Anglican Samizdat

The problem with electric cars is that their batteries run flat after driving about 65 miles and they take 8 hours to recharge. But there is a solution:

From here:

An astronaut has many things to worry about – the safety of the mission, the claustrophobic surroundings and the loneliness of the venture.

But now, they have one more thing to worry about – flatulence.

As humans produce two flammable gases – hydrogen and methane – which ignite when accumulated in an enclosed space and can ignite astronauts are potentially at risk as they are cooped up in their spacecrafts.

Some imaginative plumbing, a trunk full of baked beans and you can drive across the continent – or fly to the moon.

Those who need to go even further can install one of these extra large tanks in the passenger seat:

It isn’t an easy job to further reduce the election chances of the Halton Family Coalition candidate but, with a few well-chose words, Tony Rodrigues proved himself up to the daunting task. There are many reasons for suspecting that the received dogma on global warming is incorrect, so why did Rodrigues have to support an even less plausible theory?

From here:

Family Coalition candidate Tony Rodrigues got the panel off to a unique start stating he does not believe in climate change, but feels the severe weather irregularities around the globe are due to a large dam in China is [sic] tilting the earth off its axis.

The dam does have the potential for increasing the length of day by 0.06 microseconds – around the same length of time Rodrigues spent pondering his environmental platform – but earthquakes have a far greater effect on the earth’s rotational speed.

At the behest of the green gestapo, Canada is set to ban the incandescent light bulb in 2012. The only problem is that, as often happens when the government meddles in things it shouldn’t, the result is likely to backfire and increase pollution not reduce it – mercury pollution in this case.

From here:

The Canadian government’s new energy-efficiency rules for light bulbs are fast approaching implementation, but no national standards exist to deal with the toxic waste they are expected to create.

The federal government admits the patchwork of regulations for disposing of compact fluorescent bulbs, or CFLs, is one of the unintended consequences of rushing in the new energy-efficiency regulations.

Environment Minister Peter Kent said he was surprised to hear from CBC News that the provinces — which are responsible for setting garbage disposal regulations — were at different levels of preparation for the new light-bulb regulations, which begin Jan. 1, 2012.

Traditional incandescent bulbs won’t meet the energy-saving rules. Kent said a national technical group is working out a system for recycling the mercury-containing bulbs that consumers will buy instead.

“If you’re finding a patchwork of understanding, I’ll make sure that we issue communications to my provincial colleagues and suggest that they come up to speed,” Kent said.

But experts in mercury pollution and recycling say they are unimpressed, and they worry the mercury will end up in municipal garbage dumps.

“They don’t really have a plan,” said Dana Silk, the general manager of Envirocentre, an Ottawa non-profit organization that works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by delivering energy-efficiency goods and services.

Even worse is the fate suffered by the poor suckers who make CFLs:

From here:

WHEN British consumers are compelled to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs from 2012, they will save up to 5m tons of carbon dioxide a year from being pumped into the atmosphere. In China, however, a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs in cost-cutting factories.

Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs. A surge in foreign demand, set off by a European Union directive making these bulbs compulsory within three years, has also led to the reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment.

The longest lasting light bulb in existence is an incandescent one: the Centennial incandescent light which has been burning for 109 years. The only thing that could put it out is the government.

From the BBC:

In a somewhat unusual research project, scientists have found that sperm whale faeces may help oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

Australian researchers calculate that Southern Ocean sperm whales release about 50 tonnes of iron each year.

This stimulates the growth of tiny marine plants – phytoplankton – which absorb CO2 during photosynthesis.

No BS here, just WS.

Has been lit for 109 years.

The improved incandescent lamp, invented by Adolphe A. Chaillet, was made by the Shelby Electric Company. It is a handblown bulb with carbon filament. Approximate wattage-4 watts. Left burning continuously in firehouse as a nightlight over the fire trucks. For some research test results on a sister bulb at Annapolis follow this link.

The upper limit of the lifespan of one of these:

is 15,000 hours or, if left on, around 1.71 years; it would take 63 fluorescent bulbs to provide light for as long as the Shelby Bulb has – and it is still going.

So the question is, over 100 years, does it take more energy to make and light one Shelby Bulb or make and light 63 fluorescent bulbs and safely dispose of 62 of them?

I suspect the answer is 63 fluorescent bulbs although, admittedly, at 4 watts, the Shelby Bulb would be a little dim.

Climate fascism at the UN:

Secular dictionary definition of “Gospel”: The proclamation of the redemption preached by Jesus and the Apostles, which is the central content of Christian revelation.

Rowan Williams’ definition of “Gospel”: Less carbon dioxide.

Some 3,000 Christians gathered in Westminster for an ecumenical service before joining tens of thousands of campaigners in a march through the capital today to call on the UK to take the lead at next week’s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.

Dr Rowan Williams said the human race had until now not been very good news for creation, as he warned that the failure to tend to the health and wellbeing of creation was already having negative effects on the lives of the most vulnerable communities in the world.

He said: “We are to be bearers of good news for the world that God has made. Not for any one little bit of it, not any one community at the expense of others, not even for humanity at the expense of everything else in the universe. Good news for all of creation.

World leaders are consuming vast amounts of jet fuel to fly to Copenhagen to tell the rest of us that we should make sacrifices and use less energy. How out of touch with normal people is the climate change conference in Copenhagen?

Here is a random selection of climate chicanery:

• Sustainable Fashion with raincoats designed to keep you dry from the crotch up – in a green sort of way:
  
• Worn out clichés: Failure in Copenhagen is not an option.
• Regurgitated IBM slogans: Re-Think
• A ping-pong of Climate Words and Climate Music (I’d like to make fun of this, but it’s beyond me).
• International ecumenical worship with Rowan Williams, who, in spite all evidence to the contrary is known for his championing of hot-air reduction. Bells will be rung 350 times or until the neighbours complain.

After a hard day of trying to explain why eminent scientists expect anyone to believe them when they have been busy falsifying and destroying data they don’t like, delegates can relax with a Danish prostitute whose services will be free during the conference because they feel discriminated against.

It’s all very – cool.

They’ve all – Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Baptist – fallen for climate change chicanery; and the power-mongers of worldly and – in the case of Rome – corrupt churches have chosen a climategate moment to redouble their efforts at sinking into irrelevancy.

A total of 16 leaders of Christian Churches in the UK, including the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, will join in a service to call on world leaders to act against climate change.

The ecumenical service that will be held in London this Saturday, December 5 aims to urge political leaders meeting in Copenhagen to ‘Act Now To Stop Climate Change’, Independent Catholic News reports.

Among others slated to attend are Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton, Head of the International Department of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference; Bishop John Rawsthorne of Hallam, Chair of CAFOD, Revd David Gamble, Chair of the Methodist Conference; Reverend Pat Took, Chair, London Baptist Association; Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance; Colonel Brian Peddle, Chief Secretary for The Salvation Army UK and Republic of Ireland, the report said.

And in the UK, belief in anthropomorphic climate change has been legally given the status of a religion:

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations”.

The good news is that we can look forward with anticipation to Dawkins and his cronies mocking this as they do every other religion. Maybe not.