You mean all we have to do to save the earth is turn off the lights when we go to our mega-huge spectacles? Then what’s Gore so worried about?
Posted by Bill Ramey on 2007 07 08 at 02:01 PM • permalinkNo, no, I’m good…(checks to see if he put his address in his profile…)
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 02:08 PM • permalinkFrom the Breitbart article:
Live Earth organiser Al Gore, former US vice president turned green campaigner, answered criticism of Live Earth’s stars in British newspaper The Independent on Saturday.
“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are,” he said.
Gee, Al, ya think? Have you been dipping into Al3’s stash again?
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 08 at 02:33 PM • permalink#12: “We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are,” he said.
Heavy. Like, really deep, dude. You’ve got your head where the people’s pulse is at. Say, let me take a hit on that doobie, man, while you’re talking truth to power.
“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are,” he said.
And when Buckaroo Banzai said that in the movie, Ellen Barkin pulled out a gun and took a shot at him…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 02:46 PM • permalink“If we all just remember to shut those [lights] off, it’s OK for us to have an event like this.”
“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are,” he said.
I think I’ve figured out where the “Attack on Reason” is coming from.
#15, RebeccaH,
Exactly. This has already gone so far that I wonder how we are to end it. Too many “professionals” with political connections now have too much power for the stupidity to go quietly into history.
And we thought that Oil for Food was the most massive scam in history! Little did we know that it was merely an experiment to see how much the Transnationals could get away with.
God, I wish we just had to deal with good, old fashioned decadency.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 08 at 03:51 PM • permalinkI leave the lights off when I’m not around and I gave Live Earth a miss, so I figure I’ve got some guilt-free massive carbon emission coming to me. Burning down a national forest might be kind of cool.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 07 08 at 04:10 PM • permalink#10 Ash_, if it ain’t then why bother?
It should at least be as tangy as Marmite, of which Vegemite is a poor imitation - joins Richard behind the cat
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 04:45 PM • permalinkIt enough to make you want to Hurley.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 04:48 PM • permalinkOn the upside, within 5 years, expect a lot of sheepish deniers to publicly deny they were part of the global-warming hoax. Caprio, Madonna, Gore, etc.
Watch particularly for acrobatics from Flima-Flam, they’ll be spetacular, incredible, logic-defying stunts.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 04:51 PM • permalinkI think the fruit-fly guy will just retire quietly to his BC island mansion and hope everyone forghets him.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 04:53 PM • permalinkExcuse me while
I kiss the skyemit some methane.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 04:54 PM • permalinkSort of off-topic sort of not, but I just got home and just as I was getting out of my car there was an ad on the radio from Philips saying they were a sponsor of Live Earth because it was part of their contribution to solving the “climate crisis”. I’m going to puke if I hear that phrase one more time (unfortunately I think I’ll be puking a lot over the next several months/years). There is no f***ing climate crisis. There is an unproven scientific theory based on a very limited set of data that’s led some Chicken Littles to make wild and unprovable predictions about the future 50 years from now. That is not a “crisis”.
Lubos Motl nails this idiocy.
“Hundreds of musicians have demonstrated that there is much stronger consensus about global warming among rock musicians than among scientists.”
#26 Like, totally, dude.
But you give the enemy too much credit. It is not an unproven scientific theory; it is an unproven scientific hypothesis.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 06:04 PM • permalinkOk, so I lied. One more O/T article, to be filed under Are You Sure There Will Always Be an England?
Wimpy Canadian—is the lady with the scary hair and food still here?
Gorebles is babbling like Firesign Theatre these days. Thing is, Proctor and Bergman knew they were kidding…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 06:26 PM • permalinkInteresting article in the age by some by clown called christoff, who bags the ABC for showing the Swindle doco, claiming it is morally worse than denying Auschwitz, ACC is a done deal because thousands of experts plus the UN say so, and because of its screening we will shortly drown in boiling sea water…..if you’re a bit down, as I was, it will brighten you up…funny as a hatful of a~#eholes, as the sailors say
Cheers
RodC#23
I doubt it. What’s going to enlightenen
them?A new ice age?
They would then attribute it to
“climate change”.Even today CSIRO has come out
and said GW will seriously
deplete fish stocks within
30 yrs.Over fishing I can believe,but GW?
Fucking AGW hysteria is really
pissing me off.
