I had to laugh. This sort of thing makes it entertaining. Two whole protesters in Brisbane. David Archibald and Bob Carter went down to have a look. These folks were part of Dr. Ove’s en masse protest he fomented on his Climate Shifts blog.
Jo Nova writes:
Sometimes there’s just no point. Do they think ad hominem is a spice in an Arabic dip? What can you say?
Just smile and go back to doing your damnedest to work for free so that they and their children might have a bit more freedom from tyranny and a bit more of their hard earned cash in their wallet. If you succeed, they’ll probably never thank you, but it’s still a job worth doing. Cheers!
Anthony Watts, and David Archibald will be speaking in Melbourne Tuesday night. Don’t miss your last chance to see the heroes of the grassroots independent scientists. Read my thoughts on Anthony and David. Get more info from the Climate Sceptics.
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For the record, the tour is funded by ticket, book, and DVD sales, with guarantors for expenses that are private individuals. There’s no corporations involved. It’s being done on a shoestring, just like my surfacestations project.
If there were fossil fuel companies pushing funds, do you think David Archibald, Bob Carter and I, would have spent that night at the Hotel George Williams in Brisbane? It’s just a short walk away from the Queensland Irish Club were the event was held. Check out the room. I stayed in one just like this there. The bargain rate for us “fossil fuelers”? $89AU
I’ve made forts out of refrigerator boxes as a kid that were bigger. Even the wide angle lens doesn’t help much.
Yeah “big oil” is funding us and we get crackerboxes. What a load of tosh, still funny though.
Oh, and after seeing the sign at the desk, a song from the Village People kept bouncing around in my head that night.
After watching Dr. Ove and his antics, it was comic relief.
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Thank you for all your work, and your sanity, and your modesty. Are you coming to England anytime soon?
Read the small print on the sign in his left hand.
Pretty much says it all.
The poster on the top right has “socialist alliance” printed across the bottom.
Those clowns show up everywhere – they are almost like a “rent a protest” crowd.
Looks like a good time was had by all (all both of the protesters).
Where is MY big oil money???? I have been posting comments on blogs and pushing the scientific method of climate study, debunking CAGW for all I am worth…
I am now skint! I WANT MY OIL MONEY DAMMIT!!!
What??? What do you mean big oil funds the Alarmists??? Typical. I chose the side of truth and no money, and they chose the side of corruption and wealth and lies.
Thanks for the work you do Anthony and the others.
I live on the gulf in SWFL, and I can tell you, ground up oiled pelicans being used as fuel, is not funny. We are now conducting test beach cleaning runs of what to do if the oil reaches us and our beaches.
I hope there are trials, then all the government malfeasance will come out. Heck we all know BP caused the spill, but we need to understand the rest of the story. Starting with how did a risky single casing well get approved by MMS?
You can’t compare with Gold funding (Ove – Gulberg= Gold-berg=Mountain of Gold)
Curious isn’ it? Goldmann, Gulberg, Goldberg, gold, gold everywhere…will they turn carbon into gold?
Talking of oil… six weeks before the blowout, the White-House was told by BP that there were problems with the Deepwater Horizon well. The president, apparently, didn’t mention this fact when he recently met the families of the 11 workers who died.
kevinmccullough.townhall.com
What you, David and Robert and the other volounteers is doing for us, is just unbelieveable.
Its a great initiative!
Thanks Robert, David and Anthony!
Dr. Ove looked very happy. I know why. He has the resources of Governments and the media on his side. And “Science Mag.” pluss “Nature”. WWF, Greenpeace, IPCC etc et. Even BP. A formidable machine. The Borg.
What do we have? More and more ordinary people pluss scientists. Scientists who dare speak out against The Borg.
En masse? That’s quite a mass.
Love the chair. I’m wondering why they bothered.
tarpon says:
June 21, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I live on Sanibel Island in the Gulf. As a biochemist in Animal and Human health areas, I felt myself obliged to volunteer for cleanup if the oil reaches us.
I received back a form letter saying my help was not allowed, because I was not trained properly. The letter also mentioned that I should keep away from the oil, as it is a “highly toxic” environmental chemical!
I am thinking twice about pumping my own gas. An oil change is out of the question. I don’t see how I can even drive a car now, since it is full of the highly toxic ingredients.
God save us all.
Some interesting pics of the Gulf here, showing thousands of drilling rigs, sea floor topography, etc.
And for Enneagram: someone has finally robbed Fort Knox.
Smokey says:
June 21, 2010 at 2:11 pm
From the beginning this was a 21st.century updated alchemical method for making gold out of pouring the empty into the void or, as it was described, by issuing “carbon credits” and selling “carbon shares”.
Their ability to performing these kind of miracles is as proverbial as ours for not making money ☺
Obama took all your big oil money during his campaign, so you’re all skruwed.
I noticed that the Hotel George Williams website says:
All standard hotel rooms feature natural light
That cracked me up. Woohoo! 🙂
The http://www.socialist-alliance.org plays right into your hands i think… They should have themselves renamed like the SED (Sozialistische Einheistpartei Deutschlands) – they call themselves now Die Linke (The Left) which sounds… well, less socialistic.
This scientist and general skeptical and one who suffers fools poorly, would sure like to know how I can access this “gravy train”. I wounder if the protesters, who apparently well informed could tell me?
tarpon says:
June 21, 2010 at 1:35 pm
” Heck we all know BP caused the spill, but we need to understand the rest of the story. Starting with how did a risky single casing well get approved by MMS?”
Here’s something for starters… a very revealing story, hot off the presses as they say:
“The Spill, The Scandal and the PresidentThe inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder”
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965
When using the global warming hoax as a stalking horse it may be an idea to actually hide behind it. Not ride on its back wearing a Che Gueuvra t-shirt, waving a hammer and sickle flag and singing the Internationale…
Do they think ad hominem is a spice in an Arabic dip?
I thought it was aftershave.
“Do they think ad hominem is a spice in an Arabic dip?
I thought it was aftershave.”
I thought it was something from that Outer Limits cookbook, “To Serve Man.”
Anthony,
The Australian AGW debate has been so brainwashed to believe Big oil, big energy company, big coal, and fossil fuel is against them. The CSIRO crowd still thinks they could attack crowds by starting their articles and discussion with — big oil, big fossil, big coal and big energy generators are funding the skeptics. They think people will just get brainwashed by repeating and repeating this mantra. Some may believe all the time but they do make their own internet search. Big oil, big electricity generators and fossil companies are the one making money with the cap and trade. They have the network to distribute new energy, they could ride one the green movement (just like BP). So CRU is funded by big oil and big electricity generator, the Muir inquiry had BP big shots. Pachaury and the IPCCC big boys stays in 5 star hotels. If the AGW crowd has to gain again the public trust, they need a new mantra.
Maybe if the AGW types stayed at the YMCA they would have a closer experience of reality. From the list on the sign, what you and the Y accomplish mean that A$89 was well spent. At last an NGO with useful “direct action”.
A caption competition would be in order. What slogans should they have on those banners? Anyone good at photoshop?
All that big oil money I get, wowee.
David did send me a softcopy of his book, thank you David.
What intially struck me as out-of-character about the Deep Horizons explosion was that the surviving crew was sequestered from the MSM for weeks. If it were a coal-mine disaster, they’d have mikes stuck in the survivors faces for days on end.
The best foot never came forward on this whole thing.
I remain highly suspicious of at least ulterior motives.