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.”
Read the complete article and participate in comments at the Orgeon Live website
For an excellent rebuttal of Sharon Begley’s July 24th Newsweek article, see ICECAP here
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They may be hamming it up on the way to Portland, but I guarantee you that in a short year and a half, they’ll be hiding thier faces. 3 years of this Solar Minmum will take it’s toll.
Stuck weather patterns will give way to more austere forms.
How many airmiles will the 350 road miles be converted to?
Sorry to hone in on Mr Monbiot who we all know pontificates at the Guardian a once great campaigning newspaper, which is reduced on its environment blog to making up stories, distorting science and regularly having articles on cyclists and bike lanes?
So, Mr Monbiot, how did he get to the United States, no matter he probably flew, CO2 Emissions, no matter, he’s ok because he is saving the planet.
On his blog he said he disagreed with moderation (Censorship) of comments, weasle words of course because on Comment is Free (if you agree) censorship is done ever so subtly.
My view is, that to be censored to the extent of not being allowed to post on the Guardian environment blog, you have to do the following:-
1 Be polite
2 Win the argument against the resident Trolls (Paid?) and contributing journalists. Which is not difficult
3 Provide a link to Watts up with that, Climate Audit and other Denier sites:-)
4 Question repeatedly the validity of the Hockey Stick
5 Mention censorship at Real Climate
6 Talk sense
As I have said before there is only one thing worse than a hypocrite and that is a sanctimonious hypocrite.
On the question of the science is settled at their presentation to the 1927 Solvay conference on Quantum Mechanics, Born and Heisenberg said a very similar thing?
I am a bit sad because our Gav has found another suitor, I told him that Georgie Porgie stole all the pies but will he believe me?
George H Taylor, Oregons Meteorologist, has been silenced it seems. How sad that those that disagree with them are.
More evidence that AGW is a modern apocalyptic religion.
The AGW religion doesn’t have the equivalent of Rome or Mecca to pilgrimage to, the Arctic is inconveniently cold, so the Oregon Coast will have to do.
I would have taken them more seriously (not much mind you) if they walked 350km around Death Valley in July – a more appropriate way of highlighting global warming IMHO, but of course nothing like as pleasant as the Oregon coast.
I await with anticipation the AGWers version of sackcloth and ashes. I hope it’s more imaginative than not wearing petroleum derived artificial fibres and not washing.
[snip]
David Carlson: “…the models are just not keeping up with the reality of CO2 emmissions…”
What he actually meant to say: “…the models are just not keeping up with reality…”
Will they be purchasing carbon offsets from Al Gore for all that extra carbon dioxide exerted from all that huffin and puffin from their walk?
I am not one for personal attacks, whereas a lesser rather lowly man might suggest that Mr Al Gore join in this venture, on the premise that he could certainly do the exercise after all that good living he has enjoyed for so many years, I am sure his physician would recommend it! I of course wouldn’t make such a suggestion. As for Bianca Jagger, (one might suggest she is still trading on that famous name as she has done for so long, but of course I would not), if she got any thinner she would dissappear altogether if she turned sideways, so she definitely shouldn’t go on such an epic journey!
Are there any treacherous cliff tops along the way, just want to make sure George Monbiot takes care that’s all! Ahhh, he is a lamb really.
So good ‘ol Phil thinks it “a dire situation”. Oh dear, it would be more funny if it was not so sad.
And Newsweek’s science editor, Sharon, is either on another planet or else she has decided to shut out any nasty data that does not support her catastrophic dream of impending annihilation.
Why does this ‘team’ look decidedly tired, out of touch, and desperate?
Phil Carver says:
Google says he was:
He retired in 2008 … so he wants us to believe that he’s had the job of “monitoring climate science” since 1988???
Not. There’s nary a word on google about him and climate prior to 2003, and I doubt greatly that in 1988 (the year that James Hansen starting screaming about climate) that his job description included “monitoring climate science”.
