Thousands of protestors, mostly dressed in high tech nylon and plastic cold weather gear, tramped through the snow in Quebec City last Saturday, to protest against global warming.
According to The Globe and Mail;
The organizers aimed to press provincial and territorial leaders to turn the tide on oil sands expansion and the corresponding development of pipelines.
“They were just really, really there to send a message to get the premiers to focus on climate because it is an important thing to focus on and it’s just not on the political agenda right now,” said Ms. Hassan.
Red-clad protestors formed a thermometer to send a message about climate change. Meanwhile, #ActionClimat was trending on Twitter.
Premiers from across Canada are set to hold a summit on Tuesday to discuss what role provinces can play leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year.
I must say I like their taste in plastic snow gear. The bright red petroleum based plastic outfits made a terrific contrast against the late season snow. At least this protest didn’t have to be cancelled due to extreme cold, like the cancelled Yale protest in February this year.
One protestor displayed a sense of humour, unless their intriguing placard was an extra subtle attack against tar sands, the significance of which eludes me – on a par with marching through the snow to protest against global warming.
The “Everything is OK” placard holder looks to be a follower of the “Love Police”. Watch a few of their “Everthing is OK” videos on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54E742FCDBA04FCE
Basically Charles Veitch goes around telling people to consume more to be happy, and generally being very sarcastic in a funny way and taking the piss out of modern life.
Of all the really scary things that could happen to catastrophize humanity, how in blazes did they decide that slight to moderate warming with benefits to most of the world over the next century is worth protesting?
One would think that they would be more fearful of the opposite.
Exactly, especially given that Canada is one of the biggest solid dihydrogen monoxide polluters on the planet.
This song’s for them…
https://youtu.be/1oDAkmfoAgA
Perhaps it might be that the “global climate” has a complex rhythm too.
Perchance you in CA should pay more attention to your own dihydogen monoxide, I hear you are running a bit short this year.
Australia is looking into protestors who receive taxpayer funds:
Video/Transcript: 10 April: ABC 7.30 Report: Conor Duffy: Environmental
groups are being targeted by the Government and could be forced to shut by a push to strip them of their tax deductibility status.
SABRA LANE, PRESENTER: Hundreds of environmental groups flourish around Australia. Some aim to save endangered species, some have the lofty goal of rehabilitating land that’s been degraded and some are overtly political,
intent on using their environmental activism to stop development.
A federal parliamentary inquiry’s been set up to examine environmental groups, specifically those that have tax deductible status.
Green groups claim it’s akin to a star chamber.
But Government MPs say they’ve identified more than 100 so-called eco charities which are being subsidised by the taxpayer to campaign against jobs…
CAM WALKER, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: I think like every environmental organisation across the country that employs staff, tax deductibility is the lifeblood of our organisation. So if the Federal Government is successful at getting through its attempts to cut off groups from the register, it will basically mean the ***political death of our organisation…
MATTHEW CANAVAN: There are a large minority who are clearly engaged primarily in trying to stop fossil fuel development in Australia and I don’t think its right that Australian taxpayers, including people who work in the mining industry, are asked to fund those activities..
.MATTHEW CANAVAN: We’ve got about 100 or 150 organisations that are engaged in activity which seem to have their purpose at stopping industrial development. Not just mining. Some of those developments include tourism
developments or agricultural developments. But engaging in what I would view as the political debate, not the environmental debate…
CONOR DUFFY: Friends of the Earth is one group that’s already been singled out by the Government for scrutiny. In the run-up to the last election it received a $130,000 donation which was spent on market research and used in
conjunction with ***GetUp! for political campaigning.
It’s currently being audited by the Tax Office. It’s been cleared in an Environment Department investigation.
CAM WALKER: I wish we hadn’t taken this money and that’s simply because we have in Canberra enough people that are in control of government that are fiercely anti-environment and very ideologically so. So this has put us in the limelight, and as I said before, we’ve had an investigation, we’ve been found that we’ve done nothing wrong…
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4214478.htm
***GetUp has also received funding from Avaaz & Unions.
Half an hour ago I posted an emphatic, yet politely worded, strongly skeptical viewpoint on the NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO site, commenting on their report on a similar “march against climate change” recently held at Yale. I pointed out the satellite data showing no warming for 17 years, the geologic and historical records, etc. Would you believe the post was DELETED before my eyes when it hadn’t been up for 10 minutes? Out-and-out CENSORSHIP of anyone posting the actual science. Seen it with my own eyes now what’s going on–and will urge people to withhold their donations from that utterly biased propaganda mill. Yes, I am PISSED!
