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.
Yep – I defaced the site… and I’m proud.
I learned many years ago not to allow unmoderated commenting… if it’s not defaced, it’s spammed.
rbateman @12:00:32
You missed her poorly made point. She was agit-propping (is that a verb?) against carbon credit trading. Mind you, she did a piss-poor job of it, so I can understand you missing it.
I’m thinking Francesca Galeazzi is a Dirty Harry fan, ‘cause she just made my day! Its always good to have a big laugh in the morning!
And I have to say, I think that might have been the missing explanation that I have been searching for to convince me man-made CO2 is destroying the planet: its amazing how succinct the pro-warming scientific argument can be! Who needs to fabricate a Hockey Stick graph when you can just take a stroll and burp a little CO2 into the atmosphere to prove your case!
Personally I think she should have used Helium instead, and then she could have talked in a funny squeaky voice, and it would have been comedy as well as art; doubly powerful!
But on a serious note, I think we’ve all missed a major issue here: with poor old Martin Luther turning in his grave at the resurgence of prepaid indulgences. In his day, you could pay a priest and get an indulgence, which covered you for sins you were about to commit, like advanced Confession, but paying a bit of money rather than having to actually confess, and getting the forgiveness in advance to make sure you were covered. In this way, seriously religious people (and in those days people took religious obligations very seriously) could commit murder and all form of other sins with a pre-forgiveness piece of paper in their pocket. The whole Reformation took off of the basis that this was bad, wrong, corrupt, evil, terrible, and travesty et hoc genus omne, ad nauseum.
Sound familiar? Says bright young Francesca:
“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!!”
I was about to say its all about as dumb as it gets, but tragically, its not the bottom of the barrel.
Carbon offsets, what a joke. Since we all breathe out CO2 it means that those who breathe out more must contribute more CO2 to the atmosphere. Perhaps marathon runners should buy carbon offsets. Any marathon runner want to contact me and sell them an offset whereby I guarantee to bury the weeds from my garden and not burn them in an incinerator. For a few quid extra I will guarantee not to buy a BBQ.
The UN are making themselves Carbon Neutral, (I think that means “no more soot”).
“UN leads by example, purchasing carbon credit offsets for September convention.” http://tiny.cc/Z9Hhr
They can’t even spell “solution”
The best way i can describe this: Pretentious
Add this to the list of stupid this week:
“Those senators who don’t believe in global warming need only step outside Parliament House today to experience the reality of 37-degree heat, weeks before summer has even begun,” national secretary Peter Marshall said in a statement.
Source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/national/6490487/rudd-has-ets-mandate-macfarlane/
Meanwhile it is cool in Perth despite being mid-spring… it’s worse than we thought… we have both cooling and warming at the same time!
surely see was being sarcastic, she really cant think paying someone some money so you pollute the earth guilt free is ok?
She must be using sarcasm, I cant believe anyone is stupid enough to buy snake oil from mr Gore and his chums!
Than there is the fact that co2 came from the contemporary co2 in the atmosphere, not from burning fossils fuels so she wasted her money!
Terryskinner @15:46:02
You haven’t quite refined it. I call it the Jogger’s Tax. Anyone who does physical exercise produces more CO2; they pay me to lounge around and do nothing as CO2 compensation! Even that “!” is far too much energy for my lethargy.
Goreacle Report: Cancelled due to negligible ticket sales.
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“Drawing Power: 1500 wait in freezing weather to meet Sarah Palin on book tour
In case anyone needed an example of the drawing power and political energy that Sarah Palin wields, the Detroit Free Press report on the start of her book tour should fill the gap nicely. Despite freezing temperatures, people gathered by the hundreds early this morning to greet Palin in person at a Grand Rapids bookstore. By 5 am, five hundred people stood outside the Barnes & Noble — and two hours later, the numbers had swelled to 1500:
And that’s 4:55 this morning when the thermometer had dipped into the 30s. But the 500 or so people in line didn’t mind the sleepless night or the onset of winter.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389456/posts
As they say in Dublin – what a feckin egit.
Well the camera work must have been bad; because I watched and waited for something to happen when all that ;black evil CO2 came gushing out of the cylinder, and formed a pool of dry ice on the ground !
Nothing; not a darn thing happened; can I get my click back please.
How far did these people walk to make this horror movie ? Was that Cape Fear did she say ?
What was that big white whale in the background; or was that something else that I got wrong.
These people really do have some sort of mental block to reality, to engage in this sort of silliness.
