Yeah, that’s gonna work.
Australians, angry at Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s reluctance to adopt an alarmist attitude on climate change, think the “ostrich” is the perfect metaphor to protest their country’s inaction on what they perceive to be a grave threat. From The Guardian:
More than 400 protesters stuck their heads in the sand on Australia’s Bondi Beach on Thursday, mocking the government’s reluctance to put climate change on the agenda of a G20 summit this weekend.
Prime minister Tony Abbott’s perceived failure to address climate change is all the more galling in the wake of an agreement between the United States and China on Wednesday to limit their carbon emissions, they said.
“Obama’s on board, Xi Jinping’s on board, everyone’s on board except one man,” activist Pat Norman, 28, bellowed into a megaphone on the Sydney beach.
“Tony Abbott!” the protesters shouted back.
https://twitter.com/johndory49/status/532817389599985664
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I sincerely hope these good folk continue to maintain their stance.
Although it will restrict space for beach goers on hot days.
Great for cyclists though!
Somewhere to park the bike.
[Snip. Sorry, it’s just a bit too OTT – mod]
400 Alarmists who really DON’T know their arses from a hole in the ground…
Great for cyclists though…
…Somewhere to park the bike!
I’d like to have been there, but I wouldn’t have had my head buried in the sand!!
If there was an award for witty riposts, this one would surely win.
I’m surprised they could get them out of the other orifice long enough for the sand cleansing process
If they kep their heads in the sand they would made a small but an important contribution to reducing the amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Meanwhile why are a couple of them showing their pants is something of secret signal like a stange hand shake , to let other know their of ‘the faith’?
Nah, this is a rehearsal for when, inevitably, the Aussie Caliphate takes charge. It’s just that some are more enthusiastic than others.
Nah, this is a rehearsal for when, inevitably, the Aussie Caliphate takes charge. It’s just that some are more enthusiastic than others.
There was some confusion about the direction to Mecca.
Nah, they’re asking Gaia why she has paused the warming for the past 18years. Rude bastards – all trying to speak with her at the same time!
Do ostriches also pull their pants down, as one person in the first picture is doing? Who knew?
Appropriate really, as if the Greens had their way we would all be bug*ered.
That guy isn’t there with the same motive.
Most ostriches I’ve seen never wear pants.
As usual there is a surfeit of unintentionally hilarious comments following the Guardian article. One deluded fool even believes events like this have “climate change deniers” raging with impotent fury!
Howling with mirth more like!
+1. I had to wipe away tears I was laughing so hard… Oh, the hilarity of it all.
Guardian readers don’t do irony. Far too focused on making the World a better place for us by interfering in every aspect of our lives to save us from ourselves.
All kids. They are just gullible. I did not see this in the Australian news. Possibly a non event.
There was plenty of trivia on the Australian new bulletins today. This was just a tad too trivial to make the bulletins.
Peter,
I think you have nailed it. They are just beach bums.
That’s where they normally stick their heads.
+50
Once again the warmers are burying their heads to avoid the reality that man’s CO2 is not causing dangerous climate change.
http://www.sustainableoregon.com/co2_didnt_warm_arctic.html
http://www.sustainableoregon.com/co2_rate_of_warming.html
No warming in 18 years and these people still refuse to recognize reality.
That pond scum virus must have turned their brains into mush.
Ah! I finally learn why they call this movement “green”: because the green algae origin of the Acanthocystis Turfacea Chlorella Virus!
They will soon learn how nature works in cycles when the tide comes in.
Thanks for that. My thoughts exactly!!
It’s come to a very sad state of affairs indeed when people are protesting because they want to pay *more *taxes.
If only that were true. But in typical left-statist style they don’t want to pay more taxes, they just want everyone else to have to pay more taxes.
I doubt if many of these have any kind of job so they won’t be paying any tax.
What a bunch of asses
1000 up votes.
1000 up votes from me too.
(Do cascaded up votes sum or multiply?)
with luck they exponentiate?
My exact thought
No, that is where their heads were prior to In The Sand
What’s the meaning of the pants down? Invitation to insert government climate controller here?
