People email me stuff. Sometimes its just too bizarre to ignore. We have another person on an “expedition” with a camera and artistic license to foist upon the world:
From Francesca Galeazzi of the disko.bay expedition, whatever the hell that is:
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavn Fjord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place.
From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by. I thought this is perfect!
I walked to the top of the small hill, I put the cylinder down, got on my knees and opened the valve. The CO2 came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle. When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.
Photo: Nathan Gallagher.
Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven’t done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her ‘bad’ actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!
Don’t you think this is great?
Read the rest here
No, and I think you are beyond art, you’ve launched yourself into the great realm of anti-art with a megadose of idiocy.
What next? posing propane cyclinders with polar bears? Yes the propane and propane accessories signifies the struggle against heat the polar bears must face every day.
Hey it’s art. I have a license.
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“you might think I am an evil horrible woman”
No, just incredibly stupid with a high degree of ignorance and desperate for attention.
I think it’s sort of a protest performance. She goes on to say in her blog how appalling the notion of buying offsets is since it doesn’t really stop the offending behavior. All intended to make us think about the fallacy of the concept of carbon offsets. Similar points have been made by many AGW skeptics.
Sounds like an environmental “purist” making a mockery of the cap-and-trade concept.
“The CO2 came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle.”
Obviously not a happy tune but could it have been Dixie?
Hang on;when CO2 comes out fast it cools the immediate surroundings.That’s the answer-we must not stop emitting CO2,we must emit it faster.
I wish I’d thought of this sooner-I’ve saved the planet!;)
Ugh. Activist, artist, whatever she is, it’s beyond silly. It’s people like these who give the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a bad name. There’s no need to feel guilty about anything. You either reduce your own emissions, or pay for somebody else to reduce theirs. How does it matter who does it, so long as the total amount of emissions goes down?
The main shortfall of offsets is making sure the emissions reduction you’re paying for wouldn’t have happened anyway. That gets tricky.
” almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf…” No, nothing like almost. And what was the temperature while this pointless pantomime was being enacted with the massive icebergs “impassably” floating by in their fragility? Pretty chilly, I bet.
The stupidity of some people is beyond hilarious.
My thought is that she’s trying to show the stupidity of carbon trading and carbon offsets. Read in that tone it’s a statement against these schemes…. actually I see I’m not the first with that thought.
and obviously has no idea where the CO2 in the cylinder came from in the first place ?
‘offending behavior’ is a pseudo-religious perspective on a pseudo-scientific apocalyptic cult.
Who funded her trip to the far North?
Here is what I wrote her, but was blocked by her spam filter:
6kgs of CO2 is exactly and completely unimportant to the climate. You have no need for guilt.
By the way, it was water vapor freezing around your cylinder, not air.
And, also by the way, icebergs are anything but delicate. They are great hills of ice that can and do sink ships. They way many thousands of kilotons.
I hope you enjoyed your trip to Greenland. It will be there long after us, no matter what we do.
The comments behind the article are even better. This from someone called Birdie.
“I’d LOVE to take pictures and project them with text on the icebergs there. I am a writer/photographer/projectionist. Take a picture of a jet & project it as a 40 foot image on a berg with “Weapon of Mass Destruction” in text across it. I have a whole series of photo’s/text ideas like that. But, projecting involves…xenon bulbs and at least 4,000watt ones..and xenon produces…Ozone. Yes, it does. And, I have a pretty good feeling they could explode in the cold. Which means, haha, Carbon Arc for a light source. Carbon Arc light is produced by electric current running across two sticks of…carbon…which when touched together briefly, creates a flaming arc. A reflector then, magnifies the light from the flame and sends it through the slide or motion picture film. It creates a pure white light whereas xenon produces a light more blue in color. I have used carbon arc and xenon for over 30 years to show movies in studios and movie palaces. So, my job either has burned carbon (it puts off carbon monoxide btw) or created ozone. I would love to project huge images of trucks, planes, SUV’s on the bergs and more..with text…and do what I do, making a big point of it all. I am pretty sure I would need to bust out sticks of carbon, to light up the images. Would it be worth it. Ummm….yes, with the right…light and images and text – could feed t-shirts, a calendar, videos for youtube etc, backdrops for concerts, bumper stickers. It could make an impact. Once upon a time, we built fires in caves and did our storytelling…carbon arc and film is the same thing, just more techno than two sticks of wood to get a fire going. The carbon sticks would be shown as part of the process. They look like huge black pencils. Meanwhile, isn’t it interesting how flying all about the world on say, holiday is perfectly acceptable? I mean, isn’t that just a prime example of Eco-Vandalism? Why is that legal? Why do people think nothing of it or driving SUV’s? Hello!
