I’m helping 10:10

Right. This morning I decided to help those folks out with their Global warming malarkey.

Lets see.

1. Central Heating on and set to 25 deg            Check
2. Windows open                                               Check
3. Oven on, and door open                                Check
4. Fire lit                                                            Check
5. Car started and left running                           Check
6. 300w security lights on                                  Check
7. Immersion heater on and bath left running with plug out                                                                 Check
8. Shower on                                                      Check
9. Mower running and left tethered to run in a circle. (Note to self.Remember to top up fuel tank) Check
10. All lights on                                                     Check

 

There you are 10:10. Ten items to increase my global warming signature.

What’s that you say? I’m supposed to cut my carbon footprint? Oh dear, I must have misheard you. Ok I’ll leave the TV on standby then, and not watch it. And bye the way, my electricity meter caught fire due to the speed it was turning and the house burnt down. A bit of smoke never harmed anyone.

And the  crash of that airbus 380 can’t be pinned on me for burning oily rags on the open fire. Can it? I admit that the visibility was a bit limited, but really just because the buggers circle over my house before landing at Gatwick can’t be my fault surely.

I’ll get it right next year. (Promise)

*Fingers crossed behind my back*

Latest O2 advert.

Just in time for 10/10/2010

H/T to GOT for the making of that.
And just for more fun.

H/T to the boiling frog.

Climate scepticism. A Challenge.

Why is it that those of us who have a healthy desire to see an honest debate on climate change meet with so much hostility?

Why is it taken to be proven that man is to blame for Global cooling/Global warming/Global climate disruption, etc, etc, by some computer models, when those models don’t agree with the observations?

Why do I get vilified by anonymous commenter's when I point out facts that I’ve gleaned from governments and renewable energy consortia, outlining the uncertainties and costs of these forms of energy? Is it because those commenter's have been so brainwashed that they are afraid, no, terrified, that they might have been hoodwinked into believing a lie?

I have three children and certainly don’t wish them a bad future. So all of you Anons out there. Why am I sceptical of the science?

Because I’m an engineer. No I'm not a scientist. However engineers have to think in an analytical manner otherwise nothing would work as it should. I had the laws of thermodynamics drummed into me from an early age and therefore know all about radiation, convection, and heat transfer.

Most of the comments I receive usually contain “Don’t you know the science is settled?” or “All the scientists agree”.

Well then, all you Anons. Prove it to me with verifiable facts. And no, I don’t mean copies of Al Gore’s “An inconvenient truth”, or the Hockey stick graph. They would cause me to slash my wrists in frustration.

And if you dare cite the myth of the dying polar bears…….

That’s me for now Oh righteous ones. I’m going to do something truly despicable to you.

I’m going to smoke a cigarette.

Shame on you 10:10. No pressure indeed!

This parody video sums you up.

 

H/T to dobobobo