This is an actual headline that is really hysterical if you remember the movie “Johnny Dangerously”. If not, watch the clip below.
Chinese ladies like it in the ice hole
Liberal elitism rears it’s ugly head again.
These mindless arrogant liberal communists have used more carbon footprints this year to promote the “Great Global Warming Swindle” than all the rest of us have in the past ten years. When are all the idiots going to wake up and see it for what it is – a money-making machine. Meanwhile Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank.
Answer to hot air was in fact a chilling blunder
AMID talk of offsetting the hefty carbon footprint of the United Nations climate conference in Bali, organisers missed a large elephant in the room.
The air-conditioning system installed to keep more than 10,000 delegates cool used highly damaging refrigerant gases – as lethal to the atmosphere as 48,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, and nearly the equivalent of the emissions of all aircraft used to fly delegates to Indonesia.
With hawk-eyed representatives of more than 100 green organisations present, it was probably the worst place in the world to commit an environmental faux pas.
Staff from Australia’s Natural Refrigerants Transition Board and the London- and Washington-based Environmental Investigation Agency noticed the stockpiled cylinders of hydrochlorofluorocarbons – a refrigerant likely to be phased out over the next few years because it devours ozone in the upper atmosphere.
In addition, the refrigerant is a potent greenhouse gas, with each kilogram at least as damaging as 1.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Investigators at the Balinese resort complex at Nusa Dua counted 700 cylinders of the gas, each of them weighing 13.5 kilograms, and the system was visibly leaking.
The air-conditioning system, which used two kilometres of plastic pipe, serviced the European pavilion, the UN Secretariat offices, the media centre and other temporary areas.
After a fortnight of discussions with its Indonesian hosts and the contractors who installed the air-conditioning, the investigation agency proposed sending experts to safely recover the HCFC emissions by storing the refrigerant gas in sealed containers.
Australian officials were contacted and offered to help. The information was also sent to the staff of the former US vice-president Al Gore, and Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
By Friday the Indonesian Department of Environment decided to commit its own staff to a careful clean-up.
Having watched both NASCAR and Formula One religiously for years, I can tell you this David Coulthard will be welcomed here in the USA. Unlike Formula One, NASCAR is for real racers. That is why guys like Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve are finding it so fulfilling. They are both guys that just want to race and Coulthard falls into that category.
Lately, Formula One has come down to the man with the best car wins regardless of driver talent. Most of the time, passing is nonexistent and it is like watching follow the leader. Don’t get me wrong, I still like to watch Formula One mainly for the technology and the Soap Opera like drama that surrounds the teams. I think Lewis Hamilton is a natural born racer and I can see him coming to NASCAR someday.
With drivers like Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Juan Pablo Montoya, Jacques Villeneuve, Dario Franchitti, Sam Hornish, and Patrick Carpentier, NASCAR is quickly becoming the real Race of Champions.
Coulthard will consider NASCAR when F1 days are over
Formula One veteran David Coulthard is open to the thought of a future move to NASCAR, but not until his F1 days are solidly over.
“I would consider something like NASCAR,” Coulthard said just before practice for the Race of Champions. “I don’t think I would consider IRL. The only thing is, America, you have to commit to it absolutely. Which means you move out there, take your family there.
“But I’d certainly consider it. This will be my 15th season in Formula One. After that … I’ll do this as long as I’m having fun, as long as they keep saying ‘Would you like to continue?'”
Coulthard said NASCAR’s lengthy 38-week schedule is of no concern to him. He said he has in the past raced every week but Christmas weekend, “and that wasn’t a problem. It’s not hard to get in private planes.”
He also feels the influx of foreign driving talent, like his former F1 mates Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villaneuve, into NASCAR bolsters the perception of stock car racing internationally.
“I think it’s checking the box of NASCAR,” he said. “Generally, people in Formula One haven’t really been that aware of NASCAR, and of what we have been aware of we’ve probably higher respect for NASCAR than what we have for the oval racing IRL.
“That may come as a surprise, but as a single-seater racer in Europe, the perception in Europe is if you’re fat on a super speedway, yes there’s tactics, but how is that more challenging than driving Monaco? That’s a simplistic view, I know, and I’ve not done it. But [Jacques] Villaneuve’s a friend of mine who’s obviously won over there [in IRL], come over to F1 and won in F1. I just know it’s a different challenge.”
As Coulthard’s F1 colleague Jenson Button described it, “it’s like comparing football and cricket.”
“NASCAR is so different, and any of us in a touring car would find how difficult they are relative to a single-seater,” Coulthard continued. “So all it does is keep checking the boxes [for NASCAR].
“If they keep getting, it doesn’t have to be European drivers, but if they keep getting foreign drivers in the championship it’s only a matter of time before it becomes more and more [followed] around the world.
“From a NASCAR point of view, from what I can see they’re not fumbling with the business model to make money and everyone’s doing very well. But it can’t hurt any business to expand. And yeah, maybe it’s frowned upon by some of the good ol’ boys. But the Jimmie Johnsons, the consistent talented guys, will still be there and mixing it with these drivers from other formulas — and beating them.”
Coulthard explained the NASCAR dynamic overseas as such:
“I don’t think it’s a lack of respect, certainly not from me,” he said. “When I mention NASCAR to people I don’t get any [negative] perception to NASCAR. ‘Oh, [expletive] NASCAR?’ I don’t get that at all. I think it’s a lack of knowledge.
“I think that what we Europeans struggle with a little bit is sort of the high-fiving, chest-bouncing, hey buddy … That type of thing is not part of [our culture]. So I think it’s more about entertainment and people have got more confidence to express their joy and happiness. In the States that’s the whole sports culture.”