UPDATE: first picture submitted at right from Matt Dempsey
The Winter of their Discontent: Keystone XL activists to protest global warming ahead of SOTU in freezing cold.
McKibben’s 350.org nutters say they will be protesting the KXL pipeline (but really global warming) today out by the capitol ahead of Obama’s SOTU speech. It will be interesting to see how many show up in the freezing cold. Anyone who has pics of these folks in cold weather gear protesting should provide links in comments.
A few reality points to consider:
· Keystone XL activists are outside fighting global warming on the coldest state of the union in history.
· Today’s forecast from the Capital Weather Gang: “Bitter cold today, slight snow chance tonight”: “Today will be another super-cold day (15-20 degrees below normal even before factoring in a brutal wind chill) as a frigid air mass continues its glide across the Midwest, South, and East.”
· Americans are not concerned about global warming: In a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll 91 percent said creating jobs should be a top priority while only 27 percent said that addressing global warming should be a top priority. A Pew Research Center poll found that 29 percent want global warming to be a top priority. Ben Geman has the full story here.
· So it’s not surprising that they’ve had pretty sparse attendance – and ironically extremely cold temperatures – at their previous protests. For pictures and details of their poorly attended protests, click here.
· After the New York Mag and several news outlets called out activists for making a “huge environmental mistake” focusing all their efforts on Keystone XL, The New York Times published an article which twists the focus from defeat to arguing that the Keystone XL fight “lifts” the environmental movement: “Although some critics say the environmental movement has made a strategic error by focusing so much energy on the pipeline, no one disputes that the issue has helped a new breed of environmental organizations build a mostly young army eager to donate money and time.”
· Keystone XL activists began their protest at the Folger Shakespeare Library – coincidentally it’s opening night for Richard III. “Now is the winter of our discontent!”
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Anyone asked Warren Buffet ?
It’s rarely about the issues with environmental groups these days but about obtaining new useful idiots to do the grunt work, for free and cash cows to give their management solid pay and benefits plus luxury travel to the exotic summit locations of the world. Every other for-the-benefit-of-the-bosses organisation would be hauled out and flogged by the left, but these are their very own.
Here are over 50 quotes from scientists about global warming leads to warmer winters, less winter snow and earlier springs [CLICK].
Then they changed their minds. Maybe THIS is why.
So if the president uses the snow as a sign of global warming he also must admit that the climate scientists are very prone to embarrassing error and should no longer be listened to.
The only thing that could keep Canada from selling their tar sands oil is if it were not economically viable to do so, due to low oil prices. Of course, enviro advocated policies do exactly the opposite: they do everything they can to raise oil prices. Then they advocate to make the selling of such oil as carbon intensive as possible (by shipping it via rail or boat to China). It must be hard to for their heads to not explode while holding together the patchwork of their belief system, with all its’ logical inconsistencies. Silly enviros!
And in that they are lucky. Just south of DC, they are expecting a foot of snow tonight.
Seeing those idiots freeze is warming up my day. Gawd, if DC could only get down to -50F with strong 30-40 mph wind gusts, then all would be peachy.
@”In many ways you have to admire their commitment.”
Yes, they have very good *intentions*. Just not much common sense.
As PJ O’Rourke once wrote:
“Good intentions is just stupidity gone to college.”
Steve,
In BC, we already have a pipeline to the coast, the Kinder Morgan. It’s been operating more or less completely safely for the last 50 years or so. One mishap I’m aware of a few years ago when a backhoe dug into it and flooded a few blocks with oil. There may be others. Nobody died unlike in Lac Megantic, Quebec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_derailment They are looking at doubling the capacity. I believe most of the oil is shipped to California for refining. The proposed Enbridge pipeline has finished its Environmental review and needs to meet some additional conditions. 200 plus of them. Some minor. Some not so minor. There is a high probability oil will be flowing to China within the next 5 – 10 years. Put on top of that China’s state owned oil company just bought out a private company which is operating in the oil sands. I’d bet on a pipeline to the coast. We’re losing an estimated $25 billion a year in royalties because it is landlocked and the only customer is the USA. (limited customer means it is pushed down the demand curve and about a 25% discount on price).
Cheers
andrewmharding:
re your rewriting of history at January 28, 2014 at 9:58 am.
The reality is that the Tories stay in power until their economic incompetence induces a Three Day Week, or a Black Thursday, or etc. when the electorate votes in Labour to put the economy right. But people like the ‘handouts’ with which Tories buy votes (hence, e.g., we have a social housing crisis) so the Tories get back in when Labour has straightened the economy.
Fortunately, Labour were in when the Banking Crisis hit or the country would have collapsed.
Richard
I think I found another picture of the protesters 😉
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/global_warming_protesters.jpg
“Now is the winter of our discontent” You are so cool — super cool!!!!!!!!!.
A minor poet whose name I forget once said “Ice burns” — but I am quite sure those protesters will quickly “chill out”. They are after all “warm weather soldiers” of the left — though now It seems the rallying cry of climate change is — WARMING! WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ WARMING! (watch Blazing Saddles).
Actually that would be rather cool if someone joined their ranks carrying a sign that said — WARMING! WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ WARMING!
Eugene WR Gallun
Um, that’s A top priority, Berenyi. There can be several. Doesn’t have to add to 100%. Duh.
