Here’s an eyewitness account of the march that walked backwards. From the Resident Judge of Port Phillip:
Yes, there we were on a day that seemed particularly un-globally warm, with our hands on the shoulders of the person in front of us, walking back wards along the length of the City Square.
Walk with the people, not the polluters! Climate action now! (Ouch, ouch!)
as the person in front of me (aka Mr Judge) stepped on my toes as we were were “moving backwards” for climate change, as distinct from “moving forward” as we all were at the start of this election campaign a very l-o-n-g five weeks ago.
(There’s Mr Judge looking all rugged up for global warming to the left of the woman holding the white banner). Back, back we shuffled, “walk with the people…” etc. until I could feel the crowd pressing behind me. Was there about to be a dreadful crush? “Tree, tree” hissed someone behind me, and sure enough I turned round to find myself pressed up against one of the few spotted gums that survive the blasted heath of our so-called City Square.
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Inconveniently, a few climate sceptics showed up to spoil the cold and backwards event . Hmmm, seems “OK” when these guys and this guy does it.
Image from: climatesceptics.com.au
From 7News Australia:
Police were called in to break up a scuffle between protesters at the Walk Against Warming in Adelaide.
About half a dozen police arrived in Victoria Square just after the start of the rally, aimed at raising awareness on climate change and the environment.
John Rice, organiser with the Climate Emergency Action Network, said climate change sceptics had arrived unexpectedly to disrupt the rally.
One had pushed his megaphone into his face, prompting him to call police.
The sceptics, who numbered fewer than half a dozen, wore T-shirts bearing the words CRAP (Carbon Really Ain’t Pollution). One of them led what appeared to be a Rottweiler cross.
A police spokesman later said the sceptics had “crashed” the event, causing a disturbance, but no one was charged with an offence.
The rally, which attracted several hundred people, was one of a series of Walk Against Warming events happening nationally.
Full story here
h/t to WUWT reader John Howard
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Compare (thanks to Tom Nelson):
Last year’s event attracted 10,000 participants, double the size of the 2008 event.
Walk Against Warming Brisbane 2010 attracts 3000 supporters
Actor Jack Thompson, who demanded action on climate change for the sake of future generations, estimated that 3000 people took part in today’s event, but organisers said the figure was more like 8000.
Catchcries included “What do we want, renewable energy; when do we want it, now,’’ and the strongly worded ‘‘No coal, no oil, we don’t want our world to boil“.
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Walking that way, I guess they wont be able to outrun: The Walking Monster of Climate Change kills 300,000 each year.
But freezing your butts off walking backwards protesting against energy- no irony there.
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Here’s a taste of the late great Spike Milligan with his Goons ‘Walking Backwards for Christmas’.
Spike was an honorary Aussie.
I mean, what is it about these people? They hold global warming rallies in the winter? We’ve seen this nonsense here in Oz, Copenhagen, Hansen in the snow and Monbiot in the sleet.
Come on Jim! What happened to the genius you showed back in ’88? (Mind you it’s not so easy to turn the AC off outside…)
Anyone know where to get a T-shirt?
I knew that Australians were mad , but I had never seen them in action . Is it possible that drinking beer out of oil cans can lead to this ?
Seriously , though , I love the tee shirt . How do you get one ?
Too many German immigrants in Australia. You’re doomed.
I’d love a t-shirt as well.
Let them walk backward. Back to the Middle Ages where they want to go. If I had to go back somewhere it would be back to the Steam Age when the inventive spark was alive and well and we were laying tracks into the Future.
Maybe subconsciously they know how backward the AGW science is and decide to emulate it?
BTW I was in Darling Harbour at the time – this was a total none event in Sydney – plus we had a quick downpour and some lighting thrown in..
So the autopsy says they died of climate change? 300,000 each year?
Walking backwards!!!! You really have to wonder if the people who organise these things are in on the joke.
In keeping with most climate change rallies there was a temperature plunging in most of Australia’s major cities on the weekend. If this keeps up these clowns really will tip us back into an ice age.
I want one of those t-shirts.
Repeat everybody: “Polluters, united, will never be defeated!”
In the southern hemisphere we are in an urgent need of producing much more CO2, the sooner the better!
