Cop26

[islaydarkblue]

COP26 in my opinion is aptly named as it is just another cop out and ‘talking shop’ which should have been held by video conferencing.
120 world leaders mostly flew to and from Scotland for a one day visit to the COP26 conference with the emissions from all these plane journeys doing nothing to help reduce global emissions.
President Joe Biden flew from USA to Italy for the G20 conference last weekend on his huge plane Air Force One. He then flew from Italy to Edinburgh airport as is was close for his stay at the luxurious Dalmahoy Hotel. The following day a 21 vehicle motorcade took President Biden from Dalmahoy Hotel to Glasgow which again created increased pollution in Scotland.
If President Biden was really keen on reducing pollution he should have stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow which is connected by an escalator to the SEC building and a short walk from the OVO Hydro building.

[Returnofrros]

COP26 in my opinion is aptly named as it is just another cop out and ‘talking shop’ which should have been held by video conferencing.
120 world leaders mostly flew to and from Scotland for a one day visit to the COP26 conference with the emissions from all these plane journeys doing nothing to help reduce global emissions.
President Joe Biden flew from USA to Italy for the G20 conference last weekend on his huge plane Air Force One. He then flew from Italy to Edinburgh airport as is was close for his stay at the luxurious Dalmahoy Hotel. The following day a 21 vehicle motorcade took President Biden from Dalmahoy Hotel to Glasgow which again created increased pollution in Scotland.
If President Biden was really keen on reducing pollution he should have stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow which is connected by an escalator to the SEC building and a short walk from the OVO Hydro building.

I find it all a lot of hot air......the irony of that ain't lost on me.

Biden falling asleep has been the highlight so far.

With no disabled acçess for the Israel delegate point and laugh embarrassing a close runner up.

And in 3rd place Boris not wearing a mask (Which is so *****ly important apparently) next to 189 year old David Attenborough.

Special mention.....Angela Merkel not wearing mask in car, putting mask on outside then taking it off when inside.....maybe that was other conference....can't mind.

Hypocrites one and all.

[islaydarkblue]

I find it all a lot of hot air......the irony of that ain't lost on me.

Biden falling asleep has been the highlight so far.

With no disabled acçess for the Israel delegate point and laugh embarrassing a close runner up.

And in 3rd place Boris not wearing a mask (Which is so *****ly important apparently) next to 189 year old David Attenborough.

Special mention.....Angela Merkel not wearing mask in car, putting mask on outside then taking it off when inside.....maybe that was other conference....can't mind.

Hypocrites one and all.

Thank you for your post.
I thought that there would have been a lot of debate on this COP26 topic but it looks like all the other posters are happy to accept all the lies peddled by the politicians and other protest groups who have shipped up in Glasgow for this ‘talking shop’.
Prince Charles is continually ‘bleating’ about how we must reduce our CO2 emissions yet he is part of the problem.
Prince Charles continually speaks about how he loves drinking heavily peated single malt scotch whisky such as Laphroaig whisky who have received his personal award.
However the production of heavily peated single malt whisky is ‘killing the planet’ as it has continually been stated by environmentalists that peat bogs help keep the Planet cool.
I enclose a list of Peated scotch whisky bombs which I obtained from the Internet. https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/most-...kies-peatiest/
I recently read that the normal water supply in Scotland contains 1PPM of peat whereas Prince Charles favourite single malt whisky Laphroaig 10 year old contains 35PPM of peat.
In my opinion this is another case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.

[BCram]

Thank you for your post.
I thought that there would have been a lot of debate on this COP26 topic but it looks like all the other posters are happy to accept all the lies peddled by the politicians and other protest groups who have shipped up in Glasgow for this ‘talking shop’.
Prince Charles is continually ‘bleating’ about how we must reduce our CO2 emissions yet he is part of the problem.
Prince Charles continually speaks about how he loves drinking heavily peated single malt scotch whisky such as Laphroaig whisky who have received his personal award.
However the production of heavily peated single malt whisky is ‘killing the planet’ as it has continually been stated by environmentalists that peat bogs help keep the Planet cool.
I enclose a list of Peated scotch whisky bombs which I obtained from the Internet. https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/most-...kies-peatiest/
I recently read that the normal water supply in Scotland contains 1PPM of peat whereas Prince Charles favourite single malt whisky Laphroaig 10 year old contains 35PPM of peat.
In my opinion this is another case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.

