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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Perhaps they’re settling the science to prove that when you bury your head in the sand your bum sticks in the air?
Did they find Lewandowski’s contact lens?
To think that the spot where all these ostriches buried their heads in denial(no warming for over 18 years) is literally a 4 minute walk from my front door. I must have some pretty dumb neighbors. Actually, it is a shame there was no sudden sea level rise to drown this ship of fools.
350.org: Heads in the sand at Bondi – our message to Tony Abbott on his climate change policies!
BY EDEN TEHAN, organiser
And although we’re still waiting for the official ruling from Guinness, there’s a good chance we may have had more than 650 of us to establish a new world record: most number of people burying their heads in the sand simultaneously!…
***Why did I organise this event? As a solar PV entrepreneur frustrated by our government’s shortsightedness with regards to all things renewable energy, I am embarrassed and disheartened that Australia is taking no action to address the most significant global issue of our time…
As images of the event make their way around world tonight…
http://350.org.au/blog/heads-in-the-sand-at-bondi-our-message-to-tony-abbott-on-his-climate-change-policies/
CAGW-infested BBC .counts only 200+ … Guinness needs to take account of this figure before declaring any world record!
13 Nov: BBC: G20 protesters bury heads in the sand on Bondi Beach
More than 200 protesters buried their heads in the sands of Bondi Beach on Thursday in a demonstration over climate change inaction…
Eden Tehan, one of the protest’s organisers told reporters that Mr Abbott’s “refusal to include climate change on the G20 agenda” showed that he had his head buried in the sand on “the most important issue of our time”.
“We want to tell world leaders coming for the G20 that Tony Abbott does not represent the view of most Australians who want to see urgent and global action on climate change,” Mr Tehan added…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-30047811
Tehan doesn’t speak for the majority of Australians…
Oh! for a red hot poker.
Where is a rottwieller when you need one.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
https://medium.com/@alexepstein/apple-commits-energy-accounting-fraud-d53849063b0d
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels – By Alex Epstein
Here’s the trailer for his book that was released yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu6637cjk8A
He wrote it directly to challenge the moral narrative given by the mainstream.
If you are honestly concerned with the environment, then you should read the best possible argument for using fossil fuels and industrial progress.
I am seeing 3 – 4 or more articles in the Aussie MSM on climate change every single day since the start of the G20 talks started. Reading the comments on the articles that allow comments the volume of people who have fallen for CO2 driven climate change hoax is truely staggering. Australia was once called a smart country.
You should read “The Australian”. The paper is still ‘officially’ in favour of the CAGW hypothesis, but its support is very lukewarm and it happily prints articles in favour of coal, oil and nuclear power, and most readers’ letters are anti-CAGW. These are the sensible Australians.
This is not the first time they have done this.
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/09/gullible-activists-bury-their-heads-in-the-sand/
It really is stupidity squared …
And then afterwards they all got in their cars and drove home and turned on the lights and AC.
Feel sorry for them, but do let them stay with their heads in the sand and die. That way they will stop breeding. The same in Canada. If all the alarmists would turn off their electricity, they would die and stop breeding.
For once the alarmists have it right – all of them (alarmists) have their heads in the sand. That way they don’t have to actually look at reality. Talk about deniers…..
400 New places to park your bicycle.
Yer typical Oz Climatology 101 class out on a field trip looking for the missing heat.
They get to feed punch cards into a DEC10 in their final year.
“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”
I say the prime minister should agree to make a similar agreement. Australia should match China and agree to peak out with their carbon emissions by around 2030.
A herd of asses.
I don’t think this is funny at all. These people are seriously serious about their views (Which is OK I guess) totally backed by unscience.
Good denizens of the Land of Oz, Ozzies all, ignore these foolish protesters. It is they who hide their heads in the sand about the events that disprove all of the so-called “climate models” that have wrongly predicted the dire consequences. By the way, Obama and the Chinese did NOT enter into an “agreement.” Only the news media outlets like the foolish Guardian and some of our lefty media outlets in the US call it that. Neither the Chinese nor the Obama administration (on their own White House website) call it anything other than a plan for future action. And the Chinese, of course, made absolutely NO commitments about reducing emissions – only that their emissions would “top off” by 2030. Oh yeah. Whatever.
Obama cannot do anything internationally anyway, and he has no support from Congress. So it’s just BS, but the alarmist media, espcially in Aus, are making it to be something significant.
The proponents of AGW put their best foot forward….. errr, no. That’s not right….. turn the other cheek?
Or are they just the obliviously ignorant butts of a painfully obvious joke….???
I’d like to see them do this on Chesil beach here in the UK,
It’s a pebble beach
http://www.chesilbeach.org/images/bchaerial.jpg
James Bull
its not only a pebble beach, but the pebbles are “graded” down the length of it. I cant recall which way the grading goes but one end has smaller pebbles than the other. In any case there are many pubs just a mile away that serve real beer. Spent an afternoon “snuggling” with a lover on that beach and almost got swamped by waves.
If the waves carried oysters, the headline might have read;
“OYSTERSKILLPATRICK”.
Contrary to popular belief, ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand. The old saw probably originates with one of the bird’s defensive behaviors. At the approach of trouble, ostriches will lie low and press their long necks to the ground in an attempt to become less visible. Their plumage blends well with sandy soil and, from a distance, gives the appearance that they have buried their heads in the sand. Others believe that the myth may have originated from the fact that the females will dig deep nests in the sand to protect their eggs. From a distance it appears that their heads are in the sand when in fact they are simply turning their eggs with their beaks.
How appropriate to use one myth to illustrate another. And who would want to associate themselves with those people? Maybe their next stunt should be all those activists shooting themselves in the foot.
The Guardian is a notoriously unreliable source. Perhaps it’s some alarmist cult appeasing The Angry God of Weather (AGW) by willing exposing themselves to a heat stroke, lightning bolt, giant wave, insect bite etc.
If they want to protest they should do it without damaging the beach.
This reminds me of a joke, of which the punch-line is: ‘not enough sand.’