Hilarity from 350.org, they are following Mooney’s rant: time to act is now right now.
I guess they’ll be known as Mooneys now. Expect weepy Bill McKibben to give a melting oratory.
Giant Ice Sculpture On National Mall to Symbolize the Melting Away of Climate Denialism
WASHINGTON–On Saturday morning, 350.org will unveil a giant sculpture on the National Mall—the word “HOAX?” carved in ice. Given the forecast for highs in the 100s, it will not last long, but organizers say that is the point: it will disappear like the arguments have from climate deniers.
For years, scientists have predicted that increased concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases would lead to more intense heat waves, increased drought, massive wildfires, and more powerful storms. In June, 3,215 daily high temperature records were set; and so far this year, more than 2.1 million acres have burned in wildfires. Today was the 9th straight day in the nation’s capital that has met or exceeded 95 degrees.
News accounts estimated that half of the incoming Republican House class in 2010 denied the existence of man-made climate change. In 2010, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) mocked climate activist with an igloo display not far from the ice sculpture that will be unveiled tomorrow. Recent events–as well as the findings of every major scientific academy in the world–disprove the viewpoint of climate deniers in Congress.
WHAT: A 6-by-12 foot ice sculpture spelling out “HOAX?,” with the Capitol Dome in the background.
WHERE: East side of 3rd St NW, by the Capitol Reflecting Pool.
WHEN: 11AM Saturday, until the sculpture melts. (Set up time is from 10-11am)
WHO: 350.org is displaying the installation. 350.org policy director Jason Kowalski will be availalble to answer questions and do interviews.
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Photos will be available shortly after the unveiling at www.flickr.com/350org
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Let’s see, a 6×12 foot ice sculpture….that’s a lot of ice. Care to take bets on how long it will last? I’m thinking at least until sunset. Forecast for Washington DC tomorrow says:
High 106° Low 84° – this isn’t much different than Dr. Jim Hansen picking a hot Washington day in June 1988 to disable the air conditioning while he addressed the Senate over his global warming concerns. Props…gotta have props.
Dr. James Hansen is getting ready to testify before the Senate on what he thinks is a serious problem, global warming. The sponsor for Dr. Hansen? Senator Tim Wirth.
Dr. James Hansen testifies on global warming, June 1988
If any of you have ever been in Washington DC during the summertime, you’ll be able to relate to this. Senator Timothy Wirth made sure that room was “steamy”. This transcript excerpt is from PBS series Frontline which aired a special in April 2007.
So it goes without saying, that if the case Dr. Hansen was to make before the Senate was so strong, why did Senator Wirth need to make use of cheap stage tricks?
Here he admits his stagecraft in his own words:
TIMOTHY WIRTH: We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6th or June 9th or whatever it was. So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it.
DEBORAH AMOS: [on camera] Did you also alter the temperature in the hearing room that day?
TIMOTHY WIRTH: What we did is that we went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room. And so when the- when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and double figures, but it was really hot.[Shot of witnesses at hearing]
Watch the Frontline video:
UPDATE: Joe Bastardi suggests this graphic is relevant to Hansen’s 1988 testimony to illustrate how warming has stalled:
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I’m pretty sure it would have melted in July 1850 too.
So their proof is an ice sculpture, set up in Washington DC, in the middle of July….
My brain hurts.
So we should expect mass marriages of random people?
Interestingly, while the media blames the current heatwave on Global Warming, we are seeing some of the most active solar flares in quite some time happening this week.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57466468/sun-fires-off-fourth-of-july-solar-flares/
CO2 hasn’t dramitically gone up this past week, has it????
The Sun Heats up at the same time as the Earth Heats up.
Coincidence????
Hopefully somebody out there is watching the Sun instead of just CO2.
I wonder how they carved it. Chainsaw? Gas powered or electric? Or did they daintily chip away at it with stone cutting tools and rock hammers? And, by the way, where precisely did they get that ice. I’d be surprised if they used any form of refrigeration – how very unecological. They must’ve acquired it from an iceberg in the North Sea, sailed it on a log water raft oars a rowing, and then wheeled it pushed and pulled by sturdy volunteers all the while keeping that ice from melting by…
“Symbolize the Melting Away of Climate Denialism”
Are they really this ignorant? (I know, it’s rhetorical) The ranks of us D-worders are rather the opposite of melting away. Just like Antarctic ice, we’re growing every year. Had already had enough of arrogant little twirps today, and I come home to this. SIgh.
“…every major scientific academy in the world.”
Definition of ‘major”: Lots of tax dollars involved.
Definition of ‘scientific’: A Belief System where Heretics are are called ‘Skeptics’ and ‘Believers’ spew malarkey called “Climate Change”.
Definition of ‘academy’: Lots of members receiving tax dollars.
