Why, start a fire, of course! Surely, only lunatics would use fire as a tool to promote the idea of reducing combustion to bring CO2 levels down to 350ppm. And yet, here we have it. From earth350.org where they write:
Australia Ignites For Climate Action…
If you haven’t yet seen the incredible photos out of Australia for 350 EARTH, you’re missing out.
First up is this gorgeous aerial, with the snaking highway behind it:
The design–which incorporates a windmill as a sign of clean energy alternatives–was made by Keith Chidzey.
The next photo is of a similar design, engulfed in flames.
The piece, which was photographed by acclaimed photographer Peter Solness, was designed to call attention to the issues of drought and wildfire in Australia.
While prolonged drought and bushfires a continuing crises in Australia, the problems (and their solutions) have never before been depicted so evocatively. Enormous thanks to Keith, Peter, and everyone else who helped create this beautiful piece.
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Umm, the drought is over in Australia in case you 350.org folks haven’t noticed.
And I can’t help noticing how the second photo from above, doesn’t look that much different than this one:
I suppose it makes some sort of sense, as both events do tend to attract the same sort of firebugs filthy eco hippies artists people.
From the Wikipedia entry they say that for the 2010 event, “BLM issues 293 citations and 8 arrests.” BLM is the Bureau of Land Management.
I wonder if the earth350.org kooks got burn permits? I wonder if they restored the land to its previous state before torching it?
h/t to Ecotretas
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A small number of individuals or employers would be careless enough to want to set themselves or work colleagues in jeopardy so hiring an electrical company is a perfect way of ensuring that a high quality professional job is done.
“Roy Martin says:
December 1, 2010 at 9:14 pm”
Ok, I may not spell correctly all the time but I don’t swallow the AGW tripe most Australians accept. Ok, I forget, Australians don’t care what thier politicians inflict upon them…tax tax tax! If you are an Australian, peek outside your sporting sunnies and have a look at what YOUR leaders are doing and have been doing for many decades.
Or will it be another case of she’ll be right, right? And then it’ll be too late….
Clearly these geoglyphs were made by and for space aliens, ala crop circles and the Nazca Lines. The aliens look like humans, but don’t be fooled. They want to eat you.
Well, where I come from Engineering is called “Applied Science”, actually doing something with scientific knowledge.
That takes integration not staying in the ivory tower. A big problem in “climate science” is lack of integration, a bigger one is “better than others” attitude of people like Andrew Weaver who tried to redefine science to exclude critics (reference letter from he and colleagues, Innovation magazine January-February 2010 issue, available from http://www.apeg.bc.ca).
Applied Science takes checking that the result works, in the real world not Plato’s other one that ideologies like Marxism think exists.
And I note that David Harriman’s book “The Logical Leap”, section on Newton, in making points about what I call the theoretical approach versus induction starting from facts, rings a bell in my mind that there are word problems in the field. The theoretical approach, which seems to be favoured by climate alarmists, may use words like “first cause” and “first principles” but they aren’t referring to facts in reality. The benign version is deduction – one might figure out an electrical question by going back to power=emf times current, for example, the formula having been developed by induction (it seems to me).
Of course attention and care is always essential – watching for anomalies for example, and being able to deal with them (“skeptics” in the broad sense – not the “I’m from Missouri” sense – are disabled by uncertainty, rationalists don’t care as their way will always give the “truth”). (In their warped mind, beware that “truth” has become an abused word today, theorists and true believers (who don’t even do much thinking, theorists do just very badly).
That comes from Plato’s error in understanding the human mind’s use of concepts – he went down the fatal path of deciding there must be two “worlds” – the unknowable one we live in and the knowable one somewhere else (the path to knowing it is some kind of [spiritual] effort to cleanse one’s mind of what I’d call reality – an approach ripe for exploitation by ivory tower types who can claim they are the only path to knowledge). I know, it is bizarre, but so are most belief systems when you examine their fundamentals – and some philosophers do get to the point in old age that they say something like “my approach is the right one but you can’t live that way”.