Now I may be sympathetic to their case. To me it truly is stupid to let somebody pay to be able to pollute; not that CO2 is pollution; but if the aim is to curb emissions; you don’t let people pay to circumvent that aim; because everybody will pay to continue emissions, and smply pass the cost on to the unsuspecting coustomer.
If I’m not mistaken, this young lady and others of the AGW persuasion, fit the definition of an “Invasive species” per the UN. http://earthwatch.unep.net/emergingissues/biodiversity/invasivespecies.php
To wit: ” Invasive species are organisms (usually transported by humans) which successfully establish themselves in, and then overcome, otherwise intact, pre-existing native ecosystems. Invasive species constitute a global-scale problem affecting inter alia health, agricultural potential, and biodiversity. Increasing global trade and changing land use patterns may aggravate this problem in the coming years. Pest prevention and control have been on-going for many decades but many countries still lack the expertise or have limited access to technology to overcome this problem. The control of invasive species can be difficult, if not impossible, making prevention particularly important. The invasion of alien species continues to cause biodiversity loss and can have negative economic impacts. “
WSJ has this up wherein this: “Stephen McIntyre, who has emerged as one of the climate change gang’s Most Dangerous Apostates.”
Canadian Stephen McIntyre is an apostate?
Apostate: “–noun
1. a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.*”
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“Revenge of the Climate Laymen
Global warming’s most dangerous apostate speaks out about the state of climate change science.
By ANNE JOLIS
Barack Obama conceded over the weekend that no successor to the Kyoto Protocol would be signed in Copenhagen next month. With that out of the way, it may be too much to hope that the climate change movement take a moment to reflect on the state of the science that is supposedly driving us toward a carbon-neutral future.
But should a moment for self-reflection arise, campaigners against climate change could do worse than take a look at the work of Stephen McIntyre, who has emerged as one of the climate change gang’s Most Dangerous Apostates. The reason for this distinction? He checked the facts.
The retired Canadian businessman, whose self-described “auditing” a few years ago prompted a Congressional review of climate science, has once again thrown EnviroLand into a tailspin. In September, he revealed that a famous graph using tree rings to show unprecedented 20th century warming relies on thin data. Since its publication in 2000, University of East Anglia professor Keith Briffa’s much-celebrated image has made star appearances everywhere from U.N. policy papers to activists’ posters. Like other so-called “hockey stick” temperature graphs, it’s an easy sell—one look and it seems Gadzooks! We’re burning ourselves up!
“It was the belle of the ball,” Mr. McIntyre told me on a recent phone call from Ontario. “Its dance card was full.”” (More)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704335904574496850939846712.html
*Apostate:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apostate
I thought she looked pretty and she has a lovely smile.
Robert Townshend (14:03:28) :
“Saving the planet beats getting a real job.”
Mr. Townshend gets it right in one.
Jeesh! Where to begin? First, that was not air freezing at the nozzle. [No, it was not water ice either.] It was CO² turning to a solid at -110°F as a result of rapid expansion.
So she’s ignorant, but that’s to be expected in a warmist willie.
“…When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off…”
Can’t write too hot, either.
Airhead!
Hey, EPA – I’m doing Art, not polluting!
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
She epitomizes where dumb meets dumber and creates the absurd.
(tears are running from my eyes…)… I just cannot stop laughing… this is so sad and yet… so funny…. has this stupid (self snip) ever look at both sides of the arguement…I think NOT!!!
AND yesterday in N.Z. we had Lucy Lawless(Zena warrior princess) trying to give our P.M. the money for a flight to Copenhagen… some people will do anything to get their faces (back) in front of the cameras!!!
My investigations into AGW all started when I heard an actor ( cant remember who) spouting on about saving the planet…and I thought…’mmm.. what does he know that I dont…’ so I started to look … and guess what I found???
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Euripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)
It would seem to me from reading the history that I have read, a good deal of it, there is indeed a “tipping point” for all civilizations which destroy themselves (sans extreme natural forces). That is the tipping point between reasonable sanity and insanity of the people as a whole of said civilization. When the balance goes to a certain point towards the insanity side, the civilization continues to move in the way which will destroy it. Historians may point to a minor force here or there, which may or may not have had anything to do with the balance, but it is always the insanity factor weighing against the sanity factor and the balance thereof.
It is clear which side of the balance this woman is on.
6kg of CO2. Isn’t that exactly the amount of CO2 in a one metre square column air standing on that ice?
She just single handedly doubled the CO2 !!
Is this behavior as a result of record levels of cosmic radiation causing strange mutations?…
Last time cosmic ray levels were this high (1950s/60s) we saw the birth of the hippy movement.
She should stick on producing CO2 in the kitchen.