People email me stuff. Sometimes its just too bizarre to ignore. We have another person on an “expedition” with a camera and artistic license to foist upon the world:
From Francesca Galeazzi of the disko.bay expedition, whatever the hell that is:
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavn Fjord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place.
From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by. I thought this is perfect!
I walked to the top of the small hill, I put the cylinder down, got on my knees and opened the valve. The CO2 came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle. When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.
Photo: Nathan Gallagher.
Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven’t done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her ‘bad’ actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!
Don’t you think this is great?
Read the rest here
No, and I think you are beyond art, you’ve launched yourself into the great realm of anti-art with a megadose of idiocy.
What next? posing propane cyclinders with polar bears? Yes the propane and propane accessories signifies the struggle against heat the polar bears must face every day.
Hey it’s art. I have a license.
Profound. The plaudits (or at least the hits/awards etc) are beyond question: as the above enlightened discussion shows, this truly is the site to learn serious science from! But for once can we have some insightful commentary on the *real* stuff please, rather than just tabloid junk??
Yeah, I’m in a crotchety mood today. Sorry.
She should have gotten a small piece of coal.
Placed it in a bottle of urine and called it tink-coal.
Now that’s art!
Forgive them for they know not what they do!
Give me warm tropical sunshine over cold white stuff.
I know I am old and strange but I see this as a sarcastic send-up – it is quite hilarious.
From “Bird-brain” (I know, an insult to all birds) “Meanwhile, isn’t it interesting how flying all about the world on say, holiday is perfectly acceptable? I mean, isn’t that just a prime example of Eco-Vandalism? Why is that legal? Why do people think nothing of it or driving SUV’s? Hello!”
So, using her own “logic” the very “expedition” these eco-loons was on is also “Eco-vandalism”. Have they given any consideration to what must certainly be a monstrous “carbon footprint” or “eco-footprint” for this jolly? No, not even the “artist” Francesca Galeazzi seems to have considered this fact, even though she manages to see the hypocrisy and uselessness of the concept of “carbon offsets”.
She’s obviously being satirical about carbon offsetting. Must have seen the photos of Gore’s mega-houseboat with the jet-ski on the back. One can always hope.
What worries me is that “merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow…”
There are a lot of frustrated artists who see protest as an opportunity to thrust boring art and bad prose on a public that would not otherwise accept it.
Saving the planet beats getting a real job.
carrot eater (11:36:15) :
“Ugh. Activist, artist, whatever she is, it’s beyond silly. It’s people like these who give the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a bad name. There’s no need to feel guilty about anything. You either reduce your own emissions, or pay for somebody else to reduce theirs. How does it matter who does it, so long as the total amount of emissions goes down?
The main shortfall of offsets is making sure the emissions reduction you’re paying for wouldn’t have happened anyway. That gets tricky.”
Hmm, it’s my understanding that these carbon-credit (absolution) companies aren’t really engaged in reducing emissions rather increasing emission absorption(planting trees, plankton seeding and the like.) Some companies sell future planting of trees. If some are actually engaged in reducing emissions, it would be news to me. But I don’t believe that is the point of all the hysteria to begin with.
Ars sine scienta nihil est.
Clearly the science is missing here.
I’m not sure her project is art but it would make a nice subject for an allegorical painting if she were to pose on the opposite side of a see-saw with Sarah Palin.
I was so moved that I just offset my Ten Trillion dollar Bill (Ebay) and now everyone in the US can buy a CO2 cylinder and set them off. Why not everyone, set light to them and we can have a CO2 beacon can can be visible from the moon and everyone in the universe can marvel at our CO2 sacrifices.
Excuse me you daft cow, CO2 doesn’t burn, It’s plant food.
SECURITY……
…P.S. by *real* stuff, I mean science (as opposed to gossip) at the cutting edge. For example, today’s issue of Nature has at least two articles that look well worth a detailed discussion or two.
