And yet…it was claimed to be a “success”. Note to organizers: the media is laughing at you.
Snowstorm squelches climate change protest
By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 12/30/2009 06:36:58 PM MST
A downtown [Salt Lake City] protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday’s snowstorm.
“Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.
It didn’t take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they’d planned to use for their “scream-in,” an outlet for their frustration about the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks earlier this month to curb the pollution blamed for climate change.
Still, they chatted with a few passers-by during the commuter-hour protest near the Gateway, and explained that, blizzard aside, climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate, said Major.
She called Wednesday evening’s effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it’s not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.
“There is always the irony element,” Major said.
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Here’s the original announcement from KCPW in Salt Lake:
Protesters Scream for Climate Change
12.30.2009 by Elizabeth Ziegler
(KCPW News) Climate change activists will stage a “scream-in” today at the Gateway Mall in downtown Salt Lake City to vent their frustrations about the Copenhagen Accord adopted by global leaders two weeks ago. University of Utah student Cléa Major says the demonstration is intended to call attention to the fact that the accord doesn’t require countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Basically we want your average shopper to go home tonight after work and say, ‘Man, you know, I was returning my Christmas gift and there were these people screaming on the sidewalk, you know, what’s that all about?’” Major says. “We wanted to make an impression on people and we wanted to maybe put it in a location where it wasn’t necessarily expected to get people out of the post-Christmas haze to just sort of listen.”
Major sees the Copenhagen Accord as a failure, akin to the cap and trade legislation, The American Clean Energy and Security Act, that activists had hoped would set the tone in Copenhagen. The bill has stalled in the Senate after garnering a narrow margin of support in the House of Representatives this summer. All three of Utah’s Congressmen voted against it.
Major says the scream-in will be cathartic for those participating, who see the Copenhagen Accord as a missed opportunity to reverse climate change.
“We just all felt so helpless, we felt betrayed by this,” Major says. “We felt helpless and we felt furious because it was like we had just been looking to this to be the big thing that could turn it around or at least be a major jumping off point. And it just kind of stalled and failed and now there’s kind of this feeling of we don’t really know where to go next.”
The scream-in takes place at 5:30 p.m. on the northwest corner of 400 West and 200 South at the Gateway Mall.
I don’t know what’s funnier, the “scream-in” as a protest or that it was called a success !!!!
Speaking of media events, Fox News is running a poll on biggest stories missed by the MSM this year. Climategate is running neck-and-neck for first with the Tea Parties: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/31/biggest-story-mainstream-media-missed/
JohnS
It’s a shame they didn’t stay and scream at the blizzard, that would have been a far more appropriate outcome than they could possibly realize.
“a protest she attended last year in Washington D.C. suffered a similar fate”
She has her own Gore effect – if she’d just protest more and maybe Al could give a few more speeches and they might be able to bring us back into an Ice Age. Cooler is beter right?
A plucky young lady named Clea
Was afraid of the heat risen sea
So she called a protest
But admitted when pressed
“It’s as cold as last year in D.C.”
400 West 200 South – great place to catch the inner city bus to Snowbird plaza for some of the best skiing in North America, with “screaming” powder runs.
Whats not to scream about.
It was a success for the skeptics. — John M Reynolds
OT — Anthony, have you seen this??
No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
Kinda wondering what the implications of this are.
Poor people in warm countries are laughing at these affluent white kids screaming their backsides off in freezing weather.
All this proves is that it was wrong for us to abandon the idea that children should work when they’re not studying.
Major snow seems to be following Major around.
And it just kind of stalled and failed and now there’s kind of this feeling of we don’t really know where to go next.”
Home.
“Darling, what are those people screaming about?”
“They say it’s too warm.”
“What are they, Canadians?”
It reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago. Some peace protesters went to Iraq or Afghanistan to tell the enemy how Americans felt sorry for them. They were captured by the enemy, and sadly the leader was murdered before the others were released. At the news conference, a girl in tears explained about how “successful” their mission was.
The prevailing mindset seems to be “If I think it, therefore it is”. Yeah, you just think that bus is not heading towards you. You’ll be correct… until just before the bus runs you down.
When are we going to stop suspending common sense in this country?
Screaming children who can’t even figure out negative PR. Maybe they’ll forget to come in out of the cold…
I posted about this on Joannenova.
They are making themselves look thinking impaired.
I suggest the warm mongers visit Padre Island or Cancun and take a 3 month winter spring break. They hurt their agenda with these stunts.
Maybe they drank too much koolaid and reached their tipping point.
I also suggest wearing sandals and walking on sand in the Sahara desert would have their pictures line up better with their agenda.
These spoiled, narcissistic infants think that they, and their feelings, are so important that they must express them in public.
Oh how i love this!
Keep it up Mr Watts, a true beacon in the dark.
It’s the nature of radicals and extremists to never reduce speed regardless of the facts on the ground or in the air. But then with the two million degree temperatures just a few miles down it won’t matter much longer since the crust will melt and 2012 will arrive earlier than expected! [:)]
pwl
http://PathsToKnowledge.net
“She called Wednesday evening’s effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it’s not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.
“There is always the irony element,” Major said.”
When will Clea get a clue as her events are canceled year in and year out due to Snow storms, that the planet is cooling, and that man has nothing to do with it?
How many snowed out events will it take for her to believe?
Two can play that game. Display a sign that reads:
“How’s Global Warming working out for you now?”
Perhaps screaming kept them warm?
It gave them something to do over Chrismas break?
Ah, to be young and foolish again.
Sounds like it was primordial scream in the darkness . . . ala Joseph Conrad in the Heart of Darkness.
The blizzard just proves global warming is occurring and is man made.
I’m screaming with laughter. How much do you want to bet one or more protesters had dredlocks?
Ah, youth!
The report doesn’t say, but I’ll bet they later celebrated by staging an “ice cream-in” at Dairy Queen and ordering Blizzards.
“There is always the irony element,” Major said.
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Which always manages to coincide with the idiot element. Who’d have guessed?