People send me stuff. Below is an image from New York City of the 350.org “climate march” from their website today. It’s the usual horde of useful idiots, holding up signs suggesting they are being gassed and that “climate chaos” is afoot.
It is mostly an emotional response to a non-issue.
I was amused when WUWT reader Arvind sent this screen cap of an ad that appeared on Craigslist. One wonders how many of these marchers have similar situations where they are there on pay rather than on their own volition. Here’s the ad:
Source: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/evg/4669216880.html
That movie was such a bomb, they are reduced to “paid volunteers” handing out fliers on street corners at $50 each. Heh.
UPDATE: I wonder if these people got paid:
“Volunteer” can mean paid workers, like soldiers who volunteer. That is reasonable and honorable. “Volunteer” in the context of soliciting paid workers for a propaganda movie promotion is an oxymoron. And since the point of the movie is to increase climate fear, the emphasis should be on “moron”.
Your precious cause, it has no worth
if all of your grass roots are Astroturf! LOL!
The crowd seemed a mixed bag of other-supported individuals and non-profit groups without a lot of sh*t to do on a Sunday.
Visiting Edinburgh for the weekend, their climate march was a very sad affair indeed as we basked in the lovely late September sunshine.
I saw bigger crowds at the Apple Store, trying to buy the new iPhone.
That gave me a good chuckle. Thanks
We need a $15 minimum wage and Labor Department enforcement of it for paid volunteers. I’m sure our dear leaders will get right on it.
Hey! Why don’t us Villagers make our own demonstrations. We’re in the majority. The planet’s cooling. Science is on our side. And we can have really grim expressions to show how happy we are that there is no Climate Crisis
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77725000/jpg/_77725990_77725989.jpg
Eminent Tree Hugger Scientologists protest.
That’s an European Green Party propaganda crowd. The British greens seem to be very radical. I haven’t seen any Green Party types here in Spain. Here the left is either Socialists, communists, or a party financed by the Venezuelan dictatorship known as Podemos.
The signs are in English though
So, if there are no climate loons in Spain, who decided to blow so much gov’t money on useless windmills that the economy’s collapsing? Iberdrola’s from Spain, and they’re one of the biggest green scam companies there are in the U.S.
From one frame to another, the climate is relatively chaotic. Otherwise, it’s the weather which is chaotic. Fortunately, we live in semi-stable state with tolerable variance. It’s the activists who are intolerable.
Make life, not abortion.
Why is everyone in that picture Caucasian?
Because they don’t want healthy, happy, PROSPEROUS dark skinned people..
With 60 BILLION food animals on the planet, this should be our first step in the Climate March!
http://meatonomics.com/
“As environmental science has advanced, it has become apparent that the human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future: deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities, and the spread of disease.” Worldwatch Institute, “Is Meat Sustainable?”
“If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetables and grains… the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads.” Environmental Defense Fund
“A 1% reduction in world-wide meat intake has the same benefit as a three trillion-dollar investment in solar energy.” ~ Chris Mentzel, CEO of Clean Energy
There is one single industry destroying the planet more than any other. But no one wants to talk about it… http://cowspiracy.com
Step by Step Guide: How to Transition to a Vegan Diet http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/step-by-step-guide-how-to-transition-to-vegan-diet/
I had bacon today. Do you have any idea what you’re missing out on?
Did you forget the /sarc tag?
Idiotic, vegan diets are downright dangerous, they cause critical nutritional deficiencies and particularly fertility problem in women. They predispose you to significant disease potential. Vegan diets should NEVER, EVER be attempted unsupervised, they can kill you.
Your promotion of this is unethical, and Anthony by rights should remove your posting.
Cow, it’s what’s for dinner.
Paleo type diet saved my life. I went from a 250+ tub of lard to 185 pound, muscular 61 year old,
that now easily passes a 2nd Class (US) Physical for my commercial pilot’s license.
Vegan diets make you a carbohydrate sculpture…
Diet makes muscle? Post it!! I like my veggies the old fashioned way: already processed in my steak. Grill the steak, then remove the fat and give to the dog, it’s good for his coat. As an aside, I do love my peaches. I am an omnivore, after all.
“If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetables and grains… the carbon dioxide savings…”
Pointless being**:
1) Global Warming is not occurring. You can’t fool Mother Nature.
2) Global Warming is a Sham. U.N. leaders let cat out of bag, when they called for redistribution of wealth under guise of Carbon Taxes. There is big dollars in promoting Green, along with lucrative funding for AGW Climatologists.
3) Physics shows CO2 can not impact Earth’s Temperatures as claimed by AGW Alarmists. CO2’s effects are logarithmic and declining. There is a limited amount of IR light for CO2 to interact with.
4) Man-made CO2 as GHG is nearly insignificant (0.2%) compared to Water Vapor effects (95%) as GHG.
5) Levels of CO2 have reached 400 ppm, yet Earth’s temperatures have not increased, and instead slightly declined. Hide that Decline Mann, truncate that Hockey Stick.
