I take carbon reduction seriously

I've entered my activities on the ACT ON CO2 website where they have a Co2 calculator.

here are my results:

Congratulations. You've successfully completed the Act on CO2 calculator. The tables below represent your CO2 emissions from all three areas of your life.

Your CO2 result is tonnes per year.

The breakdown of your carbon footprint is shown in the table below. For example in your 'Home' section, we break down your footprint so you can see how much of your footprint is due to heating and how much is due to lighting. In the 'Appliance' section we break it down into appliances in various rooms of the house, so you can see how much is used in the kitchen, study and so on. In the 'Travel' section you can see how much carbon your vehicle is producing and how much comes from the flights you take. If any area is particularly high, you can concentrate on lowering the carbon footprint of that area first.

All figures are in tonnes per year.

Breakdown of sections	CO2 Footprint
Total Footprint for Home	32.06
Hot water	4.06
Heating	27.49
Lighting	0.51
Total Footprint for Appliances	10.53
Kitchen	3.7
Entertainment	3.17
Study	3.11
Other	0.55
Total Footprint for Travel	396.65
Vehicle	227.25
Public Transport	0
Flights	169.4
Total Carbon Footprint	439.24

Your target footprint total is 351.38 tonnes per year.

Everybody likes to have a target to reach their goals. In the table below we have given you an aspirational 20% reduction target to reach. This is spread evenly through your three areas of Home; Appliances and Transport, however, for example, if you can see that your transport CO2 emissions are high, and in particular your flights, you can concentrate on reducing that area.

The national average total is 4.46 tonnes per year.

We also show you how you compare to the National Average CO2 emissions for anIndividual or Household (depending on which option you chose at the beginning of the calculator). You can find out how we calculate this in our CO2 Calculations FAQs section.

CO2 emissions from all three areas of your lifestyle

	Home	Appliances	Travel	Total
Your Carbon Footprint	32.06	10.53	396.65	439.24
Target Footprint	25.64	8.42	317.32	351.38
National Average	1.99	0.71	1.76	4.46
People like you who have: Terraced house Semi-detached house Detached house Flat/maisonette Bungalow 0/1 bedroom 2 bedrooms 3 bedrooms 4 bedrooms 5+ bedrooms Built before 1930 Built 1930 - 1995 Built after 1995 Gas Electricity Oil LPG Coal Biomass 1 person 2 people 3 people 4 people 5+ people Rural Urban	6.36	2.46	9.66	18.48

Visualising your Carbon Footprint

it's the amount of CO2...

• you need to fill 25218398 party balloons
• produced by driving from London to Manchester and back 3338 times in the average car
• produced from leaving a 60 watt light bulb on 1487 years
• produced from boiling water for 15811242 cups of tea

It was the 9 Hummers, and the perpetual globe trotting, first class, for my family of ten, that upped it a trifle.

*Snigger*

Go on,have some fun

Communication has been lost

Well, it is Friday.

Support needed

If you nip over to Dave's part you see that he is being sued for libel by Tory activist Johanna Kaschke, who seems to me to be somewhat dubious in her choice of political parties.

It is further uncontested that Ms Kaschke nominated herself as Labour candidate for Bethnal Green & Bow in 2007; that she received just one vote; that shortly thereafter she defected to George Galloway's Respect party; shortly after that, she joined an as-yet-unspecified Communist Party; and that shortly after that, she became a Conservative. She was, in other words, a member of four political parties in 12 months.



The new world order

Johanna Kaschke|MySpace Videos

Do nip over and wish him luck. After all it may be you who she goes after next.

The woman with no honour

Today we read that Sharon Shoesmith pleaded with the head of Ofsted to give her some positive spin.

The woman whose staff failed Baby P was so intent on clinging to her £133,000-a-year job that she asked the watchdog to praise her failing department.

Why have we lost decency in public life? Instead of clinging on, she should have followed the honest course and resigned. Since this new labour age begun, honesty in public life and services, has disappeared.

Some have said that Sharon shoesmith couldn't possibly know all the case files. Bollocks, she should at least have been getting a summary. this wasn't two isolated cases.

Previously unpublished details of Ofsted's findings were put before the High Court yesterday as Mrs Shoesmith continued her attempt to overturn her sacking and win a compensation payout.

The report painted a devastating picture of the scale of the failure within children's services at Haringey, North London.

Inspectors cited 'glaringly serious' problems at the Labour-run council which had already failed to save eight-year-old torture victim Victoria Climbie.

They concluded up to 15 other vulnerable children could have been left at risk during Mrs Shoesmith's tenure.

I rest my case M'lud

The full article is here

This is good news

Champagne could fall to £10 a bottle due to the reccession.

Experts predict the cost of some vintage champagnes could fall as low as £10 in time for Christmas.

But champagne lovers should cash in while they can. French authorities have ruled that next year's harvest will be almost halved, leading to fewer bottles produced to push up prices.

At least the cost of the next Conservative conference will be kept down.

NASA's mission to find water

This could be cool.

Supposedly we should be able to watch NASA's mission to crash a satellite into the permanently dark side of the moon to ascertain whether there maybe frozen water there.

Coverage starts at 11.15pm BST. The impact is scheduled for 12.31.

The link to NASA TV

Your worst nightmare. Courtesy of Royal Mail.

'Wonderful news, darling, Mother's arrived early for Christmas to avoid having to post her presents'

From the Daily Mail.

And now for......

In light of todays article about why the police are tied up with HSE regulations, comes a good comedy debunking of HSE, PC, Offense, & antismoking. And pottery?

H/T to Harry Hook at the Final redoubt

The real Boris interview?

Shamelessly knicked from Subrosa

He's just noticed

A leading Barrister has only just realised what the rest of us have known for some time.

The 'Big Brother' culture is on the march across Britain, allowing the state to snoop on phone calls, emails and even walking the dog, the country's top barrister, Desmond Browne QC, has warned.

Well blow me down with a wet feather.

In a powerful attack on the "surveillance society", Mr Browne, the chairman of the Bar Council, also questioned the effectiveness of CCTV cameras in tackling anti-social behaviour.

Here are results that purport to show how useless these monstrous machines are in protecting us.

In August an internal report from the Metropolitan Police, Britain's biggest force, found that fewer than one crime is solved for every 1,000 CCTV cameras, raising question-marks about the effectiveness of the cameras.

Now it doesn't take a genius, (I've got an abacus), to work out that, the(nearly) one crime solved, was a cost to the taxpayer for the 1000 cameras that just about detected it , £20,000,000.
Hardly value for money.

One wonders if we could uproot the lot of them, and sell them at cut price to China. Then maybe we could have some real policing back on our streets?

The full article is over here in the Daily Telegraph