It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
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No. not the R.E.M. song. This is serious. The global warming true believers are now coming for Canadian beer drinkers:
The government-commissioned study says the old, inefficient "beer fridges" that one in three Canadian households use to store their Molson and Labatt's contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity.
"People need to understand the impact of their lifestyles," British environmental consultant Joanna Yarrow tells New Scientist magazine. "Clearly the environmental implications of having a frivolous luxury like a beer fridge are not hitting home. This research helps inform people — let's hope it has an effect."
The solution? Buy back programs:
University of Alberta researcher Denise Young, who led the study, suggests that provincial authorities hold beer-fridge buy-backs or round-ups to eliminate the threat — methods that Americans use to get guns off the streets.
I have a better idea. Offer to trade the beer fridge for a gun. Messing with a Canadian's beer is not a good idea. I lived near the Canadian border for many, many years and know a pretty fair number of Canadians. And they take their beer very, very seriously. These "studies" get more hysterical all the time. Gingerbread house collapse: global warming. Obese moose: global warming. Those are amusing. Messing with the beer - you'll get some attention alright. It just won't be the kind you expected.
Junk Science, World news | Gaius Thursday, 29 November , 2007
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Blue Crab Boulevard » The Canadian Beer Menace - Update — Friday, 30 November , 2007 @ 8:11 am
By Sam L., Thursday, 29 November , 2007 @ 11:28 pm
If there really is global warming, those Canadians will give up their fridges only when they’re pried from their “warm, dead hands”.
By NortonPete, Friday, 30 November , 2007 @ 6:41 am
All you need to do is keep your beer fridge full, packed with beer.
That lowers the energy usage. I explain this to my wife all the time.
When you open it take out 2 beers at a time, this is also an energy
saving tip.
Now how come the planet police didn’t complain about all the
CO2 released while fermenting the beer?
By feeblemind, Friday, 30 November , 2007 @ 7:01 am
What Nortonpete said! These stories……it’s getting to be an old cliche but you just can’t make this stuff up! Thanks for getting my day started with a laugh.
By martian, Friday, 30 November , 2007 @ 2:44 pm
Beer fridge buy-backs? You read this story and think to yourself, “This is really someone’s idea of a joke, isn’t it? This Denise Young is really a satirist writing to show how ridiculous the whole global warming industry has become, isn’t she?” Then it percolates in that this woman is actually SERIOUS and her ideas were actually printed and taken seriously by a magazine with the word “Scientist” in the title! How friggin scary is that?
Not to mention that she thinks having a beer fridge is “a frivolous luxury”. It had to be a woman who said that - no guy would say it, not even a liberal guy - would he?