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Montreal, 2005:
Tens of thousands of people ignored frigid temperatures Saturday to lead a worldwide day of protest against global warming.
Sydney, 2006:
Thousands of people have marched through central Sydney, ignoring wet and windy weather to protest against global warming.
As required by protest report law, the piece prominently mentions strollers:
Families pushing strollers, elderly couples, dreadlocked activists and vocal youngsters joined forces to call for action on climate change.
Peak temperature today? Only 18.1 degrees celsius, about 5.5 degrees below the average maximum.
Torrential rain dampened crowd numbers and drowned out speeches at the rally in Brisbane, where thousands were expected but only 1500 showed up.
- I can’t figure what’s worse for those kids: these kinds of outings, or being born to those kinds of parents!Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 11 04 at 03:02 AM • permalink
- Not the legions of vocal youngsters! Anything but that!
With their vast experience and scientific knowledge and all. We must be doomed if they say so.Posted by Crusader-Rabbit on 2006 11 04 at 03:07 AM • permalink
- For the Celsius challenged, 18.1° C is equal to 64.6° F.
The average maximum (23.6° C) is equal to 74.5° F.
And, yes, I used a calculator.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 04 at 03:38 AM • permalink
- By the way, tomorrow the temp here is supposed to max out atround 10° C, and I am supposed to be working outside. So send some of that 18.1° C up here, would you, Australia?Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 04 at 03:50 AM • permalink
- What neither the ABC nor Fairfax will report is who organises these demonstrations of community concern, as to reveal in reality they’re just the same old environmental activist groups would betray their political and ideological partisanship.
Google the contact names at walkagainstwarming.org and you get a laundry list of Nature Conservation Council, Friends of the Earth, etc activists.
The ABC evening news led its bulletin with the protest, naturally.
- All activism can be described according to one of two formulas: [surprisingly small number of] people marched in [place], ignoring [aspect of reality], to demand[implementation of reality they are ignoring]
or [surprisingly small number of] people marched in [place], ignoring [aspect of reality], to protest [opposite of said reality, which protesters claim is reality].
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 11 04 at 05:05 AM • permalink
- Re: #8,
Issued at 5:15 pm WST on Saturday 4 November 2006Warning summary
Severe Thunderstorm Warning.Forecast for Saturday evening
Shower or two and a possible squally thunderstorm. Fresh to strong and gusty
E’ly winds possible reaching gale force at times.#12, Yup, I wonder why mother Gaia hates tree huggers so much….
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 04 at 05:37 AM • permalink
- a worldwide day of protest against global warming
Only the left would be stupid enough to protest against the weather.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 04 at 06:03 AM • permalink
- That’s progress for you.
#15, they’re not called ‘progressives’ for nothing then.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 04 at 06:59 AM • permalink
- Damn, I was in the Sydney CBD this morning (shivering, in clothing designed for 23.6 +/-4 deg C) and I didn’t see a bit of this. Then on the way home I saw a girl carrying a home-made Save the Polar Bears poster as I was getting off the train. Shouldn’t that have been a Save the Penguins banner? This is the Southernhemisphere.
- Just sat down to a work function dinner and had a workmates wife ask if I’d seen the Al Gore polemic. I obligingly said that I had missed it. I was then harangued for about 10 minutes on how every lefty talking point was being ignored by the government and how we should all ‘do something’. When I asked what she personally was going to do about China and India’s industrial output, she reverted to type and met it with drivel. I had to be taken by the hand and moved by my other half to prevent immediate reduction of carbon output from their breathing by my beating them to death. Gobsmackingly fucking stupid as to beggar belief.
- Child to parents who have dragged him out into the wet and cold to protest glowball warmening: “Mummy, Daddy, why don’t you want it to get warm? I’m cold!” Parents to child: “Moonstar! We told you that you are supposed to call us by our first names, Wyndchilde and Niles. Terms like ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ are code words the patriarchy uses to oppress wimmyn and children! Now be quiet, chillblains and a good bout of the croup build character.”Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 04 at 09:34 AM • permalink
- That’s the problem with the weather, everyone protests about it but no one does anything about it.
And CB #19, if you snuffed them, it would be carbon neutral (or even a carbon savings). Yes, they would expel alot of CO2 during their death throes but they’d cease consuming and become fully carbon neutral. And I think that you have to send a cheque to Russia, too, or something like that to make it official.
