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Bishop Hill 'Let's Kick Climate Change Denial Out of Football' campaign
Sep 11, 2011 Climate: other Football fans who make offensive chants about wind turbines could face stiff jail sentences under plans by the government and the Football Association to ‘get tough’ with climate change deniers.
Reader Comments (43)
George Orwell anyone?
I don't think we should joke about such things.....they might come true!!
;-)
A cracking piece of irony.
It's not 1 April is it?
When people see their energy bills double in the next few years, they will be tearing down the wind turbines themselves.
You can shaft some of the people some of the time but you cannot shaft all of the people all of the time.
At the same site, I also laughed at this about one of the ubiquitous requests to do something which has minimal effect. Not that wasting paper is a good thing, but I think the primary effect is to reassure that one is doing something helpful. Much as ordering a diet Coke with one's Big Mac.
And in a similar satirical vein, a complaint by DECC about rendition.
Just to make sure everybody gets it and nobody comes on and makes an arse of themselves, Newsbiscuit is a spoof news website and this is a joke.
Meanwhile, I have been working outdoors today on what I would call a very typical mid September day judging by the previous fifty three Septembers that I've seen.
That's hilarious. See the sidebar: "Farmers to be forced to clean up after their cows".
I prefer their 'Bins to be collected just once a year' article.
Thanks to that article I can now add a new ditty to my repertoire!
Cartoonists dream come true, absolutely hilarious!
About time too! Now we can get cracking on banning pork pies at matches because if we don't eat pigs, there will be less porcine flatulence to cause global warming. Coke and Pepsi are out too, as all the carbon dioxide which is in those drinks has to be belched out, which not only discomfits the guy in front of you, but endangers the planet. Beer's OK, though. On second thoughts, perhaps not, 'cos brewing generates carbon dioxide. We really ought to stop calling it carbon dioxide, you know, and adopt the BBC terminology of 'dangerous carbon' just to make sure we get the message across. Tally ho crusaders!
Anything on "climate denial pornography"? An example might be a "news photo" of, say, Michael Clark Duncan or other big bruiser dressed up as a priest, giving backhanded wedgies to a group of scuttling delinquents caught smoking behind the rectory, and passing around scandalous skeptical literature (such as the Kiehl-Trenberth Energy Budget with grotesque genitals drawn over the backradiation). What else is official insanity good for but to laugh at publicly?
Even I'm laughing.
As an American, it is a little hard for me to know if this is a British humor spoof article or not.
Is it just a spoof?
C'mon, targeting footballers venting on wind turbines or sea levels? You could be restricted from being critical of machines or the oceans? Us Yanks are bizarre sometimes and now with this are the Brits too?
John
It has actually begun. Dale Vince of Ecotricity has banned red meat for players and fans at Forest Green Rovers, the club he also owns.
Mr Vince is a Vegan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-12416671
BBD
Me too!
But It's worse than we thought - the Met Office's local team (Exeter FC) is sponsored by Flybe - an airline!!! How have we let this happen? Our reputation as eco-warriors intent on bringing the country to its knees by destroying modern life will be in tatters....!
:-)
What a cracking site! My favourite newsbiscuit article (so far) below:
"Homeopathic leak threatens catastrophe
An accidental release of highly dilute homeopathic waste from a research institute in Swindon has led to calls for the centre to be shut down.
Plant operators have admitted responsibility for massive safety blunders after a spilled drop of an enormously dilute test product was cleaned by a caretaker, and in complete disregard of all safety procedures, allowed to enter the water system after he emptied his mop bucket down the drain."
Who says you couldn't make it up?!
Richard Betts
Heh! Funnier still. Welcome light relief, at last.
A Lovell: Homeopathic methods can be proved conclusively by science. If you take a concentrated solution of diHydrogen Oxide, and make sequential dilutions, even at extreme dilution the solution retains all the properties of the original :)
Cumbrian Lad, diHydrogen Oxide, really potent stuff, some say it even regulates climate, but, huh, what do they know.
