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Climate change protesters bring their best argument to Jeremy Clarkson’s front drive [via the BBC].
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POWER!!
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Clarkson rules. If he was as bad as everyone says he is he’d have had these lovely (??) ladies arrested.
I think he has a sense of humor, anyway.
I don’t get the sign they have. What does “You’re Landing Us In” refer to?
The eco-maniacs are saying that Clarkson is landing us in some deep shiznit with respect to climate change. They’re thinking (wrongly) that Cars are the major driving force behing global warming/pollution/etc.
As far as I am aware, that dubious honor goes to the 2 stroke diesel transcontinental shipping vessels and industrial manufacturing exhausts. New cars are clean enough that they’re a comparative drop in the bucket.
People like this are the Environmental version of PETA. Same crazy, different subject.
Clarkson is probably the most visible and influential climate change denier (sorry…doubter) out there. Even more so than Inhofe. That is why he was targeted by the protesters, nothwithstanding the relative contribution of cars to CO2 emissions.
I wouldn’t call a pile of shit environmentalists’ best argument, but it is definitely in the running for Clarkson’s best rebuttal.
As usual, attention whoring goes hand in hand with silly wording, as “blasé about his CO2 and how much he’s contributing to climate change emissions”.
I’ll bet that Al Gore’s CO2 footprint is way higher than Clarkson’s.
OOOKay ladies, During the period when horse puckey was a problem and bustled skirts ala mode, the London fog was largely soft coal smoke. Life for the average Londoner was still short, hard and brutish.
CO2 amd global warming may be bad, but there are way worse things in the past. Progress is the way out, not regression.
herb – yep you can get the same type of attention if you organize a tax “tea party”. The media loves it.
Are any of the human inhabitants pictured guiltless in the erosion of the Earth’s biosphere?
@carguy, the media does love it – or – where they there by sheer coincidence.
Also, Al Gore’s carbon footprint definitely surpasses that of Clarkson. Jet setting has its CO2 output.
Well these critical thinkers have just handed their ideological opponents all the justification they need to ignore the claims of the environmental movement. Why should anyone bother engaging into a rational debate with people whose idea of a well-formed argument is dumping a pile of crap on the driveways of those with whom they disagree? Way to present your cause as credible and reasonable, ladies.
Give it another week and they’ll link climate change with racism.
Car are not the No.1 producer of Co2 production on the planet: Fact.
Factories and power stations and ships and planes and cattle/livestock are responsible for much much much more Co2. Yet cars and car owners are always singled out by environmentalists and left wing governments as ‘sinners’.
So hats off to Mr Clarkson for being the voice of the sensible few and ya-boo-sucks to the ladies and their piles of poo. Go dump your poo on a dockside – or at an airport – or a factory – or take it back to the cow that made it.
OH, OH, I know what’s wrong! They ended the sentence in a preposition!
What do I win?
When I looked at the picture, I thought it might be some Poles dressed in colorful native costume, at the entrance to an American consulate with a message for Barack…..
I thought that the internal combustion engine rescued us all from piles of animal manure on the pavement. I have seen my cars pee some fluid on the ground from time to time, but I have never caught one of them generating manure. (Some have slowly turned INTO something like manure, but this is another topic.) (And yes, I mean YOU, 77 New Yorker with Lean Burn, in the unlikely event that you are still alive and costing somebody money somewhere.)
For some reason, global warming has made people convinced that they are as smart and as well-educated and trained as scientists. I hear people who honestly don’t know anything about climate, and would barely even be able to define it for you, go on rants about what they believe is or is not contributing to climate change.
Please, if you don’t know what you’re talking about, and can’t even understand the basic physics involved, STFU. Your opinion is worthless.
Case in point: Clarkson. Doesn’t know a god damned thing about exactly how our environment functions, yet feels completely okay in making grand announcements that go against 99% of trained scientists’ evaluations.
carguy: “herb – yep you can get the same type of attention if you organize a tax “tea party”. The media loves it.”
Wrong. Most big media has done its best to ignore the tea party movement. A rally in DC brought something like a half-million to the Capitol, but the story was largely buried by the MSM. Those six ditzy zealots, however, drew “three camera crews and a few members of the press”.
But there are two good things about this stunt. I learned from the BBC story that the Thames Valley Police is a real agency, not just imagined for the Inspector Morse mysteries. And I envisioned a Monty Python medieval street scene with a cart drawn by a weary horse, accompanied by Suffragettes crying “Bring out your manure!”
