National Review’s Katherine Timpf interviews protestors at the Flood Wall Street climate march. Some segments are just unbearable to watch.
The video pretty much tells you all you need to know.
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…and the bear was arrested
One nice thing about running around in a bear outfit is your identity is hidden.
It’s definitely worse than we thought…
OWS took a bath.
I wish I could agree that this was ‘funny’.
There’s several too many exhortations to violence against dissenters in there for my liking.
On the plus side it looks like the talks myself and Anonymong had with the marchers at the London Climate march were with the saner activists. Sheesh!
It has been my experience that folks in the UK are (a) better educated and (b) better behaved than your average American protester.
Except when soccer is involved.
the muzzies are better behaved and better educated are they?
now, now
May I point out that Newly Retired Engineer isn’t British. And jorge, it isn’t soccer, it’s football.
Soccer protests, jorgekafkazar? Uh?
I believe it is officially named “Association Football.” Well it used to be.
Now “Aussie Rules” is REALLY football. (no I’m not Aussie.)
American “Football” should be renamed: “Please DON’T kick (or drop) the ball.”
The only way to stop play, in Aussie Rules, is to kick (or punch out) the referee instead of the ball.
IN the early days of ESPN, they carried a lot of Aussie Football. I rapidly became a fan. A shame they have grown to the point they no longer offer it.
After TGoBJC gets rid of the British Monarchy, what will the UK do to replace its tourism industry ?? Stonehenge isn’t all that interesting, for a pile of rocks.
So is a hamster.
Crazy do not even cover this. Gives one an insight into the minds of ISIL.
The interviewees were unimpressive in any moral or intellectual sense, but then so is every single one of the prominent campaigners for alarm over our CO2. It is utterly astonishing how successful they have been.
Can anyone think of any well-known and admirable campaigner for climate alarm? Or is that just a contradiction in terms?
Well-known – HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.
Heir to Queen Elizabeth II.
Admirable – everyone is entitled to an opinion.
I was not struck by Diana.
I think Charles’s view on modern architecture are, on the whole, very sane.
Likewise most of his views on farming, the (British) countryside, general conservation, and related topics.
But, on climate change, I feel his Cambridge degree in Anthropology [IIRC] may not have equipped him to understand even the standard fare on WUWT.
Can one pity him?
Yes.
Even before I was born [and I have an old-farts bus pass], he was the Heir Apparent; his Mum [QE II, remember} is going strong at 88 plus. {And her Mum managed 101 . . . . }
But, despite that, I think he does not understand the Global climate issues as well as he and his advisers think he does.
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As a proud citizen of the once Dominion of Canada, I pray QE2 outlives her idiot inbred son. I would vote to end our proud association with the British and the Monarchy should that fool become King.
Peter, many of us within the UK are ‘against’ the monarchy, but we all recognise that the Queen only stays where she is because she knows full well that His Twatness would end up with Britain becoming a republic. Despite the fact that I have no time for her, I admire the fact that she can see he is an idiot of extraordinary magnitude.
One name confirms His Idiocy: Camilla
One name confirms His Idiocy: Camilla
Would be interested to know the carbon footprint of most of these people.
Or ANY of them for that matter.
Carbon footprints don’t really matter, if CO₂ is not the climate-changing, catastrophe-calling, demon trace gas all the alarmists want us to think it is.
Shows you what we are dealing with,insanity
You can always find examples of fringe lunatics in all protests … though I imagine she didn’t have to look very hard to find her examples. 🙂
They were marching down the street. No looking necessary.
Worse than ISIL.
At least they only want to set up their islamic caliphate in someone else’s country. These nutters want to “burn down houses”, “take a sledgehammer to everything” and destroy capitalism for the whole world. Maybe there should be some drones flying over New York!
off subject, but the ISIL folks want the same thing for the world not just their country’s. Don’ be foolish.
I am not trying to downplay ISIL – they are truly evil and a grave threat.
I disagree. ISIL is a threat from outside, they’re clearly visible, they stand out. Threats from outside are significantly easier to identify and neutralize. Plus, “we” can go to the source of an external threat and take the battle there.
These people are threats from inside. They blend in. They actually represent a shockingly large percentage of our civilization (I blame the education system and the news fabri… er… media). Threats from inside immediately circle and gain support when you attempt to neutralize them. There is no way to take the battle elsewhere, they have defined the battleground as Here.
