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.
Maybe if they scream loud enough it will make them right.
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“Reader (10:21:31) :
a student of international studies talking like the authority on climate change. these people use their hijacked brains to feel good. any scientific conclusions on climate they heard about in the news or magazines have numerous pitfalls, limitations, uncertainties and assumptions behind them that are never mentioned, understood, or appreciated. Yet, these reading bugs seem to think they know a lot.”
Right on Reader.
When you have a conclusion based on a preconceived notion whilst backing it up with cherry-picked data, and then using “hot button” words being advanced as science, no wonder a “soft” studies student would take up the cause. It’s right up their alleys, for no actual thought went into the issue, so it takes no thought for them to believe.
“Somehow, I knew she wasn’t an engineering major”
I’m in my 50’s and returning to college while still working full-time. Most of my career (with an electric utility) has been in the engineering/technical side, even without a degree.
I attend a notedly extreme liberal college through location, not choice. At a mandatory orientation session for new students, the Head of Admissions spoke about her interviews with applicants to the school about their choice of this college. I had a hard time not laughing out loud when she said one of the most often given reasons was the lesser math requirements to earn a degree compared to other schools.
Explains why a lot of these enviro nutjobs can’t follow the flaws in the underlying data. “We doan need no stinkin’ data!”
I wonder if this cream filled twinkie realizes that the exertion to do the screaming generated extra CO2 which she then emitted. In her own worldview, she is a climate criminal.
Galen Haugh (11:08:49) :
Many years ago, there was a graffito in the Cambridge University (UK) lavatory/toilet/john. Above the useful roll was neatly written:
Sociology degrees; please take one.
We only need to substitute ‘international studies.’
I see a bright future for Clea in the Obama Administration. She will fit right in.
Will (11:10:06) :
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.
Now there’s an incredible phenomenon.
These are the children that voted Obama into office! These children do not care about science they want to be led into the promised land by their savior. Hopefully they do not freeze the rest of us to death with skyrocket energy Obama.
IMO, Activism is a fantasy psychodrama.
“The protest for him was not politics, but theater; and the significance of his role lay not in the political ends his actions might achieve, but rather in their symbolic value as ritual.”
They considered it a success because it still gave them the chance to preen in self-righteousness. They completed their ritual, they have demonstrated that they are Good People, thereby, and are validated.
Blinded not only by ideology and stupidity … but a swirling blizzard as well.
OT and apologies, but I couldn’t think where else to post – feel free to snip if desired.
I have found “Global warming science” at http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/ to be a very useful sceptic site, particularly for a non-expert like me. However, I noticed it doesn’t seem to be in the recommended links here. Maybe it’s worth consideration for inclusion? The site does link to WUWT, by the way.
shellback (11:28:52) wrote:
She is a college student?
we are dooooooomed!
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Yes, she represents a climate trend chiefly detectable on college campuses, and one far more alarming that AGW: The Snowflake Student Syndrome.
I am opening a dossier on Clea Major.
He/she is an organizer. Anybody who can motivate people to protest about global warming in a snow storm – twice – requires watching.
He/she may well be in Congress within the next twenty years.
Does that thought make you feel warmer? I thought not.
“now there’s kind of this feeling of we don’t really know where to go next”
I’m going to h-e-double-hockey-sticks for this one…
…but maybe these college kids should clear out their bank accounts donating the money to Oxfam International and go “find themselves” in Denali National Park like this guy: http://f-ckingc-nts.com/people/10-true-facts-about-chris-mccandless/
“cream filled twinkie”. ROFL! They are definitely “twinkies”! Spongy with fluff inside and no nutritional value.
If all are still wondering about where El Nino goes into this this article has a list of the strength of all El Nino episodes based on the ONI index
http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=Clark&pgurl=/mtweb/content/Clark/archives/2009/12/facts_myths_and_misconceptions_about_the_current_el_nino_1.asp
According to the list this is not the strongest since 97/98 according to the ONI index, in fact it looks as if this one falls on the bottom half if you list their ONI indexes from highest to lowest.
Happy New Year folks. Its 2010 here in Aotearoa.
A pity those screaming brainless idiots didnt chain themselves in and were able to escape the “climate change” that they were wanting to stop.
There should be a survey of prominent warmists down with pneumonia and frostbite.
Now here is a real danger to the Earth, as opposed to the manufactured one of the alarmists:
Russia ‘plans to stop asteroid’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8435829.stm
Ken Roberts, where did you get a 1.5C rise?
IPCC AR4 says there was global warming of 0.76°C (0.57 to 0.95°C) over the past century.
No, it’s the penultimate irony. The ultimate irony would be to have the protest cancelled due to glaciers.
Allen Cichanski (11:49:30)
“I just don’t understand why the world can possibly take any of what they say seriously.”
Power and money. Gore (and others) stand to make a very impressive amount of money from this scam. Various factions of this government (US,) the UN, and Europe see huge amounts of political power to be gained (which is frequently more intoxicating than money.)
There is neither power nor money in fact based discourse or research on global warming.
when your school has political activists in your met program and pro agw faculty all the way…that makes me not want to suggest it to other science type students
Come on folks. You all know that it only snowed because the climate is getting so warm…
Hey, Al, and all the other ditzy jerks in SLC… Did I get that right?
The world is coming to an end they SCREAM and they have their proof. The sky is falling in cold fluffy little white bits.
there are quite a few similarities in behaviour and strategy, not just the screaming.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Gr3uCNxPTu4/SuPOj5rPBII/AAAAAAAACaM/_p5K8kVLbzQ/s400/Sutherland-body-snatcher.jpg
Evil Red Scandi (10:35:40) : “Lame idea anyway. Considering the politics of that state (over 80% Republican), it’d be like screaming Ayn Rand quotations at a socialist convention.”
If you wear little Marxist spectacles, an Obama tee-shirt, and Birkenstocks, and spew spittle as you rant, you might be done and on your way home before they realize you weren’t a Socialist.