Suggestion: Next time you decide to Promote PETA / Vegan diet, don’t base your argument on a false hood.
PS: I had BEEF for dinner last night and tonight.
**Apologies to fellow WUWT readers for beating same drums again, but Science and Facts come very slowly to AGWers.
Falsehoods and fabrications spread by clueless and very gullible oddballs.
Humans are extremely inefficient at processing plants. Nor are humans capable of easily achieving the required daily nutrients through vegetative means alone.
Ruminants are extremely efficient at transforming plant roughage into healthy dietary components for humans. Fowls are also extremely efficient at insect consumption and rapidly turning that diet into human nourishing meat. Chickens qualify as one of the earliest animals domesticated for human benefit along with various ruminants, porcine (genus Sus) critters, duck, goose and even the guinea pig (Cavia). A domestication process originating separately around the globe thousands of years ago.
Since you disavow the benefits of meat and the entire meat growing environment, perhaps you should sieze your future health and undertake growing all of your own personal dietary requirements? Add to your challenge the realization that a majority of our land surface fails arable status wherefore you should seek ways to overcome this deficiency by bringing previously non arable land into arable status with innovative crops or sustainable farming practices.
Meanwhile, we who are proud to inherit our ancestors wisdom and hard won education will unashamedly consume meat from animals that can happily thrive where humans can not grow crops.
Mmmm…. made me hungry…. Think I’ll get seconds on my baked chicken.
Between 1,000 and 2,000 in Brussels for the “climate march”. About 100 times more walking and biking through Brussels on the car-free day today and enjoying the many music groups everywhere and open monuments where several may be visited only today…
On the whole, it looks like a smashing success. A Twitter home run.
Not exactly home grown, however:
From NYT
Nearly 500 buses brought marchers from South Carolina, Kansas, Minnesota and Canada, while a “climate train” transported participants from California.
No speeches were planned, but the march was to end with a block party on 11th Avenue between 34th and 38th Streets.
I don’t know if I’d go with 300,000, but it’s a lot of people.
I would say they got between 150 and 200 thousand (I’m familiar because I used to live in Venezuela where protests are very common). That’s a really nice turn out for this type of event. But if they want to pack real political punch they have to win the USA congress. And I understand that’s a very tall job. Otherwise the demonstrators gathered in one place have to number 2 to 3 million.
That has got to be the largest assemblage of deluded humanity I’ve ever seen.
We’ve got our work cut out for us.
This is an old picture of a 100 000 seat stadium. The shot shows about 1/3 of the stadium (with the smaller stands) but we’ll call it as 30 000 people. I guess Venezuelans are smaller.
http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/04/20/1226333/867993-mcg.jpg
That’s the start of the parade at upper CPW. Looks like all the groups assembling. The upper right corner of the park in this picture is Columbus Circle and you can see the crowd isn’t there yet, you can see street.
This isn’t bigger than the crowd that comes out for Thanksgiving. You can slice that crowd you’re looking at vertically and place them on either side of the road (on the sidewalk and the parkside) and you wouldn’t have nearly enough for Thanksgiving, which would continue all the way to Macy’s.
How many seats in a bus? 500 x ? = ?
Ditto the train cars?
[50 per bus? .mod]
I should be more quantitative since this is a science blog. I counted between 10 -15 people across from the two pictures. Lets give it a generous 20. They are striding out comfortably so there is at least 1 m between rows. So twenty people by the length of Central Park (4000 m) is 80 000. Its hard to see but the protest seems to peter out less than 1 km away. 20 000 gets homogenized to 300 000? Why am I not surprised.
I don’t think you can even use the length of Central Park, which extends from 59th to 125th. The staging areas are around 83rd, 82nd, traditionally, because of the 86th cross-park drive for people coming in from Queens and Long island, and a convenient little neighborhood park. So Rasey’s photo at September 21, 2014 at 12:34 pm looks to me to start around there. It’s about 20-25 blocks from 59th.
Looks like a very very large flock of sheep to me.
/sarc
Any guesses where the shot from the 12:34 pm post was taken?
Here is my Google Earth guess: Based upon rough location and the red brick decoration between windows, I think the a strong candidate is the Kenilworth Building at 40°46’42.4″N 73°58’28.2″W, NW corner of Central Park West and W 75th street. It isn’t a perfect match from street view. The windows don’t look ornate enough in the photo.
Pure Google Earth guess work. I’ve never been closer to Central Park than La Guardia.
Another Google Earth location candidate, and probably the best one,
40°47’0.99″N 73°58’14.55″W, NW Corner of W 83rd Street and Central Park West..
I’m not happy with the match of the brick work, but it looks like the photo is 2-3 blocks north of the Natural History museum. The museum is the only place where there are trees on both sides of CPW.
