People send me stuff. Below is an image from New York City of the 350.org “climate march” from their website today. It’s the usual horde of useful idiots, holding up signs suggesting they are being gassed and that “climate chaos” is afoot.
It is mostly an emotional response to a non-issue.
I was amused when WUWT reader Arvind sent this screen cap of an ad that appeared on Craigslist. One wonders how many of these marchers have similar situations where they are there on pay rather than on their own volition. Here’s the ad:
Source: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/evg/4669216880.html
That movie was such a bomb, they are reduced to “paid volunteers” handing out fliers on street corners at $50 each. Heh.
UPDATE: I wonder if these people got paid:
“RentACrowd”
Here are the ones who weren’t paid anything:
http://media.bonnint.net/slc/24/2489/248974.jpg
Is that the totality of the ‘protest’? … looks pretty pathetic given population of NY.
Counting a couple of grids and estimating from that I get between 500 and 800 people. Now subtract media and security and paid attendance and observers from the other side and folks just walking by to work and…. I make it about 200 to 400 really protesting.
Must be why the news had zero coverage.
Anything but Socialism – smaller limited government, less control – sounds good? Hold on… The old school conservative principal of taking personal responsibility does not work with the conservative greed of today. Take personal responsibility – recycle, boycott unsustainable business, boycott Chinese goods and stop listening to the extreme right and left. Think for yourselves people.
Maybe Evan Jones took the job and finally found honest work for himself!
Jeremy,
What’s your problem with Evan? I don’t even see him mentioned before your comment.
I have no problem with the Lad, Poster child of the lukewarmist movement and struggling unpaid lost soul.
All that solar energy money must be pouring in yeeeesh! Wasn’t sun worship abolished centuries ago.
$50 Expensive! All they ever need to recruit is a wheatgrass smoothie voucher + free bottle of water to carry.
I feel like organizing a protest against our Toronto winters, but I wouldn’t have to pay anyone to hand out leaflets for such an event. I could get real volunteers to do it.
The volunteers could set up a burn barrel and offer immediate, but brief, relief.
I feel like organizing a protest against protests….pfft
And carbon taxes will be completely “voluntary” too.
How many in that crowd could tell you the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Or extract the roots of a quadratic equation? What percentage would you guess?
Knowledge of thermodynamics selects against being a warmist foot soldier; so we can simply improve the public approval of climate science by never teaching them.
BTW this comment was in moderation for quite a while. I’m mystified.
2xx L*w of th*rm*d*n*m*cs is a forbidden word at WUWT, too many flying dragons at stake…
Happens to me occasionally. Glitch, I suspect.
That’s a pretty diverse group of people there, ha ha. We’re told that minorities will be hit hardest by climate change but I guess they stayed home rather than mingle with young elitist types with nothing better to do.
The minorities will be hit hardest when energy and food will sky rocket if these protesters get their wish
My wife sent me a picture of it this morning and I did see a few signs for south-asian americans demanding climate justice. She said the traffic is all messed up around there now as well, which is one more reason to find them annoying.
Yes, a pretty diverse bunch:
[From here]
I don’t know where he’s headed, but I’m glad he said goodbye.
He’s going home because nobody’s takes him seriously. They spoiled it for him. Didn’t even get his 50 bucks.
…he obviously thinks he’s from another world.
They were probably at work at their second or third job, or saving the subway money for Monday morning.
It will be interesting to see how many on the march are clutching a great bunch of flyers in the hand…..
…and in their demonstrated hypocrisy, how much garbage they leave behind.
The pic reminds me only that it is, after all, about the time of the year where pagans celebrate then NH autumnal equinox in grotesque costumes. N’est ce pas?
John
Oh, when 100,000’s simultaneously gather in hundreds of large government stadiums all across the country to celebrate government-sanctioned, government-regulated football “games” in closely organized yells and motions and mystical chants? /sarcasm.
