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.
https://twitter.com/johndory49/status/532817389599985664
Finally, the true face of the alarmist movement….
A haul-out?
+1!
Thanks, second comment that cracked my up today. ( No pun intended 😉 )
Thanks, that the second comment today that had me burst out laughing.
I do hope air traffic control has been briefed to keep out any low flying aircraft. I read there were some young ones in the area, we would not want any getting crushed in a stampede.
They call skeptics “deniers”.
I call them “[trimmed]”.
Don’t they know methane is a GHG too?
I don’t get the significance of fart circles. Are they trying to provide a target for local sea gulls?
New contest: Caption this picture.
Here are a few to start off:
“Everyone, George lost his contact somewhere around here.”
“How an Australians clam bake begins”
“The worst day of Australian SEAL training”
“Australian color blind test for drivers ed: Find the matching set of underpants”
“You guys I can see Greenland from here!”
[Watch the language. .mod]
Is this some radical new form or Carbon Sequestration?
Why does “arse” come to mind?
I have been to Bondi beach. I wouldn’t walk on that filthy sand without boots on. Let alone allow it to touch me. Yuk. That place is a disgusting hole
I wonder if the abc will do any skits with dogs about this lot,<:o)
Ive tried debating austrailians on this issue actually. This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Atleast the ones I have encounter will do this same thing when presented with data that doesn’t fit the idea humans are evil and doomed. They seem to think the data itself is a denier.
Of course ostriches dont actually bury their heads in the sand, but its a perfect metaphor for how observational fact shouldnt get in the way of the urban myth and action on climate change!
Just more dumb and dumber—approaching dumbest
You’d think these disciples of Al Gore would know better than to stick their heads in the Earth. Don’t they remember that it “is extremely hot – several million degrees” down there?
Obviously they are practicing for their plumbers papers.
This guy needs ‘crack spackle’
Nah, use a coin instead …
There is another ship leaving for Antarctica any day now.
We landed sir, but it’s Uranus.
The alarmist’s natural stance is the head buried in the sand so it’s business as usual.
That should weird out the Russian sailors just offshore.
At least the turtles are productive when they visit the beach.
So a ‘moon with shorts on’ would be an ‘annular eclipse’?
And I thought crack was illegal…
On a serous note:
What really happened was this group was having a party smoking things and other stuff.. when some one spied the police looking there way. The leader of the group in a loud voice said ‘cheese it the cops’! ‘HIDE’…
So they did….
The suggestions for the picture are fantastic! I have been laughing most of the afternoon. Thanks everyone for your wit and creative genius!
We now return you to you regular anti-science programming.
What were the back-beachers doing during the service?
Next week we have the Circle the Meteorite ceremony and Stone the Devil (vehicle).
That’s a lot of dumb asses right there.
I see a lot of places that I can park my bicycle.