Davidson and 60 of his classmates drove 26 hours up from New Orleans to attend the March, and after it’s over, they’ll hop right back on the road and drive 26 hours again in order to make it to class on Tuesday.
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Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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An empty gesture to address a non-existent problem.
You are witnessing the effectiveness of the propaganda artist that really won WWII and then formed the UN to expand his totalitarian control of the old USSR:
http://orach24463.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/the-peoples-climate-march-is-not-about-saving-the-planet-it-is-about-power-to-the-elite-not-the-people/
and on the war the discussed cognitive dissonance.
“way” not “war.”
Each protester thinks they are on a holy crusade but are actually modern day Don Quixote, P T Barnum must be smiling
This is the intelligence level exemplified by a kid:
“They can make things run just by the wind,” said 9-year-old Danny Haemmerle, who dressed up as the yellow fruit to attend the march with his family. “And my parents don’t have to pay as much,” added his brother Eddie Haemmerle, 11, sporting a lime green wig.
“Yellow fruit” almost triggered an inappropriate response on my part.
Bad thought, bad thought…
Global warming has been on “pause” for 15 years, according to scientists with the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office.
In a set of three new reports, researchers believe that global average temperatures have not risen as fast as predicted, but it’s only a short-term anomaly that won’t greatly affect future forecasts.
Global average temperatures remain higher than they’ve ever been since modern records were kept but after a period of rapid increase in the 1980’s and 90’s, there’s been a dramatic delay.
The reason for the pause is that the oceans absorbed greater amounts of heat, which prevented people from noticing the difference at surface level.
The Earth has been absorbing energy at a rate of 0.6 Watts per square metre – that’s equivalent to 300 billion 1KW clothing irons being spread around the world.
But during the slow down, that number fell to 0.48 Watts per square metre.
Other factors that could have helped ease the rise include an increase in volcanic eruptions around the world and a slow down in solar activity.
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Climate scientists with the MET Office are keen to stress that despite the findings, 12 of the 14 hottest years on record have been recorded since 2000.
Oceans have masked the rise because increased current circulation has allowed for more heat to be carried to deeper depths.
Between 1998 and 2012, the average rate of warming was just 0.04 degrees Celsius per decade, compared with 0.17C per decade from 1970-1998.
Long-term projections do show periods of slowing but they don’t exactly match current conditions.
Models show that a rise of 2C above pre-industrial temperatures is expected in the next 50 years, the current slow down will delay that rise by five to ten years.
The above is BS….just not used to commenting here. Please forgive me.
The above what Hermy?
Maybe you meant to post at RealClimate not RealScience?
Hilarious.
That’s a heck of a long drive just to dump litter.
https://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/image_thumb81.png?w=244&h=183
Unbelievable:
“Carbon pollution directly results in asthma, heart disease, and cancer,” said Dr. Steve Auerbach, a New York pediatrician who also marched in his lab coat. “
Assholes, all.
http://kaching.tumblr.com/image/98107245851
Unintended consequences: they reported the length of the drive to illustrate their devotion to the cause, ironically highlighting their hypocrisy.
Come on. It says he drove up with 60 of his classmates, which is car pooling to the extreme. I hope they didn’t try that in a VW bug, though. World record is 21 in a bug.
If they actually car pooled that is ~4 per car or 15 cars. Figuring ~24 mpg (USA fleet avg)
That is 1303 Miles X2 or 1630 gallons of gas. AAA reports gas price ~$3.54 so this bunch of asses spent about $5770 on fuel to get to NYC and back.
The drive time is 19 hours and these wimps took 26 hours. So I doubt there were as many as four per vehicle. I have driven all over the USA with a bunch of other cavers. We only stopped for potty breaks and maybe food if I didn’t pack a picnic basket.
Don’t forget, one gallon of gasoline produces 20 pounds of CO2, so 1630 gallons of gasoline produced 32,600 pounds of CO2.
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/contentIncludes/co2_inc.htm
Gotta love that brilliant chemistry. I see that our ever repressive federal laws, rules and regulations have created engines that convert every single carbon atom in blended gasoline into CO2. What a miracle! No more carbon monoxide, no more other hydrocarbons or aldehydes or other complex organic compounds containing carbon. I didn’t realize that CAFE edicts were so effective.
That was the Arianna Huffington brigade.
The stupid…it burns.
And how, can a bunch of college students afford such a trip?
A) Daddy?
B) Using student loan/financial aid money for non-academic purposes?
C) Getting paid to ‘volunteer’?
D) All of the above?
Yeah, That is why I ran through the math to the $$$$ It is about $100 a head in gas not including the food, hotel (NYC is NOT CHEAP ~$200/day @ the cheapest) and camping out in central park gets you dead or in prison. Heck you can not even stay in a rest area for more than an hour in that neck of the woods.
That little trip is going to cost them ~ $1000/person. Given 60 went, I would not be surprised if someone footed the bill and bussed those kids from New Orleans to NYC. After all someone was paying $10/hour to the protesters at Seabrook Nuclear plant back in the early 80’s. (Boston Globe Help Wanted Ad.)
And our hero boy Davidson has already lined up a government job when he graduates. Sheep
Reminds me of a time I saw an animal rights activist at a university primate research center, shove a police officer, get whacked by a baton, shout police brutality and demand an ambulance due to injury. Doesn’t he know that 90% of the stuff on that ambulance has been tested on those primates he’s wanting to free? How about driving from New Orleans and increasing your carbon footprint to protest how humans are destroying the planet by driving? Then leaving your garbage behind to fill some hole somewhere? idiots all…