Just like models overestimate future climate, I’m betting they are overestimating the crowds. Oh, and for the entertainment factor, more civil disobedience! From the Guardian:
Hundreds of thousands expected to join global climate marches this weekend
Protests against politicians’ failure to tackle the environmental crisis will take place in more than 90 countries
Hundreds of thousand of people in more than 90 countries are expected to take part in demonstrations this weekend to protest about the failure of politicians to tackle the global environmental crisis.
Organisers say more than 800 events – from marches to street theatre, acts of civil disobedience to mini festivals – will take place in towns and cities amid growing frustration at the lack of meaningful political action over the emerging climate breakdown.
Nick Bryer from campaign group 350.org which is organising the event said: “Politicians are failing. They are still protecting the interests of the fossil fuel companies over the interests of people, despite mounting evidence of the devastation these companies and this system is causing the planet.”
Hundreds of thousands! You can get millions in the streets in Muslim countries by making an anti-Mohammed statement. Can someone tell me the difference between prairie preachers’ fire and brimstone sermons if sinners did not repent immediately and AGW proponents prophesying imminent doom if we don’t change our ways.
Fire and brimstone are not immediate. Plus, not even future generations can report back on the stated consequences.
Neither are the predictions of the warmistas.
Mohatdebos: there’s no difference, they both pass around the collection plate.
They’re pretty much the same, both are statements of a religion.
Lengthy sign in photo: “To change everything, it takes everyone”.
Yep, it sure does. It takes Marxism or Marxist Socialism if you will.
I find it rather amusing that the Marxists and Socialists have infiltrated the climate alarmist and environmentalist movements and have blended together far left ideology with climate alarmism and environmentalism. I guess that’s how the idea of climate justice came into being. The idea there (if I understand it right) is that the poor and poor countries are hit the hardest by “climate change,” so we need wealth redistribution to deal with it. Hence the Green Climate Fund.
I suppose the collapse of the USSR and its East European communist satellites made this inevitable. If one thing doesn’t work, try something else. We apparently need a Global Proletarian Socialist Workers’ Revolutionary Climate Action to deal with the “climate crisis” and environmental issues in the minds of some if not all of the marchers tomorrow. Whenever I read 350.org’s Twitter page (out of curiosity), the Marxist/Socialist ideological mindset is not hard for me to see just below the surface of the climate and environmentalist tweets. Never mind that Marxism doesn’t seem to have much of a history of being kind to the climate and environment.
McKibben sounds really, really excited about tomorrow’s worldwide marches and other events. If nothing else, he appears to be a good organizer of such things, if indeed he is one of the major organizers. Tomorrow’s events are the greatest thing since sliced bread judging from his tweets. Hope he has fun tomorrow.
I’m left wondering though where Bill McKibben and his ilk are going to be 10 years from now when the world is likely to still be heavily dependent on fossil fuel energy. Difficult to say where so-called “renewables” like wind and solar will be in terms of how much energy they provide to the world. At any rate, is there a state of depression in McKibben’s future? Hard to say. But if he does become a patient for a psychologist someday, he will have nobody but himself to blame for it.
That is what happens when you agitate to do things bass ackwards. Demanding a end to fossil fuels when the technological replacements for them (save for nuclear) are not yet there. I tell myself I should feel pity for Bill and his acolytes, but somehow I can’t seem to generate much of it for them.
I have no doubt that Bill McKibben is being extremely well paid for his work. So when even the most stupid person realises what a lie it all was he will be able to console himself with his standard of living.
Man, just when I thought it couldn’t get any sillier, you have to go and post a photo that made me laugh so hard I startled the cat out of a perfectly good nap!
More important than the protest, If the media perples have more important things to do, liek trash Trump, where do you think they’ll be?
I wonder how much paper and ink all those signs will require. How much trash will this generate? How might it affect the demand for garbage clean up after all the protesting is done?
I wonder how many food and beverage vendors will parasitize the sales opportunity. All those people have to eat.
What will be the “carbon footprint” of these protests, compared to the “carbon footprint” of NOT holding these protests?
See where I’m going? Yep, you got it — hypocrisy, contradiction, absurdity.
I remember a Conservative Republican march at the capitol 6 or 8 years ago and when it was over there was no litter laying around. It was the nicest and most impressive thing I have ever seen. The protesters left and, I’m not kidding, there was almost zero garbage on the ground. I hate littering and I must admit that this incident still leaves a warm spot in my heart.
I believe it was Glenn Beck’s rally. Spotless compared to a recent libtard rally.
The worst in when the Lefties leave their thoughts behind. Those things are toxic, man!
These activists should be 100% behind nuclear power. The fact that they aren’t means they’re not genuine about cutting emissions. They should be behind developing fusion power, but aren’t. That means they’re ignorant of how much energy is required to run a global 24/7 economy, let alone the increase in energy needed as the 7+ billion humans on this planet grow to more than 9+ billion in total.