Islay, wrong target IMO. Peaty whisky is lovely and in my opinion using burning peat to flavour the barley is the only acceptable use of peat. This sink for CO2 nonsense has to stop or we won't have any decent malts.

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Thank you for your post.
I thought that there would have been a lot of debate on this COP26 topic but it looks like all the other posters are happy to accept all the lies peddled by the politicians and other protest groups who have shipped up in Glasgow for this ‘talking shop’.
Prince Charles is continually ‘bleating’ about how we must reduce our CO2 emissions yet he is part of the problem.
Prince Charles continually speaks about how he loves drinking heavily peated single malt scotch whisky such as Laphroaig whisky who have received his personal award.
However the production of heavily peated single malt whisky is ‘killing the planet’ as it has continually been stated by environmentalists that peat bogs help keep the Planet cool.
I enclose a list of Peated scotch whisky bombs which I obtained from the Internet. https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/most-...kies-peatiest/
I recently read that the normal water supply in Scotland contains 1PPM of peat whereas Prince Charles favourite single malt whisky Laphroaig 10 year old contains 35PPM of peat.
In my opinion this is another case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.

I like a Laphroaig now and again Islay. You do realise they only use the water that drains from the peat bog and not the actual peat I assume?

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Thank you for your post.
I thought that there would have been a lot of debate on this COP26 topic but it looks like all the other posters are happy to accept all the lies peddled by the politicians and other protest groups who have shipped up in Glasgow for this ‘talking shop’.
Prince Charles is continually ‘bleating’ about how we must reduce our CO2 emissions yet he is part of the problem.
Prince Charles continually speaks about how he loves drinking heavily peated single malt scotch whisky such as Laphroaig whisky who have received his personal award.
However the production of heavily peated single malt whisky is ‘killing the planet’ as it has continually been stated by environmentalists that peat bogs help keep the Planet cool.
I enclose a list of Peated scotch whisky bombs which I obtained from the Internet. https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/most-...kies-peatiest/
I recently read that the normal water supply in Scotland contains 1PPM of peat whereas Prince Charles favourite single malt whisky Laphroaig 10 year old contains 35PPM of peat.
In my opinion this is another case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.

I like a Laphroaig now and again Islay. You do realise they only use the water that drains from the peat bog and not the actual peat I assume?

[BCram]

I like a Laphroaig now and again Islay. You do realise they only use the water that drains from the peat bog and not the actual peat I assume?

Some of them smoke the barley by blowing the smoke from burning peat over the barley. Was a surprise to me as I had thought that it was peaty water that gave the whisky its flavour. They blow the smoke from burning peat to get a more peaty flavour. Surprise to me as I thought they just used water that had drained from peat bogs.

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Some of them smoke the barley by blowing the smoke from burning peat over the barley. Was a surprise to me as I had thought that it was peaty water that gave the whisky its flavour. They blow the smoke from burning peat to get a more peaty flavour. Surprise to me as I thought they just used water that had drained from peat bogs.

Didn't realise that to be honest, always thought it was just the water and that the smoke came from burning wood.

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By the way - I won't be stopping drinking it, there's plenty peat bog all over Scotland.

[islaydarkblue]

Didn't realise that to be honest, always thought it was just the water and that the smoke came from burning wood.

Living on Islay I know exactly how peated whisky is made and BCram is correct in his explanation of how peated whisky is made.
Nowadays most of the barley is peated at large maltings both on Islay and a large maltings near Inverness.
The maltings malt the peated strength of the barley depending on the requirements of each distillery.
I used to play golf with a distillery worker (now retired) who was employed at Caol Ila distillery which is situated near Port Askaig in north of Islay.
The water in this part of Islay is clear as it flows through rocks whereas the bulk of the peat bogs are situated near the southern end of Islay.
The Caol Ila distillery worker told me that the management of Caol Ila distillery had decided to produce a heavily peated single malt whisky and requested the Maltings in Port Ellen to produced heavily peated malted barley to allow them to produce their heavily peated single malt whisky.
It is possible that Prince Charles also believes that the peat in the Laphroaig Single malt whisky comes from their private water supply but I doubt it as Prince Charles has visited Laphroaig distillery on several occasions where no doubt he will have been told how his favourite heavily peated single malt is produced.