This is about the single most ridiculous story I have seen come out of the climate change wars. Walking backwards for climate? Wot the ‘ell is THAT supposed to prove??
and then – you can’t “crash” a PUBLIC march – do they think they own the streets?
and just what is a “Rottweiler cross”???
and boy, do THEY have a limited imagination: “Catchcries included “What do we want, renewable energy; when do we want it, now,’’
Why not “What do we want, Light Sabers and Hyperspace Drive! When do we want it, NOW!!!”
Isn’t it wonderful how they pull big scarry numbers out of the…air. What do they think is going to heat their home? How do they think electricity is generated. Do they know? Do they care?
William says:
August 15, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Let them walk backward. Back to the Middle Ages where they want to go. If I had to go back somewhere it would be back to the Steam Age when the inventive spark was alive and well and we were laying tracks into the Future.
Agreed: here is my favorite Steam Locomotive.(FYI had two uncles and a cousin fire
and engineer that big beast.) Union Pacific’s 844: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6rvbu7Cps It would freak the protest participants out in a
cascade of unburned hydrocarbons and righteously generated C02…
How many people here walking backwards, drove to the protest in their cars?
Catchcries included “What do we want, renewable energy; when do we want it, now,’’ and the strongly worded ‘‘No coal, no oil, we don’t want our world to boil“.
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I hope then that they live as they chant – It would be hypocritical to live in a house with electricity, use a computer, or drive a car.
If they want to be eco-nuts then by all means let them do so – in a cave, back with nature. Oh – but please don’t force that world-view onto me.
Walking backwards is very prophetic. Because by listening to these so-called scientists, science has been taken back to before the Renaissance. If they keep going backwards, science will be back to what it was at the stone age.
Henry chance says:
August 15, 2010 at 4:18 pm
“So the autopsy says they died of climate change? 300,000 each year?”
A lot of them were in South America where people were freezing to death, in addition to fish, turtles, crocs, wild and domestic animals – Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Uraguay and even Brazil! Snow on the beaches!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/20/cold-snap-freezes-south-america-beaches-whitened-some-areas-experience-snow-for-the-first-time-in-living-memory/
They were bundled up like in Australia but they weren’t walking backwards for Global Warming mitigation.
Looking at the picture, it looks like there’s a whole 125 people there – and they’re all freezing their butts off. Good timing guys. Maybe they should be calling it Global Freezing.
CRAP!
The T-Shirts are available at Zazzle.com – I have the CRAP logo on my car, and I wear a “Green is the new red” T-shirt from them.
As an aside, I attended a rally on Saturday at Tweed Heads in NSW, a fishing community which is about to be shut down because of ridiculous No Take zones being established by Labor to shore up the Green vote. A Green candidate showed up, and damn near got beaten up.
I believe we should allow protests, but if we disagree with the issue being protested, we should stay away.
P Walker and others “Seriously , though , I love the tee shirt . How do you get one ?”
Old Aussie tradition. Boys don’t get the T-shirts. You turn up with a girl with a smashing figure, she puts it on over her bare top and you throw a large can of cold Fosters over her. Then you take a photo and if she compares well with the gallery, you get to pay for the T-shirt. The bumps are a bit like a dew point measurement, in duplicate of course, that’s the scientific way.
I guess we will just have to keep throwing the body count from freezing temperatures at the warmists faces till the get the message.
“Peru declares state of emergency amid plunging temperatures Hundreds die from extreme cold in remote mountain villages also struggling with severe poverty
“Peru has declared a state of emergency after hundreds of children died from freezing conditions that have seen temperatures across much of the South American country plummet to a 50-year low. In 16 of Peru’s 25 regions, temperatures have fallen below -24C.”
Reports from the country say 409 people, most of them children, have already died from the cold, with temperatures predicted to fall further in coming weeks.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/01/peru-freezing-weather-emergency
Geoff – We do a similar thing here , but with water . It would be a shame to waste that beer .
“Geoff Sherrington says:
August 15, 2010 at 6:02 pm
P Walker and others “Seriously , though , I love the tee shirt . How do you get one ?”
Old Aussie tradition. Boys don’t get the T-shirts. You turn up with a girl with a smashing figure, she puts it on over her bare top and you throw a large can of cold Fosters over her. Then you take a photo and if she compares well with the gallery, you get to pay for the T-shirt. The bumps are a bit like a dew point measurement, in duplicate of course, that’s the scientific way.”
That settles it, science seems to be alive in Australia, me and the misses are moving!
You do have room for a climate skeptic to move there right? (Or should I call myself a denialist like my hippie relatives do?)