An extinction Rebellion road block on a major Melbourne access road forced commuters to wait in a queue, or use roads with lots of start / stop traffic lights.
Extinction Rebellion protesters cause traffic chaos as they block Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge at peak-hour
Climate change activists have deployed a large truck to block three lanes of the West Gate Bridge during peak-hour traffic on Tuesday morning.
Amy Roulston Digital Reporter March 5, 2024 – 8:30AM
Climate activists have sparked traffic chaos in Melbourne on Tuesday morning by positioning a large truck on West Gate Bridge during peak-hour.
Three protesters from Extinction Rebellion Victoria stood on top of the truck that was parked perpendicular across three West Gate Bridge lanes, with a large banner draped over the side reading “declare a climate emergency”.
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Three of the five lanes on the bridge were initially closed, before another was forced to shut an hour later, forcing angry commuters to merge into one remaining lane.
Three lanes are closed citybound on the West Gate Bridge, due to protest activity. Two lanes remain open. Delays are back to Hoppers Crossing on the Princes Freeway, and the Deer Park Bypass on the M80 Ring Road. Consider using Geelong Road or Ballarat Road instead. #victrafficpic.twitter.com/xZSgMStwQR
This time Deanna received a much lighter sentence than the 15 months she successfully appealed in New South Wales, the Victorian magistrate only sentenced her to 21 days for disrupting traffic. Deanna thinks she’s a climate suffragette, she has said so on several occasions. I’m sure the Melbourne magistrate followed the letter of the law, but I suspect Deanna staged the protest in Victoria, because weak anti-road disruption laws in Victoria mean Victoria is a soft target compared to New South Wales, which hardened its road disruption laws in 2022. I suspect Deanna and her friends will be back, targeting Melbourne commuters again, or commuters in another soft target state, either later this year or next year.
It is difficult to estimate how much additional CO2 this protest released, a lot of people probably gave up on the traffic and worked from home that day. But when you take into account all those internal combustion engines idling, 20 miles of start stop traffic either on the alternative routes or squeezing through the bottleneck on the main access road which the XR protest created, I wouldn’t be surprised if the XR protest increased Melbourne commuter CO2 emissions several times over normal levels. Of course, climate protestors triggering the release of lots of additional CO2 is nothing new.
The traffic jam on the overloaded light blue alternative route which passes through Footscray (the Northernmost route) would have absolutely messed up access to Footscray Hospital from areas with large manufacturing / industrial estates, places like Altona, Werribee, Laverton, St Albans and Sunshine.
Footscray is one of the largest hospitals on the Western side of Melbourne. Anyone picked up by ambulance within 10 miles of Footscray on a normal day has a good chance of being delivered to Footscray Hospital. So yes, they were really messing with people’s lives and safety.
It was extremely lucky that no one died after this brainless caper by Extinction Rebellion because of an ambulance being unable to get some medical emergency victim to a hospital. These idiots are not interested in reducing CO2 emissions, they are just interested in Self Aggrandisement.
China is already a communist tyranny, so they only emit good CO2.
Ron Long
March 6, 2024 1:18 am
Interesting event, Eric. And during the whole kerfufle the Aussie patience, tolerance, sympathy/empathy, understanding and respect for officialdom, never led to a beat-down and removal of the aggressive offenders? Not sure what to make of that.
… never led to a beat-down and removal of the aggressive offenders?
These were city workers – insurance, IT, accountants, lawyers, doctors. If they had blocked the road to a major football match there might have been a different outcome.
As I recall didn’t the people pull such idiots off of the top of a subway train in the UK a year or so ago?
The term “outlaw” originally meant that a criminal was declared to outside of the protection of “the law” and any citizen could take action against them without being charged with “breaking the law” themselves.
Perhaps some form of that should be brought back for such stupid stunts?
strativarius
March 6, 2024 2:14 am
Story tip and Wednesday funny – BBC Verified /sarc
“”Yesterday the BBC’s “Disinformation Correspondent” Marianna Spring and Panorama revealed their top scoop: that “Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican“. Spring boasted that she had “discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president. There’s no evidence directly linking these images to Trump’s campaign.” The revelations were enough to warrant an investigation piece and a special podcast episode…
On second glance the nefarious deepfakes may not be the conspiracy Spring was looking for. The clearly-watermarked AI images of Trump with black Americans are the creations of a joke account whose Twitter bio states: “Documenting the history of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump (parody)“. The BBC’s disinformation team must have been horrified to learn that American voters might be duped by tweets saying “Donald Trump was in fact the 4th wise man who brought Jesus gifts after he was born“, or he was “the first person to circumnavigate the Earth” in 1522, as well as starring in Ben-Hur. Images of Trump in the WW1 trenches will be sure to swing the American public…
Funny thing, when the story broke about her disinformative/misinformative CV she disappeared from the airwaves for a while re-emerging first on radio and…. now this.