For some reason, global warming has made people convinced that they are as smart and as well-educated and trained as scientists. I hear people who honestly don’t know anything about climate, and would barely even be able to define it for you, go on rants about what they believe is or is not contributing to climate change.
That’s true, but some of those people are people who are taking the pro-global warming side and then make ridiculous claims about the pace of global warming that inevitably don’t come true, and then are used by opponents to discredit the whole thing.
A lot of scientists turn a blind eye to this or even exaggerate themselves, feeling that it’s excusable since the public isn’t suitably invested in the issue yet. A noble lie.
The Arctic sea ice extent has been on a long term downward linear path; 2007 was a minimum, while 2008 and 2009 are each larger, but at or below the long term thirty year declining trend. But when alarmist people jump up and down about it being “ice free” this year, when none of the real scientists who study it predicted so (though they did predict that it would decline more than it has), it discredits the concept when it doesn’t happen.
@ Johnny Canada
Re: climate change/racism – It’s easy.
You know where it gets the hottest on earth? Where non-whites are the majority. Climate change will make it even hotter. You know who makes jokes about climate change? White people in now-cold climates. Climate change is inherently racist.
I recently returned from a long weekend on Mackinac Island, where cars (and other internal combustion engines) have been banned since the late 1800s. Having grown up around stables and horses, I thought it was delightful to see all the road apples that people stepped in. I also loved the wonderful fragrance in the air.
Truly, a return to a life more in tune with nature would be better. Once the first cold snap hits and kills off the idiots, I’ll live like a king!
What the hell does Clarkson have to do with harming the environment? The show constantly mentions environmental impact of reviewed cars, and he cracks jokes at the other host’s expense when they clearly consider it important. It’s called entertainment.
For some reason, global warming has made people convinced that they are as smart and as well-educated and trained as scientists. I hear people who honestly don’t know anything about climate, and would barely even be able to define it for you, go on rants about what they believe is or is not contributing to climate change.
Just like the “well educated and trained” scientists in the late 70’s that that said Global Cooling was man made. How did that turn out again?
^^ They didn’t have decent computers with which to make models of climate change over time with? Think about PCs in the 1970s, yes I know the IBM juggernaut didn’t arrive until 81 but think about what was available?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware_%281960s%E2%80%93present%29#Microprocessors
Looks to me like the supercomputers of the 70s are bested by a 1st generation pentium or thereabouts.
This is funny, too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1#Comparison_with_modern_PC-processors
a 2007 PC is 130 (!) times faster than a Cray-1
What they had was stuff at about a single Megahertz. A single desktop PC today, and for some time, has been able to best the supercomputers of the day in the 70s
You need computers to do climate modelling, this isn’t pen and paper stuff.
Did anyone else think of the Cow Poo Power segment on Top Gear?
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/12/Cow-Poo-Power-Top-Gear-415222.html
I think it would be really funny if Jeremy Clarkson converted protest manure into methane fuel for an internal combustion engine.
You need computers to do climate modelling, this isn’t pen and paper stuff.
Twenty years from now people will be joking about how inadequate our current high tech computers were.
The problem with climate modeling is the information is only as good as the people, their understanding of the data and the accuracy of the data being put in. Scientists can only include what they understand when making models and they still don’t know all the inter-working relationships that effect climate. They can barely predict the weather for a 24 hour period let alone for the next 5-50 years.
Eh, I’m just saying that more powerful systems allow you to simulate more variables at once.
Maybe I’m barking mad, but I’d think this would produce a more accurate model over time. (??)
WHy reward him for free manure, conveniently dumped on his lawn? I would understand it if they dumped it on his priceless persian rug, that would be punishment, but this?
If I were Clarkson, I’d ask my gardener to take full advantage of the free gift and send them a thank you note!
courageous shoppers with no place to bury their dead
So global warming alarmists are so full of shit it’s spilling into people’s driveways?
I’d like to see a group of people try that on MY property. Decomposition aside, I would lower their lifetime carbon output to zero. I’d even recycle the bullet casings in their memory. That’s what I call progress!
The global cooling thing is a myth – it wasn’t in peer-reviewed journals at the time; it was largely speculation, some of it from sci-fi writers, even (not climate scientists).