Surely if these musos believe
this shit, they should have
played “unplugged” to save
mother earth.From a central location, NOT
flying around in private jets.#32 Peering around the fat cat -
I think she has fallen into a vegimite and raspberry slumber. Safe to move.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 08 at 06:37 PM • permalinkA little pollution piece: Private jets for climate change.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 08 at 06:42 PM • permalinkAnd, apparently, a
FlyingRolling Stone doesn’t gather moss.Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 08 at 07:03 PM • permalink‘“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are,” he said.’
‘“If we simply spend our time criticising one another for where we are, that will further delay our departure for where we need to be.”’
This guy came that close to being POTUS.
Be afraid, people. Be VERY afraid.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 08 at 07:20 PM • permalink“If we all just remember to shut those [lights] off, it’s OK for us to have an event like this.”
What a crock. Lighting consumes stuff all energy - especially if you’ve replaced all your old globes with the new fangled twisty things.
Thanks to it being freezing here in Sydney at the moment, I have a 2000W heater going most of the time in an effort to ward of frostbite. I think that is comsuming around 50 times the power of the few measly twisty globes I’ve got switched on.
The aluminium smelter in the backyard probably isn’t helping either…
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 08 at 08:13 PM • permalinkHow do they calculate the 2 billion viewers? That’s a hell of a lot of people, considering more than half the world doesn’t own or have access to a television.
And still it’s less than the number of people who supposedly tune into the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
They better keep raising awareness.#31, paco,
If you haven’t already done so, go to Melanie Phillips Diary, read it and weep. I’m afraid that the the England that we know and love has already gone, slipped away right under our noses.
The question then becomes how far gone is America. I would like to think that we aren’t as far down the multicult road as Britain, but we now find the Bush administration, under the tutelage of Condi Rice and the State Department, is now dealing with terrorists in Iran, Syria, the Left Bank, and especially worrisome, the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood. While we have stepped up our efforts in Iraq, the administration shows no stomach for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, as it quickly progresses beyond our ability to do anything without all out war. Even if we decide to ace Iran, are we still able to do so? Not if we fight in Iran the way we’ve fought in Iraq. If we do not fight an all out war, we will eventually lose. The main war isn’t in the Middle East anyway, but right here at home, just like it has been in Britain. We are no where near fighting this greater war, but are busy appeasing our way to dhimmihood. I’ve recently, and reluctantly, come to the realization that even another major attack on the U.S. mainland would not necessarily mean that we would come to our senses. I can hear the excuses screamed across the floor of the senate that we brought it on ourselves—Iraq, you know—and the only thing to do is talk our way out of further attacks, while granting ever more privileges to our own Muslims.
Rome didn’t end with a bang, it declined with many whimpers over time.
Live Earth T-shirts and Jumpers cost $50-100 dollars, while cans of coke cost $4.20 and Alisha drove home from Live Earth only to turn all the lights, heaters, hot showers videos etc on. She was next to Thomas and Emma (Big Brother) and she said Thomas waved to people that were not waving at him ! Emma, has hollow cheek bones as well…lol
#46 Salty: Very sobering facts. It continues to amaze me how people are willing to sell their birthright for a messful of the pottage of “cultural sensitivity”. This is a phenomenon that I find difficult to understand. Large numbers of native-born English (and French and Americans - name your western country) have essentially stopped believing in anything - except for the inviolability of the beliefs of people who wish them dead. Impossible to see this as anything other than either willful blindness or a cultural death wish.
Listening to John Laws and happened to hear Prof. Bob Carter from James Cook University with the pair of them giving it to the warmenistas big time.
The prof stating the whole deal is “absolute bullshit” with Laws agreeing and calling it the biggest con he has ever seen.
The purpose was to really build up the numbers to watch the GGWS on the ABC. Both he and Laws also agreed that the there is a noticeably large section of the public is finally waking up to fraud.
So refreshing!
Prof. Carter will be on the discussion panel reviewing the program and he doesn’t pull his punches.
“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are.”You can’t get there from here.
(Old mountaineering saying).
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 07 08 at 09:41 PM • permalinkHow do they calculate the 2 billion viewers?
Well, if 2,000,000,000 viewers COULD have seen the show then they MUST have seen the show.
They just HAD to….!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 09:52 PM • permalinkAnd don’t miss this video of a positively riveting recitation by Al of his now-famous pledge (accompanied by some choice editorial comments). Must’ve been a warm day; judging by the size of those half-moons under his arms, looks like Al sprung a leak.
Hmmmm.
“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are.”
Almost as deep as:
“We don’t have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. “
- Buckaroo Banzai.Which makes Al Gore slightly less useful than an entertaining B grade movie.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 07 08 at 10:01 PM • permalinkFifty dollars for a beer?? LMAO
Gives you some idea of what happens when lefty idiots get to organise anything.