Here’s another security threat. Tens of thousands of PLA aged Chinese men have crossed into the US through its southern border, apparently with assistance of the CCP and the Biden administration. At what point is this stopped? Is it possible to have more PLA soldiers in the US than US National Guard?
The Bidenistas have been recently exposed as bypassing the Mexican border by airlifting their thugs directly into the country from secret bases in Central/South America.
Everything leftists do has the opposite effect intended, they think they are so smart and never consider unintended consequences.
Sparta Nova 4
March 6, 2024 7:10 am
Those protesters might want to recognize that their clothing essentially covers them in oil.
JamesB_684
March 6, 2024 8:34 am
This story makes me want to go buy a big gas powered truck.
Remember gasoline is mostly C8H18 chemically, so that truck will burn 75% Hydrogen!
John Hultquist
March 6, 2024 8:40 am
“by positioning a large truck “
Your air force has a number of combat planes that could take out a large truck in seconds. Thus, the assumption has to be that your government doesn’t want to solve these sorts of problems.
On SkyNews Australia website, a commenter Drew2.0 posted this –
“According to the June 2023 update, Australia emitted 465.2 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, which marked a 0.8 per cent increase as compared to June 2022. Energy production is the largest contributor to Australia’s carbon emissions. This is followed by transport, agriculture, and industrial processes. Specifically: energy (burning fossil fuels to produce electricity) contributed 32.6 per cent of the total emissions stationary energy (including manufacturing, mining, residential and commercial fuel use) 22.3 per cent transport 21.1 per cent agriculture 17.7 per cent fugitive emissions 10.2 per cent industrial processes 7 per cent waste 2.9 per cent”
(That adds up to 113.8%.. so nice work CSIRO)
So 465.2 million tonnes of man made Co2..
Then add naturally occurring CO2..
CO2 from Bushfires is partly absorbed by regrowth, leaving on average 36 million tonnes in the atmosphere
CO2 from rivers and lakes produces on average 82 million tonnes of CO2
So that makes it 583.2 million tonnes of CO2 coming from Australia….
Now.. what CO2 sinks does Australia have..
Change of land use typically results in around 10 million tonnes be absorbed.. but we’ll forget that as we’re clearing land for renewables.
34 million tonnes are absorbed by coastal vegetation and estuaries..
11 million tonnes are absorbed by geological weathering..
183 million tonnes by everything on the Continental shelf, plants and coral.
399 million tonnes by natural land ecosystems.. the reality is it’s more than that but we’ll go with it for now..
So all up Australia’s CO2 sinks absorb 627 million tonnes of CO2..
It is of course far more important to appear to be saving the Earth than to actually be doing something useful for the health of the environment. Wokism and radical environmental activism are all about appearance and the money that it draws to the pockets of idiots and slackers. We need to find an ice berg big enough to send them all on a cruise.
Tom Halla
March 6, 2024 9:42 am
There are almost certainly “charities” funding such protests, as they have in the US and UK. Perhaps the equivalent of a RICO prosecution of both the protesters and their Green cheering squad might have an effect?
Indirectly, China and Russia fund a lot of so-called “environmental” organizations.
CD in Wisconsin
March 6, 2024 10:24 am
I seriously wonder if their intellect or their emotions are controlling the brains of these JSO and XR people. It isn’t necessarily all that hard to tell which based on their behavior, actions and what they say.
As I’ve said in the past, one of the worst things about being in a cult is not knowing you are in one. If and when the climate alarm believers ever get successfully deprogrammed from this cult someday, there may be hell to pay.
Bob
March 6, 2024 1:09 pm
Time to reconsider corporal punishment, jail time and fines aren’t cutting it.
Edward Katz
March 6, 2024 2:13 pm
All these types of protest drive up emissions, but the protesters don’t really care because to them they’re just social events after which they just go ahead and get drunk, stoned or whatever. That’s if they’re not already in those states before the protests start. Deep down they know their efforts are hopeless, and when they’re presented with the facts that 82% of the world’s primary energy is still being provided by fossil fuels, they know for certain. But none of the above will cause them to cancel a party.
This time, apparently, someone was forced to give birth in traffic.
The traffic jam on the overloaded light blue alternative route which passes through Footscray (the Northernmost route) would have absolutely messed up access to Footscray Hospital from areas with large manufacturing / industrial estates, places like Altona, Werribee, Laverton, St Albans and Sunshine.
