Essay by Eric Worrall
OK maybe they have more than 30 members. But it was a cold morning, so looks like most of them stayed home.
Extinction Rebellion protest criticises inaction over 1.5C climate change protest
Story by Rosie Shead
Extinction Rebellion protesters have targeted several sites in central London in a dramatic warning about global warming targets being missed.
Members of the campaign group gathered outside 55 Tufton Street in Westminster on Saturday morning holding signs reading “1.5 is dead” and “tell the truth”, calling for urgent action to limit the risk of rising temperatures
The office includes the headquarters of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank that aims to combat what it sees as harmful climate policies
Demonstrators hung a pink sign on the door of the Tufton Street building that read “a better world is possible”, and threw black confetti
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Read more (includes video): https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/extinction-rebellion-protest-criticises-inaction-over-1-5c-climate-change-target/ar-AA1SJ7gI
I’m sure the Global Warming Policy Foundation are quaking in their boots to have so many climate radicals show up at their door.
On a serious note, this is a far cry from the mass climate protests of old. But I guess years of skyrocketing green energy prices, and more interesting crisis such as the Ukraine war, have all taken their toll on the green faith.
Correction (EW): The protestors hung a “Pink sign”, not a “Ping sign”.
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I guess they are complementing the black…greenouts in San Francisco – a glimpse into a permanent future.
I wonder how much oil/CO2 was involved in the costumes and signage?
That street in the photo isn’t Tufton Street, which is small and only easily traversed on foot. It looks like Whitehall. But I did enjoy the “A better world is possible” sign, prompting me to ask: How much warming do you want? 3.5 degrees C? 5.5? 7.5?
I wouldn’t mind the 5.5. Here in Wokeachusetts, the state claims its already something like 4 (with the state anyway) – which seems absurd, but they do claim it- and it’s not nearly enough. This month of December seems more like January.
At Sydney’s Observatory Hill weather observatory (class 5 situated near 6 lanes of traffic and massive CBD development..
… they recorded a record December temperature of 42.2C the other day…..
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Oh.. forgot to mention….
It was equal to the 42.2C measured on Dec 20th 1957.
So no warmer than 68 years ago…
… despite all the massive urban development to the west where the hot winds come from, and all the new buildings in the Sydney CBD and surrounds.
The “Tell the truth” sign is a real chutzpah.
Hmmmm . . . I thought the Extinction Rebellion movement was pretty much extinct by now.
E. R. is 1.5 ?
😉
“Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more
Or close the wall up with our English dead”
Well that worked out OK in the end, so maybe E.R. thinks it’s worth a try again?
The extinction rebellion movement can’t go extinct as it never really existed in the 1st place.
It is a rich mens NGO vehicle and probably the least authentic amongst all movements.
While the others have at least some kind of authentic dilettantic approch,
this one looks so artificial, so choreographed with a quite impressive occult design and performance.
That’s some real professionals at work here and not the typical bunch of teens and eternal students.
Funded by hedge fund billionaire leftie Hohn. Perhaps he has other ways to waste his money now.
The same Hohn who invested 100s of millions into Heathrow Airport – I guess only in terminals and planes that use green energy.
Cults don’t like facts
They should learn from German folly: https://youtu.be/qLZZGjjuml8?si=ISiCst-0sFkLvIZw
This plus $5 still won’t get you anything at Starbucks.
You could still get free coffee grounds for your garden.
But won’t that keep my plants awake at night?
Put them on a treadmill. Make ’em work!
“won’t get you anything at Starbucks.”
Why would you want to ??
Ah.. the Stinkies..
Forever making their pathetic little cause look like a stage play by the mentally deranged !
What is a “ping sign”? Pine? Sing? Either it’s a typo I can’t figure out, or I am really not young any more.
NEVER MIND. It’s “pink” in the original. But what does pink signify?
Commie pinkos?
My bad sorry, typo – the article read “Pink sign”
A dying gasp for attention.
The vast majority of XR protesters have, like Greta, jumped ship for Palestine protests leaving the core faithful behind.
Rentamob.
Greta tested the green waters again recently, staged a climate protest in Venice, Italy.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-banned-venice-after-grand/story?id=127862310
She did not test the green waters. She dyed the waters green. Nuanced difference, of course.
Didn’t some of them “jump ship” by getting 2-year jail sentences? Are they out already? If so, I guess they won’t be shutting down the M25 again.
Do people walking by even know what they are protesting, or even give a sh!t?
Palestine is fizzling out too. What will be the next hullabaloo?
Business idea: Bus Tours to the possible gathering sites of the last of the Climate Dodos.
Extra points if you see one with a nose ring and purple hair.
Roll up roll up, come see the last of the climate Mohican tribe
I protest ER for using FF every day, every hour, every minute!
Just what I was thinking.
If I was younger and living in Britian, I would start a counter-protest movement to protest XR members’ hypocrisy for their dependence on fossil fuels in their own lives. Call it “Stop XR Climate Hypocrisy”. I would start up a website to attract money and members to my movement.
Give XR a taste of their own medicine. If they don’t like it, they should not dish it out. They should all be living like hermits in a cave somewhere to eliminate their own carbon footprint.
I advise the GWPF to hang a sign on the front door stating ‘Eff Off’.
Fix a burning brazier on the wall to celebrate coal.
See my comment above a 6:28 am. “STOP XR HYPOCRISY NOW!”
