From @connect in my Twitter feed today:
I count 39 in this photo, including half bodies at far left. IMHO, 39 angry activists don’t speak for the country. Hansen, seen standing at far left in the grey fedora, keeps coming back for more, time and again. I wonder if there is some sort of “Three strikes” law for people like him? I’m reminded of a line in the movie, The Shawshank Redemption:
Andy Dufresne:
Maybe you should try a new career.
Tommy Williams:
What’s that?
Andy Dufresne:
I said, since you don’t have much success as a thief, you should try a new career.
Ryan Maue has some interesting takes on the photo op:
Heh.
UPDATE: (h/t to Latitude and NJ_Snow_Fan) James E Hansen was arrested again today according to Washington Post story.http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/activists-arrested-at-white-house-protesting-keystone-pipeline/2013/02/13/8f0f1066-75fa-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html
UPDATE2: Ryan Maue notes via FB messaging: mote first line of second page of WashPo article on Keystone XL:
“The protest was well orchestrated and had an exclusive air about it, bringing together the elite of the environmental movement.”
…this was a “by-invitation only” protest with 38-45 people. WaPo nails it.
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I think it’s touching that they have woolly gloves and coats on while protesting about the climate being too hot.
Explain to me again how buying oil from Saudi Arabia instead of Canada reduces CO2?
It’s funny how these guys act like Keystone XL is some kind of “make or breaK” thing. Part of it is already under construction, the part from Oklahoma to Texas, with the President’s blessing.
And about a month ago, the Seaway pipeline reversal was completed, so more oil can get from Cushing down to Houston for refining. That didn’t even get a peep from Hansen or McKibben.
That’s just the two projects that I’m familiar with. I’m sure there are at least a dozen more major projects underway, all with the same goal… get more oil out of Canada. Even if the remainder of Keystone XL doesn’t happen, the amount of oil coming out of Canada is only going to go up.
All the same arguments were used againt the Trans Alaska Pipeling…and we all now know what a massive environmental disaster that has been…. /s
Alaska Pipeline Doomsayings Revisited:
http://www.mrc.org/node/30433
How has he avoided being charged under the Hatch Act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
Shame nemo missed them. Perhaps if they were freezing to death, they would not begrudge heat to those without the luxury of woolly gloves and coats.
To borrow from and mangle Carl Sandburg: “What if they had a protest and nobody gave a [crap]?”
How old was Hansen when he first saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark?”
OldWeirdHarold says:
February 13, 2013 at 10:47 am
“Explain to me again how buying oil from Saudi Arabia instead of Canada reduces CO2?”
Kind of explains why the President of the US showed fealty to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia when he bowed to him.
Graham says:
February 13, 2013 at 10:39 am
I think it’s touching that they have woolly gloves and coats on while protesting about the climate being too hot.
Priceless….
What a bunch of complaisant pampered looking stuck up privileged a[snip]. If I were there I would risk arrest myself, by taking out my equipment and hosing them down with my personal bio-products.
Dr Ball, for someone like Hansen to be arrested and convicted, the DOJ must be interested in actually doing their job. That is not the current culture at the Department of Justice.
How does Dr. Hansen get away with this? If an ordinary GS-12 engineer with a security clearance was arrested in a street protest, they would be summarily fired. Dr. Hansen on the other hand not only gets a pass from his employer, he gets celebrated in the media.
39 protesters. Thousands of jobs. To me the numbers speak for themselves.
“…since you don’t have much success as a thief, you should try a new career.”
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What relevance has this quote? Hansen has had mucho success: he has copped large money and wields big influence.
More’s the pity.
It is painful to see fools being taken in by the AGW hoax.
The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is a climate activist?
I am becoming increasingly convinced that many of the devotees of the many – ism’s that have proliferated since the 1960’s, most particularly environmentalism with its proponents drawn from those most remote from the core basis for material existence – literally de-natured – are actually developmentally retarded.
Looking at these ageing creatures who generally give the impression of seeking the certainty of a secure childhood in absolutes that only mummy and daddy can give, I am struck by the resemblance in the seated cross-legged pose to primary school children who have been assembled for a class photograph.
OT, what day of the month does the widget get updated?
I’ve looked at that picture many times and I can’t see any poor people.
Alarmists are Discriminating Against Poor People!!! *
/sarc
* but most of the big oil funded conspiracy theorists that read WUWT already know this.
Funny hats seems to be a trend – I think I see at least three fedoras in the crowd. Not sure how the cowboy hat got in there…
It’s good to see the numbers dwindling. They must be sooooo disappointed.
Darryl Hannah arrested! The rest were just celeb airheads.
I hope Billy gets out of jail in time for his CO2 tax presentation tomorrow 😉
This is ominous for the Team’s cause. Only 40 to 50 concerned activists and most of these the high priests.
The celebs and experts have been deserted by their foot soldiers?