From the “adjustments required” department comes this “Inconvenient Truth”. A couple of days ago I carried a reference to this story in The Guardian that said there would be “hundreds of thousands” of climate actions protesters this weekend organized by Bill McKibben’s 350.org.
I said then:
Just like models overestimate future climate, I’m betting they are overestimating the crowds.
Seems I was right. Compare these two before and after headlines:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/07/hundreds-of-thousands-expected-to-join-global-climate-marches-this-weekend
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/08/rise-for-climate-protests-san-francisco-new-york
Lest you think this is just a US vs. the world comparison, note that a day later, there are no other stories on the Guardian about “global protests”. Either there were none, or they were too miniscule to cover because they’d be embarrassing.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change
the way they call it “climate justice” march, like they want revenge…against something, capitalism of course. Part of the pitch is for a “living wage” which seems to be far from the subject of weather.
These marchers might get what they wish for? A horse and buggy electricity system to go along with a horse and buggy economy.
If they are truly serious, they should spend time – at least a year – with an Amish family on a farm. No electricity.
Hand pumped water. Horse and buggy transportation. Oil lamps instead of light bulbs. Wood-fired cook stoves. And they’d have to attend church, too, as part of the package, and help out with soap-making, food preserving, gardening, and taking care of the livestock.
I don’t think they’d last more than the time it took to take their luggage out of the back of the buggy.
And personally, I would love to learn to use a woodfired stove, as well as the side oven for baking that is part of a Rumford fireplace. Cooking a spit loaded with chickens at the fireplace is how people used to live.
There self-righteous persons are not equipped, mentally or otherwise, to live that way.
It appears up to 200 marched in Toronto though the number may be a round-up. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rise-for-climate-march-toronto-1.4815983
A significant number of them may have been paid organisers. 350.org has been paying protest organisers in Canada trying to get the universities to set a precedent by divesting from all ‘fossil fuel investments’ with the intention of making the companies bankrupt. It is not clear how selling your shares to someone else bankrupts a company, but no one is listening anyway.
Zero coverage of the mighty 200 on the CBC. You’d think they could have mustered at least 350 to go with the foreign sponsoring organisation.
In my day it was antiwar protests. Like today if you looked behind the curtain it was organized by leftist/commies and turned out to be big hippie grass smoking parties to protest Vietnam. Not much has changed.
I like the sign at the rear and to the left that says…
“It’s too hot!”
Look at the number of people carrying what looks like to be jumpers or coats.
Interesting how many in the photo are carrying jackets or extra clothes. Were they told to brave the cold weather to make it look warmer? 😀
The crowd didn’t show up because of global warming (too hot to walk). And Serena lost the US Open because of global warming (it made her head hot)
She can take a seat (or a knee) right next to Colin Kaepernick, on the ‘Self Destroyed Jocks Bench’. Her coach was shouting out suggestions from the stands while play was in progress, which is a violation of The Rules. No coaching during play. She was warned. Then she was penalized, when it continued. Then she was penalized for her faux-SJW tantrum. End of story.
Who will be the next sports millionaire fool to implode through childish tantrums?
Not shouting. Hand signals. Common practice, though against the rules.
Thirty-six year old mom, though the greatest female tennis player of all time, against a 20 year-old challenger who had previously beaten her in less prestigious circumstances. Shades of 37 year-old Federer v. a low-ranked young opponent earlier in the US Open.
Even the best must eventually give way to younger challengers.
Not to justify Miss Williams’ (Mrs. Ohanian’s) behavior, but odds are good that she would have lost even without the questionable rulings by the ump. She’s obviously a fierce competitor, unused to losing in Grand Slam matches. So naturally, she was frustrated. Perhaps more so, since victory at the US Open would have tied her with Margaret Court in Grand Slam wins.
Miss Williams is still recovering from her maternity leave. Her game will improve, despite her age, and she will go on to equal and exceed Mrs. Court’s record, the majority of whose Grand Slam victories came before the Open Era, and almost half of which were Oz Opens when few top Northern Hemisphere (alleged) amateurs could afford to travel Down Under. Not to take anything away from Mrs. Court, who also took off two years at the peak of her powers, and retired only after becoming pregnant with her fourth child.