P.S. It’s 5°C below average here in Southern Ontario, and there’s been another big, early snowstorm in the region dumping 25cm/10”.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 04 at 09:35 AM • permalink
- Just watching the Beeb here in London. There is lucky to be 1000 people in Trafalgar Square. It’s absolutely friggin’ freezing here – about 3C with strongish breeze. There are people in the background of the shot with wool hats, scarves and jackets. They’re rubbing and blowing on their hands. Absurdity is thy name.
Peak temperature today? Only 18.1 celsius, about 5.5 degrees below the average maximum.
I’m used to using the old reliable English measurement standards of Fahrenheit (and inches, yards, miles, ounces, and gallons). Everytime I see a temperature in Celsius, I mistake it for Kelvin.
Whoa! That’s pretty cold.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 04 at 09:49 AM • permalink
- 18.1 Kelvin? Not only is that pretty cold, it may even be enough to stop these raving moonbats going on about globular womanising.
What with the frozen oxygen in their lungs and all…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 04 at 11:41 AM • permalink
- 8. phil_b
Severe thunderstorm warning current for Perth. Hail, flooding and damaging winds.
I initially misread that as “Hilali, flooding and damaging winds.”
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 04 at 12:01 PM • permalink
- The absurdity and unintentional irony of the Left never ceases to amaze me, but this takes the cake. Didn’t they bother to check the weather reports, even? Didn’t any organizers of the march look out the window, see the rain, and say “Uh, this might not be a good day to convince the world that it’s frying?”Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2006 11 04 at 12:35 PM • permalink
- Exactly how many families were pushing elderly couples? Shouldn’t this kind of abuse against the wrinklies (excuse me, persons of wrinkle) be condemned?
Families pushing strollers, elderly couples, dreadlocked activists and vocal youngsters joined forces to call for action on climate change.
In other words,exactly the demographic that’s home during the day to watch television. Privatise now!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 04 at 05:07 PM • permalink
Families pushing strollers, elderly couples, dreadlocked activists and vocal youngsters joined forces to call for action on climate change.
i.e., the dregs of polite society.
And, as others have alluded, why don’t these mor…umm, climate changists plan these marches for the middle of a record breaking heatwave. Not that said heatwave would have any connection to Global Warming®, but at least the protest might be more believable.
- The kids should push the parents in the strollers; but then they’d be dope pushers.
I heard the report of these protests on the news last night.
“Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Sydney and Melbourne.” Then later it was clarified, about ten thousand in one city and 12 thousand in the other, with smaller gatherings in other capital cities.
persons of wrinkle
By God, I so intend on using that.
Posted by Major John on 2006 11 04 at 06:09 PM • permalink
- Is there any chance we can persuade these people to march in actual blizzards? Let’s get Darwin on our side,people…!Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 04 at 06:28 PM • permalink
- In Adelaide we had the Annual Christmas Pageant instead. Father Christmas is the highlight.
Temp was about 70, so FC complained ‘bitterly’ about the heat from behind his huge beard, as he usually does down here.
He then hopped on a plane for the Sydney AGW March, naturally.
Next year he’s relocating to South Pole, Antarctica, sans reindeer. Hopes to use Emperor Penguins.
Serves you right, Northern Hemispherians.
- When I am out strolling, I really get a little upset, shall we say, when famillies come up and start pushing me. What have I done to deserve this, I ask. Why are strollers persecuted whilst peripatetists and promenaders are allowed to wander around unmolested?Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:36 PM • permalink
- #4 I was out leafletting, or distributing flyers, today in Ottawa. 0C was the max.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:39 PM • permalink
- #10 Bonjour Triteness, I bestow upon you the Noam Chomsky Prize for Deconstruction.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:43 PM • permalink
- #12 Rexie, Gaia is taking A piss.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:45 PM • permalink
- #18 Brett, good point. These people should go to the Canadian High Commission if they want to save the polar bears .. we have the complete set.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 07:49 PM • permalink
- #41 I think most people in Darwin will enjoy a blizzard when I arrive.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 04 at 08:02 PM • permalink
- They claim that 10,000 people turned up to this demonstration in Melbourne yesterday. Contrast that with a crowd of 130,000 who watched a horse race at the same time.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 04 at 08:33 PM • permalink
- And now iht.com we read:
Blackout leaves 5 million without power in France. They need warming. Throw a few cars on the fire?Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 11 04 at 09:10 PM • permalink
- If these people are so concerned about climate change why don’t they do something themselves instead of getting the government to do it.
