Junk Activism

Haha.  Ironic that the biggest Global Warming protest in Washington D.C. right now goes on after a nice fat March snowstorm.

All of those climatologists doing millions of dollars of climate research couldn’t even predict an abnormally warm day to go holler at politicians about how warm the planet is getting?  At least make it sound good…

Next time you should pick a day in the summer.  Like, near the equator.  And you can all rub each other down with greasy suntan lotion.  Just don’t get cancer from all of that radiation, I mean, unless you’re really out to prove a point…up to you.  I’d enjoy writing about that protest.

From the article:

In a video on Capitol Climate Action’s web site, NASA scientist James Hansen encourages people to join the protest.

“The only practical way to solve the problem is to phase out the biggest source of carbon and that is coal. The science is very clear on that but yet the decision makers are not taking the actions that we needed to do that,” he says. “We have to send that message to Congress and the president.”

DUDE, you’re with NASA.  And you’re a scientist.   Since I was a kid, I’ve loved NASA and I love scientists (honest, intelligent ones, anyway).  The biggest source of carbon is coal?  Um, no.  did you forge that every living thing on this planet is made of carbon?  The biggest sources of carbon emissions would be dying animals and vegetation, exploding volcanoes, and the ocean.

Who is paying you to promote such Junk Activism?!

Look, like I’ve said before, nobody likes pollution.  Pollution comes at a cost for our lifestyle we all enjoy.  If you want to make the world a better place for people, of course we should stop burning coal and other pollutants for our power source.  We definitely pollute and over-consume, we can all agree to these things.

What we shouldn’t do is religiously link our consumption to the noble idea of saving ourselves from the coming Apocalypse.

It appears the new trend in getting what you want is to raid the airports, stop the flow of traffic and chaos will ensue.

So yeah, the links I point out above are from just one protest over Thailand’s government.  One note reported Thailand was losing between $50mil - $85mil a day from the airport blockage. Unfortunate in a country where the people’s cash cow is the influx of tourism.  I can’t imagine people are rushing to buy their tickets to Bangkok now.

Over the weekend, another group of protesters in London were inspired over the weekend to preach  doomsday in the form of climate change on a runway at Stansted Airport.  Oh yeah, and that Runway was closed for maintenance:

The protest, by 54 campaigners, saw demonstrators occupying a runway and taxi area which had been closed for maintenance work at around 3am.

Thailand’s was WAY better than this sorry excuse for a protest.  Seriously, you broke into an airport and stood on a closed runway?  Imagine the looks on the faces of the five airport runway maintenance staff as they find 54 people run into the middle of an empty airstrip carrying doomsday signs.

Things brings to question:  What was the protest about?  Well, it was about climate change…. er, airport expansion.  Charts have proven that airport expansion is EXACTLY proportional to a rise in temperature.  Meaning, the more airport run ways you build, the warmer the airport gets.  Sort of like…. every time we build one, God will drown a cute polar bear.  You know, like sound logical science type stuff.

But what was it REALLY about?  It’s about FUN:  getting attention….. civil disobedience…. creating inconvenience for the “status quo”…. breaking and entry…. getting arrested.