John said grotesque costumes, so what came to mind were all those soccer fans in Europe sporting face paint in team colors and such.
http://linapps.s3.amazonaws.com/linapps/photomojo/lintvnews.com/photos/2012/06/g3116-euro-2012-faces-of-the-fans/62778-a-dutch-soccer-fan-c86d7.jpg
Blame the Dutch for climate change (if any). If sea levels start to rise, they’ll be the ones making a lot of money 😉
RACookPE1978 on September 21, 2014 at 8:33 am
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Football (American style) may indeed be pagan ritual. If so, then I love pagan ritual.
John
And I thought they said Big Oil had all the money?
Of course by “Progressive Standards” this is a grassroots spontaneous demonstration, it is the will of the people, even if they had to promise them Obama Bucks to turn them out.
And the Press wonder why I call them Presstitutes.
Such blatant dishonesty cannot go unrewarded.
There must be at least hundred people there.
No matter what, they will claim “success” and 125,000 people showed up in support.
I’m sure they all walked or bicycled or skateboarded there. They will pick up all their litter when they leave. NOT.
Protesting climate change is about as sensible as protesting sunburns.
Protesting climate change is about as sensible as protesting frostbite is more-apt..
I wonder what they would do without power, water, food, light, plastic and medicines for the next two weeks – being isolated down in that concrete jungle of lower Manhattan for two weeks surrounded in the dark by seven million fellow hungry, thirsty scared illiterate un-caring selfish primates?
RACookPE1978,
You mean all the good things in life made possible by fossil fuels? Good question.
By Tuesday Nov 6 …
By the way, you have presented no evidence ANY of them were from the Rockaway (Long Island NY) area damaged by storm Sandy. It is mere conjecture on your part. Power to LI, NJ, NYC and areas north were restored much quicker than that, recovery was made possible ONLY by fossil and nuclear fuels, and the rest of the national economy that these paid cretins are working to destroy.
Funny how they accuse us all of being a certain “demographic”.
The demons are in the graphic.
(Think Hockey Stick.)
That’s a staging area for one group.
1.8 million participants of all ages and social origins.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/politics/item/1-8-million-catalans-form-an-11km-long-flag-mosaic-supporting-november-s-independence-vote?highlight=YTo2OntpOjA7aToxMTtpOjE7czo5OiJzZXB0ZW1iZXIiO2k6MjtpOjIwMTQ7aTozO3M6MTI6IjExIHNlcHRlbWJlciI7aTo0O3M6MTc6IjExIHNlcHRlbWJlciAyMDE0IjtpOjU7czoxNDoic2VwdGVtYmVyIDIwMTQiO30=
All volunteers.
We just want to vote like Scotland did.
So do us English.
These Catalan folks are marching for something real, independence. They’re not paid 50 dollars per person. I’m sure this “climate march hare” thing will not be so grand.
Robert, see this:
The Catalonians have
an issue that actually draws a crowd .
Impressive! What does the remaining 75% of the populatIon that did NOT show up say? Just saying…
97% in NY ignored the problems these paid protesters are trying to create. Does that mean the 3% should be listened to?
Forgive me if I misunderstood what the term “volunteers” means. The $50 cancels out the “volunteer”, doesn’t it?
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/volunteer
“A person who freely enrols for military service rather than being conscripted, ”
Soldiers do get paid.
Enlist
In a non-military setting I would have thought everyone would take “volunteer” to mean “unpaid”.
DoubleSpeak.
They have volunteered to take the $50.
You beat me to it.
They’re all from Tennessee.
You can watch it live here. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/21/peoples-climate-march-live_n_5855906.html Woman from NYC just saying that it’s the buildings in Manhattan that produce the most emissions.
LOL, hilarious.
She heard how concrete production is responsible for a lot of CO2 emissions, which is a fact. Somebody should tell her about the huge concrete foundations of windmills.
Socialist, anti- Capitalist rhetoric… nonsensical buzzphrases, incoherent rants, I’ve seen enough.
Many of the Occupy Wall Street crowd were also paid.
(I thought only capitalists had all the money.)
Just recycled Occupy Wall Street trash.
Go Home,
That’s what it looks like. Can you imagine the mindset of people who beg to be taxed more??
Apparently they hate Canada, too.
