This is a 350.org effort to highlight the perceived need to get below 350 ppm of atmospheric CO2.
At left is the list of luminaries that make up the 350.org messengers. With a team like that, especially with Van Jones, Hansen, and Monbiot on board, who could resist?
I may just drive up there to offer him a ride home, unless of course somebody reading WUWT lives closer and can document how they get there and how they get back. Here’s the details on the walk. They say on the blog that:
“Trekkers will begin on Sept. 20 at Sunset Bay State Park, near Coos Bay. They will finish in downtown Portland on Oct. 24.” – Anthony
From Oregon Live: The Stump – Why I am walking 350 miles
by Phil Carver, guest opinion
From Sept. 20 to Oct. 24, I and a small group of other people will walk 350 miles along the Oregon coast and the Columbia River estuary to highlight the dangers of climate change.
For my last 20 years with state government, I was responsible for monitoring climate science. I retired in 2008 and now feel the need to go more public with this dire situation.
The Oregonian and most newspaper have missed one of the biggest stories of the year.
Sharon Begley, Newsweek’s science editor, wrote an article published July 24 titled: “Climate-Change Calculus: Why it’s even worse than we feared.” In the article she quotes International Polar Year’s David Carlson as saying: “The models just aren’t keeping up” with the reality of CO2 emissions. She notes that: “Although policymakers hoped climate models would prove to be alarmist, the opposite is true, particularly in the Arctic.”
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The Oregon 350 Climate Crisis Walk is one of over 1,000 events around the world planned for Oct. 24 by 350.org. The idea is to promote a limit of 350 parts per million of CO2 in the air. The level is currently at 389 and rising 2 ppm per year. The group was founded by James Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, and Bill McKibben, author of “End of Nature” and “Deep Economy.”
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For an excellent rebuttal of Sharon Begley’s July 24th Newsweek article, see ICECAP here
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1) Replace “climate change” with “weather.”
2) Laugh.
3) Cry.
Bianca Jagger?
Hey Americans!!! Go walk with them!!! I would but unfortunately being in Australia makes it a little difficult. Some of you could walk with them to highlight that there is a debate. Could be the greatest media coup for sceptics ever.
Go for it!!!!
Someone could give him “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton to entertain him as he does his walk.
Blisters are the only sure thing about this.
Weather along the Oregon coast can be hazardous to one’s health – little early for the really nasty stuff. Unless Al shows up!
Was anyone here aware that David Suzuki receives funding from petroleum companies?
Maybe someone will mention that not only Van Jones’ natonalist socialist ideas but also George Monbiot’s history with Britain’s official Marxist-Islamist alliance party which he co-founded with Saddam’s friend George Galloway. Some interest in environment, heh?
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Someone should point out to him that all this vigorous exertion will result in heavier breathing and hence the exhalation of far more CO2 than if he had stayed at home.
Personally I think the CO2-AGW-warmists should put their mouth where their theories are and breathe less… a lot less.
There was an even worse clown from Switzerland, I forgot his name. He claimed that he drove with a vehicule powered by photovoltaic cells around the world. When you read through his reports, you found out:
– He needed to recharge his battery frequently on the power grid
– He had an assistance bus with him, gasoline powered
Quote of the week!
“the models are just not keeping up with the reality of CO2 emmissions”
Well he got that right didnt he? just not in the way he obviously meant, CO2 rises and yet temperatures fall.
The models have been consistent only in their errors, they have been proven wrong in every respect and a simple graph of model predictions since the frist IPCC prediction to the latest overlayed with actual real temperatures will instantly show the real actual truth.
Having said that, if they want to go on a ramble then hooray for that, they are in for a big cold shower of reality, hopefuly they will toddle off and creep back home quietly when they find something very very different to the fantasy they obviously have in their minds, I think a re run of the ‘Catlin junkett’ is in the offing where reality and fantasy clash?
What is sad is that he thinks this will achieve anything. I mean everyone on the planet has heard ‘The Word’ and some even believe it.
Why doesn’t he go and live in an unheated cave and eat uncooked grass or whatever they’ve got planned for the rest of us.
They’ve spelt “luminaries” wrong. Should be spelt L, O, O, N, I, E, S…
Perhaps a 350 mile equivalent on a treadmill, generating electricity, might be better.
Just picture them all lined up, just peddling away with carbon capture and storage of their emissions.
It would be interesting to calculate the gallons per mile consumed by all the media trucks and camp followers that will be forming the vehicle procession behind these jokers… Anyone want to start an RV count pool? Walker, 3 media, 5 friends, 9 camp followers… so about 18 RVs and media vans? Allowing for a couple to share… I bet on “12” as the magic number…
That’s right. They can take a hike. I believe that is what we told Van Jones to do.
Such a target rich environment!
And E.M. (08.21) – I think your guess is pretty close.
The effect of this posturing and chest thumping “look at me” will need close Hansensian measurement to determine how they change climate.
Cassandra King
I think a re run of the ‘Catlin junkett’ is in the offing where reality and fantasy clash?
I don’t think reality came within a bulls roar of the Catlin crew.
Ian
Canberra
Is [snip] the kind of thoughtful comment this blog is for? Or is it just simply a insult?
Just wondering…
REPLY: Thanks for pointing out that comment, it has been appropriately – [snipped]
David Suzuki is a minor celebrity in Canada but don’t expect much intellectual consistency from the fellow. He frequently moans about the size of our carbon footprint but owns three homes. One can only be reached by boat or plane, and the third is definitely fly-in only.
He also did a bus tour on climate change across Canada a year or so ago. What did it run on?
Diesel.
If these people were really focused on climate change — rather than just the attention they get from talking about climate change — would make a few sacrifices of their own.
Little bit OT but clicking through one of the links on the Oregon news website comments got this very good website with a full breakdown of the atmospheric science in language that even I (a computer scientist) could understand:
http://brneurosci.org/co2.html
Walking?!?!
Doesn’t that generate carbon dioxide?
Hmmm, along a parallel line of thought: Are cars greener than bikes?
I made 9 times 92km on foot trip per day. By excessive breathing and farting I produced exceeding amounts of CO2 in the process.
There is a good chance they will be caught by early snow and frost.
And how did Monbiot get to the US?
350 ppm. Sounds snappier than 3.5 parts per 10,000 doesn’t it?
Here is an idea for these green activists who love to be in the front page of tabloids. They can pay the skeptic’s share of the cap and trade tax, that would raise more than an eyebrow as well as a lot of awareness and it won’t be too much since everybody knows there are only a few skeptics. So, go ahead and pay our share, for the planet, for our children.