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.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
~Frank Zappa
Happy New Year!
Health, happiness, and prosperity to all, with a side order of whirled peas.
Hey, nothing wrong with a little copper: Use copper tubing in your home to carry the water supply and you’ll never have to worry about legionella. Equip your home with brass door knobs and faucet handles and the chance of getting viruses or bacteria from anyone that touches those items is greatly reduced. Of course, silver would do the same thing, but we’re all on a budget, right? Besides, silver tarnishes quicker and has to be polished occasionally. I’m too busy studying on WUWT to be polishing silver.
BTW: Happy New Year, everybody!
We must act quickly.
How to tell when the above is 100% certain:
You wake up one clear day, and look out to see the yellow ball, that yesterday was the sun, has tured beet red.
DaleC (19:11:43) says:
I am not sure I understand? Were you referring to the grammatical mistakes in the article or the simplistic (and lacking in any perspective other than a Western-elites one) analysis of China’s intent and position?
I started my professional life in computer science and now write Linux device drivers and work with iSCSI, but along the way I have picked up some Cantonese, some Mandarin (both spoken and some written) and a good understanding of the bread-and-circuses model of democracy.
Being green today is like being a frog in a blizzard. Or was that a blender? Eh….
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! A toast to Anthony, the mods & all the readers here. God bless & have a happy & healthy 2010. Cheers.
But is the screaming of 6 idiots being drowned out by a screaming blizzard the “Ultimate Irony”?
What about President Obama giving a speech in Copenhagen “.. the reality of climate change is not in doubt..That is why I have come here today. Not to talk, but to act.”?
And his action? Rushing home to Washington to beat a humongous snowstorm.
I scream,
you scream,
we all scream for ice cream
The River Dee in Edinburgh is still frozen on the first day of the new year, forcing the cancellation of the traditional regatta.
Otherwise, apart from the large number of homeless Poles who perished, this has been a very timely winter and a blow to AGW.
But let us not laugh at the 6. Let us honour them in song and verse:
The Charge of the Climate Brigade
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the blizzard of Death
Rode the six.
“Forward, the Climate Brigade!
“Charge for the snow!” he said:
Into the blizzard of Death
Rode the six.
“Forward, the Climate Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the screamers knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the blizzard of Death
Rode the six.
Snow to right of them,
Ice to left of them,
Hail in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six.
Flash’d all their bullhorns bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air,
Screaming at the snowmen there,
Charging a blizzard, while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the white-out snow
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Danish and Russian
Reel’d from the bullhorn scream
Shatter’d and sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six.
Snow to right of them,
Ice to left of them,
Hail behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While hero and heroine fell,
They that had screamed so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Climate Brigade,
Noble six.
You scream, I scream we all scream for ICE cream!
Sorry Peter from Perth, Ididn,t see your post. Aussies think alike!
gerard (21:23:09) : Sorry Peter from Perth, Ididn,t see your post. Aussies think alike!
yyzdnl (14:16:36) : beat you both to it
To Richard Sharpe:
Search this page for the words ‘toilet’ and ‘international’, and read the posts. My concern is that in general holding science/mathematics/engineering as inherently superior to arts/history/literature inadvertently aids and abets those very forces which have a vested interest in dismantling the enlightenment. The solution to the problem posed by the Clea Majors of this world is to redress the lowering of standards. Attacking by denigration the body of disciplines which primarily deal with understanding ourselves and our societies is not helpful.
I admire the protesters who show up to protest against global warming, no matter how cold it is, blizzard or not, year in and year out.
I would be such a protester myself.
If I was younger, more gullible, more naive and easier to sway.
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…
So, they came to protest Copenhagen, and ended up being Copenhagen? That is priceless.
“…climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate.”
Translation: a thing that has been changing unpredictably for millennia is now going to change in a way that can’t be predicted, and in turn this is going to bring unpredictable changes.
Yeah, thanks for the insight, Clea.
REPLY: Thanks much, avoid the decline. – Anthony
If I read this correctly, it is a very clever way of saying “Stay warm.” If I do not, I propose it as a very clever way of saying “Stay warm.” 😀
Happy New Year to the WUWT crew, all of you! I owe you some fresh air for the internet reading you have given me. Twice as interesting as the mainstream blogs and, it appears, twice as relevant. Can’t believe it, but I was reading this blog before you got to 10,000,000. 😀
“Ern Matthews (10:21:44) :
Move along folks nothing to see here. The cool chicks have left the movement and the men have followed.”
I’ve read and heard from Baby Boomers who lived that time period that a lot of the people at protests were there for that very reason, and that one alone.
Well, what did we expect from an “organizer” who apparently was creatively named after Doctor Strange’s girlfriend?
She was an organizer as well!
I have no other comment than this:
http://jeremysarber.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/stop-global-warming-cartoon.gif
Happy New Year to the WUWT team!
she probably went home and googled herself to see if she had improved her standing in the world darn no response.
Oslo (22:14:30) : Satire can fall flat if it is accepted literally. If I walked into a restaurant in Iceland or Norway and said I was so hungry I could eat a whale, I wouldnt expect one to be served up piping hot. But then I may be surprised.
I think the warmists lack a sense of humour. They are the sort when presented with King Canute’s decree to halt the waves, blame humans for not seeing to it that his orders are obeyed and can admire the Emperors clothes made out of transparent CO2.
The irony that Copenhagen was the town where Hans Christian Anderson, wrote the Emperors New Clothes, and which hosted a conference on Global Warming, which had to be cut short because of snowstorms is completely lost on them.
Perhaps us sceptics should think about setting up drop-in centres where the poor CAGW protagonists who have had their belief shattered can be de-programmed and put on the road of being able to think for themselves again.
The IPCC cabal and the MSM have to take the blame for promulgating the big climate lie, and the politicians who sponsored this farrago need to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Here’s wishing everyone involved in WUWT a prosperous and sceptical New Year.
DaleC (22:03:36) :
To Richard Sharpe:
Search this page for the words ‘toilet’ and ‘international’, and read the posts. My concern is that in general holding science/mathematics/engineering as inherently superior to arts/history/literature inadvertently aids and abets those very forces which have a vested interest in dismantling the enlightenment. The solution to the problem posed by the Clea Majors of this world is to redress the lowering of standards. Attacking by denigration the body of disciplines which primarily deal with understanding ourselves and our societies is not helpful.
I am one of your offenders. I studied chemistry and physics to the age of 19, and one year later was a student at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where I was lucky enough to be taught by some of the finest musicians in Europe.
There was plenty of discipline in that, both practical and academic. And even that was only an introduction to a life of disciplined work. There is always plenty to learn.
What I am saying is that many of the new ‘subjects’, often using the suffix ‘studies’ are invented to help make up the numbers to convince us that our politicians are improving education, while in fact they are busy wrecking it. Our UK government has a target for 50% of young people to go to university. When everyone has a degree it can no longer be called a degree by any accepted etymology.
We are in agreement that the real problem is the lowering of standards, and I am sure that it is part of a political agenda; a faulty notion of ‘equality’ and maybe that politicians prefer an unthinking electorate.
The trouble now is that the lowering of standards now applies to the academics also. The woman I lived with for some years did a Fine Arts degree as a mature student. The verdict, both hers and many other students, was that they had not been taught the basic skills, most likely because their tutors didn’t have them to teach.
“Schadenfroid”…