Comments on: This is absurd

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:12:03 +0000

“We’ve still got another 0.75 to come even if we don’t take any more fossil fuel from the ground, because the sea takes a long time to heat up and we have yet to experience anything like the temperature rises we have created so far.”

It’s physics, Jim. But not as we know it.

By: jus'askin

jus'askin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:40:21 +0000

Had to check with the article, but he did indeed write per ton not tonne, let alone get the currency wrong.
That’s over egging the weight by 1 1/2%. Not a lot on a single tonne but a helluva lot on global CO2 production.

By: Tim Almond

Tim Almond — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:47:18 +0000

on his tumblr blog, he points out that he’s writing from Amsterdam where he’s promoting a new album.

And next month, Groove Armada are touring Australia and New Zealand.

And he wants to lecture the rest of us about using a plasma TV?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:45:11 +0000

“Tell you what, I promise not to write* about how to play the guitar and musicians promise not to garble the economics of climate change.”

* Isn’t there a great deal of other things missing here, in short everything except selling rare metals and UKIP internal politics?

By: Ian Bennett

Ian Bennett — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:59:40 +0000

On the plus side, imagine how much worse it would have been if Chris Martin had written it. (Using a very broad definition of ‘musician’, obviously.)