For a UK temperature check, I went to:
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/countries/united-kingdon/average-temperature-by-year.
The average annual Tmax and Tmin data from 1901 to 2024 are displayed in a table. Here is the data for these two dates:
Year——Tmax——Tmin——Tavg Temperature are ° C
2024——12.9——–6.9——–9.9
1901——11.8——–4.7——–8.2
Change–+1.1——+2.2——-+1.7
Note that Tavg has exceeded the 1.5° C limit of the Paris Agreement. Has the climate of the UK undergone any disastrous changes in the last few years? We need a climate report from some UK citizens.
Here is temperature data for Edinburgh and Aberdeen:
Edinburgh:
Year——Tmax——Tmin——Tavg Temperatures are ° C
2024——13.7——–6.6——–10.2
1960——12.7——–5.3———9.0
Change–+1.0——+1.3——–+1.2
Aberdeen:
Year——Tmax——Tmin——Tavg
2024——12.8——–5.8——–9.3
1960——11.7——–4.4——–8.1
Change–+1.2——+1.4——-+1.2
CO2 in Air Concentration Data:
2024: 425 ppmv (0.83 g CO2/cu. m. of air)
1960: 317 ppmv (0.62 g CO2/cu. m. of air)
Note how little CO2 there is in the air. It can not cause warming of air.
For these two cities in Scotland there has been only slight warming and it is below the 1.5° C limit. The data suggests that if temperatures for Scotland is removed from the UK temperatures, the temperature increase for Britain, Wales, and Northern Ireland would be higher. However, this is of little consequence because there will aways be some cold snowy winters in the UK.
We should capture the ER protestors send them to Orkney Island for the winter.
…or the summer. I once went there in August and hiking to the Old Man of Hoy coastal rock formation was the closest I ever came to dying of hypothermia (and I lived in Alberta, Canada for two years too).
All in one spot and citizens didn’t end their asses? Cowards.
A spray slurry of cow urine, blue dye and mild butyric acid seems ideal.
Stinkies , become even stinkier.
(fyi, mild butyric acid id not harmful.. but it stinks like spew and is hard to wash off.)
Oh, I know about butyric acid, been suggesting precisely this for “protestors” a long time. Also a big fan of releasing skunks into the crowds.
My older brother and his geek mates smeared the stuff all over the school stairwell handrails as a graduating prank. ! YUCK !!
We put some on the handles of a guy’s power tools on a jobsite. Took him a week to figure it out.
Hershey’s chocolate contains ethyl butyrate, which explains its horrible vomit smell.
The fictional 1.5C tipping point from the coldest period in the last 10,000 years is just one of the preposterous delusions their psychosis demands. Hopefully in the new year the ridiculous endangerment finding will be overturned and the madness will have no basis to survive!
I have been checking the Federal Register every day or so for the posting by the EPA of an announcement rescinding the Endangerment Finding (EF) of 2009 for CO2. So far the announcement rescinding the EF has not been posted. When this happens, many of the radical environmental NGO will panic because donations from the charities and foundations will come to an abrupt end.
I don’t get it, these knuckleheads are protesting in the country that has sacrificed the most for the CAGW nonsense and all for nothing. What is it going to take for these scoundrels to wake up?
Perhaps we can look to the movies…. “NEED MORE BRAINS”
— Return of the Living Dead
Not exactly an overflow crowd. Maybe the protestors showed up at Wembley Stadium instead because they anticipated at least 50,000.
Over the 5 days of the 3rd Cricket test in Adelaide, the total attendance was 223,638.
We are still awaiting the big day of their final protest when they all go extinct in a great public self-immolation.
Perhaps into a live volcano. 🙂
Spot the Virgin? Even Trump couldn’t make that happen on US TV.
And in other news from the same national asylum, one Ed Miliband, who currently is presiding as Energy and Climate Change Minister over the ongoing disaster of UK Net Zero, is apparently agitating to become the new Chancellor, aka Finance Minister, of the UK. Because, so the story goes, he understands economics!
This is the man who understands economics so well that he expects wind and solar and net zero to reduce UK electricity costs.
I am probably, if personally identified and in the UK at the time, going to be visited by the UK police for referring to him as a ‘man’. Its probably hate speech now to refer to someone in such terms in the UK because it may offend those, if there are any, who don’t believe there are such things as men and women….
But in the madhouse that the UK has become, the mere non-existence of a class of people who could be offended by something you say does not excuse you from having committed a crime if you make a reference which could be offensive to them if there had been any. Or if not a crime, a non-crime hate incident, which will be recorded in your police record like all your other crimes. Or non-crimes.
In the UK today you can have a criminal record for having done something which was not a crime because if would perhaps have offended people of a certain kind, if there had only been any to take the offense which there fortunately were not.
Go figure. Not so much Orwell, more Monty Python in uniform. But not at all funny.
Perhaps asking how to appropriately spell menstrual cycle will help?
… or…
human
Such is the pity that whilst the “next climate extinction’ is ‘unfolding’, we can’t just have a small interim extinction and rid us of these fools.
All hands on deck for the climate drama.
I wonder how cold it was. I mean, the world is burning up, right, so how can it be cold?
I am trying to find my old “Power to the People” protest sign from the 60s.
It would definitely augment their protest!
/s
England is compromised. It’s only salvation, now that the Vikings are gone, is open it up to homesteading by Texans.