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Global-warming ice sculpture protest canceled in embarrassment for green group
In the sweltering, triple-digit Washington, D.C. heat, the climate change group 350.org planned to mock global warming skeptics on Capitol Hill Saturday morning by melting an ice sculpture shaped into the word “Hoax?”
Early Saturday, however, group founder and “Fight Global Warming Now” author Bill McKibben sent a cancellation notice to participants, claiming he was calling off the stunt out of sensitivity to those suffering in the heat wave — especially people in West Virginia.
“I think I screwed up,” McKibben began, explaining that while melting a statue was a good way to draw attention to global warming, it could also have offended those suffering in tough times.
“The idea was simple enough: if this epic heatwave gripping the nation has one small silver lining, it’s that its reminding people that global warming is very very real,” he wrote. “And the response was strong — we raised the $5000 it would have taken to pull off the event, and far more than that for relief efforts.”
“But we also heard from old friends, especially in nearby West Virginia, who asked us not to do it. The sight of ice melting while they sweltered would be too hard to take; their region, they pointed out, is as hard hit as any in the country by the heat wave, and it would make people feel like their plight wasn’t being taken seriously.”
Others are not so sure McKibben’s explanation holds water.
Former meteorologist and climate change skeptic Anthony Watts pointed out that the stunt would have backfired, given the slow rate at which the ice was likely to melt.
Jerry The Great
July 8th, 2012
It’s 96 degrees the first week of July! RUN! The Sky Is Falling!!!
LadyGun12
July 8th, 2012
I don’t buy the idea that a greenie weenie was worried about “offending” those suffering through hard times.
BigFurHat
July 8th, 2012
Retards, just like Josie (AKA @$^*$ the corporations)
When we are up to our asses in snow it is “just the weather, stupid, not climate.”
When it’s hot out it’s climate.
A boot to the carotid artery is what’s needed.
simply enraged
July 8th, 2012
An old friend’s father, unfortunately just deceased, had a great line for such people: “Some things have to be believed to be seen”.
Fur, I’m not sure that boots to the carotids would suffice for them, seeing as how their “brains” appear to be located elsewhere.
squatch
July 8th, 2012
It’s hot. It’s July. It’s Summer. Big deal.
http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/song-chart-memes-global-warming.jpg
berlet98
July 8th, 2012
Hot Enough for Ya?
Everyone talks about the hellish hot weather but only liberals know what ‘s causing it: climate change, aka global warming, of course!
The 3,215 record daily high temps set in the month of June and 4,500 new heat records during the last 30 days must incontrovertibly prove Planet Earth is roasting almost to the boiling point.
And, maybe not.
The fact is, those record highs were all set in the U.S. while the rest of the northern hemisphere is just experiencing summertime. It would seem Mother Nature has it in for America since she is wreaking heat havoc only on us.
In almost unprecedented numbers, Mom Nature has caused wildfires, droughts, tornados, and floods, everything but hordes of locusts in the United States–and she has yet to unleash the brunt of her hurricane season!
As Jonathan Overpeck gloated, “This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level.”
That professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona breathlessly elaborated, ”The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about” and the head honcho of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, Kevin Trenberth, dutifully chimed in by claiming he had predicted the same disasters. (http://tinyurl.com/7by6z7c)
So there, you climate-change-naysaying nitwits!
The chief problem with Overpeck’s, Trenberth’s and all the other “expert” observations that Earthlings are doomed to being toasted, fried, and fricaseed is that they are as wrong in their doomsaying assessments as their fellow phonies who believed a mere few decades ago that we would soon be encased in blocks of ice when global cooling and a new Ice Age enveloped the planet.
Science magazine, Science Digest and a host of other seemingly-reputable publications and scientists were then warning of ”extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation,” shorter growing seasons, cooling oceans and similar catastrophic events.
It never happened, anymore than polar bears starving and stop making baby polar bears, anymore than melting glaciers will end the Alaskan tourist trade, anymore than rising seas will flood our front yards, etc. will come to pass in the near future.