How many of these protestors have one four-wheel drive and another car of some description in the driveway and a fair chunk of house which needs heating and cooling. Nothing wrong with that of course, unless you start demanding the Govt discount a solar hot water system or set up a bureacracy to hand out carbon credits to people who use less energy but can least afford to be taxed on top it.
They should use their own money – invest super in alternative energy companies so they don’t need public assistance, sell one of their cars and walk to the shops every now and then or buy their own freaking solar panels.
But don’t get a self-congratulatory stiffy by marching and telling every body else to pay for your warm and fuzzy feelings.
Where people get the idea that a govt department is going to either solve a problem or spend money wisely is beyond me.
Do it your fucking self, morons
- re #52, -40 C = -40 F, mojo. That I knew without the calculator. And half drunk, to boot!!!!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 05 at 02:32 AM • permalink
Do it your fucking self, morons
The main problem with greenies, Prez, is that they are unwilling to sacrifice for themselves.
“Someone else must pay the price!” sez the typical envirotard, “That’s what taxes are for, right? I’ll just go home, turn on the television, nuke me some supper, and watch myself on the news. I saved the environment by march, I did! Some other slob can do the actual work.”
Come to think of it, the same is true for lefties. But that’s another story.
In the meantime, fuck ‘em all. The solid people of the earth will do what’s needed, while the idiots worry about where their next double latte is coming from.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 05 at 02:39 AM • permalink
- I was at Circular Quay at around I.00 pm yesterday when the march wemt by. A few observations.
Firstly, it was a large crowd. It took about 25 minutes for the parade to pass ne by. I would have said between 10 and 15 thousand.
Crowd full of the usual suspects, schoolgirls, school teachers and other people in those taxpayer funded jobs that aren’t subject to performance audits [uncluding the UWS Staff Association], lots of septegenarian lesbians, the standard GetUp and Resistance crews. Lots of families, including a few interracial couples [noted that if the whitey is a bloke, he’s always ugly and badly dressed] but no women with head scarves and no MOMEA [interestingly, every security guard in Sydnet seems to be a MOMEA].
On the other hand, lots of what appeared to be ordinary people with genuine concern, misguided or not.
Also noticed a lot of the marchers having a post protest lunch at the MCA Cafe, by no means a down market venue!!
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2006 11 05 at 02:43 AM • permalink
- This weekend’s Illawarra Mercury (Fairfax), ran a story about a woman who claims her 6 year old child has nightmares and can’t sleep because of worry about global warming.
(No link unfortunately). The child’s mother says he just like, can see this big problem and it worries him and he can’t sleep.Brainwashing a six year old child about climate change is child abuse. Simple as that!
- #55
The main problem with greenies, Prez, is that they are unwilling to sacrifice for themselves.
I know TRJ and I am only 25. Why don’t the rest of them see that this kind of thing is going to cost them a lot of money on behalf of people who don’t give a shit about the consequences for ordinary folk.
When they start giving up their luxuries, I may reluctantly support their sacrifices, but they are hypocrites of the highest order.
- Saw the front page of the Sun-Herald today, it said that Cate Blanchett “one of the world’s most important actors” was at the demonstration. Can the world really afford Cate taking time out from her busy schedule, of pretending to be someone else, to pretend to do something about global warming.
I admit don’t really get how an actor can be important, self-important – perhaps. What sort of catastrophe would occur if she didn’t act? how many people would die?
Would planes fall out of the sky? One can’t help wondering if Coldplay’s U2’s, Al Gore’s private jets all fell out of the sky as a result, would global warming be dramatically reduced or just global hypocrisy.
When they start giving up their luxuries, I may reluctantly support their sacrifices, but they are hypocrites of the highest order.
They’ll give up their creature comforts when pigs fly, Prez. So you’re safe. 🙂
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 05 at 12:04 PM • permalink
- How I long for the good old days before Global Warmening when weather wasn’t variable.
And, #43 Wimpy Canadian, perhaps you could practice your sashaying or moseying instead of strolling. Of course, the first is likely to get you a few odd looks, depending on the locale in which you sashay.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 11 05 at 04:51 PM • permalink
- #56 On the other hand, lots of what appeared to be ordinary people with genuine concern, misguided or not
We’ll just call that the ‘German Excuse’ to save time.
1. I was misguided by all the propaganda. I am not to blame.
2. Yes, I joined the pogroms and bashings, but genuinely
3. You can’t expect me to read or think for myself. I have a day job.
4. Yes, I encouraged my kids, but they’re not reponsible either -they’re KIDS..
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