Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A group of Sydney artists have collected $10,000 of public money, to perform a single showing of a play which featured a sex clown attacking the negative impact of Christmas on the global climate.
According to The Daily Telegraph;
SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore has slugged already hard-up ratepayers a whopping $10,000 to fund a controversial left-wing review that attacked Christmas as being bad for the environment.
The show, called Climate Change Variety Hour, was performed in front of tiny audience of just 70 people at Sydney University on Saturday night.
The poor turnout means Ms Moore spent about $142 of ratepayers’ cash per audience member.
One of the acts featured a bizarre performance by a near-naked “sex clown”.
Read more (paywalled): The Daily Telegraph
This isn’t the first time mixing a climate theme with inane nonsense has successfully secured public grant money. But seriously – is there no limit to bad taste and public waste? Couldn’t Sydney’s Lord Mayor find any better use for that $10,000? Maybe something slightly less climate related, like helping homeless people, or perhaps funding a few drug rehab beds, to help address Sydney’s out of control substance abuse problems?
Ah, “Clover Moore”, a sobriquet for stupid….
At first blush it looked like Mother Gaia doling out punishments, maybe against a hockey stick agenda? Then I read “sex clown” and thought it could be some ritualistic form of railroad initiation?
Looks like a good subject for a public service billboard ad or two …”.Your money at work “……
We have entered a new geological era, The Idiocene: http://pindanpost.com/2015/12/20/the-idiocene/
This, is what the celebration of Christmas is all about: bringing “comfort and joy.”
Salvation Army’s Angel Trees
(youtube)
(Note: While there is an ultimate reason for Christmas (the birth of Jeshua, the Messiah), the general celebration, i.e., the generosity and love and merriment surrounding that day, is for EVERYONE, regardless of one’s beliefs.)
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AGW/dogmatic anti-materialism = disappoint little children.
Truth (in science) / Christmas = love little children.
AGW IS TIRESOMELY FATUOUS, JOY-STEALING, GREED-INSPIRED, JUNK!
The $10,000 would have been better spent on a nice bonfire… using the $10,000 for the fuel.
And what’s this about “sex clowns”?!?!! Apparently I haven’t been keeping up with the latest job classifications from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lord only knows what other new jobs are out there.
5051 Shades of Green.Is that the taxpayer on his knees?
Liberals really are psychotic….
Demonstration of how the hockey stick theory was born, by pulling it out of ……
People get $10,000 for this stuff. Sad enough.
But then Climate science gets $10 billion for the same thing (not counting the $350 billion wasted on green energy).
What the heck is going on.
Welcome to the world of inner city sandalistas, where taxpayers money is cast about like confetti on looney stuff like “stopping” the climate from changing.
From The Economist, Letters to the Editor: Bernie’s Briefs. This is underwear with Bernie Sanders’s face emblazoned across the backside along with the words “Feel the Bern”.
Well, I suppose that that’s an improvement on $340,000 (aus. dollars) on the Gergis reconstruction paper that lasted three weeks before retraction.
Having said that, for the money, they got alarmist headlines all over the world.
The paper has been debunked and retracted long long ago – but the alarmist articles still exist with no corrections or apologies.
See example below – then click the first link “a new report” and you will be taken to where the report no longer exists.
So this guardian article remains with no correction. But the wonderful “Children won’t know what snow is” has been deleted. That’s the trouble with alarmist “science”. It doesn’t have to be valid – it only has to be profitable and published:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/17/australasia-hottest-60-years-study
When you belong to a cult, your brain interprets information with tunnel vision. The absurd and nonsensical can appear as normal.
The best weather and climate since the Medieval Warm Period………can appear to be extreme weather and catastrophic.
The greening of the planet and booming biosphere…….can appear to be threatening all life.
Record crop yields and increasing world food production …..can appear to be disasters.
Modest beneficial warming can appear to be leading towards a doomsdale outcome.
