And yet…it was claimed to be a “success”. Note to organizers: the media is laughing at you.
Snowstorm squelches climate change protest
By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 12/30/2009 06:36:58 PM MST
A downtown [Salt Lake City] protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday’s snowstorm.
“Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.
It didn’t take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they’d planned to use for their “scream-in,” an outlet for their frustration about the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks earlier this month to curb the pollution blamed for climate change.
Still, they chatted with a few passers-by during the commuter-hour protest near the Gateway, and explained that, blizzard aside, climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate, said Major.
She called Wednesday evening’s effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it’s not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.
“There is always the irony element,” Major said.
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Here’s the original announcement from KCPW in Salt Lake:
Protesters Scream for Climate Change
12.30.2009 by Elizabeth Ziegler
(KCPW News) Climate change activists will stage a “scream-in” today at the Gateway Mall in downtown Salt Lake City to vent their frustrations about the Copenhagen Accord adopted by global leaders two weeks ago. University of Utah student Cléa Major says the demonstration is intended to call attention to the fact that the accord doesn’t require countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Basically we want your average shopper to go home tonight after work and say, ‘Man, you know, I was returning my Christmas gift and there were these people screaming on the sidewalk, you know, what’s that all about?’” Major says. “We wanted to make an impression on people and we wanted to maybe put it in a location where it wasn’t necessarily expected to get people out of the post-Christmas haze to just sort of listen.”
Major sees the Copenhagen Accord as a failure, akin to the cap and trade legislation, The American Clean Energy and Security Act, that activists had hoped would set the tone in Copenhagen. The bill has stalled in the Senate after garnering a narrow margin of support in the House of Representatives this summer. All three of Utah’s Congressmen voted against it.
Major says the scream-in will be cathartic for those participating, who see the Copenhagen Accord as a missed opportunity to reverse climate change.
“We just all felt so helpless, we felt betrayed by this,” Major says. “We felt helpless and we felt furious because it was like we had just been looking to this to be the big thing that could turn it around or at least be a major jumping off point. And it just kind of stalled and failed and now there’s kind of this feeling of we don’t really know where to go next.”
The scream-in takes place at 5:30 p.m. on the northwest corner of 400 West and 200 South at the Gateway Mall.
The Gore Effect is the one aspect of climate (or is it weather?) that can be predicted with almost 100% accuracy!
;))
“There is always the irony element,” Major said.
Indeed. It’s worse than we thought! 🙂
Poor deluded young idiots.
Perhaps reality will eventually bite when they actually have to support themselves.
The “scream-in” was the literal expression of “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Is it mean-spirited of me to chuckle?
I just wish Ms. Major would take a moment to do some primary research. She’s supposed to be at an institution of higher learning, after all.
Learn more, “scream in” less.
Mark
“Basically we want your average shopper to go home tonight after work and say, ‘Man, you know, I was returning my Christmas gift and there were these people screaming on the sidewalk, you know, what’s that all about?’”
Uh, yeah… you’re freaking crazy!!!
“I’ll scream and scream and scream ’til …. I’m frozen!”
When strangers scream at me, my first thought will not be “what’s that all about?” My first thought will be “Now where did I put that firehose?”.
Poor babies, they’re furious.
Somehow I can’t help but think that Gaia is not entirely convinced by the “consensus”.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It was a wopper of a snow storm too.
I’m a student at the UofU, too bad they cannot find some better to protest about
like Nuclear waste from Italy being stored in Utah. I guess when the Ice Age comes the UofU climate protesters will be frozen and Italian Nuclear waste will provide a warming glow across utah.
There is no anomaly of stupidity.
6 people?!? A success?!? And it gets coverage from the MSM in the area!? It is to laugh.
In contrast, a “Tea Party” with hundreds of protesters gets ignored, even though it was probably more impactful and resonated better with the general populace. And many Tea Parties involved people standing around in inclement weather.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I’m waiting for an ‘Anti-Global Warming Protestors Treated For Hypothermia’ headline. But until then, Happy New Year all!
Had I known I’m sure I could have rounded up at least a dozen counter-protesters. I know several people in my neighborhood who would gladly have gone with me.
We could have sung “Hide the Decline” to the warmists. I’m bummed!
They felt betrayed because the world didn’t give them what they want? Maybe they could ask themselves why the world disagreed with them.
But yeah, “climate chaos” is the new buzz phrase.
If they want “a major jumping off point” they could try the Golden Gate Bridge.
“‘Man, you know, I was returning my Christmas gift and there were these people screaming on the sidewalk, you know, what’s that all about?’” “Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.
Somehow, I knew she wasn’t an engineering major.
Hahahaha…
“now there’s kind of this feeling of we don’t really know where to go next.”
I can think of a few places…..
A Happy New Year to Anthony and all his helpers.
Presumably the real issue here is that they feel their parents just didn’t lavish them with enough attention as they were growing up but I can’t help feeling that if their political arguments cannot be put forward in a more constructive way than standing on street corners literally screaming at people then it is maybe time for them to find a new hobby.
The one thing that seems to be unaddressed by all this so far is that no one seems to notice the scale of what is proposed:
If we universally accept that the industrial activity over the last 110 years has increased the global temperature by 1.5C and we then set a goal to limit any future increase, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think it would require the same amount of energy to apply the brakes?
Or is it as simple as breaking a fat dog’s plate?
White is black and black is white to a catastrophic global alarmist. Negative feedback becomes positive and good becomes bad. I must read Alice in Wonderland again. I suggest Clea have a nice warm cup of coco to calm down and take a nap. In the morning she could vent her frustrations by volunteering in a homeless shelter and actually helping someone instead of wasting her breath trying to save something that neither is in danger nor can be saved by her.
Should have rented an ice cream truck. Get it? Ice…cream…i…scream…oh never mind.
Of course, there would be a certain irony to that too. 😉
Does screaming cause global warming? ;-> All that violent expulsion of carbon dioxide must have an impact.