The truth is that the world might be warming to Cold Fusion. LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions). This could be a game changer as I see it. If the environmentalist want us to stop using fossil fuels, then they should start getting behind Cold Fusion. Cold Fusion was introduced back in 1989 by two scientist and was dubbed the Fleishman-Pons experiment. It didn’t really go anywhere at the time and the two scientists where ridiculed and lost their careers.
However recently there has be a resurgence of interest in the scientific world with some major universities like MIT’s Dr. Peter Hagelstein. And Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat, claims to have a 1 Million Watt Cold Fusion Reactor Running in Italy.
Who really knows what the future holds, it could be that all this controversy about Global Warming, Climate Change could be laid to rest in a few years if this turns out to be true about Cold Fusion. For the most part, I say that the folk that participate on WUWT are way smarter than I am, and I consider myself to be an old dumb guy that happens to own a smartphone.
I rarely comment on WUWT, but I read almost daily and have to thank those who take the time to do so. I have been enlighten, Thank you Anthony and thanks to all the guest writers and the folk that comment.
Gail Combs says:
January 28, 2014 at 9:59 am
Have you ever noticed that the proponents of Global Governance always see themselves as governing not as the governed?
Actually while much has to be noted this helps the railroad owners and investors a peculiar OTHER group is being left out here. For every berry of oil sent down that pipe then a corresponding barrel of oil from Russia and the Middle East is NOT going to be sold or purchased.
In other words it is NOT STRANGE that SO MUCH EFFORT is being spent on this silly and stupid ONE pipeline since the alternative is for North America to become much more self-sufficient and NOT have to purchase blood oil form the middle east.
A real toxic mix of characters doesn’t want this pipeline:
Railcar/railroad companies
US Military – they constantly spew out propaganda about how global warming will cause huge problems in the world – the result is to justify their trillions of funding to keep the military machine going and the resulting “NEED” to police the middle east and other spots where our energy comes from. It is RATHER clear that the US military benefits from LESS energy security and energy independence is the last thing the US military wants – no need to keep the oil lines open for the US economy. In a way it is sad that the US military has sold out much like Al Gore and the result will simple be less respect for the military just like we now have much less respect for the science community. At one time lawyers used to have respect also!
Russia – the masters of propaganda have used the greens for YEARS to prevent oil development in North America while at the SAME time purchasing huge oil rights even in the Gulf of Mexico.
Middle East: With franking and new pipelines, there may come a time when we don’t need them – this would MUCH change our political winds or even the “need” to be friendly to many Middle East nations.
So Russia, middle east, US Military and then the long list of puppets like Greenpeace ALL DO NOT WANT ONE stupid little pipeline?
The REAL question is WHY SUCH HUGE opposition to one silly little pipeline? That is the real question and the above answers are only a start.
The opposition to this pipeline is WAY OUT of proportion.
However, when above issues are taken into account? This pipeline is much the industrial hockey stick that MANY players simply do not want and stand to lose huge if it stopped.
Has anyone tried pointing out the fact the tar sands project is the largest environmental cleanup job in history? All that oil damaging what would otherwise be a pristine environment……and these trouser stains object?
A gas pipeline ruptured in manitoba few days ago while the province was gripped by a -30C cold blast… And curiously we did not read in the Globe & Mail the usual hate literature against fossil fuels by the likes of Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of CIGI a Balsillie/Rockefeller/Soros funded propaganda center… Obviously McKibben ain’t as shroud.
Gail Combs says:
January 28, 2014 at 9:59 am
I made up an overlay of his 9 steps and would use it in speeches/presentations I did. I usually ended with the question of “Where are we now?”
@hunter
“But as we see with windmills, environmentalists want monuments to their power…”
Beautifully put. It applies equally well to most other venues of activism.
Les Johnson
January 28, 2014 at 9:32 am
D.J. Hawkins
January 28, 2014 at 9:47 am
Thanks. Oh, do I feel stupid now. One question I have: Why don’t our hardy protesters use a windmill to inflate that faux pipeline? Better yet, why don’t they use foot operated bellows?
Ah, the more passionate our enviros feel that they have a right to dictate to others how they shall live, the more they place themselves on the precipice of hypocrisy.
Richard Day says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 10:53 am
Seeing those idiots freeze is warming up my day. Gawd, if DC could only get down to -50F with strong 30-40 mph wind gusts, then all would be peachy.
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I was praying for it but I would be happy if the wind would just gust up to 20 mph. Now it is 17 °F with 3 mph. Given the average is temp for today is 36 °F and the average high is 44 °F It is still darn cold!
Time to call all the Congress critters tomorrow and ask them pointy little questions….
What is your stand on Global Warming?
What is your stand on Global Governance?
What is your stand on selling US Technology to China?
What is your stand on China’s growing aggression?
What is your stand on China’s antibiotic resistant bacteria in sewage sludge spread on fields? link
What is your stand on China’s processing chicken for the USA?
You can add more to the list I am sure.
Ian W says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 11:35 am
Global Governance = Neo-feudalism
mkelly says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 11:49 am
…I made up an overlay of his [Alexander Tytler Cycle] 9 steps…
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I would say step 8….
Tom J says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 12:21 pm
…One question I have: Why don’t our hardy protesters use a windmill to inflate that faux pipeline? Better yet, why don’t they use foot operated bellows?…
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Because they are to darn lazy.
Actually that means they will stand there and freeze instead of exercising and staying warm.. Hope they get a good case of frostbite to follow them through the rest of their lives.
What is your stand on China’s antibiotic resistant bacteria in sewage sludge spread on fields? link
Darn the link did not work
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131216142807.htm