Here’s an eyewitness account of the march that walked backwards. From the Resident Judge of Port Phillip:
Yes, there we were on a day that seemed particularly un-globally warm, with our hands on the shoulders of the person in front of us, walking back wards along the length of the City Square.
Walk with the people, not the polluters! Climate action now! (Ouch, ouch!)
as the person in front of me (aka Mr Judge) stepped on my toes as we were were “moving backwards” for climate change, as distinct from “moving forward” as we all were at the start of this election campaign a very l-o-n-g five weeks ago.
(There’s Mr Judge looking all rugged up for global warming to the left of the woman holding the white banner). Back, back we shuffled, “walk with the people…” etc. until I could feel the crowd pressing behind me. Was there about to be a dreadful crush? “Tree, tree” hissed someone behind me, and sure enough I turned round to find myself pressed up against one of the few spotted gums that survive the blasted heath of our so-called City Square.
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Inconveniently, a few climate sceptics showed up to spoil the cold and backwards event . Hmmm, seems “OK” when these guys and this guy does it.
Image from: climatesceptics.com.au
From 7News Australia:
Police were called in to break up a scuffle between protesters at the Walk Against Warming in Adelaide.
About half a dozen police arrived in Victoria Square just after the start of the rally, aimed at raising awareness on climate change and the environment.
John Rice, organiser with the Climate Emergency Action Network, said climate change sceptics had arrived unexpectedly to disrupt the rally.
One had pushed his megaphone into his face, prompting him to call police.
The sceptics, who numbered fewer than half a dozen, wore T-shirts bearing the words CRAP (Carbon Really Ain’t Pollution). One of them led what appeared to be a Rottweiler cross.
A police spokesman later said the sceptics had “crashed” the event, causing a disturbance, but no one was charged with an offence.
The rally, which attracted several hundred people, was one of a series of Walk Against Warming events happening nationally.
Full story here
h/t to WUWT reader John Howard
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Compare (thanks to Tom Nelson):
Last year’s event attracted 10,000 participants, double the size of the 2008 event.
Walk Against Warming Brisbane 2010 attracts 3000 supporters
Actor Jack Thompson, who demanded action on climate change for the sake of future generations, estimated that 3000 people took part in today’s event, but organisers said the figure was more like 8000.
Catchcries included “What do we want, renewable energy; when do we want it, now,’’ and the strongly worded ‘‘No coal, no oil, we don’t want our world to boil“.
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Walking that way, I guess they wont be able to outrun: The Walking Monster of Climate Change kills 300,000 each year.
But freezing your butts off walking backwards protesting against energy- no irony there.
The John Howard, ex-Prime Minister of Australia?
3,000 or 8,000 or maybe 1,500 attendees; are these the same guys that collect temperature data down there?
wws
A Rottweiler cross is a Rottweiler crossed with another breed,a mongrel,but enough Rottweiler to distinguish it as Rottweiler.I wonder why the dog was mentioned?
Giving the impression that the sceptics had an attack dog?
I’m also wondering why the police were not in attendance until called?
The police are usually in attendance at any public rally or protest.
Jack Simmons says:
August 15, 2010 at 5:40 pm
How many people here walking backwards, drove to the protest in their cars?
And more importantly, did they drive to the protest in reverse?
Binny says:
August 15, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Walking backwards!!!! You really have to wonder if the people who organise these things are in on the joke.
Next year they’re going to build this giant wooden badger….
Here is an opportunity for some capitalist go getter, make up some of those T-shirts with a WUWT logo attached and get them on ebay!
With a donation from each sale into the WUWT tip jar.
Jus sayin is all.
Not sure if this has been commented on yet at WUWT but the New Zealand Climate Coalition has anounced that they are taking NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) to the High Court (in NZ) to seek a declaration that NIWA must correct deficiencies in the temperature indices that are compiled from surface station data. This has been reported on National Radio and TVNZ.
Climate change is cyclical. While record highs and lows have occurred recently, average temperatures on planet Earth have been declining for several years. The temperatures on Venus and Mars mirror our current climate cycles. These guys should do some homework and stop accepting the B.S. pushed on them by people who want to create a world government and tax us to death because we choose to drive a car and heat and cool our homes.
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ClimateChange/images/temp_co2_hist.jpg
The Great Global Warming Swindle
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/blancostemrecht/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle_Documentary_Film.aspx
Global Warming Doomsday Called Off
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/blancostemrecht/CBC_Global_Warming_Doomsday_Called_Off_mp4.aspx
I want one of those t-shirts.
TOO!!!!
“No coal, no oil…We don’t want our world to boil”????
How much coal did you say Australia sells to China? What was that?? 89% of Australia’s power comes from coal?
If these aussies are really sincere about stopping the use of coal, then let them do as Pat Sajak has suggested. Practice what they preach.
Coal is bad? Then stop using it, stop digging it up and sellling it.
OT:
Science News just ran a lousy editorial here: http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/62071
You may wish to leave a comment.
Looks at the picture, shakes his head.