And one might assume that her grunt afterward would break ear drums.
In the report I read 2 days ago, her coach admitted he was shouting out suggestions; i.e. – coaching.
In addition, denying the cheating and hiding behind her age, sex, and child are the artifices of a cheating loser.
Better apologize Umpire. One whack from her has the force of Mike Tyson’s punch
Ump Ramos has been widely criticized, IMO rightly so. And Miss Williams is indeed a very strong player. More alarmingly for Mr. Ramos, she wields a lot of power in US and world tennis, so his umpiring career might indeed be in danger.
He probably won’t ever judge another of Miss Williams’ matches, at a minimum.
OTOH, Miss Osaka is a very promising young player at the tender age of 20. Miss Williams won her first Grand Slam, the US Open, as a teenager, defeating Grand Slam champions Kim Clijsters, Conchita Martínez, Monica Seles and defending champion American Lindsay Davenport to reach the final, where she defeated then world No. 1, Martina Hingis.
Calling th umpire a cheat for actually applying the rules is not on in any sport. Serena disgraced herself and i suspect the implosion was itself another form of cheating called trying to disrupt her opponent. Her behaviour was pathetic and calling it sexism in a game against another smaller female is a bit rich. Tie she remember she is a mother and grew up. Most mothers out there manage that rather well on a lot less coin that Serena. And BTW, she gets paid the same amount of money as the blokes for 60% of the work. This female thinks she is sad really that she has to resort to that.
Miss Osaka was cheated out of the joy and celebration of her huge win by Serena’s adolescent loser temper tantrums, when Serena was caught cheating.
Next time appoint Ronda Rousey as umpire. If you have complains, let’s settle it in the Octagon
Ah, shoot. I guess Soros forgot to put out a Help Wanted ad.
He was too busy paying protesters at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/confirmed-organizer-vinay-krishnan-who-was-caught-paying-off-kavanaugh-protesters-works-for-soros-linked-organization/
He did… but Trumps economy is too good… not many peeps looking for jobs these days… especially low paying ones.
Anecdotal evidence for the Grauniad’s decline: two days ago I tried to buy a paper at W H Smith’s in Paddington Station and in Exeter St David’s. All the other papers were sold out, but there were at least 50 unsold copies of the Graun on the stand.
Needless to say, I didn’t bother to purchase one.
Nothing happened in the UK that made the media this weekend.
Sounds like the useful idiots are getting themselves educated and are not as interested in things that cost them money.
James Bull
I went back over the preceeding days adelaide and melbourne online papers and couldnt find ANY mention ditto aunty abc either;-)
very pleased and amused;-)
It’s odd that the numbers were down so much. Usually an offer of a free coach trip to the capital plus time to view the sites after the march would cause lots of takers. Your posters and banners were ready and waiting for you when you got to the capital. Those were the days….
Bring in the airbrush experts in climate media consulting.
They get their mileage from the original headline. Subsequent reality has no bearing; the original headline is the reality for many.
This is one among many reasons not to trust the lame-stream government-supported alarmists. Numbers are the first and easiest thing to manipulate. All the way from numbers in a so-called protest (paid for by alarmists) and political poll numbers to temperature records or other “scientific data”. One cannot trust ANY of it.
Nothing but a bunch of crazy white people.
These days the press is about creating news, by controlling the message, not reporting reality.
I think it would be a hoot to show up at one of these “protests” and ask the crowd if they are ready to give up fossil fuels. Any that say yes, tell them to strip including shoes, give you their cell phones and iWatches and say there you go, you are fossil fuel free, then tell them they have to walk home, no bikes because bike tires contain fossil fuels. I bet you could re-convert a bunch back to the sane side.
They have no clue what they ask for.
Well, I spent most of my weekend shivering here just north of Toronto as I was camping and the temp went down to 4 degrees Celsius so I didn’t have time to march against the insidious warming predicted…
BTW, most of these idiots don’t know much math, so hundreds of thousands and thousands are almost the same anyway.
Total participation was well in excess of 100,000, if you count press, onlookers, people flying over, and fleas.
Same stock photo for both Headlines? I suspect if there was any remotely serious turn out any where, there would be plenty of pics.Ah well, there’s always next year. …. No, there isn’t.