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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Interesting vehicle test result – BMW M3 beats Toyota Prius in fuel economy test…
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/24/2445.asp
Jim Hansen is taking a whole month off from work? I wonder if it will be charged against his vacation time, whether he is paid or not matters little. After all, as a near lifetime gubmint employee (plus academic) he should be eligible for probably 8-12 weeks off annually, plus a few months of accumulated sick leave. Unlike the American working class for which he works, of course.
But I digress. I see the sponsors say they can only provide food for those making the entire trip. I wonder how that works. Do we have a clue who’s bankrolling this, or if the “volunteer celebrities” will be provided with an honorarium. Will food be obtained locally along the walk route? (I’d like to see them procure the runners favorite high-potassium content food (bananas) from local growers, too. After all, isn’t it all about being local and “sustainable”? Or will the food all be transported from place to place and cooked by a (paid) staff that will ride in a van, bus or multiple autos?
If they really want to make it something, they ought to eat only what they harvest or buy along the way, or carry with them. Otherwise they should have to haul what they need with them (like backpackers must), INCLUDING THEIR TRASH (“Pack it in. Pack it out!”). I’d allow tents, as opposed to shelters made from local materials as would be done for wilderness survival.
We REALLY need a team to get the details, and to get photos of campsites and so forth. See if they live up to the ideals of low impact living…
REPLY: I don’t think he’ll do anything except participate in a kickoff event somewhere. There are dozens in the USA. He’ll probably choose one within driving distance. – Anthony
“”” From Sept. 20 to Oct. 24, I and a small group of other people will walk “””
Hey, earth to Phil, what does that statement mean ? Could you do the walk with a small group of people who aren’t “other people” ?
Why not just go for a walk with a small group of people ?
A local, long established hardware store loves to advertise their four inch pot plants on the radio; with the statement, that “these pot plants are just one of the 40,000 other products they have in the store.”
No Mr advertiser; you have it exactly wrong; your ad should read;- “These plants are NOT one of the 40,000 other products you have in your store.”
I think I’m going to learn to read and write Korean; English is rapidly becoming extinct.
So just who is David Suzuki; is he the motor bike magnate ?
Mark Fawcett (02:39:18) :
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.
Mine is off topic also… I think I have answered Bloom’s post appropriately. I’m fed up with those comparisons.
@boudu
Hey! I grew up in Severn Stoke, three miles up the road from Upton to Worcester. We used to walk the hills all the time.
George E. Smith, David Suzuki is a fixture in Canadian television. He used to have a “science” show called “The Nature of Things”, and with the CBC being almost a complete monopoly prior to getting cable (and, thankfully, US stations) pretty much all Canadians know who he is.
Actually, he’s one of the most ignorant, mouthy, annoying twits in the history of television. He was the idiot pushing our even more idiotic Prime Minister at the time to sign into Kyoto (Jean Chretien claimed “we need kyoto to stop the acid rain” or some such). Yappy Suzuki is constantly griping about something, and actually has followers (I have no idea why).
The David Suzuki foundation at http://www.davidsuzuki.org is almost worth visiting just to laugh at, except they don’t really deserve the hits (hint: they’re excited that they have 3000 readers!) I despise communists, have you noticed?
10 miles a day? Anyone who has ever backpacked in the Sierra Nevada will be laughing out loud. That’s the distance you cover in two or three hours up and over Farewell Gap; over the next pass and down to the Kern River in a single day. 25+ miles. Not on a paved highway, by the way. Next day, you walk up the Kern River, make a left at Rattlesnake Creek and climb out over Franklin Pass (12,000ft+) and back to Mineral King. 52 miles in 2 days, including more than 10,000 feet of “uphill.” Just for fun, assume your left knee blows out in the first 15 miles. Been there, done that and, but for the knee, the project was 100+ miles in four days, ending in King’s Canyon. These ‘walkers’ are not only absurd, they are certified pussies.
But that’s pretty much the way it is these days. What used to be routine is now worthy of a Bronze Star. Read about WWI when troops routinely marched more than thirty miles, day after day, to reach an important site and then went to see the elephant the same day. Sheesh! Lefties, grow up.
Looks like there is a march going on in the UK as well except they are using horses:
http://www.climaterush.co.uk/whatnext.html
I doubt the two are coincidences.
There are times when the snip action is appropriate and there are times when it is just downright silly.
L (11:02:22) :
These ‘walkers’ are not only absurd, they are certified pussies.
A Kennedy march is a long-distance march of 50 miles (80 km), named after former American president John F. Kennedy’s following words uttered in 1963: “I think most American people are so weak, they can’t even walk fifty miles within twenty hours”. Kennedy marches have since been organised to prove John F. Kennedy wrong in this pessimistic view.
Then we are talking again with those people, GW is then just some strange thought in their minds, a hallucination at best.
Let’s hope for some cold and wet weather along the Oregon cost from Sept. 20 to Oct. 24 (sorry Oregonite skeptics!).
One thing I have noted: Starting on Sept.20, the Oregon Coastal weather should be fine.
However.As Octorber approaches things can and will be a bit nasty.Maybe they think Hansen’s super el nino is going to save them.Looking at today’s SST chart,Nino is looking rather flaccid.They can and will get a nasty surprise…
‘Ol man North Pacific is waiting…
“Why I’m walking 350mi?”
To show how worhtless your daily life is?
“daily life”
Finger lysdexia.
You’re too much of a wuss to run or bike?
Read this and you’ll get an idea of what a bozo this Suzuki guy is:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=291604
The Ballad of Hansen?
“But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To stroke my savior image some more”
Apologies to The Pretenders.
Mark (12:22:42) :
Read this and you’ll get an idea of what a bozo this Suzuki guy is:
Uh! Oh! You’ve insulted Bozo… 😉
[snip snip snip snip snip snip]
If one is in good health, one could cover about 24 mi in eight hours, at a normal walking. I’m not as old as Hansen, but running behind him by some 12 years, regarding my age; except for these days of A (H1N1) in my bronchi, I use to walk one mile in five to seven minutes, or ~22 miles in eight hours. I have done 35 miles in 12.5 hours (~2.8 mi/h), from Santa Catarina’s plaza to El Diente (The Tooth); of course, one way walking only, and getting back in bus.
Cough! Cough! Heh… 🙂
Desmond Tutu is going to America to walk 350 miles in a month?
Not bad for a 78 year old.
Goreacle Report from BBC.
“Walrus have been seen on Alaska’s north coast in unusual numbers”
“But scientists note the long-term trend is still downwards.”
No worry: It’s an AGW “Pause”.
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“Pause in Arctic’s melting trend
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
This summer’s melt of Arctic sea ice has not been as profound as in the last two years, scientists said as the ice began its annual Autumn recovery.
At its smallest extent this summer, on 12 September, the ice covered 5.10 million sq km (1.97 million sq miles).
This was larger than the minima seen in the last two years, and leaves 2007’s record low of 4.1 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles) intact.
But scientists note the long-term trend is still downwards.
Arctic temperatures have been cooler this year than last, researchers said, and winds have helped disperse sea ice across the region.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8261953.stm
What’s the big deal about 350 miles?
Didn’t Forrest Gump walk two and a half times across the USA before stopping in the middle of the desert to the consternation of his followers?
C’mon solidarity walkers. At least beat Forrest Gump.
Dear 350.org,
Gaia gave you oil so that you could fuel industry, develop spaceships and then fly away forever. So what do you? You walk…back to Eden like a Neanderthal and try to drag everyone along with you!
Yours sincerely,
A follower of the Enlightenment who is amused at the counter movement – the Enfrightenment!