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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Why should it take over a month to walk 350 miles? Are they going to walk for 2 hours, and eat drink and fish the the rest of the time?
@ur momisugly L (11:02:22) : “10 miles a day? Anyone who has ever backpacked in the Sierra Nevada will be laughing out loud. ………………..”
Thanks. Brought back some old memories of some of my training at Quantico 30 years ago 😀 . 6 miles of muddy trails thru the hills, with stops every mile for situps, pushups, pullups, etc. Best time was ~47 minutes. I was 34 at the time.
RE:
“Patrick Davis (06:08:07) :
Hey Anthony, you are being dissed on ABC, Australia, tonight by a Chris Mooney (May have the name wrong). Apparently you are extreme.
REPLY: He must be an excellent journalist, since he’s able to determine this without ever having so much as sent me an email or a telephone call. Telepathic perhaps. – Anthony”
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Chris Mooney didn’t like the fact that Watt’s Up With That won the blog award for science. Anthony you have alarmed the alarmists. Good work!!!
Also here is Jennifer Marohasy’s take on Chris Mooney’s rant last night:
http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2009/09/leigh-sales-smears-scientific-scepticism/
Lucia (14:12:06) :
Why should it take over a month to walk 350 miles? Are they going to walk for 2 hours, and eat drink and fish the the rest of the time?
That’s because it’s a misleading statement to say that they are walking for climate change awareness.
The reality of it is: They are Trotting for Trillions down Oregon’s Yellow Brick Road, where it’s paved with pure Green gold, don’tcha know. They are truly “Following the Money”.
Big difference.
I’d be far more impressed with this loon if he were to hike 350 miles along the Appalachian Trail starting at Mt Katahdin on September 20th. Should be a piece of cake what with all the Global Warming and everything.
2,000 years ago, it was All roads lead to Rome.
Today, it’s All roads lead to Global Warming.
In Rome’s day, there was something to be found when you got there.
Today, however, if you follow the roads to where Global Warming is supposed to be, all you find is a dead end and a note nailed to a tree.
It says “Sucker”.
Jeremy (12:27:34) :
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.
Are you apologising to The Pretenders for thinking they were The Proclaimers?
😉
Nasif Nahle (13:06:32) :
I use to walk one mile in five to seven minutes, or ~22 miles in eight hours.
You might want to double check those figures Nasif.
I did the Lyke Wake Walk in 12 hours 20 mins. 39.7 miles.
I think he should start at the Oregon coast and head west :/
tallbloke (16:13:45) :
Nasif Nahle (13:06:32) :
I use to walk one mile in five to seven minutes, or ~22 miles in eight hours.
You might want to double check those figures Nasif.
I did the Lyke Wake Walk in 12 hours 20 mins. 39.7 miles.
Hah! Thanks for the observation. I should have written “I use to walk one mile in five to seven minutes; I’ve done ~22 miles in eight hours.”
I don’t know why I wrote it that way. Must be the flu… sure! 🙂
If they’d broadcast live 350 miles of hunting and gathering, that I’d watch.
tallbloke (16:13:45) :
I did the Lyke Wake Walk in 12 hours 20 mins. 39.7 miles.
Really? Are you a Dirger? 🙂
The only reason I still subscribe to the Oregonian is because I have no other source for local news (the TV stations generally cover what is already in the paper), the comics, and the shopping coupons. It has turned into one big religious tract for AGW. I don’t believe there is one person on the paper who honestly did a science based research paper in college (or high school for that matter); and I wonder if any of them actually ever took a hard science class.
Obnoxious. As if anyone will be impress by their histrionics. What exactly is the “carbon footprint” to travel to Oregon?
We’re off on the road to Portland
This warming is tough on the ice
Where they’re goin’, why we’re goin’, how can we be sure
I’ll lay you eight to five that we’ll meet Al Gore
Off on the road to Portland
Hang on till the end of the line
I hear this country’s where they do the dance of the carbon credits
We’d tell you more but we would have Jim on our temp site edits
We certainly do get around
Like Al Gores incon-vient truth we’re Portland bound
‘NoAstronomer (10:52:16) :
@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.’
I know it well ! Walked there a few times too . . .
And here’s how the UK enviromentalists like to do things:
http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/128039/Green-activists-target-Jeremy-Clarkson-in-horse-poo-protest
Great stuff, can’t wait for a broadside from Clarkson on the next series of top-gear…
The greater the number of these kinds of stunts, the more the general public will be turned off the doom-n-gloom, bring it on :o)
Cheers
Mark
Walking, I think, is the only answer, if you need to get somewhere in a hurry and yet mind your environmental footprint.
Public Transport is not the answer!
They do NOT want Al Gore on the march. It will take forever as Al stops for every photo op. And, when they reach 350, Al will demand a recount.
Mark Fawcett (04:00:59) :
Hope Carkson puts the manure on his Roses.Hate to let it go to waste you know.
Love “Top Gear”….
Sad that the original Oregon Trail pioneers walked from St Louis Missouri to Oregon and California – starting mid to late May, arriving some 2100 miles later (kids, mules, wagons, women, and babies mostly intact) before the snows closed the mountain passes in September.
With less carbon foorprint than Gore’s multiple houses.
3 mph walking 10 hours per day, on nice even edge-of-the-pavement (ugh = asphalt and blasting rocks!). They can take some time for lunch even. Still have lots of time to take the tents out of the trailing RV’s and sleep. (Will they wash off in the pristine (er, cold) streams going under the highway?)
tallbloke (16:13:45) :
I did the Lyke Wake Walk in 12 hours 20 mins. 39.7 miles.
I thought it was 42 miles from the hill next to the microwave relay station above Osmotherly to Ravenscar.
My dad did the walk too, though I can’t remember how long he took.
Took photos along the way, one of which was an adder, (a mildly poisonous snake).
He also saw seagulls microwaved in mid-flight at Fylingdales.
DaveE.
Global cooling is causing bears to attack people in Quebec.
There have been an abnormally high number of bear sightings north of Montreal this summer. Wildlife officials have said that cool, rainy weather in recent months has produced a smaller berry crop this year. That’s left the animals to search for other sources of food.
A.rctic’s C.onstant O.scillation R.eported N.efariosly
Major mistake!!! I have to thank you again, Tallbloke. Let me try it again, I was saying a colosal lie! I’m not the roadrunner. here the corrected text:
“I use to walk one mile in 15 to 17 minutes; I’ve done ~22 miles in eight hours.”
Regards,
Nasif Nahle