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LIZ HURLEY IS HOT

The Independent condemns carbon-chomping celebs:

Liz Hurley’s long-haul wedding has produced a carbon footprint so large that it would take the average British couple more than 10 years to contribute as much to heating up the planet as she and Arun Nayar have done in little over a week. It would take a typical Indian couple a massive 123 years.

A special study, by an Oxford-based footprinting consultancy, suggests the celebrations will release around 200,000kg of carbon into the atmosphere.

The consultancy, Best Foot Forward, reckons this is an underestimate. The couple are not giving full details of the festivities because of a contract with Hello! magazine, but last night environmentalists condemned their “conspicuous carbon consumption”.

This consultancy obviously hasn’t heard of the Toni Collette Rule: if you’re a celebrity, flying doesn’t count.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/11/2007 at 11:23 AM

  1. You know, if all these carbon-obsessed people would just stop breathing I’ll bet we’d get a new ice age.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 11 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  2. BURN THE HERETIC!!!  Can we buy offsets for that yet?

    Posted by bondo on 2007 03 11 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  3. ...last night environmentalists condemned their “conspicuous carbon consumption”.

    This sounds like a “fire and brimstone” preacher rallying against the pleasures of the flesh.  Updated to edit out any references to Christianity, of course.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 11 at 11:42 AM • permalink

  4. I don’t understand the problem. Surely these people, whoever they are, are wealthy enough to pay for a carbon indulgence adequate to the task of neutralizing their “conspicuous carbon consumption”. Deprivation, after all, was meant only for the likes of you and me.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 11 at 11:44 AM • permalink

  5. The naysayers actually want to carp on about how much it all cost in money, but that would make them seem like socialist losers.  So instead, they tote up all the carbon units burned, because that makes them seem like progressive scolds watchdogs.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 11 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  6. An “Oxford-based footprinting consultancy?”  For real?

    Posted by the wolf on 2007 03 11 at 12:05 PM • permalink

  7. When the Climate Trials happen, she will be one of the first people shot. After W, of course. Despite the fact that the US under Bush has outperformed Europe and Canada on reducing GHG, he will be shot because, well, they just don’t like the way he talks.

    Posted by moptop on 2007 03 11 at 12:16 PM • permalink

  8. Can somebody here tell me whether or not it has been proven that the troposphere has been warming more slowly than the surface?

    The Swindle documentary claimed that there were two independent lines of data that disproved the central hypothosis if AGW. RealClimate claims that the satelite data has been “adjusted” so that the “anomoly” has disappeared. What about the baloon data?

    The best I can find is that they thew out the old balloon data, substituting adjusted data, thus making the models look right again.

    Posted by moptop on 2007 03 11 at 12:30 PM • permalink

  9. Conpicuous carbon consumption would make Liz a tree, just like algore. What she’s guilty of is conspicuous carbon production, like all productive members of society.

    Posted by bobpence on 2007 03 11 at 01:50 PM • permalink

  10. I would just love for a celebrity “denialist” to come out and tell them where to stick it. There has to be some around? Liz Hurley would have been good, what the hell does she care what her peers or fans think of her?

    Posted by Srekwah on 2007 03 11 at 03:15 PM • permalink

  11. It’s always an ugly spectacle when thinly disguised class envy finds another outlet for expression. Just cloak it in some other concern like carbon output and it pops back up, driven by the same underlying jealousy as before.

    Posted by Behemoth on 2007 03 11 at 04:40 PM • permalink

  12. I think the article makes a good point of the excess carbon released by Liz Hurley and her travel and living excess.  Clearly the logical path would be for her to move to a small apartment and live with a roommate and try to, in some small way, to make up for her waste.  A small apartment in downtown Wichita.  My small apartment.  It’s only one bedroom, but I dont anticipate that being a problem.

    Posted by jeff mccabe on 2007 03 11 at 06:34 PM • permalink

  13. #10 Srekwah, it’d be one that wasn’t on the invite list…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 03 11 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  14. Re: The headline, “Liz Hurley is Hot”.
    Perhaps, however she gives lousy head.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 11 at 07:45 PM • permalink

  15. Has anyone checked to see that the incidents of pilot suicide have not markedly increased since all this AGW unpleasantness started?

    As someone whose very livelihood is derived from continually befouling the Earth’s atmosphere I believe pilots everywhere deserve special consideration to avoid a humanitarian disaster.

    I propose we start a Global Pilot Suicide Watch.

    Let’s start with John Travolta.

    Posted by Jay Santos on 2007 03 11 at 08:10 PM • permalink

  16. I propose we start a Global Pilot Suicide Watch.

    Pilot Angst Compassionate Offsets now on sale, only $666.

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 03 12 at 12:56 AM • permalink

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