First we have “A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects”, something that strikes at the very heart of what we think we know about reality. Good old Lubos has had a couple of insightful pieces on this work, but how about something here for us uneducated masses.
And second, I see this paper: “Reconstruction of the history of anthropogenic CO2 concentrations in the ocean”. Surely more worthy of serious discussion on this site than something about someone waving a tank of whatever, wherever??
Please Mr Watts, you’re trying to do a good thing; now feed our curiosity!!!
@ur momisugly Dr A Burns A fine point but 50% of the population may or may not be below the average intelligence. You can, however, say that 50% of the population is below the median intelligence.
carrot eater (11:36:15) :
It’s people like these who give the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a bad name. You’re right – they do give climate idiocy a bad name.
Light bulb above my head still glowing. Boom
How to end Climate Change.
Issue everyone in the US with a Freebie 10 Billion Ton Carbon Offset bill. We in the EU can buy them off you at £5 per ton because our governments are stupid beyond belief. Just look at the value of the Zimbabwe dollar/ Carbon Tonne. The US can reign supreme and you can have a new national holiday called ‘EU Carbon Day’ where you can all laugh at the Europeans. Now that has to be a vote winner.
John Galt (13:55:35) :
If I find out this was paid for with tax dollars, I will be doubly offended, which would make it even more artsy-fartsy.
Oh, come on John! You know it was paid for with tax dollars. None of these idiots could survive without a stipend.
Mildwarmer (13:56:01) :
This is the real stuff… this is science… as you can see, the CO2 released from the tank did not melt the snow/ice they were standing on.
Thanks Ray, that’s the reassurance I was looking for. (Yeah, I know it was in jest… but as I say, I’m in a crotchety mood and actually keen to learn something rather than sound off, as seems increasingly to be the norm here. Sadly.)
I heard a lovely expression that encapsulated people like this some years ago … “oxygen thieves.” 😀
“…an evil horrible woman.”
Mmm, no, very ignorant, and untalented.
Why didn’t her parents provide her with a quality education?
She does realize it would have been the same effect had she kneeled down and just used her own savage CO2-rich breath to blow away the snow, right? What’s the carbon credit cost for these terribly polluting exhalations?
“One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her ‘bad’ actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!”
Yes but they pay the government, which is good, because it really cares about the environment and meeting people’s needs. Big companies hate people, and don’t care about anything but making money.
She doesn’t get it yet, but she will.
She needs to become a lab assistant for the Dr Algore. They can take a CO2 fire extinguisher and relaese some CO2. It is ice cold and prove CO2 can’t be associated with warming It is very cold.
Where do they find these people with low education?
Since the Dadaists began the Contemporary Art movement, ending the Modern Art movement, they do stuff like this. See, this art Critic with a capital C named Greenberg once lived who told everybody in proper marxist revolutionary terminology, how Abstract was true Art because it didn’t represent anything in the real world, he said “Art exists for its own sake, it is not a window, but an object.” This defined Modern Art.
Then the Dadaists came along who called bull$hit on that, that that was all absurd, and they demonstrated that by creating absurd art: made from garbage, performance art of nonsense syllables in carboard costumes, etc. until one guy took Greenbergs maxim to its ultimate, absurdly logical conculsion, that if art is an object, then objects are art, so he took a toilet and stuck it on a wall and called it art.
Our faithful artist here we see is illustrating what she thinks is the absurdity of carbon trading: akin to an exchange for indulgences, where all people are expected to do some bad, and if they do less than expected, they can sell the margin to those who do more than expected, and it all comes out even in the end, and based on the assumption that doing more evil is more profitable than doing less evil, and that this should be actively balanced out by this faux free market scheme on trading in Sin as sin is defined by the Church of Global Warming.
Disko Bay is on the West coast of Greenland, on the Baffin Sea.
This really is part of Canada – those d#!@ur momisugly lying Danes!
hunter @11:51:01
Until people visit Canada or some other Northern Place, it is difficult for them to comprehend how HARD ice is. Rock Hard. Like Granite.