Yeah, that’s gonna work.
Australians, angry at Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s reluctance to adopt an alarmist attitude on climate change, think the “ostrich” is the perfect metaphor to protest their country’s inaction on what they perceive to be a grave threat. From The Guardian:
More than 400 protesters stuck their heads in the sand on Australia’s Bondi Beach on Thursday, mocking the government’s reluctance to put climate change on the agenda of a G20 summit this weekend.
Prime minister Tony Abbott’s perceived failure to address climate change is all the more galling in the wake of an agreement between the United States and China on Wednesday to limit their carbon emissions, they said.
“Obama’s on board, Xi Jinping’s on board, everyone’s on board except one man,” activist Pat Norman, 28, bellowed into a megaphone on the Sydney beach.
“Tony Abbott!” the protesters shouted back.
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Damn!
I hope that what they’ve got is not contagious … soon the only thing I’ll have to bury my head in will be heaps of snow and that’ll be most uncomfortable.
Didn’t see this on msm news- mostly because even our hard Left ABC knows it would cause uncontrollable hilarity and possibly brain aneurisms among the general population. They are trying to be a tiny bit more careful as pressure against their one-sided politics and waste of taxpayers money is mounting
and yes as one of the ‘skeptics’ I am having problems keeping my blood pressure down – due to laughing too hard 🙂
One picture is indeed worth a thousand words.
I bet that not three out of the lot could tell you what a TCR is.
OK, so besides the fact that ostriches DO NOT bury their heads in sand what else don’t they know?
My thoughts exactly, they’re merely demonstrating they’ll buy into myths like ostridges burying their heads in the sand and CAGW.
Hmmm….I wonder if I can get a grant to study the eroding effects climate change has on the intellect of the left…..
Appropriate that they protest for the myth of CAGW by reenacting the myth that ostriches bury their head in the sand.
Is Gavin there? I count roughly 280, so someone had to adjust things to get to 400 and he would certainly be the man for the job.
He miss quoted also, Obama is in,(not the US) and Xi Jinping is laughing his a** off!
Guess they couldn’t afford attractive females in bikinis.
Q: What do you call 400 AGW activists with their heads buried in the sand?
A: A good start.
It’s a wonderful visual of that dreaded medical condition known as “recto-cranial inversion”.
Enjoy your scratched corneas, cultists!
Cracks appearing in the consensus?
Bravo.
winner!
Hee, hee.
Maybe they’re looking for the missing heat
Excellent, that one had me chuckling out loud.
We finally found a good use for time capsules. Put the picture in along with some scary AGW climate change stories and seal it up. It will generate some great laughs and maybe some lessons for future generations.
Put a photo like that engraved on gold disk and send it out with the next Voyager mission. 😉
That way any E.T intelligence that picks it up will understand why there are no more humans on earth by the time they get here but lots of fat polar bears wearing red shorts on their heads.
Bring on the beach photo op stunt tax.
I hear some of the protesters are taking yoga classes. Then they will really be able to stick their heads in a place where the sun does not shine!
And someday maybe they will understand what irony is.
Looks like a bunch of a$$holes to me.
I don’t know about shaming Abbot into “action on climate”, more likely to make him embarassed to be Australian.
Guardian: “Ornithologists say the African bird does no such thing but that didn’t spoil the protest.”
Yeah, that’d be about right. Enviros never let the facts get in the way.
In Canada we call that a “bike-rack”.
I think the display can be taken another way: “Our asses in the air is a metaphor for how China has f*cked us good.”
Sticking their heads in the sand like ostriches? It’s a good example of them believing in myths … It’s better for them to be in school instead and learn something … but wait, myths are being taught today, as part of the “modern” school … [/sarc]
This ostrich myth is very old and did probably originate from when someone once saw a female trying to bury her eggs. Hiding heads in the ground is bad strategy, when hunted by predators. Using this expression is good though, as they are trying to “hide” from reality … May the tide be with them!
Well, I have seen a “beak attack” at a zoo, but that was due to people teasing/irritating. If threatened, they normally runs away, but will kick if cornered and it may be as powerful as a horse kick. Add the effect of the large claws and a sudden and certain need of an ER is required, if there´s one close by …
Sea rise? Sure of that? The IPCC type of “sea rise”?
Idiots stick their head in the sand while smart people continue to study the issue carefully.
Some climate deenyers were seen in the area telling innocent bathers that there had not been any warming for over 18 years.
They at first stuck their fingers in their ears and starting singing ” la la la , I can’t hear you”. When that did not work the alarmists got alarmed and started frantically digging holes in the sand in search of the missing heat.
Pull your thumb [trimmed.]
[Think before you post. No more garbage like that. .mod]
Apologies.
Target Practice!!!!!