Well, I’m about to set off for a stroll in the countryside. Now what could I highlight? Sponsorship anyone?
“‘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.'”
More to Cassandra King’s comment, the way I read this is that Sharon thinks that the models are not alarmist enough. I have been saying this for years. We have exceeded the models’ projected output of CO2. The models have not been corrected for this. In light of the recent lack of warming, perhaps the modelers just want to leave well enough alone.
The models are not alarmist. Hmmm. Yet the media has been. I wonder how much worse the media would get if the models were alarmist.
John M Reynolds
OT – Anthony, I assume you’ve already picked-up on this one:
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/09/debate-with-marc-morano.html?showComment=1253023640668#c626145068632737754
All I can say is that it’s another one to put in the scrap book for sending back to the originator in about 10 years’ time…
What a numpty.
Cheers
Mark.
When is the big climate talkfest in Copenhagen again, November? These stories will just be worse by the day.
I wonder how I would live my life without such people to set an example and to raise my awareness. I actually think my awareness is now so raised that it’s near its peak. This walking holiday may just push me over a tipping point. Arrgh ! I can feel it now . . . and it’s worse than I thought.
[snip]
Monbiot recently pledged to cut his emissions by 10% in 2010:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/01/global-warming-emissions-fossil-fuels
I guess he needs to get his flying in before the new year.
Opinion is one thing. Extremist hate-mongering (eg Al Gore’s Holy hologram) is entirely different. Are you going to leave up all such wingnut comments?
REPLY: No, and he’s been snipped and warned by email. One more like that and he’s banned. – Anthony
It is a really beutiful stretch of coastline anyway. I would have to recommend that if skeptics are thinking of coming allong that they come in numbers and know who each other are, lot’s of places for accidents allong that stretch.
“End of Nature”, you’ve got to be kidding right?
Current models of the cosmos predict that Nature will go alone find without us for the next few hundred billion years – and in one scenario – expand forever till a final cold death occurs with each atom separated by light years. Even then Nature still exists, just a wee bit colder than we are now. There are some other alternate models, in all of which Nature does just fine.
I need to walk about 4,000 kilometers to lose a lot of weight. I’d do it too but alas my left heel currently can’t take it all at once so it’s looping around the block for me.
How about people walk for objective and audit-able climate sanity and their health? A too boring, it must be more dramatic. We’re walking to stop the cold death scenario of the cosmos! That’s the ticket! Galactic, no Universal, climate change protest walk to prevent the process of entropy from occurring!
Now I wonder just how much their CO2 and H2O and Methane outputs will be during this walk? What is their Greenhouse Gas Footprint going to be? It’s not a CO2 or Carbon Footprint, it’s a Greenhouse Gas Footprint and that includes the evil Water Vapor we exhale with each breath too! Grrrrrrrr….
How do we reconcile this
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.jpg
with this?
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seasonal.extent.1900-2007.jpg
Minimum ice extent?
If it’s about reducing CO2 levels, it’s more efficient if they all get into a van or a bus and drive.
The most efficient solution however is if they would simply shoot themselves.
The latter solution would also increase the the average IQ of the remaining population.
When the dust has cleared on the great global warming scam many years hence, there should be a “Gallery of Infamy” to record and remember those who promoted AGW even though they knew it to be untrue. The pictures above make a great nucleus.
Re previous it seems the normal summer (up to 1955) minimum is 11 million km2 in seasonal but on anomaly graph its 14 to 3.5 million km2?
>>>Hey Americans!!! Go walk with them!!!
Good idea. With big placards saying –
“No global warming for ten years”
“The Sun is on strike”
“Antarctic ice at greatest extent”
“Arctic ice recovering”
“Polar bears thriving”
“Hockey-stick bogus”
“Co2 levels higher in 1940s”
“More Co2 cannot increase greenhouse effect” (already at saturation levels)
Any more?
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