Footscray is one of the largest hospitals on the Western side of Melbourne. Anyone picked up by ambulance within 10 miles of Footscray on a normal day has a good chance of being delivered to Footscray Hospital. So yes, they were really messing with people’s lives and safety.
Perhaps a pregnant woman missed an abortion appointment and had since decided to give birth to the baby. That would make them really sad.
Yup. Here is the video from YouTube. The woman had to give birth alongside the road. Disgusting if you ask me.
Baby born on side of busy Melbourne road amid climate protest which caused traffic delay | ABC News (youtube.com)
It was extremely lucky that no one died after this brainless caper by Extinction Rebellion because of an ambulance being unable to get some medical emergency victim to a hospital. These idiots are not interested in reducing CO2 emissions, they are just interested in Self Aggrandisement.
They want others to suffer. In general young people do not view climate change issues worthy of sacrifice on their part.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/poll_45_of_young_voters_unwilling_to_spend_10month_to_fight_climate_change_despite_it_apparently_being_a_top_priority.html
Using a FOSSIL FUEL powered truck .. to make a pointless gesture against FOSSIL FUELS.
How much more STUPID can these child-minds get !!
Absolute destruction of their pitiful “cause”
Deanna and Co are really demonstrating for more Chinese coal fired EVs-
How Europe wants to punish Chinese carmakers (msn.com)
Off to Tianenmen Square for the true believers to make a real impact.
China is already a communist tyranny, so they only emit good CO2.
Interesting event, Eric. And during the whole kerfufle the Aussie patience, tolerance, sympathy/empathy, understanding and respect for officialdom, never led to a beat-down and removal of the aggressive offenders? Not sure what to make of that.
The sooks brought in a cherry-picker to get them down off the truck.
They should have brought in a tow truck and removed it quickly with the protesters still on the roof if necessary.
Pandering to these idiots with kid gloves only encourages them.
Why the police do not remove them more forcibly is an indication of how stuffed our legal system is
… never led to a beat-down and removal of the aggressive offenders?
These were city workers – insurance, IT, accountants, lawyers, doctors. If they had blocked the road to a major football match there might have been a different outcome.
If they’d blocked the road to a major football match they’d have been begging the police to rescue them.
As I recall didn’t the people pull such idiots off of the top of a subway train in the UK a year or so ago?
The term “outlaw” originally meant that a criminal was declared to outside of the protection of “the law” and any citizen could take action against them without being charged with “breaking the law” themselves.
Perhaps some form of that should be brought back for such stupid stunts?
Story tip and Wednesday funny – BBC Verified /sarc
“”Yesterday the BBC’s “Disinformation Correspondent” Marianna Spring and Panorama revealed their top scoop: that “Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican“. Spring boasted that she had “discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president. There’s no evidence directly linking these images to Trump’s campaign.” The revelations were enough to warrant an investigation piece and a special podcast episode…
On second glance the nefarious deepfakes may not be the conspiracy Spring was looking for. The clearly-watermarked AI images of Trump with black Americans are the creations of a joke account whose Twitter bio states: “Documenting the history of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump (parody)“. The BBC’s disinformation team must have been horrified to learn that American voters might be duped by tweets saying “Donald Trump was in fact the 4th wise man who brought Jesus gifts after he was born“, or he was “the first person to circumnavigate the Earth” in 1522, as well as starring in Ben-Hur. Images of Trump in the WW1 trenches will be sure to swing the American public…
This comes as BBC Verify launches a new “content credentials” feature to detail whether images have had their “authenticity verified“. Judging by its track record they might want to hire some reporters to fact check their own content…””
https://order-order.com/2024/03/05/bbc-panoramas-disinformation-scoop-just-photos-from-twitter-parody-account/
The BBC might want to hire some reporters period.
Funny thing, when the story broke about her disinformative/misinformative CV she disappeared from the airwaves for a while re-emerging first on radio and…. now this.
It’s delicious – almost worth £159
Hmm no it isn’t.
Almost…..
STORY TIP;
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/net-zero-national-security-threat-must-be-abandoned-former-security-minister-warns
maybe violet coco should go sit on some nasty tanks?
Here’s another security threat. Tens of thousands of PLA aged Chinese men have crossed into the US through its southern border, apparently with assistance of the CCP and the Biden administration. At what point is this stopped? Is it possible to have more PLA soldiers in the US than US National Guard?
The Bidenistas have been recently exposed as bypassing the Mexican border by airlifting their thugs directly into the country from secret bases in Central/South America.
I was just reading about that yesterday. So we’re not even waiting for them to come on their own now.