Sea levels increasing at an inch/decade can cause fear of sea levels increasing at 10 times the observed rate.
A beneficial gas can appear to be pollution.
A speculative theory represented by computer models that project climate and weather for 100 years…………can carry more weight than observations in the real world which contradict the models.
Sometimes art imitates farce while sometimes simultaneously farce imitates CAGW, however, I wonder at the complete absence of reality imitating CAGW.
Hey, its craziness after all . . . . .
John
Had oysters on the half shell tonight with a pint and some other goodies (no sex clowns present though).
Noticed that the oysters were 2x last year’s price. So I asked … you guessed it.
“yeah bud, climate change is increasing our shellfish prices”.
I think generous tips are warranted for good service, but I couldn’t bring myself to do so.
I guess fake pricing based on climate change is affecting my tip rate.
Too much BS in our day to day lives.
Too many scammers.
Why the censor bar? You know, not everyone is traumatized by the sight of breasts…
Janice,
Well, I could attempt an ex post facto rationalization that ‘its’ was the correct usage in the statement “Hey, its craziness after all . . .”.
Let me think. …… Oh, how about the excuse that any word I used in a sentence with craziness focus gives me an inherent poetic license to use any word arbitrarily even if the use is crazy wrong. Any takers on that excuse?
John
Australia is a county where anything is possible.
Here is a wayback machine copy of a press-release from Wollongong University – which plainly states that
“Researchers from UOW are developing technologies for next generation offshore wind turbines that are one-third the price and 1,000 times more efficient, and they could be installed off the coast of Australia in the next five years.”
The claim from this esteemed organization lead to viral coverage.
The researcher received about $200,000 for this project.
I do not know whether the grant awarding body were aware that wind turbines can never become 1000 times more efficient without a very significant relaxation of the laws of physics.
Since the generator unit in modern large turbines is already more than 90% efficient.
90,000% efficiency seems unlikely anytime soon. (sarc)
http://web.archive.org/web/20150227044807/http://media.uow.edu.au/releases/UOW184359.html?ssSourceSiteId=UOW_Main
And all along we’ve been worried about getting the ‘science’ right. Who knew? Don’t think the general public doesn’t notice crap like this….. they do.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
The Green-Left despise the freedom that nurtures them. They have little notion of the hardships in store for them if they succeed in strangling it.
I’m dreaming of a kinky Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the panties glisten
with every new position
To hear moans in the afterglow.
I’m dreaming of a kinky Christmas
With every pathetic porno play I write
Yes, I know each act is quite a sight
But for your public servants
It’s a delight
Now, I have to warn everybody, the reason I could write the foregoing is because I’m no longer employed. If you don’t wish to read any more things like the above you’re all going to have to insure that other people such as myself (yes, they do exist) remain employed so that they don’t have oodles of free time to dither away writing things like the above. So, this Christmas I encourage you all to give yourselves a present and fight the CAGW crowd with common sense. Otherwise, if they get their way, there’s going to be millions of unemployed people with oodles of free time to dither away writing things like I just wrote. And, don’t be surprised if some of them actually apply for grant money (like for a theatrical play) to write this kinda stuff. Ask yourselves: Do you really want that? Well, do you?
Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night!
And day!
And week!
Best wishes to all!
I wish all WUWT followers a merry Christmas, Hanuka or Yule, but the other day I received a rebuke on the Paris COP 21 booklet and also a good look at Australia’s stance on Climate Change, I do not know who distributed it, as it was delivered by hand, but my neighbor another skeptic actually got one too. It mentioned JoNova, and local grants to UNE Armidale
and the Armidale Sustainable Living group that had a petition to support COP21. Anyway have a good holiday season where ever you are.
Giving $10,000 to the Salvation Army would have been money better spent, than $10,000 for a dogmatic, CAGW-promoting, anti-Santa, anti-children, tiresome, fatuous, self-indulgent, theatrical Rant.