You wouldn’t let them near your lunch money let alone your tax dollars.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 07 08 at 10:12 PM • permalink#63: Very kind of you, Olrence. Reading is one of my few genuine pleasures. I don’t have any particularly great gifts myself, except for the ability to appreciate the “giftedness” of others, and it is something in which I indulge myself to the hilt.
#64 Richard: Sheehan vs. Pelosi. The leftist dragon thus attempts to consume itself. Should be a fun race to watch, if it ever materializes: Pelosi zooming from one photo-op to another in her limousine, with Mother Sheehan milling about on the fringes of the crowd, adorned in home-made sandwich-board, and emoting through a bull-horn.
In a tragic display of unintended consequences, the giant hologram of Gorebles drew Gamera out of the depths of Tokyo Bay…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 10:28 PM • permalink64.
But that will split the “truther” votes from the “Ani-Imperialist America vote”.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 08 at 10:31 PM • permalinkThese people want to run every national, state and local government in the world, but they can’t even put on a concert—and it’s not because they’re short on money. They’re just incompetent.
Posted by Michael Levy on 2007 07 08 at 10:41 PM • permalink#64
Oh pleasepleasepleaseplease… *crosses fingers and hopes really, really hard*
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 08 at 10:42 PM • permalink“We are in a transition time in history when the only way we can get to where we need to be is by starting from where we are.”
Reminds me of that classic Irish joke:
Tourist driving along a small lane is lost. Stops to ask a farmer the directions to Cork. Farmer responds:
“Well, if I was going to Cork, I wouldn’t be starting from here.”
Stick that in your craw, Mr Al Gore.
There’s zip chance Pelosi will lose her seat as long as she goes home every Gay Pride Day and marches with the founder of NAMBLA. But it will be funny to watch…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 10:44 PM • permalinkHmmm in taking a look at tub-at-large Al Gore, I think it’s safe to say that he is, indeed, bigger than Jesus.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 08 at 10:44 PM • permalink“Aieeeeee! It’s Hologram Al!”
I avoid watching Al Gore at every opportunity presented to me but I did watch a few moments of Holo-Al. Whoever said he’s a new man is smoking something. He’s the same Wooden Al I remember from the presidential campaign 7 years ago. And the same pedantic prick.
And I would question that 2 billion number, too. There was very little buzz about any of those concerts where I live and I have had not one person mention them to me. I never even saw any ads on TV for Live Earth. If the news reports about attendance at the actual concerts are even remotely true, that only reinforces the feeling that people just didn’t fall for it. I could see there might be a “potential” audience of 2 billion but I would guess the actual audience was far, far smaller. (Perhaps it was a Lancet estimate…)
Get your money down now, guys.
Big Al is still going at 6-to-1 to be the Democrat candidate at the 2008 Elections.
Easy money.
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 07 08 at 11:07 PM • permalinkLiz Hurley is quite the wooden actor. Watching her act gives me wood.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 08 at 11:11 PM • permalinkIs it possible for The Goreacle to appear on anything but a giant screen?
Live Earth is like one of those myspace losers who claims to have 216,793 friends.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 08 at 11:32 PM • permalinkWhat this really is all about is the “great and good” (personified by the Gore) looking for yet another reason to control our lioves. First it was because modern civilization was too complex. Then it was because of war. Then it was because of overpopulation. Then it was because only the great and good could prvoide for everyone.
Now they claim that the climate requires them to control as only they know what is best for the rest of us and for Gaea. Having overthrown one type of fedualism, the old nobility is repackaging it as the way to SAVE THE PLANET.
As the Live Earth concerts rolled out around the globe, each blessed with Gore’s presence, either live or on giant screens, it became clear that the failed presidential candidate has metamorphosed into a prophet.
Watching the hologram Al I thought he had metamorphosed into a dirigible. Oh the humanity!
Posted by charles austin on 2007 07 08 at 11:53 PM • permalinkI’ve just asked everyone at work and not one person watched Live Earth - however one girl did watch Crowded House only
The footy was popular though
And two people with their families, went to see the Kitty Hawk
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 07 09 at 12:05 AM • permalinkPIMF sorry bad wording- I meant to say only one person watched Live Earth and only for a little while to see Crowded House
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 07 09 at 12:06 AM • permalink“Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,”—Ste. Cindy the Braindead
Glad to see Cindy understands that there is a difference between Democrats and Americans.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 09 at 12:08 AM • permalinkI watched that hologram of Gorezilla….with the sound turned off. I just wanted to see if that was really a hologram.