Wow – interesting video. A question that always bothers me though is why do AGW advocates use models that base predictions on the doubling of CO2? At the current rate of increase it will be approximately 150/200 years before this happens. Now I expect human ingenuity to move beyond hydrocarbon fuels within half of that time. On that basis (and assuming we’re talking clean fuels) surely CO2 levels will then stabilise or even begin to fall? Not very scientific I appreciate but I don’t recall seeing this argument raised before.
“Now I expect human ingenuity to move beyond hydrocarbon fuels within half of that time. ”
I wouldn’t bank on this. You may turn out to be right, but hydrocarbon fuels have been around a long time. People have been heating with wood for millenia. Newcomen built his steam engine in 1712 – 300 years ago. It’s purpose was to pump water out of coal mines – coal that was being used for heat and iron production.
Until 60 years ago, there was really no option. Unfortunately, the same retards who are so frightened of hydrocarbons have been dead set against its only real alternative – nuclear. Whether they will remove their heads from their rectums in the next century in anyone’s guess, but I’m pessimistic.
If something else comes along, the watermelons will be against it too, as a cheap and abundant energy source is against their religion. Human ingenuity isn’t needed so much to invent new technologies, as it is to figure out how to get the enviro-leftist segment of society to move to reality or to remove their influence from the rest of us.
–If something else comes along, the watermelons will be against it too, as a cheap and abundant energy source is against their religion. Human ingenuity isn’t needed so much to invent new technologies, as it is to figure out how to get the enviro-leftist segment of society to move to reality or to remove their influence from the rest of us.–
They are religion. Only way to beat a religion is with another religion.
I suggest the sport fan religion should incorporate other religious beliefs- and
the sport I would suggest is space exploration.
Related to this in terms of audience viewing would be air shows, though more related would rocket racing.
The enviro-leftist may or may not hate football or air shows, but there better chance they will hate
rocket racing. More fans of rocket racing will create a better future.
Read this — near the end he does just what you are looking for:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/03/next-peak-of-ice-age-year-60000-ad.html
I understand approximately half of the CO2 we emit is absorbed by the system and doesn´t stay in the air. Using that figure I went ahead and estimated the CO2 concentration we can theoretically achieve if we use all the fossil fuel reserves listed in BP´s Factbook of World Energy. The estimate yielded 620 to 630 ppm beyond 2100. However, I didn´t include estimated CO2 emissions for cement plants.
It is a form of an extremist religion that certainly is not based on science.
You should post a warning to people planning to watch this video to have several hack sacks on hand.
Oh no!
They left the doors open AGAIN!
She interviewed plenty of airhead bimbos that lacked the one and only saving feature of the kind – pleasing eye-candy.
My apologies to bimbo airheads everywhere for the comparison.
Tim Blair has a good term for them, he calls them “Frightbats”.
“They shriek, they rage, they cheer, they despair, they exult, they scream, they laugh, they cry! There’s never a non-emotional moment in the lives of Australia’s left-wing ladies’ auxiliary, whose psychosocial behavioural disorders are becoming ever more dramatic following Tony Abbott’s election.”
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/crown_our_crazy_queen/
I fear violence is in the offing, and I’ll be pointing my finger straight at Barack Obama. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone dumber than George Bush to be elected President. I was wrong. In fact, George is looking pretty good to me right now
I agree.
I consider it a sad state of affairs when I would rather GWB in office then BHO.
Dubya is one of my favorite presidents.
George looks better and better to Obama, too, mostly as someone to blame things on.
No; but as someone whose speech to the UN about bombing Iraq (and Syria) one should copy while wearing the same tie and suit.
I can´t decide whether Obama is worse than Bush. It´s a close call. I never expected I would write this, but I´m starting to miss ole Clinton.
Fernando Leanme September 26, 2014 at 11:36 am says;
“I can´t decide whether Obama is worse than Bush. It´s a close call. I never expected I would write this, but I´m starting to miss ole Clinton.”
Fernando, there is something about your posts that just doesn’t ring true. There is something phoney going on here. Stinks to high heaven.
David, I´m curious why you think that way. Do understand I focus a lot on foreign policy (I don´t live in the USA).