Maybe an half-assed attempt at “mooning”?
Or preparing for an ‘exploratory’ visit by aliens.
Only 400 out of a total population of how many million? Not too many bothered then.
If you want real funny form the Guardian try their reaction to landing on a comet.
He’s wearing a sexist shirt!
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/13/why-women-in-science-are-annoyed-at-rosetta-mission-scientists-clothing
Now folks… just hold that pose until the sea level rises. You’ve been telling the sane people of the world it could happen any second now…
I don’t think this ritual will last. Too much irony.
These people have a vote… Scary, really.
Most of them do not get a vote. Bondi beach is full of New Zealanders collecting Unemployment benefits from the Australian Taxpayer! My apologies to New Zealanders who do work, I am only refering to the ones on Bondi Beach. However remember, voting is compulsory in Australia, so the Australians there have to vote.
Is that a nude beach?
Nah, It’s a RUDE BEACH
LOL, Idiots are the ones not seeing 18 years of steady temperature. How could they with their heads in the sand?
AND…not reading the press regarding the gross distortions/adjustments of their own temp record.
Religion…plain and simple.
Folks like that make me think of the Monty Python skit regarding the cheese shop.
Funny – because NOBODY is “on board”. just a few posers paying lip service to “the cause” without actually doing anything.
Canadian PM Harper is not “on board”… not even a little.
400 people in a country of over 36 million hardly warrants attention, except to laugh at them.
I don’t really know for certain where Tony Abbott stands, but his climate change stand earned my respect, and seeing how outraged the eternally outraged (left) is over his “shirtfront” scandal earned even more of my respect.
+10
22 million, but point taken
Over 36 million? I had no idea the G20 conference just added 13million people to the population of Australia.
Clearly the people at http://www.worldpopulationstatistics.com/population-of-australia-2014/ which is the first hit when I searched for “Population Australia 2014” need to get their facts adjusted! Man, they must be a bunch of climate scientists over there!
The Australian Bureau of Statistics may be homogenising the population figures – because the censorship offices changed over the years.
The additional 14 million are all Climate Scientists and part of the 97%
“They’re mainly young with not much in the way of thought out politics except a youthful altruism that sees the complex problems of the world in simple ways. In terms of political consciousness, they’re black and white thinkers with no grey shades in between – that’d be seen as selling out. Given such an innocent world view, they are the most easily exploited and are therefore ruthlessly exploited. All youth is, just ask anyone in advertising. All that’s needed is to assure them the science, which is terra incognito to most of them anyway, is rock solid and then take cynical advantage of their youthful enthusiasm by playing on their emotions and appealing to the better angels of their nature.”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/know-your-enemy-the-foot-soldiers/
They’re just kids. Don’t be too hard on them. Persuading someone to do nothing better than mooning is actually quite funny.
Pointman
So true. When I was young the world was so simple I knew everything about it.
Yeah, Just kids. Probably never heard of the Nullarbor telephone – head down and ring up.
What would satisfy these people?
Gary: As it’s on a beach it reminds me of the great Marty Feldman with Julie Edge (phwoar!) in the film ‘Every Home Should Have One’: They are ‘cavorting’ on a beach. He says to her, “What’s in it for me?”.
“Sand”, came the beautifully laconic reply from Edge.
IMDB.com lists her as Julie Ege.
400+? Only if they’re counting cheeks, not heads….
My thought too. Looking at the photo there only seems to be slightly over 100 people shown. Granted there may be more off camera, but it seems as if the outer circles are ‘broken’ to the left so I’m thinking the photographer moved in until the crowd filled the frame so this is probably everyone. But why let the truth get in the way of a good story?
Actually, it’s sad reading any of the comments at that guardian site. So many genuinely outraged “progressives”, spewing their completely incorrect “science” and mocking those who try to correct it.
No wonder Australia is losing out. I feel bad for them, they definitely got sold a handful of beans.
Maybe they should stay there and wait for the raising sea levels
Well done them. Just to prove to the rest of the world that like everyone else, they too have an …
ehh!…opinion.
Eamon.
I wonder how much Greenpiss paid these unemployable asses ?