By the power of greyskull…. 🙂
dbstealey: THEY aren’t begging to be taxed more – they are begging for YOU to be taxed more. Rent-a-crowd types don’t pay taxes and expect to get subsidies for their utility costs.
Rhoda,
I’m afraid you are 100% correct.
First I went to Wall Street Journal and clicked on the NYC edition to see just what news this march is actually generating.
Front and center is an article about someone using the Central Park Ice Rink for a horse show. There were no sub headlines or headlines for the climate march; well, maybe later.
I then hit the march’s website and turned on the TV. Turns out one of those so called honest PBS news channels is completely dedicated to the climate march.
The climate march’s website required following inks to get a controlled show and tell view of the march. Photos were arranged in a slideshow while the filmed broadcast has not officially started. what photos and video slices I saw were poorly focused, close shots that didn’t allow a long distance view.
Oddly or not, the PBS broadcast was just as bad.
Perhaps switching to traffic cams would give a better idea?
The marchers are in loose disorganized groups often stretched across the road; lots and lot of empty space between marchers and groups.
So far it looks like there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands; the march has a long way to go to reach ‘hundreds of thousands’.
Considering that $1 million dollars which is chump change to CAGW private funders buys 20,000 marchers at $50 each, this march is just as much of a bust as the whole MSM and politics professional propaganda silliness.
What would be interesting is watching for just how many of the troll types show up online while they should be marching in support of their ’cause’. Troll presence online during marching hours implies motivational differences from the CAGW faithful.
Track the money back and you will find it came from a government grant from our pockets.
Aye, there’s the rub. Margaret Thatcher famously said that Socialism works fine until it runs out of other people’s money. How DID the western democracies allow the diversion of public funds into political movements whose whole agenda is antidevelopment?
It’s not How, it’s Why. And we all know the why is to buy votes.
This is a common tactic that most people aren’t aware of. “Volunteers” are recruited from rail yards, under bridges, city parks and college campuses, to name a few places. Most don’t look like the happy, healthy, middle class types featured in the picture above. Many are homeless. They’re offered free meals, places to stay for a few days and the opportunity to visit another city or state in exchange for appearing at a rally and carrying a sign.
I’ll never forget the time I was staying in a hotel in Portland, Oregon just down the street from another hotel where George Bush (43) was staying during a brief visit. Apparently, some political group decided to stage a protest demonstration in front of Bush’s hotel. I saw all these buses pulling up at the intersection by my hotel and unloading people carrying signs. Bus, after bus, after bus stopped and dropped off people who walked up the street toward Bush’s hotel. It went on like that for half an hour. Most of the people getting off the buses looked like the homeless I’d seen in my own hometown sleeping under bridges and in parks or panhandling on the street. Later that evening I walked up the street to the “protest” and talked to a few of the people who confirmed for me that they had been given free bus rides and meal vouchers. They expected to be paid a few bucks when the rally was over and returned “home.” Most of the one’s I talked to didn’t really know why they were there and did’t care. That was an eye opener for me.
I wonder what slice the IRS will take out of that 50 dollars? Or maybe they will give them a pass since they’re not linked to Republicans.
None. You can pay anyone up to $600 per year without having to file a 1099.
Thanks – good to know
$50 a day is classified as “Casual Labor”; no reporting.
How many CO2 absorbing trees died to make those fliers? They need the $50.00 like the occupy people they don’t have be at work tomorrow.
Looks like a rave to me.
Look at those smiling, happy faces in that crowd! Are they really happy and fully believing that urgent action is required or we are doomed? Do they really look like people who are concerned about their future? Do they look mad that others are destroying their earth? Where is their frustration over society’s lack of action?
I do not see faces of concern, I see people with nothing better to do on a feel-good afternoon joyride.
The faces tell you everything.
Except for the signs, it looks like a rock concert. I can almost smell the wacky tabacky.
Full of dope.
I see faces of the terminally ignorant. They know nothing, they mean nothing, and who gives a damn what they say. They don’t have the ability to understand that capitalism and fosile fuels gave them the leisure to make fools of themselves.