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Women Attracted to Men in Sports Cars Cause Global Warming
NewsBusters ^ | Dec. 18, 2007 | Noel Sheppard |

Posted on 12/18/2007 2:57:39 PM PST by digger48

In the 1995 blockbuster film "Batman Forever," the lead character, marvelously played by Val Kilmer, quipped to Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman), "It's the car, right? Chicks dig the car!"

Well, according to Great Britain's chief scientist, this fascination women have with guys who drive sports cars is causing global warming.

I kid you not.

As reported by the British Telegraph Monday (emphasis added throughout):

Women must stop admiring men who drive sports cars if they want to join the fight against global warming, the Government's chief scientist has urged.

Professor Sir David King said governments could only do so much to control greenhouse gas emissions and it was time for a cultural change among the British public.

And he singled out women who find supercar drivers "sexy", adding that they should divert their affections to men who live more environmentally-friendly lives.

Ferrari salesmen protested King's comments:

Peter Everingham, secretary the Ferrari Owners Club, said: "Nearly 90 per cent of people who buy Ferraris are married so they are not looking to impress women by buying their car."

I'm not sure that's a winning argument, Peter. After all, married people do all kinds of things to make themselves look attractive. Given the absurdly high divorce rate, might they be primping and prepping for someone other than their spouse?

Regardless, the money shot was the following: "Sir David...will next month publish a book on climate change called Hot Topic."

How delicious.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ferraris; globalwarming; idiot; kook
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1 posted on 12/18/2007 2:57:42 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

I got $10 that says Professor Sir David King drives a beat up Morris Minor and hasn’t gotten any play in 20 years.


2 posted on 12/18/2007 2:58:54 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: digger48

people only say things like this, and media only traffic in it, when society has way way too much time on its hands.


3 posted on 12/18/2007 3:00:08 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (chaos is an illusion.)
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To: digger48
Blame David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff, Jump in My Car

4 posted on 12/18/2007 3:00:32 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
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To: digger48

Chief scientist in sports cars warning to women
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:55am GMT 17/12/2007

Women must stop admiring men who drive sports cars if they want to join the fight against global warming, the Government’s chief scientist has urged.

Professor Sir David King said governments could only do so much to control greenhouse gas emissions and it was time for a cultural change among the British public.

And he singled out women who find supercar drivers “sexy”, adding that they should divert their affections to men who live more environmentally-friendly lives.

His comments were greeted with anger by sports car drivers who insisted that their vehicles’ greenhouse gas emissions were tiny compared with those from four-wheel-drive vehicles.

Sir David, who is due to retire as the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser at the end of the year, said individuals needed to change their behaviour.

“I was asked at a lecture by a young woman about what she could do and I told her to stop admiring young men in Ferraris,” he said.

“What I was saying is that you have got to admire people who are conserving energy and not those wilfully using it.”

Sir David, who persuaded the Government to start using the Toyota Prius, a hybrid car that claims to have lower emissions than most conventional cars, added: “Government has so many levers that it can pull - when it comes to the business sector it is quite effective.

“As soon as you come to the individual, however, they will buy a Ferrari, not because it is cheap to run or has low carbon dioxide emissions, but because young women think it is sexy to see men driving Ferraris. That is the area where a culture change is needed.”

A Ferrari F430 produces 420g/km of carbon dioxide - more than four times as much as the hybrid petrol-electric Prius.

Car enthusiasts criticised Sir David for attempting to lay the blame for climate change on a small number of drivers who own sports cars.

Peter Everingham, secretary the Ferrari Owners Club, said: “Nearly 90 per cent of people who buy Ferraris are married so they are not looking to impress women by buying their car.

“There are fewer than 5,600 cars made a year by Ferrari. To suggest Ferraris are a factor in climate change is unhelpful.”

Sir David, who will next month publish a book on climate change called Hot Topic, insists his comments were intended as an example of the scale of culture change that is needed in society in order to combat global warming.

As chief scientist he has been instrumental in driving the climate change issue to the top of the political agenda.

Three years ago he sparked controversy when he claimed that global warming was a more serious threat than that of global terrorism.

Sir David said: “For a while I was quite unpopular at Number 10, but the point is that the Prime Minister then understood this was a very important issue.

“Now I would go one step further and say that our civilisation has never had to face up to as big a challenge as the climate change challenge of the 21st century.”


5 posted on 12/18/2007 3:01:16 PM PST by digger48
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To: Tamar1973

No, no, NO...............Not a David Hasselhof video!

AAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


6 posted on 12/18/2007 3:02:02 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Chicks like cool guys in sports car. I bet the guy who wrote this has never been laid.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 12/18/2007 3:03:23 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
You got that right, Slim.

married so they are not looking to impress women

I think the Ferrari secretary is protesting too much - or trying to hide something from their wives

8 posted on 12/18/2007 3:04:31 PM PST by BuglerTex
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To: digger48
Our education establishment will turn immediately to the task.

* "Hampsters running around in little circular cages are SEXY!"

* "A man with a Yugo doesn't waste his size on his car!"

* "Sports cars may be fast. But Vegans make the earth move."

The possibilities are just endless.

9 posted on 12/18/2007 3:04:54 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: digger48

It was my experience that it leads to large dinner checks and maybe a movie...LOL!


10 posted on 12/18/2007 3:06:27 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: digger48
I challenge Sir David to try doing the deed in a SmartCar.
11 posted on 12/18/2007 3:07:50 PM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: digger48
Hmm...


12 posted on 12/18/2007 3:08:30 PM PST by Always Right
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To: digger48

Well, do they expect to convince women that Ed Begley is a hunk...that ain’t gonna work!


13 posted on 12/18/2007 3:09:34 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: digger48
Here's a fairly long, but by no means exhaustive list ...

Linky Thing: Global Warming is Responsible For ....

14 posted on 12/18/2007 3:09:46 PM PST by tx_eggman ("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
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To: goldstategop
I bet the guy who wrote this has never been laid.

"Lord, I ain't goin' down to no racetrack to see no sports car run
I don't have no sports car and I don't even care to have one
I can walk anytime around the block"

... he managed OK. 'course, they was hippies!

15 posted on 12/18/2007 3:11:01 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: digger48

I’m happy to drive my own, thank you!


16 posted on 12/18/2007 3:14:51 PM PST by RDTF (Remember Pearl Harbor)
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To: MplsSteve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2CfuqcUGE


17 posted on 12/18/2007 3:15:07 PM PST by digger48
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To: Always Right
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
18 posted on 12/18/2007 3:19:45 PM PST by digger48
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To: SERKIT
IIRC, Ed Begley was also in "Batman Returns".
19 posted on 12/18/2007 3:21:52 PM PST by Bratch (“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” --- Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch
Batman Returns Forever
20 posted on 12/18/2007 3:23:10 PM PST by Bratch (“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” --- Edmund Burke)
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