Comments on: The irony of climate change models http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/ This blog is about the things that make me smile, rant or shake my head in consternation. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:32:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: exmonkey http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2057 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:31:53 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2057 Carol Vordeman is a smug celeb, hawking her minimal talents in order to get vulnerable idiots to take out loans that will take them a lifetime to repay. Carol Vordeman is a smug celeb, hawking her minimal talents in order to get vulnerable idiots to take out loans that will take them a lifetime to repay.

]]> by: c_henry http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2056 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:32:23 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2056 Heh - sorry if it came across that way...I still think Carol Vordeman is hot though. Heh - sorry if it came across that way…I still think Carol Vordeman is hot though.

]]> by: exmonkey http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2055 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:17:37 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2055 wow - it seems that the nicotine really suppressed the bitterness hormones in you :) Come back addict Colin all is forgiven wow - it seems that the nicotine really suppressed the bitterness hormones in you :)

Come back addict Colin all is forgiven

]]> by: c_henry http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2054 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:43:28 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-2054 "There are some things about my lifestyle choices (my vegetarianism, microwave phobia etc) that I tend not to lecture people about" This would be an accurate statement if you removed the word 'not' from it. "the weekly occurrence of a meat eater asking me why I don’t eat meat when I am prepared to wear leather shoes" Well, it's a valid point, it's like driving a large diesel vehicle around the countryside with 2.1 people in it whilst complaining about pollution. Oh, hold on. "Trying to kill me with cars" Then catch the bus and stop cycling, or do you have a problem with large diesel vehicles? Do they contain too many people? "Not recycling rubbish...they even provide a green box and collect it from you doorstep..." They do indeed, but they're too small. "Carol Vordeman" I think she's hot - sorry Laters ;o) “There are some things about my lifestyle choices (my vegetarianism, microwave phobia etc) that I tend not to lecture people about”
This would be an accurate statement if you removed the word ‘not’ from it.

“the weekly occurrence of a meat eater asking me why I don’t eat meat when I am prepared to wear leather shoes”
Well, it’s a valid point, it’s like driving a large diesel vehicle around the countryside with 2.1 people in it whilst
complaining about pollution. Oh, hold on.

“Trying to kill me with cars”
Then catch the bus and stop cycling, or do you have a problem with large diesel vehicles? Do
they contain too many people?

“Not recycling rubbish…they even provide a green box and collect it from you doorstep…”
They do indeed, but they’re too small.

“Carol Vordeman”
I think she’s hot - sorry

Laters ;o)

]]> by: exmonkey http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1811 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:02:47 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1811 I have no strong feelings about the waves themselves... although I do have concerns about the amount of ambient microwave pollution in the western world. My issues with microwave cooking are twofold. 1 - I think they represent our (the British) attitude to food - ie our hatred of it. We want to reduce food to a single taste and a single one step action to ingestion, in order to minimize our contact with it and the inconvenience of preparing it. I'm sure we're not the only country with the 70second microwave burger, but we seem to be the only ones who are, if not proud, certainly don't seem to be ashamed of it. 2 - The effect of microwaves on food is one that is still debated. The various pro-microwave lobbies have managed to block any useful studies in the west, and in Russia microwaves were banned for a long time. Some small studies have shown that people who ate food heated in a microwave showed a marked increase in carcinogenic chemicals in there blood. Do <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=microwave+cooking+health&btnG=Search&meta=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a> search So for both those reasons I abstain. I have no strong feelings about the waves themselves… although I do have concerns about the amount of ambient microwave pollution in the western world.

My issues with microwave cooking are twofold.
1 - I think they represent our (the British) attitude to food - ie our hatred of it. We want to reduce food to a single taste and a single one step action to ingestion, in order to minimize our contact with it and the inconvenience of preparing it. I’m sure we’re not the only country with the 70second microwave burger, but we seem to be the only ones who are, if not proud, certainly don’t seem to be ashamed of it.

2 - The effect of microwaves on food is one that is still debated. The various pro-microwave lobbies have managed to block any useful studies in the west, and in Russia microwaves were banned for a long time.
Some small studies have shown that people who ate food heated in a microwave showed a marked increase in carcinogenic chemicals in there blood. Do this search

So for both those reasons I abstain.

]]> by: ditdotdat http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1810 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:00:25 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1810 What is it that you don't like about microwave ovens, Ex Monkey? I assume that you mean the use of the ovens for cooking rather than the waves themselves. What is it that you don’t like about microwave ovens, Ex Monkey? I assume that you mean the use of the ovens for cooking rather than the waves themselves.

]]> by: gilesbooth http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1800 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:37:14 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1800 Too bad there was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/updates1.shtml" rel="nofollow">a little bug in the software meaning 'the experiment will take longer'</a> - and put more CO2 in the atmosphere! Still, on the plus side, on the roof of Bush House, the BBC has a freakingly huge set of photoelectric cells generating a few kilowatts of power in the middle of the day. Too bad there was a little bug in the software meaning ‘the experiment will take longer’ - and put more CO2 in the atmosphere!

Still, on the plus side, on the roof of Bush House, the BBC has a freakingly huge set of photoelectric cells generating a few kilowatts of power in the middle of the day.

]]> by: Ally http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1793 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:37:17 +0000 http://www.unitedbyyucca.com/2006/07/17/the-irony-of-climate-change-models/#comment-1793 That was my reason for not doing the SETI thing. The new village we've moved to has *fantastic* recycling facilities. Plastics as well. So much more organised than the city we've come from. That was my reason for not doing the SETI thing. The new village we’ve moved to has *fantastic* recycling facilities. Plastics as well. So much more organised than the city we’ve come from.

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