You must be new to this. I’ve seen literally hundreds of my comments censored on the internet
I was extremely disappointed to read that the Ontario government will introduce cap and trade indirect taxes.. Quebec is already using the same cap and trade system that Ontario will join.. The timing especially seems strange when they have had no global warming in Ontario or Canada for at least 17 years and just came through two of the coldest winters ever in eastern Canada. There is no justification for taxing carbon in Ontario. This tax follows behind the most expensive GREEN energy policy in North America which has raised energy cost to such a high level that Ontario can no longer compete effectively with US or other provinces . These taxes will drive out more manufacturing and jobs out of Ontario as industry relies on carbon based energy and low cost energy and taxes to be competitive. Most of US coal plants will remain in operation after Obamas revamp of emissions and hence their energy costs will be much lower than Ontario’s. Ontario has already shutdown almost all coal plants Other than California , there is no cap and trade tax in US and they have lower energy costs . High taxes and high energy costs could l drive the rest of what is left in manufacturing out of Ontario, including automotive sector . It is already happening. Ontario should look at what is important for Ontario, not what California or QUEBEC is doing . They both have a different situation and economies entirely .CALIFORNIA doesn’t have to heat their homes in brutal winters with carbon based fuel like ONTARIO does. Quebec has cheap power due to water hydro power from Labrador.
Kuhn is a prime example of the age old tenet – Dumb people think “A”, Smart people think “B”, Really Smart people think “A”
I just watched the news and heard the Premiers of Quebec and Ontario lauding their new CO2 trading scheme. Apparently they are joining in a CO2-taxation scheme with California’s Governor Moonbeam Brown.
Imbeciles!
Parkas and mukluks in April? How about snowshoes and snowmobiles? Ooops! Snowmobiles use fossil fuel. Can’t have those can we? Not for an anti-global-warming-demo?
How did these demonstrators get to the demo? Surely they did not walk there from their hometowns? Not for an anti-global-warming demo?
Red is an appropriate color for them. People who are sold on the idea that Socialism/Communism is a good political system will also be easily sold on the idea that the Earth is warming up at an outdoor rally on a cold, snowy day. Stalin didn’t call them “useful idiots” for no reason.
A tax by any name….
The sad consequence of the matter is the protestors are achieving results. The environmental groups are gaining traction as ON and QC have shown intent to conjoin in a cap and trade agreement, along with CA. The Canadian media (CBC in particular) are all enthusiastic and gushy. There will be an increasing frenzy to get these types of laws, taxes, agreements, regimes, in place before the cat is out of the bag, and the disconnect from the fantasy models to reality is truly revealed by the pause in global warming.
The models can only show one direction for climate, ever onward ever upward. However nature has its own way and it is never constantly in one direction but very chaotic in ‘nature’ , No pun intended. Once the real truth evolves into public consciousnesses this game will be up, however what is there will remain like a blight upon the economy.
So this will be one of MS. Wynne’s revenue tools. The revenue is courtesy of the ON voters and the the ‘tool’ of course is Wynne.
Daniel Kuhn
April 13, 2015 at 6:12 am
warming in the last 18 years.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1997/plot/uah/from:1997/trend
is WUWT claiming that UAH is “massaging” the data?
And you claim that that graph proves warming? Why do you think that a linear extrapolation of what is clearly part of a curve proves that has a very obviously reducing rate of rise proves warming? A best fit curve proves beyond question to all but those stuck in the mindset of signal analysis that preceded Fourier in the seventeenth century that climate scientists are a group of know nothings with more conceit than ability.
Draw the five year average slopes and still tell me we have an escalating rise with forcing ie ever greater slope as claimed by these self opinionated, but based purely on performance, clearly utterly inept group.
Quebec is mostly useless as a province. The only notable economic benefit that comes from Quebec are.. Chemical production (produces more toxic chemicals and gasses than the CO2 they hate) and Maple Syrup (Run by a ubber secret maple syrup cartel)
… Also Quebec is the most corrupt province in Canada…