Innocuous. Maybe.

 

I’ve had another look at the sponsors on the 10:10 website and came upon this organisation.

The Funding Network. The opening sentence on the page of “Who We Are”, gave me cause for thought.

A loose affiliation of individuals, from a variety of backgrounds, but with a common purpose, to join with others in using our material prosperity to fund social change causes. (Emphasis mine).

*Retrieves Tin foil hat from cupboard*

Well it might be a perfectlly respectable organisation but the two phrases of Common Purpose and Social Change always worry me.

*Packs hat away for another day*

I wonder if this group will disassociate from 10:10.

Splattergate goes global.

OK it’s only on Fox news.

UPDATE.

It would seem that one of 10:10 sponsors is not too happy either. Read the letter HERE.

FURTHER UPDATE

And another one bails out as well. From 350.org.

We respect 10:10's previous work to encourage companies, schools, and churches to voluntarily cut their carbon emissions 10%. Upon seeing the video, however, we have informed 10:10 that we can no longer remain partners on 10/10/10 or any other initiative.

Shame on you 10:10. No pressure indeed!

This parody video sums you up.

 

H/T to dobobobo

I’ve told you so.

All this green energy is going to cost you even more than you thought..

Households will have to pay an extra £60 in bills to cover the cost of connecting windfarms and other renewable energy sources to the National Grid, the industry regulator warned today.

Energy bills will almost certainly have to increase to make Britain's ageing national electricity and gas networks “fit for purpose” in the era of climate change, according to Ofgem.

I’ve written before about the Operation and maintenance costs before. Here, here, and here

Now of course with those pesky wind farm not delivering a steady output (If any output at all), we will have to build a smart grid to match.

It says about £32 billion needs to be spent on modernising the networks over the next decade, more than twice the amount invested in the past 20 years.

And don’t forget the increased maintenance cost of all these new power lines in out of the way, exposed places.

*No exploding school children were used in the drafting of this post*

Downfall 1010

 

I wonder how many other versions there will be?

What about someone making one of the Cull of the board of 1010 for making that film?

H/T to EU referendum

Warm times

A bit of timely light relief for a Sunday Eve.

Hurrah. The economy has been saved!

The staple food of many students, Pot Noodles, is proving to be a mainstay of the recession.

I’m obviously not doing my bit for the economy as I can’t stand the things.

Unilever spokesman Tom Denyard said Pot Noodle sales were an indicator of consumer confidence.

No Tom. I think I’d rather trust the FTSE if you don’t mind.

1010- No pressure. Apology?

You decide

Sorry

We missed the mark with today's 'No Pressure' video, and have removed it from our website

1 Oct 10

Today we put up a mini-movie about 10:10 and climate change called 'No Pressure’.

With climate change becoming increasingly threatening, and decreasingly talked about in the media, we wanted to find a way to bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh. We were therefore delighted when Britain's leading comedy writer, Richard Curtis - writer of Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill and many others – agreed to write a short film for the 10:10 campaign. Many people found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn't and we sincerely apologise to anybody we have offended.

As a result of these concerns we've taken it off our website. We won't be making any attempt to censor or remove other versions currently in circulation on the internet.

We'd like to thank the 50+ film professionals and 40+ actors and extras and who gave their time and equipment to the film for free. We greatly value your contributions and the tremendous enthusiasm and professionalism you brought to the project.

At 10:10 we're all about trying new and creative ways of getting people to take action on climate change. Unfortunately in this instance we missed the mark. Oh well, we live and learn.

Onwards and upwards,

Eugenie, Franny, Lizzie and the whole 10:10 team

Looks to me like they’re not that apologetic.

And I can guess that they come from the Notting Hill set. Judging by their names. (I may be wrong)

If you haven’t seen the video it can be found HERE

1010 No pressure

They can’t hide it from everyone. Here is this despicable, child indoctrinating film again.

H/T to TheRedacted

No Pressure video is now private

Here’s the trailer about the making of it.