I came up with bumper stickers that have a drawing of a SUV on them that say “Weapon of Mass Destruction” for all kinds of legal reasons…everyone can put them on their own cars and so the tailgating SUV’s can read them. Putting them on other peoples SUV’s – even if it is just a bumper sticker – is vandalism and comes with a fine. Driving an SUV and contributing to climate change, does not involve breaking “the law” nor a fine…other than the consequences and cost of what comes from Climate Change…which is far more serious than a silly little fine…what a strange world we live in….natural law, however, wins out. Oh, yes it does.”
Fortunately Jeez seems to have his feet slightly more on the ground;
“Neo post modernist tripe masquerading as art.
While it is unlikely you will ever grow up, one can only hope that you will help to save the world by foregoing the opportunity to reproduce.”
Mind you this is nothing- don’t forget that article I sent you where some artist is bringing a lump of rock from Svalbard and touring it round the South West of England as part of the Olympics-He is calling it ‘Nowhere island’ and is registering it as a micro nation with the UN. He got £500,000 from our idiotic Arts Council for that stunt.
Francesca is an amateur compared to Nowhere Island.
Tonyb
If she’d held the nozzle underwater in the Jakobshavn Fjord, it would have frozen a whole lot of ice, thus proving that CO2 causes global cooling.
The vegetation appreciates the “plant food” she released.
So, if I read the statement right, it’s going to be a Carbon Neutral world if somebody pays Green Money to compensate for polluting.
Right. Big company can dump and spill all it wants, as long as stupid fishies pay them lots of money. And we’ll call it even after Big Company passes on cost to stupid fishies.
Get paid to be Big Company. What’s not to like?
Just call it what it is: Greenie World tithes to Enslaved World.
Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by.
In the second photo where Fran is blowing the snow around, it appears the snow is underlain by ice. In addition to assumptive computer models, alarmists also must feel the necessity to convince us that we can’t quantify what we actually see.
And yet she has a vote…
Indeed at this level there is little time left…
Yeah, the comments are great:
“Am I proud of your bravery in committing this intentional act of climate change crime? ”
These people are just latter-day hippies; completely oblivious to the real world. The usual offspring of the well-heeled western white middle-classes who can afford to indulge their green fantasies because the day-to-day cares and worries that beset most of the world’s population are simply unknown to them.
Funny as heck though!
Just picked up another “Craziness” item in today’s (Nov 18, 2009) USA Today concerning and Russian “Eco-tourist” icebreaker in Antarctica trapped by the growing icepack. No specific hazards yet, but just reminds me of the winter storms that humiliated so many warmist gatherings last year. Here’s the link
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/2009-11-17-russian-ship-antarctica_N.htm
Zedeker
Well , after reading as much of the Disko Bay site as I could stomach – which wasn’t a lot – I’ve concluded that these people are nuts . If K T Turnstall really wanted to protest carbon emissions , she swould quit touring , stop using electricity , and freeze her ( rather cute ) ass off in Scotland .
“I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven’t done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!!”
The cylinder didn’t generate any CO2 emissions. Someone pumped the CO2 into the cylinder and you let it out. All you did was waste all the energy that was used to fill it.
BTW, this was from 2008 and the expedition was a bunch a celebrities (and thier hangers-on) wasting energy and polluting the west coast of Greenland for a few weeks to show their concern about the environment.
I wish that I could live in LaLa land.
What can you say?
When/IF we do as these people wish and regress back to the stone-age by de-industrialisation to ‘save’ the world (and the polar bears).
How does she think that daddy will be able to finance more trips like this?
(As my dad did say;
“I think we need to increase the medication!”)
This is just too much I can’t take it anymore. And what exactly is going on with Birdie? I’m putting the world on ignore.
Screw guilt.