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!”
stan stendera says:
January 28, 2014 at 8:37 am
Has anyone else other then me noticed that the photos illustrating Obama in MSM articles are becoming less flattering. So are the photos of his wife.
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when were they ever flattering??? 😉
A few well-placed industrial fans would serve to lower the wind chill numbers on those streets and intersections.
Does anyone know the latest on this? Ric Werme?
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So Global Warming can cause frostbite. Who knew?
rogerknights says:
January 28, 2014 at 1:34 pm
John McC;intock says:
January 28, 2014 at 11:33 am “If the environmentalist want us to stop”
That’s it folks! It is stop –period. There are too many of you on this ol’spinning Earth and they want you to get off. The part that follows the word stop is simply to make you feel guilty and willingly agree. Otherwise, they have other ideas.
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/John_Holdren#Eugenicist_Sentiments
[Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President]
Resourceguy says:
January 28, 2014 at 8:49 am
Just change the name of the pipeline project to the Climate Change XL. Name changes seem to work well for the media manager specialists out there.
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Well said Resourceguy! I hope people (and others) pay strict attention to name changes. We have.
rogerknights says:
January 28, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Rossi has teamed up with a partner that was unidentified, but was believed to
be Cherokee Investment Partners, and a few days ago Industrial Heat in Research Triangle Park, which is part of CIP, announced they had acquired the rights to the E-Cat.
Not as big a manufacturer as I hoped, but they appear to be focusing on commerialzing the “hot cat” and Rossi is working ahead on newer R&D. Everyone seems to be a happy family at the moment. It makes the possibility of “scam of the century” a lot lower.
There is a multi-month test going that should end in March, and a report by the team that did weeks-long test will be out after that.
Ever since the formation of the partnership, there’s been a lot less information coming out, that may change now that the partner has gone public.
The best way to keep up is to check http://www.e-catworld.com/ every few weeks.
It will be an interesting year for E-Cat news.
I wonder how much of the Tides Foundation donations come from Chinese sources.
Obama donor Buffett makes billions off rail transport of crude oil. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-02/berkshire-profit-advances-46-on-railroad-buffett-s-derivatives.html
I would like to see a poll that asks:
1. Should we build the Keystone XL pipeline?
2. Should we build the Trans Alaska pipeline?
3. Should we build the Eastern Gulf Access pipeline?
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#3 is a pipeline people have never heard of. It is a nat Gas pipeline being converted to oil and will supplement the Keystone and Keystone XL.
#2 is just a test of how many people will know it was built 35 years ago. It is in danger of being lost this decade to below minimum flow conditions of less than 350,000 bbls of oil per day.
All I can say is, let McKibben and his various orifices pay for low-income people’s gasoline after he succeeds with one of the stupidest exercise in memory.
Stephen Rasey says:
January 28, 2014 at 4:31 pm
I would like to see a poll that asks:
1. Should we build the Keystone XL pipeline?…
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Here are your polls:
Jan 23, 2012 56% Favor Building Keystone Pipeline, Think It’s Good for Economy
March 28, 2013 58% Favor Building the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
October 01, 2013 57% Support Building Keystone Pipeline
Monday, January 06, 2014: 56% See Keystone XL Pipeline As Good for the Economy
Pretty consistent numbers.
The Alaska Pipeline pbs on line poll: 49% yes drill, 31% no
Oh, and since the Womann-named-Sue has a role in this too, let her also pay – she can pick up low-income people’s “sky high” electric bills.
The long-term weather forecast for North America completely sucks.
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gfs/2014012818/gfs_T2ma_namer.html
Thanks Ric. It’s been a long strange trip.
Steve says:
January 28, 2014 at 8:46 am
Ian W said: “Keystone XL Pipeline protesters are actually saying to Canada – “Sell your oil to China.”
I keep waiting on the big announcement that Canada will partner with China and just bypass the US…the terrain is a formidable obstacle but given the quantity involved it could be a huge game changer for both countries…meanwhile, we can complain about no jobs, no industry and worry that the world might warm…
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Hey Steve – you have heard of Kinder Morgan with oil pipeline to Vancouver? KMP is currently partnering to build a 1 billion dollar rail car tanker loading facility in Edmonton, Alberta. As opposition to pipelines build more oil is going by rail in all directions. Of course there is also the Northern Gateway Pipeline to the west coast from Alberta. Then there is the Natural gas pipelines from Alberta and BC that will be going to LNG terminals in Terrace or Prince Rupert in the near future in a possible partnership with China. I wonder how those folks in Minnesota that spent a couple of days without natural gas feel when there was an explosion at a valve station on the Trans Canada pipeline knocking out service to parts of Manitoba and Minnesota? The problem is that many people don’t know where their energy comes from and they don’t understand the law of supply and demand. If Canadian gas/oil doesn’t get across the US border, US gas and oil makes more money. But then Canada looks overseas. Oil is now running east and west by rail (as well as south) and there will be more and more going east and west given the current issues with the US market since Canadian companies can get more money selling to international markets than to a locked in supplier in the US with all the attendant political problems. Not that there aren’t political and environmental issues going east west, but eas/west is inevitable since no one wants only one fickle buyer for their products. Not meaning to be harsh but every four years, it is a crap shoot.
They should have a burn barrel that they could all stand around and warm themselves, while they talk about the bad co2.
Fortunately the Northern Gateway pipeline in Canada has been approved which will allow crude oil from Canada’s oil sands to be sold at world prices to international markets. This will happen despite the frantic attempts of those who fund the astroturf protest groups in BC. The US had a chance to become less dependent on unstable sources of oil, but it looks like the Chicoms will have guaranteed access to oil whereas the US will not.
Up here we view the oil sands project as cleaning up the worlds largest oil spill. Perhaps, when the American population has regained its sanity, we can discuss shipping Alberta crude to southern markets.
Similar moonbat mentalities exist in BC which is the only province in BC that has a carbon tax. This tax goes up every year and, should global cooling become a reality, it will become such a significant source of tax revenue that it will never be repealed. Fortunately, for many people that live in the interior of BC, there’s so much pine beetle killed wood available that they heat their houses all winter with free fuel.
Youth and stupidity make for an army of zealous warming activists now, what happens when they are middle aged and realize they have been deceived? WUWT!:]
re: “the Pearse Paradox”
The book you want is “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements” by Eric Hoffer. First published in 1951, Hoffer describes the economic thresholds at which dissent can afford to be expressed. His work received renewed attention after 9-11 and remains the defining text on the subject, in my opinion.