Eight years ago Bill Whittle responded to people who say things like that about GW Bush:
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/2006_11.html
Scroll down to the November 6, 2006 “Seeing the Unseen part 1” essay, then down to the “War of the Bumper Stickers” section.
Lynn – I was amused to find that page already bookmarked in my browser…
They need a Million Mann March.
Imaging a million of Michael Mann goose-stepping along, hockey stick in one hand, fauxbel prize in the other, chanting:
Hey Hey – Ho Ho! Those kids of yours aint gonna know snow!
Just use the Occupy excuse. Those were just a few “bad apples”. That isn’t really representative of the whole and if you don’t believe that you belong in jail.
Holy crap . These idiots make the Occupy crowd look like Rhodes Scholars. They are but chum in the jaws of demagogues. Good grief.
Why do you hate the Occupy crowd so much that you compare them to Bill Clinton?
The stupid is strong with them.
Threats of arson, threats of bodily harm. Threats to children.
They seem to have learned well from their predecessors. We can only hope that they stay marginalized, or civilization is doomed.
The lowering of the standards of education was not an accident. The uneducated are much easier to manipulate.
One of my favorite movie quotes:
Juan Miranda
The movie is alternatively titled, “Duck You Sucker”, “A Fistful of Dynamite”, or “Once Upon a Time In The Revolution”
It dovetails with your comment.
We’re all DEVO!
God made man
But he used the monkey to do it
Apes in the plan
We’re all here to prove it
I can walk like an ape, Talk like an ape
Do what a monkey do
God made man
But a monkey supplied the glue.
Read more: Devo – Jocko Homo Lyrics | MetroLyrics
You can’t say DEVO or de-evolution without posting this.
Dad always told me!
If you gonna be stupid
You gotta be tuff.
That must of been one tuff crowd.
There is that whole left side of the bell curve thingy.
So wait, I am confused. According to the polar bear we will not even be able to comprehend the level of heat increase? Only 2/3 of mammals die though?
An inability to comprehend the level of anything is part and parcel of their mindset. Do you not recall that their All Most High and Worthy Albert Gore proclaiming that temperatures of the Earth’s interior were “extremely hot, several million degrees”?
Notice how, if even one nominally “right wing” crazy shows up anywhere in the country carrying a stupid sign, that will be Top of the Line coverage on every MSM outlet and paper for the next week – “Look how Crazy and Evil those people are!”
But as soon as the group is affiliated with the left, they can openly advocate for concentration camps and mass slaughter, and today’s media will conspire to hide any reports of what they say. Because, of course, these left wing crazy groups are just spouting what every good leftist believes in their hearts, but they hate it when the mask is ripped off.
The modern news media today sees it’s mission as being the ones who hide and destroy any stories that they think don’t help either this administration, or their own personal political desires. As such, they are even worse than the old Soviet Pravda, because they still claim to be “honest” and “impartial”.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about the liberal bias of the MSM – they are nearly all left wing progressives now. And they will stop at nothing to destroy the culture and traditions of our great country.
But, there IS something you can do to fight back. I call it my ** divestment strategy ** for removing the left wing, progressivism which permeates our modern life. Simply remove these MSM sources from your computer/ipad, your televison, your print material, and your cell phone. Do you have a CNN app on your cell phone? Get rid of it? Do you happen to subscribe to a liberal publication like Time or the New York Times? Unsubscribe. And get rid of links to all MSM websites (and that includes awful weather sites like the Weather Channel and Weather Underground) on your computer. Don’t even visit those sites for basic information. Every click means more money in their pockets. Just visit an alternative site or news aggregator which does the sorting through the liberal MSM for you.
Nothing will change unless we do something…
Let them express themselves. Most people learn to recognize a con after being victimized several times. These extremist CAGW’rs are either poor examples of con artists or victims of the con.
You describe what I have already done. I also don’t watch any TV show that has promoted or uncritically showed climate alarmism. This includes any shows produced by the BBC (Doctor Who, In The Flesh ; that I would otherwise have watched), InnerSPACE, William Shatners Weird or What, Daily Planet, the Weather Channel, CBC National News…
I kid you not, I’m watching Gilligan’s Island right now. No Global Warming in sight in 1967 :-). Ha ha, Gilligan’s fillings are made with explosive plastic…