“To change everything…”
But anybody who dares to suggest that the true goal is a radical reorganization of society into a socialist utopia is a nut job, right?
Glad you picked up on that! That is the message he really wants to spread.
So Bill McKibben never flies, walks or bike everywhere, lives in a home heated by only non-fossil fuels, uses electricity only from wind or solar, etc. No? Then I do not care at all what the guy says. I only care what he does and that is apparently make money by lying.
MASSIVE hypocrisy is what gets me, and their ability to ignore it in themselves.
Probably more participants at their marches are media, security, and the curious like myself who want to see if I know anyone crazy enough to join the march.
Why do these idiots need the politicians to bring those nasty fossil fuel companies to heel? The public, who presumably are on mass totally on message, just have to stop buying oil based products, it really is that simple. Even if the public are not as enthusiastic as these protesters would prefer them to be, at least the protesters themselves should do so. I honestly can’t imagine why they don’t. Oh wait I’ve got it, they would be dead from starvation or exposure within two weeks that will be it.
Gee, maybe it will cause a surge in air traffic as the snowflakes flock together.
Let’s see there are 7+ billion people and 195 countries in the world and they are predicting only few hundred thousand in 90 countries. You want to bet that most of those countries are western democracies and not places like China, Russia, Vietnam, etc. I also will bet that many of those that do show up will not know why they are there and even the ones that are would have a very difficult time articulating the AGW side of the issue and how to fix it.
I also wonder how many of those showing up actually vote. I remember being asked to explain to a very worried politician up for re-election how the environmental organization that had targeted him for defeat had fewer than a hundred members in his district and most of those were too young to vote.
What’s with the tubas, and I believe there’s a french horn there too? They couldn’t muster together a marching band? Pathetic idiots.
There should be action taken against against these scumbag leftists. Shut the fuel and the food off to them.
‘To Change Everything it takes Everyone’
What? Change everything to what?
Actually, everything did change with the scientific and industrial revolution beginning with Copernicus. Then it’s only about 100 or so key people that have actually changed everything which has subsequently allowed growing generations of people to enjoy longer and more prosperous lives that in the past would only have been possible of you were in the ruling classes.
When I was burning my draft card
in protest of the Vietnam War,
in the early 1970s, willing to go
to prison before participating
in that war, that we were losing
and eventually lost, at least back then
I was protesting to save American
lives being wasted by our foolish leaders.
Now the protests are over nothing !
We have the best climate for humans and animals
ever on this planet, and the climate has been
getting better since the very cold period
in the late 1600’s during the Maunder Minimum.
The current climate should be celebrated —
— there is nothing climate related to protest
… except for an imaginary CO2 crisis !
But in reality, more CO2 is beneficial
— gradually greening the planet —
not harmful in any way !
Is this current stupidity the result of decades of
pubic school edumacation ?
Or drugs?
Alcohol?
The internet?
Cell phones?
How did today’s young people get so dumb
that they trust everything their favorite politicians
tell them. Not Trump, of course — just every
Dumbocrat — they can claim anything and
be believed by their flock of parrots.
Maybe I’m just getting old and cranky,
turning 65 soon and starting Medicare
in a few weeks (I used to be young
and cranky) … but so many young people
today seem to have no ability to think
for themselves! Whatever happened to
“don’t trust anyone over 30” ?
Excuse me — I have to chase some kids off my lawn.
My climate change blog:
http://www.elOnionBloggle.Blogspot.com
I never looked into that saying of Jack Weinberg’s until just now. Apparently, he said it in a fit of pique during an interview in response to a question implying that his group, the Free Speech Movement was supported and directed by Communists. He responded that they had a saying in the movement that they didn’t trust anybody over 30, as a way to get the guy off his back. The meaning of the flippant phrase then got blown way out of proportion.
Hundreds
ofor thousands…That’s a bit more correct.
“To Change Everything it takes Everyone’”
People always talk about changing things but don’t consider that the change they are asking for might just not be for the better. “Change” isn’t always positive, it can be negative. Contracting a deadly disease is a change, but not one anyone would want to happen to them.
Remember top keep those blinders on good and tight during the protests.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/NOAA%20SST-NorthAtlantic%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif
Who needs autonomous driving vehicles when you can have robot protest groups. I miss ACORN. /sarc
What’s the going rate for climate marketing consultant/street money these days?
“Hundreds of Thousands” out of billions. Big whoop.
I’m sure that hundreds (maybe even thousands) that show up will be loud and the MSM will provide them a megaphone so they seem even louder, but most of the billions will turn a deaf ear to their protest.
We’ll have more important matters that need our attention.
(I really should mow my lawn. I look for excuses to put it off. Listening to the protesters won’t be one of them.)
Must be a typo. It should have read “hundreds or thousands.” Cheers –
The masses are misguided. I blame the media first, the ”climate scientists” second and the media third.
You really should include the media also. 📺😉
Get out of my way mister cause I’m on my way to more out of the ground…😎😎