Check out the environment section... - inspired stuff..
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/category/environment/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/12/11/tense-un-climate-talks-reach-agreement-on-next-venue/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2008/07/25/ryanairs-oleary-revealed-to-be-greenpeace-activist-325/
The politics and sci/tech sections are good fun as well.
This is reminiscent of the Dihydrogen monoxide hoax.
John Whitman
I'm guessing you'll have guessed by now, but yes, it's that odd British humour in action ;-)
And what if a political party took a public stance against climate change and printed banners criticizing the monetary waste on unreliable wind power?
You can kill everybody on the planet with one bucket of dihydrogen monoxide. It's more dangerous than plutonium.
Thanks for pointing to me to such a wonderful site Bish. Pure satirical gold! :-)
@Philip
And yes in it's gaseous form it is an extremely powerful greenhouse gas. I think it should be banned.
Frederick Bloggsworth
It might get a bit chilly ;-)
Ok, the fact that I thought for a moment this might be serious probably says something about my gullibility. But that is not the entire explanation.
No doubt the FA will be making a contribution to AR5, lets face it, anybody can.
Or, send a delegation to another English debacle, in South Africa - this time Durban COP17 jamboree and bun fight.
And no, I am not joking, the FA know FA about Football, they'd be perfect for a spot of climate change science meddling - in IPCC territory - all the way.
How funny is that?
I got half way before I realised it was a spoof. Too close to reality. But what a great site.
Beautifully done! As a North American, I'm proud to say I wasn't fooled at all. Still, all the same, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck thinking about what could happen.
From
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/09/responsible-hotel-towel-use-has-solved-world-climate-crisis-say-experts/
Looks like this website is changing its character away from being a serious climate sceptic blog. The alarm bells rang for me when so many happily discussed rubber ducks for page after page. When I contemplate the despoliation of the countryside and the rocketing cost of energy I see no reason for such light relief. Are we in denial of what's happening?
I'm rather fond of this one myself:
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/01/concern-over-carbon-offsetting-as-forest-envelops-brixton/
I feel sorry for you, Simon Abingdon, if you cannot approach life in all its facets with humour. Being terminally serious could be, well, terminal. Since you cannot stop the despoilation of the countryside nor the rocketing price of energy, you'd be better off developing a sense of humour rather than fretting about them.
Simon .... Laughter is the best sunlight for extremism of anykind
I knew it was a joke when it referred to Spain as a leader in anything.
Simon I have to agree with others humour is a relief valve for all the 'we are all going to die ' reports and wall to wall greenish news spin , plus be fair one or to silly posts in no way detracts from the many serious ones on here !.
Mr Betts considering the hundreds of millions oil giants and corporations push into green wash and green research I wouldn't worry about ego-warriors reputations! maybe more about their inability to get that our 'dirty oil money ' is the same as their 'dirty oil money ' !
I have to admit to being an author of a Newsbiscuit headline story a few years ago. I should look it up in the archives....
@John Whitman, "Is it a spoof?".
No it is not!
In response to one of the coldest, miserable summers we have ever had, every household in the UK has just received government leaflet warning that, from next month, irresponsible climate change denial could be a criminal offence.
This TV advert from the Ministry of Information explains.
Excellent. I'd never heard of Newsbiscuit before. I like The DailyMash in general, but its a bit too eco-warrior sometimes. This is much better!
OK. A spoof.
It is too well done. Now some idiot is going to have Al Gore promote a paper about the FA idea through some NGO. Then some climate scientist at the IPCC will decide to include it in AR5 as acceptable gray literature with cite to NewsBisquit. Just wait . . . .
[funny?]
John
Yes, a spoof. It looks like they took the FA campaign to stamp out racism in football and worked the spoof around that. From what little I know of American sporting events it may not make much sense but chants/songs in English football grounds have no bounds.