Those apocalyptic visions could be realized down the road as the Earth and our sun do what they’ve been doing for eons but they won’t be the fault of mankind’s activities–unless we assume cave people built filthy, carbon dioxide-spewing, coal-fired power plants we don’t know about and accept the hypothesis that dinosaur farts polluted the atmosphere.
Times, and weather, have changed radically as they always do and ultra-resilient climatologists have shown they can switch sides faster than Chief Justice John Roberts.
Fast forward to the eighties and beyond. Now, due to historically-normal, cyclical climate changes, the fear-mongerers have amazingly converted their baseless freezing scam into a preposterous warming hoax.
Gone are the days when Hollywood cashed in on the orchestrated freezing panic and politicians were elected based on pledges to save their constituents from wearing overcoats in August.
Those days have been supplanted by Tinseltown producing ridiculous movies such as “The Day After Tomorrow” which senselessly theorized that global warming will result in global freezing and Democrat pols warning that North American women had better vote for Obama or be prepared to wear bikinis in January. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26520.)
ChiefIlliniCake
July 8th, 2012
Off topic, but if ya want a Big Laff (who doesn’t?) check out IowaHawk’s column today…frikkin’ PRICELESS!!!!
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/
Burge is the king.
Menderman
July 8th, 2012
Well, the polar ice caps really are shrinking…on Mars…on Earth, not so much. Antarctica is GAINING ice over all, but for some reason, it is only the parts that are losing ice the lefties scream about.
Toaster
July 8th, 2012
Ugh, Drudge has a link to another E.O. from dEar Leader. Weasel Zippers has a copy of it here also.
He wants to control “communications” in a “crisis” and we all know how he likes to create crises too.
Menderman
July 8th, 2012
There is a big difference between “Heat Records” and “Temperature Records”.
Temperature records are a tiny snapshot of mans knowledge of Earths temperature dating back only a few hundred years.
Heat Records are what the air “feels” like on the human body based on several factors and was started in 1978 and incorporated into the NWS in 1979. Heat records do not factor in “wind chill” either.
using a 33 year data set to say anything about a global crisis on a climate that is 4 billion years old is idiocy to the extreme.
Stirrin the B.S.
July 8th, 2012
Not quite on topic, but Fur, did you just partially reveal “f**k corporate america’s” name? Or is that old news that I missed on a previous thread.
Maudie N Mandeville
July 8th, 2012
“We are not experts in the physical properties of water…” I’m left with asking what, then, makes them experts at predicting the coming doom of the Earth?
BTW, I didn’t hear of any fellow travelers in England making similar plans. Maybe the unseasonably COLD rainy weather had something to do with it?
Just smile and pat them on the head.
Stirrin the B.S.
July 8th, 2012
Scratch that last question – I just saw the answer.;)
Moe Tom
July 8th, 2012
Chief: hillarious link. Iowahawk is brilliant.
AvgDude
July 8th, 2012
So now… Weather and climate are the same thing?… But they aren’t the same thing when it’s -17f in February.
shotwell
July 8th, 2012
We can debate the Climate change thing forever, that’s not the problem. It’s the Demoweinees wanting to tax us into submission about it that drives me nuts.
Lizzy
July 8th, 2012
I saw McKibben on “Up with Chris Hayes” this morning and he is one intense eco-twit! He started out by claiming that we needed to do nothing short of completely ELIMINATING the use of fossil fuels. He said that this is completely possible (e.g. solar panels on every house, etc.), that it was just a matter of having the will to do it.
You first, buddy!
And the fellow guest Joan Walsh complimented him on his successful campaign to kill the Keystone Pipeline. So this freak has sway with the Obama admin.
Bob M.
July 8th, 2012
“I think I screwed up”
The mea culpa EVERY liberal should be forced to confess, before wasting any MORE of the precious oxygen of the United States of America!
Frosteetoes
July 8th, 2012
Sometimes you just want to say “Leave me the f*ck alone.”
Summer weather is hot, always has been. Grow food. Preserve some for when food can’t be grown.
We’ve lost common sense in the last 100 years.