Those organisers should work on their timing, me being European always has the idea that Australia is a warm and dry country, but that looks more like our summers overhere in the Netherlands, (the last 4 being normal compared to the long-term average), rather cold, cloudy, wet and windy.
“The rally, which attracted several hundred people, was one of a series of Walk Against Warming events happening nationally.”
Or more correctly, Backward Walk Advocating NO Coal and NO Oil.
Hopefully that won’t fly over most Australian’s heads. Big hat tip to WUWT reader John Howard from the US.
Love the shirt!
What was the Rotweiller cross about?
“Ben says:
August 15, 2010 at 7:02 pm
“Geoff Sherrington says:
August 15, 2010 at 6:02 pm
P Walker and others “Seriously , though , I love the tee shirt . How do you get one ?”
Old Aussie tradition. Boys don’t get the T-shirts. You turn up with a girl with a smashing figure, she puts it on over her bare top and you throw a large can of cold Fosters over her. Then you take a photo and if she compares well with the gallery, you get to pay for the T-shirt. The bumps are a bit like a dew point measurement, in duplicate of course, that’s the scientific way.”
That settles it, science seems to be alive in Australia, me and the misses are moving!
You do have room for a climate skeptic to move there right? (Or should I call myself a denialist like my hippie relatives do?)”
Don’t worry, the beer is never wasted!!! Ben you don’t want to move to Aus, we’re about to turn into the Greece of the southern hemisphere.
“Noelene says:
August 15, 2010 at 8:05 pm
wws
A Rottweiler cross is a Rottweiler crossed with another breed,a mongrel,but enough Rottweiler to distinguish it as Rottweiler.I wonder why the dog was mentioned?”
Well, to many in Australia, those who have been brain washed by the nanny state, have been convinced these types of dogs are extremely dangerous and, therefore, their owners are dangerous too.
Looks like around two hundred in the photo.
“Robert says:
August 15, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Looks at the picture, shakes his head.
Those organisers should work on their timing, me being European always has the idea that Australia is a warm and dry country, but that looks more like our summers overhere in the Netherlands, (the last 4 being normal compared to the long-term average), rather cold, cloudy, wet and windy.”
99.9% of Australia is not habited by humans. It is a dry continent, second behind Antarctica I believe. But this year, we’ve had a 100 year wet event, the land is full and fertile, lake Eire is full. It’s not always sunny, we’ve had some pretty nasty weather this year, even during “summer”. This winter has been very cold, even I feel it and I survived the 1970’s “the next ice age cometh”, we’ve even had record early snow in the hills.
See what I mean about the Gen-Y types here in Aus, brainwashed to the hilt?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/fewer-turn-out-to-let-off-steam-over-global-warming-20100815-1257f.html
“It’s really about people coming together to send a message to the next government to say the government needs to walk with the people and not the big polluters.”
Shame that the actual message is “We’re backward-thinking and gullible, and we want more Big Government.” One would have thought that they’d have organised a ‘leftwards’ walk, but hey, backwards does it.
I’m guessing the backwards walking thing is in part a critique of Labour’s inaction on climate and its current election slogon ‘Let’s move Australia forward’. The Greens also have been running ads where people are walking forwards against a sea of ‘backwards’ people. There’s quite a lot of forward/backward moving symbolism in this years election. It’s all pretty ridiculous.
P Walker says:
August 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Geoff – We do a similar thing here , but with water . It would be a shame to waste that beer
Do what we do Laddie. Suck the beer straight out of the T shirt. 🙂 We Ozzies are very inventive
regards
“Do what we do Laddie. Suck the beer straight out of the T shirt.”
Yes, but the trick is to stop the lass from walking backwards for any cause.
Patrick Davis says:
August 15, 2010 at 11:33 pm
“[…]See what I mean about the Gen-Y types here in Aus, brainwashed to the hilt?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/fewer-turn-out-to-let-off-steam-over-global-warming-20100815-1257f.html
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On that page google displays the following ad for me:
Master in Climate Change
MSc in Global Environmental Change. IE School of Biology, Madrid, Spain
http://www.ie.edu/biology
And if you follow that, you find photos of happy students and a description of what it’s about…
“Another strength of the program lies in its emphasis on communication skills, training students and stimulating their creativity to translate scientific evidence into understandable information for diverse audiences and to support environmental decision-making.”
I hope that everyone who participated in that program finds himself indebted to the hilt and unemployed. No, i’m not being mean; i’m defensive – AGW is a cult with the intent of taking over as big a part of the power as possible, and breeding his new underlings in that school in Spain.
Maverick: August 15, 2010 at 11:23 pm
What was the Rotweiller cross about?
Having to watch Men (and women) Without Hats doing an unSafety Dance…
“http://www.ie.edu/biology
And if you follow that, you find photos of happy students and a description of what it’s about…
“Another strength of the program lies in its emphasis on communication skills, training students and stimulating their creativity to translate scientific evidence into understandable information for diverse audiences and to support environmental decision-making.”
I wonder if they will be taught now in how to clearly communicate the findings of the new McShane and Wyner paper?