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.
So 6 screaming people … and you call the AGW skeptics insane. I don’t know about you, but if I saw someone screaming in public, I would either think they belong in a mental hospital, are off their medication, or the victim of a crime. In any event, I would never think “hey, because they are shouting, it must be for real!”
“an international studies student”
Nuff said.
I graduated from the U of U: Got two degrees in mining engineering. We had a total of 3 professors at the time and a student count equivalent to the Sociology Dept, which had 27 faculty members. We laughingly called ’em the “do nothing end of campus”. Based on their student to faculty ratio, about the only thing they could do after graduation, apparently, was…. teach sociology.
I’m betting “international studies” is about as worthwhile as sociology.
Anchorage AK: Currently observing the moon in umbra lasting 1852-1952GMT, sunrise soon at 1914GMT. Simultaneous sun and umbral eclipse, thanks of course to atmospheric refraction.
Just like Copenhagen, while snow splashes on their faces, they demand to end global warming. The base of honest AGW supporters is largely made of gullible retards. These people simply cannot think.
Whatever TV tells them, they’ll line up like zombies and protest.
“…and explained that, blizzard aside, climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate.”
That’s because the climate models can only produce “chaotic” solutions…
You would think these idiots would pick a hot summer day….oh, hang on, i just stated the obvious…idiots….
Yet more AGW propaganda.
Mars: Making the New Earth. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/4588/Overview
It’s on right now. Interesting show but unfortunately liberally salted with AGW BS about Earth.
Looking forward to some reviews of the show.
Salt Lake City was much warmer in the 30s:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425725720000&data_set=0&num_neighbors=1
Copenhagen shows no AGW signal:
http://i45.tinypic.com/ele3bp.jpg
They need to go protest “global” warming in Siberia, where it’s actually warming a bit more than usual.
She is a college student?
we are dooooooomed!
This reminds me of my admittedly modest activism during my university days all those years ago. Some friends were much more activist than I was, but I don’t recall there being a lightning rod back then as all-encompassing as climate change is today. As I grew older and more aware, my activism turned to scepticism and I learned how much I actually had not learned in university. So too will it likely be for these protestors.
We all wanted to change the world when we were young and impressionable university students. Now as working adults in the real world we just want real, measurable, tangible security for our families.
They are Uni students? Just shows the average intelligence of these idiots. They figure that if you don’t like it then must be that it is “climate change” that some one else is guilty of. Hope they did not wear clothes made in evironmentally unfriendly ways.
What next a “hold my breath until I turn blue” sit in? These leftists have all of the maturity of a 5 year old. Check that: a spoiled 5 year old.
And if they keep holding these protests we’re going to have an ice age based on what’s been happening when they do!
Bill Marsh (10:44:31) :
One obvious consequence is that the alarmists will go from being global warmists to ocean acidificationists. From one scam to another, it never ends. But we won’t get fooled again.
Another possible outcome is that this research on CO2 will be completely ignored and the global warmists will continue to scream at snowstorms and blizzards for the next 100 years.
Joe Romm is screaming “Hottest decade evah” on climate Progress.
They are immature nature freaks that crave attention.
Many of us enjoy nature and express a rational view point about it.
Joe is showing his fear map using red color where Louisianna is going to be flooded fer sure.
Yeah, many scream-in candidates may have had to delay any protests here last night. The reason – “one of the best shows on earth” – Sydney’s New Year’s Eve annual fireworks display. One and a half million people watched as 4,500 kilograms of pyrotechnics went up in smoke into the atmosphere over Sydney Harbour:
http://www.treehugger.com/sydney-fireworks.jpg
And some of them no doubt will be trying to hang banners over the Opera House next week telling us how poisonous CO2 is. Mmmnn, strange world.
Could one sell them global warming insurances now?
You do have to feel sorry for them.
Imagine for a moment, that if you really believed the alarmism coming from Gore and the IPCC. You’d be living on a the only tiny speck in this vast neighborhood of the Milky Way that can sustain human life within attainable lifetime light-speed distance, while governments, companies, and individuals were doing their best to destroy it.
Of course, the notion is absurd, but glimpse into their world for a moment, and you will feel pretty sorry for these idiots.
Mother Nature has a sense of humor; or sweet justice, as the case may be.
Meanwhile, in the local ”weather is not climate” department:
Here at the ranch in ND we had -10 degrees below zero F. this morning (just another winter day).
But tonight and tomorrow night local forecast sez:
-22 to -23 below zero F. still air temp; with chill factor 40 to 45 below both nights. IOW:
Already we have a head start on a winter where a little ”local warming” would be REALLY nice. . . .
If you check into the educational background of many of the most rabid AGW advocates, you find that many have degrees in watered down majors such as International STUDIES, environmental STUDIES, gender STUDIES, etc. Even NY Times writer Thomas Friedman has a B.A. from Brandeis in Mediterranean STUDIES. Even Gore and Obama have virtually no genuine science in their educational resumes. The people who push hardest for AGW often seem woefully lacking in basic science. Of course scientists like Mann, Jones, Hansen clearly have more of a political/monetary stake in the game rather than real science. I just don’t understand why the world can possibly take any of what they say seriously.
The end of the world is comming… until it doesn’t.
: )
One of the things they claim will happen is that there are going be more climate refuges.
They may be right.
I for one, wish to move south, if this weather continues. -20C for the last week.
They should have held their ‘scream in’ in the Arctic. Mr Gore assures us its like Marbella in August up there – Polar bears lolling about on deckchairs, seal kebabs sizzling on the BBQ.
Ah, go easy on them folks, mummy needs to come change their nappies for them.
Happy and prosperous New Year to all.
My resolution is to breathe out more CO2 than ever before! The plants told me to do it.
You see, people won’t listen to them, so they have to scream louder.
: )