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.
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The reason for this backwards idea is because we are getting close to an election and the Labour party motto for this election is “[We are]Moving Forward”. But because they (Labour – Gillard the current female PM) renigned on the ETS (even though they said it is the greatest moral challenge of our time ) the marches are saying “not really” to moving forward were moving backwards. Get it !
The opposition (the Liberals) and in particular the Liberal leader Abbott is known to have stated that AGW is all “crap” although they have had to pretend they have a policy on it.
Don’t worry a vast number of Australians don’t believe in AGW and the numbers are increasing day by day.
About one in a thousand walked against warming in Hobart. The idiots got their wish, my thermometer is reading 1 degree (C).
wws says: August 15, 2010 at 5:00 pm
. . . and just what is a “Rottweiler cross”???
Similar to a Maltese cross, but with better dentition.
Once had a tenant who owned a Rottweiler watch dog. Somebody stole it.
Typical warmists – they don’t know whether they are coming or going!
I think we should encourage all the “progressive” organizations now hectoring the world about the dangers of CAGW to hold similar events across the planet. Each event would enhance the probability of the “Darwin Effect” arising to alleviate the threat of anthropogenic climate change. For those of you unfamiliar with the “Darwin Effect” it is also known as “Nature weeding out the Stupid”.
Meanwhile in London free, the issue is seen in black and white…
http://libertygibbert.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/the-china-syndrome/
in London 1 and London too…
http://libertygibbert.wordpress.com/rare-scribbling/fenbeagle/random-sketchings/green-london/
I wonder how big the crowd would be if they held a “Burn Your Driving Licence” rally?
Or, perhaps, a Donate Your Kitchen Stove for Scrap” campaign. I’ve got a lot more ideas if any campaigners want them.
Guys, please….these people do more for the sceptical cause than a thousand of us.
The general Australian public see them for what they are…slightly deranged middle class folk with nothing better to do than angst about Climate Change. Like the Northern Hemisphere we have just had our coldest, wettest winter here for many years and you’d be amazed how quiet the Climate Change mob have gone.
Let them march backwards, everyone else is ignoring them!
Man they look cold. When they get done, I would imagine they will all retire to a warm eco-friendly meeting center to warm themselves at a non-CO2 producing heat source, powered by solar or wind power. Or maybe they will retreat to the cold, miserable hovels they expect all to inhabit in the future carbon-free world…. or not. yes probably not.
Richard Sharpe says:
August 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm
h/t to WUWT reader John Howard
The John Howard, ex-Prime Minister of Australia?
Yeah, I was wondering if It was the John Winston Howard of Cactus Island fame. Scary.
These people are walking backwards because the live in the southern hemisphere. They have to make room for all the Kiwis who want to emigrate to Australia (where they are not wanted, except for doctors, because they cannot play either rugby or netball).
“derise says:
August 16, 2010 at 3:57 am
Man they look cold.”
That’s because it HAS been colder this winter in Australia. Mind you, Sunday was nice in Sydney, almost like a spring day. Adelaide is a very small city, so most of these people would have driven, but only a few K’ms without “warming up the installed emissions systems properly” (The most inefficient, in terms of emissions, way to use a car).
Cassandra King says:
August 15, 2010 at 8:30 pm
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.
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Cassandra the Climate Sceptics made and patented the shirts, they are the fundraisers to get the party registered and pay for ads, as well as donations etc
We all love WUWT too but I think asking Leon Ashby the founder of the slimate sceptics party would be a better way to go 🙂
the car stickers are cheap and post easy, feel free to grab a lot and give them out:-)
“Alexej Buergin says:
August 16, 2010 at 4:51 am
These people are walking backwards because the live in the southern hemisphere. They have to make room for all the Kiwis who want to emigrate to Australia (where they are not wanted, except for doctors, because they cannot play either rugby or netball).”
Correction, ARE migrating to the tune of ~45,000 each year. I expect that will increase in the coming years.
Walk Against Warming Adelaide – WA WA huh? Seems appropriate to me.
In the “Roaring 20’s” and the “Great Depression 30’s” people did all kinds of stupid stunts. We never really change, just the years. No doubt we’re in for more childish antics and idiot ‘causes’ in the 21st Century’s “Teen Decade” (the “Digit Decade” was really pretty lame). Well… we are, that is, if certain global nut cases don’t make everyone drop their cotton candy and pick up a rifle for a third bout of *World*Wide*War* insanity; talk about real hot manmade global warming…. people are idiots, sometimes.
A walking-backwards AGW protest march is a great idea. I’m going to organize one at Beachy Head. Successful participants will become immediately eligible for Darwin Awards.
Struck by the masses being struck by something they cannot have a clue about. What convinces people to believe what they cannot possibly comprehend, let alone recognize as true and make them march? A diffuse evasive concept such as “global warming” we are unlikely to be blamed for, antropogenic GHG are unlikely to be the main cause of and we pretty obvious know very little about and cannot do much about. Would make Jozef Geobbels jealous. Do these people want there to be problem? Is this filling the niche to fill up Christian need for sinn and repentence in the post religious era? Who has to be converted?
Meanwhile, shame on all of those who scare children. If there is a problem it is that children are being scared and abused for this kind of irrational propaganda. Should we ever find out GHG is really a problem we will deal with it, until then be gratefull for it.
One step forward, two steps back,
Common sense is what they lack.
Inviegled by the Warmist cry,
They’ll soon be left, both high and dry,
As global cooling saves the day
A carbon tax, we will not pay.
So a few hundred useful idiots turn up in the freezing cold and listen to some deranged commissar wannabe droning on about how Australia will boil and fry and drown and burn and starve UNLESS it destroys its economic and industrial base.
So to save itself itself Australia must destroy itself?
The foolishness of fools engaging in a fiesta of foolishness I think, there is just no overestimating the stupidity of stupidity is there?
Member #87 Australian Sceptics party. Nuff said
My other favorite T shirt that riles up the greenies
EARTH FIRST !
We’ll log the other planets later.
Just sends them over the edge.
As noted… but it is nice to see that the Gore Effect works below the equator too.
I would be tempted to say give them what they want, except that the silent majority will suffer for the stupidity of these loud mouthes.
BTW, I thought the Rotweiller cross was a reference to some kind of medal – maybe the Aussie version of the George cross. Silly me.
” Patrick Davis says:
August 16, 2010 at 4:51 a.m.
Correction, ARE migrating to the tune of ~45,000 each year. I expect that will increase in the coming years.”
As long as Temepara stays a Kiwi.
(It is just that I once had a house on a Silver Fern Drive)