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Dismal numbers at a global warming rally in Missouri:

About 80 people attended a chilly rally that Climate Change Coalition organizers hoped would draw 500.

This protest against global warming would have been more successful if the weather had been warmer. Hmm.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/16/2007 at 11:05 AM
  1. Hey, fire that reporter!  Don’t you know you’re supposed to publish their crowd estimates?  “Organizers estimated the crowd at over 10,000…”

    Posted by Patricia on 2007 04 16 at 11:15 AM • permalink

  2. In New York we’re having the coldest April I can remember, and that was before the current Nor’Easter hit.

    Anecdotal, you say? Well, isn’t all the evidence FOR global warming anecdotal?

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 04 16 at 11:22 AM • permalink

  3. Here’s the positive spin: they expected 500, and 80 turned up. Harmful emissions reduced by almost 85%. Goal achieved!

    Posted by ErnestBludger on 2007 04 16 at 11:22 AM • permalink

  4. Tim, you clearly haven’t been taught the rules of Crowd Estimation. If the amount is under 100 according to your eye, multiply the amount by 1000. If the amount is between 100 and 1000, multiply the amount by 900. If the amount is between 1000 and 10000, just make up a number. This rule applies from 10,000 onwards.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 16 at 11:22 AM • permalink

  5. And we’ve had one of the ten coldest Februarys too.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 04 16 at 11:36 AM • permalink

  6. Got to be room for a Lancet joke here…

    Posted by murph on 2007 04 16 at 11:41 AM • permalink

  7. FWIW, here in the California hinterlands (the high desert northeast of LA), we had the coldest January in more than 30 years: at one point, more than a week of 10°F (-12°C) temperatures; dead or seriously damaged palm trees everywhere you look…

    This protest against global warming would have been more successful if the weather had been warmer. Hmm.

    I think it has become abundantly clear that the Left, in all its flavors, is impervious to irony.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 16 at 11:46 AM • permalink

  8. No doubt when the temperatures get warmer (criminy, if they ever do), more people will come out:  students who want to get out of the classroom and get some sun, bored housewives, assorted nutballs who like to dress in costume, and old geezers who need something to do.  But frankly, I think “global climate change” has just about run its course on the interestometer.  It’s being flogged constantly everywhere you turn to the point of sheer annoyance.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 04 16 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  9. Got to agree with RebeccaH. Green Fatigue has got to be setting in. Who can stand to live with constant hectoring, lecturing, do-gooding, badgering, fish-wifing, nagging, hagging, and wheedling from a populace obviously uninterested in really doing anything other than getting its hands on the whip?

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 04 16 at 12:13 PM • permalink

  10. It wasn’t just anywhere in Missouri.  It was at the University of Missouri - Columbia.  We’re talking about a bastion of liberal thought, at least for Missouri. 

    If you can’t attract 500 protesters at a university, where can you get them?

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 16 at 02:23 PM • permalink

  11. If you can’t attract 500 protesters at a university, where can you get them?

    Downtown San Francisco is always a good source.  Lots of homeless.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 04 16 at 03:29 PM • permalink

  12. The problem with you right wingers is that you get weather and climate confused.

    If it is colder than ‘normal’, it is weather.

    If it is warmer than ‘normal’, it is climate.

    Please make a note of it.

    Posted by moptop on 2007 04 16 at 03:35 PM • permalink

  13. No!  You FOOLS!  Don’‘t you SEE!  It’s getting colder because the world is getting warmer!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 16 at 03:37 PM • permalink

  14. Meanwhile, a couple of hours to the east, the National Rifle Association’s 2007 Convention was drawing more than 60,000 attendees (I and my three sons among them).  There’s a lesson here, kiddies.

    Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 04 16 at 09:27 PM • permalink

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