What exactly are they claiming deniers deny? This language is such a smokescreen. We need to put that straight and get the whole debate re-framed per the genuine one going on away from the media’s absurd oversimplification: There is, as I understand it, little controversy about a 1C uptick in temp from a doubling of C02; no controversy that we will have done that by 2100, and no controversy that this is not a threat. The ‘deniers’ are only asking for proof that this 1C will trigger runaway positive feedbacks, and the is PLENTY of controversy about whether that is likely. Can’t the ‘denier’ spokespeople get this message across plainly? So much wasted hot air, as it were, over this straw man thing about people denying warming or denying C02 causes it or denying we are adding C02… let’s cut to the chase.
Just a quick correction. Hansen’s Washington scam presentation was June 1988, not 1998.
[REPLY: Fixed. Thanks. -REP]
Nice to see our friends the green warmies doing some serious science.
Been there, done that, ship has sailed.
Here is a great Senator James Inhofe family igloo built in honor of the former Vice President. Think Progress wrote a wonderful story and included an image from Inhofe’s Facebook.
Hmm, how long will it last Mr Watts? Hmm, well, it’s DC, it’s hot, it will probably have a direct hit from the sun, then the asphalt it will be parked on will also store some nice heat. Taking summers I’ve experienced in many cities on different continents into account… I’d say gone within a week, easily.
Facts don’t matter. It’s public opinion and perceptions that matter. Who’s funding this malarky…big banking, big non-profits?
Could someone blow up a picture of, say, the UAH temperature record since 1998, stick it on a sign mounted next to the ice sculpture with a caption below that says “Warming? What warming?”
The best part is after this little weekend of heat, the highs drop to the mid 80s (with fog on Tuesday?). Sen. Inhofe just needs to step out on Tuesday and make his comment. Not shocking, but, wow… all that money to 350.org and not a competent one in the lot.
It’s important to keep perspective on temperatures. Temps have stalled over the last decade +, but we still are in theory recovering from the Little Ice Age, so it is natural for temps to rise. Rising temps are not a sign of AGW!
What is important is that, with the hockey stick debunked, current temps are not unusual. There is nothing wrong with the climate, it’s that simple. Further, the climate is arguably not affected by CO2. AGW theory was founded by the false ipcc claim of a causal correlation between CO2 & temps; that has been debunked. But maybe 98% of the public doesn’t know that the ipcc duped all of us on CO2; this 3 minute video makes that clear, spread the word: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg
Fred Allen says:
July 6, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Facts don’t matter. It’s public opinion and perceptions that matter. Who’s funding this malarky…big banking, big non-profits?
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Aren’t those pretty much the same thing these days?
When the ice “hoax” photos emerge, WUWT readers with blogs should consider “counter-branding” this PR event by saying the “hoax” that is melting is CAGW fanaticism.
Folks could have a lot of fun with alternate messaging slogans, photo-shopping in polar bears, Michael Mann and climate scientologists (sic) on the Washington Mall, etc. I’m sure some here can think of really juicy ways to make this backfire on the CAGW propagandists….
As the event is in DC how about we reduce the urban heat effect and create shovel ready jobs all in one- remove all the asphalt around DC and put in concrete instead. In order to provide jobs for Florida we could even require that some crushed sea shells to be added into the concrete to increase the reflectivity of the new road surfaces.
Fred Allen says: July 6, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Facts don’t matter. It’s public opinion and perceptions that matter. Who’s funding this malarky…big banking, big non-profits?
Soros, Heinz, Peter Lewis (Progressive – the insurance company, not the movement. Well, that too), and yes, the dreaded EEEEvile Big Oil.
Gail, they are indeed the same these days.
The problem is that average joe is thick. They won’t look for facts, they just get hot, someone says it’s global warming and they accept it.
Bbbaaahhhhh.
How was the ice carved? Where did you get it? How was it transported and stored? Do you really expect the “hoax” to withstand the light of day?
So this is what Wirth is up to now. Not only is he heading a UN Foundation involved in pushing sustainable energy, he is on board with the New Economics Institute. NEI is the renamed Schumacher Society in honor of Mr Small is Beautiful.
https://neweconomicsinstitute.org/people/timothy-e-wirth
I am just shocked to see he was a senior Ed Secretary under Nixon. What a good place to hatch an ideological agenda and get it implemented without detection.
NEI is allied with the new economics foundation that is causing so much mischief in the UK.
Melting ice does appeal to the generation being educated to feel and see instead of think.
Or worse that they are all the same.
From a PR perspective this could really be made to backfire upon them, with the right “messaging” in response. Getting millions of people to associate the word “hoax” with climate and hot weather themes can be turned against the CAGWarmists. They can be ridiculed, cartooned and lampooned, shown as Algore-like in their alarmism and exaggerations etc.
C’mon folks, if we start “crowd sourcing” good responses here I’ll bet we can really make this propaganda event backfire on them….. I’m working on it (ideas I mean).
Could this be the last gasps?