That’s not incompetence, it’s deliberate.
We need a Sherriff Joe Arpaio’s tent city jail for serial pests and minor villains-
Serial climate protesters jailed for blocking West Gate Bridge (msn.com)
As you know I’m a multicultural sort of woke bloke in general-
Singapore cane: Corporal punishment regarded as torture by Amnesty International (9news.com.au)
Aboriginal Customary Laws and the Notion of ‘Punishment’ | ALRC
Everything leftists do has the opposite effect intended, they think they are so smart and never consider unintended consequences.
Those protesters might want to recognize that their clothing essentially covers them in oil.
This story makes me want to go buy a big gas powered truck.
Remember gasoline is mostly C8H18 chemically, so that truck will burn 75% Hydrogen!
“by positioning a large truck “
Your air force has a number of combat planes that could take out a large truck in seconds.
Thus, the assumption has to be that your government doesn’t want to solve these sorts of problems.
On SkyNews Australia website, a commenter Drew2.0 posted this –
“According to the June 2023 update, Australia emitted 465.2 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, which marked a 0.8 per cent increase as compared to June 2022. Energy production is the largest contributor to Australia’s carbon emissions. This is followed by transport, agriculture, and industrial processes. Specifically: energy (burning fossil fuels to produce electricity) contributed 32.6 per cent of the total emissions stationary energy (including manufacturing, mining, residential and commercial fuel use) 22.3 per cent transport 21.1 per cent agriculture 17.7 per cent fugitive emissions 10.2 per cent industrial processes 7 per cent waste 2.9 per cent”
(That adds up to 113.8%.. so nice work CSIRO)
So 465.2 million tonnes of man made Co2..
Then add naturally occurring CO2..
CO2 from Bushfires is partly absorbed by regrowth, leaving on average 36 million tonnes in the atmosphere
CO2 from rivers and lakes produces on average 82 million tonnes of CO2
So that makes it 583.2 million tonnes of CO2 coming from Australia….
Now.. what CO2 sinks does Australia have..
Change of land use typically results in around 10 million tonnes be absorbed.. but we’ll forget that as we’re clearing land for renewables.
34 million tonnes are absorbed by coastal vegetation and estuaries..
11 million tonnes are absorbed by geological weathering..
183 million tonnes by everything on the Continental shelf, plants and coral.
399 million tonnes by natural land ecosystems.. the reality is it’s more than that but we’ll go with it for now..
So all up Australia’s CO2 sinks absorb 627 million tonnes of CO2..
627 – 583.2 = A CO2 CREDIT of 43.8 Million tonnes
Making Australia Net -43,800,000 tonnes
Prove me wrong.
I have seen, but cannot find again, a CSIRO statistic stating the the Southern hemisphere in general and Oz in particular are CO2 sinks.
Would the CSIRO have removed this from their web site – highly probable
Our pollies are fond of stating our emissions but never mention the sinks and don’t seem to nderstand the meaning of ‘net’..
netin British Englishor nett (nɛt
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ADJECTIVE
1. remaining after all deductions, as for taxes, expenses, losses, etc
It is of course far more important to appear to be saving the Earth than to actually be doing something useful for the health of the environment. Wokism and radical environmental activism are all about appearance and the money that it draws to the pockets of idiots and slackers. We need to find an ice berg big enough to send them all on a cruise.
There are almost certainly “charities” funding such protests, as they have in the US and UK. Perhaps the equivalent of a RICO prosecution of both the protesters and their Green cheering squad might have an effect?
Indirectly, China and Russia fund a lot of so-called “environmental” organizations.
I seriously wonder if their intellect or their emotions are controlling the brains of these JSO and XR people. It isn’t necessarily all that hard to tell which based on their behavior, actions and what they say.
As I’ve said in the past, one of the worst things about being in a cult is not knowing you are in one. If and when the climate alarm believers ever get successfully deprogrammed from this cult someday, there may be hell to pay.
Time to reconsider corporal punishment, jail time and fines aren’t cutting it.
All these types of protest drive up emissions, but the protesters don’t really care because to them they’re just social events after which they just go ahead and get drunk, stoned or whatever. That’s if they’re not already in those states before the protests start. Deep down they know their efforts are hopeless, and when they’re presented with the facts that 82% of the world’s primary energy is still being provided by fossil fuels, they know for certain. But none of the above will cause them to cancel a party.
I thought CO2 was a harmless, vital gas.
Nah expelling CO2 can certainly be dangerous-
Doritos Spain fires trans influencer over controversial tweets (msn.com)
I don’t make this stuff up. It’s all woke lefty doing but I’m wondering for how much longer before the tar and feathers etc.