Why do anti-aviation group Plane Stupid and perennial hippie hangout Greenpeace hate Gaia?
Both Greenpeace and Plane Stupid celebrated when Heathrow airport’s planned third runway was cancelled, in part because of protests led by their merry bands of gap-year student activists who climbed all over things that didn’t belong to them.
Greenpeace and Plane Stupid wants to save the planet from airlines, but it’s a cosmic rule that hippie action is always met by the equal and opposite force of unintended consequences.
Delays caused by restricted capacity at Heathrow comes at a high cost to the planet:
Sixty per cent of arrivals into Heathrow Airport are caught up in holding patterns above the capital, at a massive cost to the economy and great frustration to passengers. Figures compiled by air traffic control service NATS have revealed that jets circling for a cumulative 55 hours a day are burning 190 tonnes of fuel and discharging 600 tonnes of co2 into the skies above London, costing £119,000 in wasted fuel every day.
You have to change a lot of light bulbs to save 600 tonnes of CO2. If the planet was a living, breathing organism capable of sentient thought, it would probably shake the hippies off like so many fleas, just to save itself from the stupid.
At present, there are 20 active volcanoes spewing toxic gasses and particulates into the atmosphere. I wonder what that equals in airplane exhaust?
[...] yesterday’s post I wrote, it’s a cosmic rule that hippie action is always met by the equal and opposte force of [...]
Nick, please stop putting that stock post in every Global Warming-related news article you can find. It’s spam.
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Hippies should be dead within a decade or two.
They have only themselves to blame by listening to the granola chomping foam at the mouth tree huggers in the first place. As the great Forrest Gump once said, “stupid is as stupid does”.
The LA Times featured cold fusion in ’89 before its debunking. Environmentalists were aghast!
“It’s like giving a machine gun to an idiot child.” – Paul Ehrlich (mentor of John Cook of the SkepticalScience blog, author of “Climate Change Denial”)
“Clean-burning, non-polluting, hydrogen-using bulldozers still could knock down trees or build housing developments on farmland.” – Paul Ciotti (LA Times)
“It gives some people the false hope that there are no limits to growth and no environmental price to be paid by having unlimited sources of energy.” – Jeremy Rifkin (NY Times)
“Many people assume that cheaper, more abundant energy will mean that mankind is better off, but there is no evidence for that.” – Laura Nader (sister of Ralph)
CLIMATEGATE 101: “For your eyes only…Don’t leave stuff lying around on ftp sites - you never know who is trawling them. The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone….Tom Wigley has sent me a worried email when he heard about it - thought people could ask him for his model code. He has retired officially? from UEA so he can hide behind that.” - Phil “Hide The Decline” Jones to Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann
Here I present A Global Warming Digest:
Denial: http://bit.ly/m6xySt
Oceans: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2i6os4y.jpg
Thermometers: http://oi52.tinypic.com/2agnous.jpg
Earth: http://oi56.tinypic.com/2reh021.jpg
Ice: http://oi53.tinypic.com/wmav6g.jpg
Authority: http://oi52.tinypic.com/wlt4i8.jpg
Prophecy: http://oi52.tinypic.com/30bfktk.jpg
Psychopathy: http://oi52.tinypic.com/1zqu71i.jpg
Icon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmPzLzj-3XY
Thinker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92YenWfz0Y
-=NikFromNYC=- Ph.D. in Carbon Chemistry (Columbia/Harvard)