In case nobody’s reminded you in the last 10 minutes: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING!!
Glad we got that out of the way. Now, you may remember that a few years back, President of the Environment Al Gore had some explaining to do when it was revealed that his house used 20 times more energy than the national average. I’m sure he came up with a good excuse, if anybody stayed awake long enough to listen to the whole thing.
Well, Gore’s ecopocrisy has crossed the pond yet again:
They may shout their green credentials from the rooftops, but some of Britain’s most prominent environmental champions are living in homes that produce up to half a ton of excess carbon dioxide a year.
An audit of properties, measuring heat loss, has revealed that Chris Martin, the pop star, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, and Sir David Attenborough, the broadcaster, are among those who reside in homes that are “leaking” energy. Some lack even the most basic energy saving measures such as cavity wall insulation and double glazing.
Think globally, neglect locally!
Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, and his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress, have both championed green issues. Paltrow backed the American “Act Green” energy conservation campaign, while Martin tried to offset CO2 emissions produced by his band’s second album by planting a forest of mango trees in India.
Yet the couple’s £2.5m home in Belsize Park, north London, wastes 1,020kWh of heat a year. A spokesman for Martin refused to comment.
If Martin really wanted to offset the damage done by his band’s albums, he’d hand out free earplugs and/or cyanide capsules. Well, his glaring hypocrisy gives him something to talk about with Sting, at least.
In other Paltrow news, Gwyneth continues to wear leather and eat animals. Take that, PETA!
Do even British people like those two? Somebody must.
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If these knuckleheads can’t even do the simplest things to keep their houses energy efficient, then they shouldn’t expect the average person to do the same thing. They have a hell of a lot more money then me. At least I turn my thermostat down and put plastic on the windows in winter and in the summer I hang my laudry to dry. Don’t tell me they don’t have peons to do that.
See, I’m absolutely convinced that when celebutards like these jump up and down about “going green”, they clearly mean that the REST of us should do it, not them. Because they’re special. They’re rare, precious people, and the rest of us…well, the rest of us are there to prop them up and donate organs.
This kind of silly harping on eco-hypocrites is just..uh..a distraction to the real issues at hand that..uh..are..important..to..uh..the American people..who..uh…
You guys just don’t get it. Singers and Actors can live their lives and NOT even have to pay for Carbon credits. Why? Because everytime they talk about saving the planet, that offsets anything they do by having brought awareness to this little known Phenomenon called “Global Warming”. JUST LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
You mean you wouldn’t hit Martin or Paltrow, jrod?
If that’s the case, it must be true–NOBODY must like them!
Hey, Simon, you forgot “TM” after “We’re All Gonna Die (etc.)!” Tsk tsk!
they are so hopelessly clueless that they do not see the hypocrisy of their own actions. Just stupid,stupid,stupid. And boring.
Well, like I always say, when the people harping on this actually start treating this like a crisis, I might think about it too. I’ll only think about it though, because the science actually points in the other direction of what these people think.
Really – who thinks Al Gore, who failed out of law school (reasonable), and divinity school (come on, really! who fails out of divinity school?!), Gwynnie, who is famous thanks to famous parents, and Chris Martin, who is famous because he sounds like he wants to kill himself – on what planet are these people really qualified to talk about anything scientific? I’m all for the First Amendment and saying what you want, but for heaven’s sake, at least be qualified to have an opinion!
Oh Beige, I heart you more all the time…
And hey, if peons like me can afford insulation and new windows, then these clowns can. Or maybe it’s secretly a hip thing to have the money to waste heat?
If I can live off of a thermostat set at 63, then they can too. Heck Gwenyth has plenty of fur to keep her warm and I don’t mean that ugly face husband of hers. Is it ironic that his band’s name is “coldplay?”
With all of the hot air in the Martin-Paltrow household, how can it not be energy-efficient? I don’t get it!
It’s not called global warming anymore…It’s “climate change” … Outside my home it is 22 F out, it sure shows no signs of warming! I am sure if they taped their mouths shut for a good 6 months we could reduce our carbon and reduce the population by 2
We sure could have used some of that “global warming” here in Washington this past winter. Four feet of snow? Screw you Al Gore.
See, the beautiful thing about global warming hysteria is that no matter what happens, it’s “proof” of global warming. Too cold? It’s climate change. Too hot? See–global warming! Hair looking bad? Global warming did it, baby! Got a flat tire? GLOBAL WARMING! It’s like OxyClean–it’s one explanation that fits everything!
both of these fools deserve each other, really.
I think I am most disappointed in Sir David Attenborough. I am not surprised that the others on this list, Martin/Paltrow, especially, are big eco-crites (I like that, I use it).
I think Beige is onto something too. Everything that happens gets blamed on global warming, but never mind that the skiing in Andorra last week was halted for a day due to too much snow.
Of course, if it’s too cold or there is a freak snowstorm, they twist it to say it’s global warming too. Can’t win with these people. Too much money to be made in panic.
lol..coldplay cds cause global warming! do your part to save the earth, and not play any!
Hear, hear, Shoebox. This winter was so cold that the part of Ohio I live in actually beat ALASKA for lowest temperature during January. Every day, I go outside and look hopefully for my gobal warming while I try to make my poor old truck run, and every day, I am completely disappointed. I must not have burned enough styrofoam in bonfires as a kid.
Way ahead of ya John.
“If Martin really wanted to offset the damage done by his band’s albums, he’d hand out free earplugs and/or cyanide capsules.”
I think I just fell in love with you right there, Simon.
Whaddaya mean, “I think“?
Don’t worry guys.
Gwyn’s still a US citizen, so I’ll bet she qualifies for some of that “winterize your home” stimulus money.
I hear Obama comes to your house and personally installs the weatherstripping.
I hope Obama likes Diet Coke; I don’t keep the sugary stuff in the house. And he needs to bring his own tools. Rahm Emanuel ought to do.
Hey, Eve! Hands off! Don’t make me start a catfight with you!
oh my got shut up