I wonder when they will get the home entertainment model on the market? Dave S could watch “Bedazzled” for days.
If he drinks in moderation, I mean.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 09 at 12:09 AM • permalinkOh dear, one of the live erf nobs has gone and committed the greatest sin against gaia possible
“I’ve been working non-stop since April of last year, and I just finished with Live Earth on Saturday, and I think I’m going to take a little bit of time off,” Collette said.
“It’s really nice to be able to do that.”
Why dont I feel for the poor little tyke? Am I that heartless? Has being a RWDB (probationary, 3rd class) hardened my emotions so badly??
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 09 at 12:47 AM • permalinkFools! Have you not heard the words of Jor-AL. The planet is doomed. We’re all going to die. He has already managed to send his favourite son, Kal-AL, off the planet. (Well, the police said he was off the planet when they arrested him.) We must all board space ships and escape to Mars, where global warming isn’t a problem. (Forget what those other scientists said, listen to Jor-AL, we can trust him.) Hurry, hurry…the earth is already shaking. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
O/T (again)
Catholics go to Hell or the other way around??
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 09 at 12:53 AM • permalinkre #100, egg_, it’s gotta be in wood, not ice. Ice is for Hillary!, wood is for Gorezilla.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 09 at 01:26 AM • permalinkThere is nothing I like more after a hard weekend of ignoring Live Earth than relaxing with a nice hour of Top Gear. Tonight at 19:30 on your taxpayer funded soccer, sodomy, and cycling network.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 09 at 01:34 AM • permalinkHere are some great photos of the Gore effect in action. Al has given us some of the best July skiing in years.
Ash_
I think Ive topped that not so long ago. Smoked oysters and chocolate. Yummo!
(I dont think Im pregnant tho)
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 09 at 02:33 AM • permalink#85
29 minutes and still no pizza!
The 2 billion audience is the potential of the broadcast footprint. A quick squizz at the ratings shows that a repeat of The Chaser at 11pm made the top 50 programmes this passed weekend, but LiveEarth didn’t make the cut. I’d hazard a guess that no one watched, except by accident.#108, 109 et al
You people are sick. The thought of smoked oysters with chocolate makes me bilious.As it would any other reasonable man. But not as sick as just now watching some slag on SBS earnestly tell me how vile I am having a car etc, and eating meat, and how the sea level rise will drown me next week if I don’t change to those cool looking spiral light globes….......Funny though. No mention of the mercury content…Must be clean green Hg, the isotope with no appalling nerve diseases or two headed babies.SBS is multiculti, and, like, cool, so it must be right -are all of us here on the wrong track?
Cheers
RodC#112 RodC, smoked oysters and chocolate is magnificent. You should try it. That chick on SBS sounds like she needs a good slap to bring her out of her hysteria.
#113 Lotocoti, I really, really like that link. I fear I will be considerably poorer by the end of the night. The mango-chili bar sounds great.
A special study, by an Oxford-based footprinting consultancy…
Why are commenters here finding this so surprising? It is Britain we’re talking about…
Posted by HisHineness on 2007 07 09 at 05:34 AM • permalinkI found this on Google News:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1972659.htm
“Life Earth Concert atracks 50,000 in Sydney”
Gore’s A.D. 2000 crucifixion in Florida, which he at least put a pretty face on with his eventual concession speech, is now crowned by a resurrection with—huzzah!—appearances before all the world’s peoples.
To paraphrase Lennon, Gore’s better than Jesus.
‘Cuz we’ve got it all on YouTube, that’s why.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 07 09 at 09:33 AM • permalinkA priceless story on Gore and son, from Ed Driscoll.
IMO, Agore and his climate scam hit critical mass and imploded a while ago. This is just more detrius. Poor Al. Outgunned in ‘88 by this dufus, forced to play third fiddle for eight years to a pair of second-rate grifters and finally losing the biggest brass ring of them all to stupidest man on earth. No wonder he’s crazy as a loon. Can’t wait to see what emerges from the ash heap of gorebal warmening.
Sheehan said she lives in a Sacramento suburb but declined to disclose which city, citing safety reasons.
Great. There goes the neighborhood.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 07 09 at 11:26 AM • permalink#64: Well, so much for her mending family relationships. I hope they all told her to take a hike, the santimonious shrew.
#70: The popcorn concession is MINE, do you hear me? MINE!!! (Clutches money made in the Andrea massacre of wronwright fight in hands, scurries back into office.).
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 07 09 at 12:02 PM • permalink#132 Elizabeth. Two chicken bouncers separate fighting rabbits.
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