The Global Warming movement is a religion….it’s certainly not based on sound science! The latest nonsense is proffered by Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming.
Lord Stern of Brentford says: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” Basically he’s saying “cows fart”, consequently, they are significant, global emitters of methane gas, which contributes to global warming.
Lord Stern is literally talking out of his backside. First, he says it’s all the fault of cows & pigs. Wrong! It’s ruminants which are the major contributors to animal emissions of methane gas. Ruminants are animals which “chew the cud”, including cattle, goats, sheep, giraffes, bison, yaks, water buffalo, deer, camels, alpacas, llamas, wildebeest, antelope…..but, not pigs.
Lord Stern is obviously not a vegetarian otherwise he would understand the consequences of humans universally adopting a vegetarian diet. Everyone else knows that a vegetarian diet causes flatulence. His suggestion that we stop eating meat & go veggy simply means that humans replace cows as one of the largest emitters of methane on the planet.
It’s a dangerous strategy for the human race to adopt. Dinosaurs were once the largest emitters of methane and we all know what happened to them. Incidentally pigs may not be the largest emitters of methane but, anyone who has passed a pig farm will know that there is another problem:
Categories: Global Warming · Humour · Life · News · Science · Video
Tagged: Cows, Fart, Ruminants, Stern report
October 23, 2009 · 1 Comment
Looks like the Top 20 Most Obese People in the World may need to be updated. Paul Mason a 48 year old, has apparently became the world’s heaviest man after 90st Mexican Manuel Uribe, 43, halved his weight to wed last year. Mr Mason eats 20,000 calories of food a day – 8 times the official adult male average of 2,500.
He is bed ridden and cared for by several NHS funded carers at a cost to the tax payer of £100k/year. His favourite food is apparently take-aways! But, now the NHS has decided that he needs major stomach surgery
But how does he manage to keep supplied with these gut busting volumes of take-away food if he is bed ridden? Somebody must be supplying and if so, they are obviously intent on killing him. Or. is some idiot saying it’s his “human right” to guzzle gargantuan quantities of food paid for by the state? Wouldn’t it be more human to control his food, for the period he can’t actually get his own food or, find him a good women (it seems to have worked for Manuel Uribe!). See video clip HERE
Categories: Diet · Food · Health · NHS · Obesity
Tagged: Paul Mason
So…..it’s finally happening again. A 70’s style union bust between the union, the management & the government of the day. This time it’s the Communication Workers Union (CWU) taking on the management of the Royal Mail & Gordon Brown’s Government desperately trying not to take sides.
Over the last few years the management of Royal Mail has taken over £1.5 billion of costs out of the business & reduced the workforce by around 50,000. But the pain isn’t yet over. The next government review of the Royal mail’s pricing structure is due in 2010, guided by an EU wide obligation to eventually remove all state subsidies from the industry. Gordon Brown is unlikely to want to be seen taking the side of the management in the run up to the General Election in Spring 2010. In spite of all the rhetoric it may just be that both the CWU & Royal Mail management are in cahoots to try and manoeuvre the government off it’s current fence sitting position and provide some clarity to the regulatory framework for the medium term.
Meanwhile back in the real world, our loveable “posty” duly delivered the mail as usual today. However I did walk by the Leatherhead Sorting Office and heard the sound of singing. The sorters & postmen (postpersons?) were in full voice singing the 1973 anthem by the Strawbs……remember? Sing along it’ll cheer you up even if you didn’t receive your mail today!
Categories: British · Business · Election · Employment · Gordon Brown · Public Sector · Unemployment · Video · Work
Tagged: CWU, Royal Mail, Strawbs, Strike, Union
Be afraid. Very afraid! All our worst fears about the Government’s Identity Card Scheme are coming true. Over 200,000 state employees in Central Government & Local Authorities now have access to the system and more are being added every day. Those with access to the database, including staff at 480 local authorities, and numerous government departments including, the Department of Work and Pensions, HM Revenue & Customs, the Courts Service and the Child Support Agency.
Under a Freedom of Information request by Computer Weekly, 34 local council employees have already been disciplined for unauthorised snooping on citizen’s personal data. (9 were sacked)
Why were they snooping? State employees were caught accessing the personal data of celebrities, as well as friends and colleagues.
H/T Computer Weekly
Categories: Civil Service · Data · Government · ID Cards · Surveillance
Tagged: State Snooping
Oh Joy! Our eldest son phoned at the weekend to advise that wedding bells will soon be ringing.
Registry offices are being contacted and relatives are being consulted on arrangements for the big day.
I have to confess that all this passed me by for my wedding since Mrs Leatherhead took charge and hasn’t let go of the controls since!
Wonder if the happy couple will arrange anything as exotic as this wedding day entrance??
Categories: Marriage · Video
Tagged: Dance, Entrance, Planning
Carlos Santana celebrates his 62nd birthday today. He broke into my consciousness in 1970, while I was a student at Cornell University. His second album “Abraxus“, released in September of that year, contained Samba Pa Ti (literally: solo for you). It’s one of those soaring guitar solos you just have to sway your body to.
Happy Birthday Carlos! Thanks for the memories.
Categories: Celebrity · Men · Music · Recording
Governments always seem to be implementing headline catching initiatives to improve society but, never seem to stop and consider possible alternative outcomes & undesirable consequences of their programmes (See HERE & HERE)
Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK have been soaring. In 2004, our concerned government introduced a multi million pound scheme to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.The cost turned out to be £2500 for each teenager included in the programme. And the impact of the programme?
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Last year 40,000 teenage girls became pregnant, the highest level in Western Europe
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Young women who attended the programme, were ’significantly’ more likely to become pregnant than those on other youth programmes who were not given contraception and sex advice.
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A total of 16 per cent of those on the Young People’s Development Programme conceived compared with just 6 per cent in other programmes.
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Experts said the scheme failed because it introduced girls ‘at risk’ of becoming pregnant to promiscuous girls they might not otherwise have met. Increasing sexual awareness may also have contributed to the results.
Doh! Ministers didn’t need to ask “experts” before spending millions of pounds on this programme! We could all have told them what might happen.
Idiots!!
Categories: Children · Education · Government · Youth
Tagged: Abortions, Government Programmes, Teenage Pregnancy
GB looks totally out of his comfort zone, of nerdy economic papers, as he joins mums at nursery school. Why does he do it?
Categories: Children · Gordon Brown · Personality · Politics
Most men don’t like shopping, particularly when they have to accompany their female partner on the weekly shopping trip. It’s duty rather than pleasure. Some males will go to extraordinary lengths to convince their partner that it’s less hassle to shop alone.
For example, this guy really worked hard at convincing his wife it just wasn’t worth taking him along:
Categories: British · Humour · Men · Women
Tagged: shopping alone