(Reposted to put it in thread)
@policycritic – I thought that it was about 1km long. From what you said, that would be a maximum of 2 km long or 40 000 people. A satellite picture shows that the street is less than 10 m wide. This would make the density of people that I used around that of a packed stadium (an old one) so more likely there were only 15 per metre of length.
The Huff said that the circuit was 3.2 km, so a maximum of 65 000. More like less than half of that.
Another from pbs.twimg.com I picked up from twitter.
:large
So what does the other direction look like, which would tell you the size of it better? Everyone is walking in the street, and it’s six or eight blocks FROM the park. The sidewalk on the right is fairly empty. Usually jam-packed with regular NYC parades.
The kicker is that they didn’t do it during the week. New Yorkers are notorious for getting out on parade days–that means Sundays–and seeing what’s going on, like the Puerto Rican Day parade and Gay Pride Day.
Give ’em credit for pulling it off. Whatever they spent will come back five and ten fold from UN action this week.
And no Gore-effect kicking in.
The weather appeared to be splendid. No climate disasters.
Another Google Earth location candidate, and probably the best one,
40°47’0.99″N 73°58’14.55″W, NW Corner of W 83rd Street and Central Park West..
I’m not happy with the match of the brick work, but it looks like the photo is 2-3 blocks north of the Natural History museum. The museum is the only place where there are trees on both sides of CPW.
Who pays the bills here? Cui bono?
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
Oxymoron: Paidvolunteer.
But where are the “people of color” in the march? I think they could use the cash just as much as whites.
Pay people 50 bucks to promote a march to implement policies that will cost them a lot more than 50 bucks if implemented.
Nah, won’t cost these burdens on society a penny. But it will cost those of us who work for a living, scrimp, save, live with in our means, and pay our Taxes (along with additional Taxes that others should be paying but are not).
The mainstream media is proclaiming 100,000 protestors …..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/21/climate-march_n_5856836.html
Even it there were really 100,000 or even 300,000, so what? What is the population of NYC? How many of them actually live in NYC? They hardly add up to “The Million Mom March”. Even that needed a bit of media manipulated multiplication to reach a million. (Maybe they used a computer model?)
Did you hear about the Million Microbe March? Very sad, someone autoclaved the petri dish the night before the march was to start.
Ric, 😎
Was it the autoclave or the “missing heat” that got ’em?
At the last Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park, 500,000 people showed up.
Apparently, catastrophic global warming isn’t that much of a concern to the New Yorkers if all they could get for the march was, at most, using THEIR numbers, 300,000.
DJ says:
The mainstream media is proclaiming 100,000 protestors …..
Huffpo is mainstream??
They are a blog. It’s not like they’re the NY/LA Times, or Fox, or CNN.
And huffpo is a far-Left blog. So naturally you’re going to get far-Left propaganda. That’s how it works. If they say 100,000, take it with a big lump of salt.
Here is the IRS tax information for paid volunteers. And both the Craigslist and protest coverage photos will come in handy for reporting the nonprofits involved and the recipient “employees.”
Remember ACORN?
http://www.irs.gov/Government-Entities/Federal,-State-&-Local-Governments/Issues-for-Firefighters
Tried to watch their livestream for a while but when a Mr. McKibben announced a minute of silence for the victims of climate change, I couldn’t stand it any longer.
Picture of the “types” of people kinda says it all-Lol
Rob, are you saying the alarmist crowd is abnormal?
The BBC are claiming “tens of thousands” marched in London – many dressed as animals!
They put the success of the marches down to the organizational power of the social media site Avaaz.
With comments on the main news from Emma Thompson (an actress of sorts) claiming there are 22 million climate refugees, plus from Ban Ki-moon: “This is the planet where our subsequent generations will live. There is no ‘Plan B,’ because we do not have ‘Planet B.'” (??). It all sounds “lurvly”.
But it must be worse than we thought as last week they appointed Leonardo DiCaprio as a UN representative on climate change. (I gather he is an actor of sorts).
Amos Mclean – “With comments on the main news from Emma Thompson (an actress of sorts) claiming there are 22 million climate refugees…”
Apparently she also likened the threat of climate change to that of a Martian invasion! I know she was in MIB3, but does she really have the life experience to know that?
However I do agree that the ‘threat’ of climate change is like a Martian invasion in that:
1. There isn’t any threat.
2. It’s not keeping me awake at night.
She’s a very good actress. And an Oscar winning screen writer too.
Just because we disagree with her views on climate change doesn’t mean we should be rude about her talents.
That’s just impolite.
Wow, quite a diverse crowd there. I guess people of color are on to the scam…good for them
If they were passionate about the cause, they would not need to paid. Another factor to bear in mind-Conservatives typically do not have time to attend rallies-they are too busy working to pay the taxes to support those with no brains (have to be told how to think.) Thus, they have plenty of time to attend such rallies.
22 million climate refugees? are they in the same location as the missing heat?
They be marching to stay warm pretty soon the way the artic and Antarctic are looking?
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png