The Climate March To Nowhere

[Stephanie]

Sums it up fairly nicely. some of them are trying to RELIVE the 60's but of all dumb things to pick, our CLIMATE. good lord save us from these idiots

SNIP:
Manhattan hosts a symbolic protest against a complex phenomenon we don’t control.
By Rich Lowry

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Everywhere a sign. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)


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Rich Lowry
Anti-climate-change marchers took to the streets of Manhattan in the hundreds of thousands over the weekend to demand international action to fight global warming.

The throng would have better advised to parade in downtown Beijing, assuming the Politburo wouldn’t have called out the infantry.

China is the locus of the alleged crime against the planet that is carbon emissions, yet the marchers staged their event in the United States, where prior to last year emissions had been declining (thanks, in part, to the natural-gas revolution, which oddly didn’t get much love from the climate marchers).

China is responsible for 27 percent of carbon emissions, more than any other country, and uses as much coal as the rest of the world. Since 1990, it has matched the U.S. in cumulative carbon emissions. China is representative of a developing world that is taking the global lead on emissions, at nearly 60 percent of the total.

There are many things we should be attempting to persuade China to stop doing: Arbitrarily ruling over its own people. Imprisoning and torturing dissidents. Occupying Tibet. Making aggressive territorial claims in its region.

Compared with all of these, availing itself of the wonders of the industrial economy is welcome. And if we can’t stop China from doing these other things — self-evidently violations of human rights or international norms — how are we going to keep it from continuing to ramp up its economic growth, as any rational society would?

The answer is that we almost certainly aren’t. Anti-global-warming activism consists of symbolic protests against a highly complex planetary phenomenon we understand poorly and don’t control.

The unpredicted pause in the rise in global temperature since the late 1990s is so embarrassing to climate activists, who are filled with a fiery certitude about the “science,” that it goes unmentioned (the climate marchers could have chanted, “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Where did climate change go?”). In their fevered urgency, they give off the sense that they are desperate to save the planet before it might become evident that it doesn’t need saving.
Our direct influence on global warming is highly limited, even if you assume the science is completely settled. As a country, we could end our emissions entirely, and it would barely cause a blip in the cumulative carbon buildup in the atmosphere.
There are causes to which the climate marchers could devote themselves that would have an immediate positive effect on human welfare: from promoting clean water in the Third World to agitating for cures to all manner of diseases. None of this, though, is as alluring as anti-industrial apocalypticism.


As writer Oren Cass has noted, today’s climate activists resemble the unilateral nuclear-disarmament movement of the 1980s, which also cloaked “plainly ineffectual policies in the language of moral necessity.” We could have eliminated all of our nuclear weapons — as we were urged to do by protesters who insisted it was necessary to saving the planet — and it wouldn’t have moved the Soviets to do the same; in fact, it would have delighted them.

ALL of it here:
The Climate March to Nowhere National Review Online

 

[Discombobulated]

In other words: You don't know any science at all. None.

 

[Old Rocks]

So Lowry is as dumb a fuck as you are, Staph. What else is new. Sounds to me that the people that did this march know how to "roll". Maybe you need to join them, so you could get more than a few tens of people to "roll".

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Sums it up fairly nicely. some of them are trying to RELIVE the 60's but of all dumb things to pick, our CLIMATE. good lord save us from these idiots

SNIP:
Manhattan hosts a symbolic protest against a complex phenomenon we don’t control.
By Rich Lowry

• 
  
  

Everywhere a sign. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)


Comments
57

​

Rich Lowry
Anti-climate-change marchers took to the streets of Manhattan in the hundreds of thousands over the weekend to demand international action to fight global warming.

The throng would have better advised to parade in downtown Beijing, assuming the Politburo wouldn’t have called out the infantry.

China is the locus of the alleged crime against the planet that is carbon emissions, yet the marchers staged their event in the United States, where prior to last year emissions had been declining (thanks, in part, to the natural-gas revolution, which oddly didn’t get much love from the climate marchers).

China is responsible for 27 percent of carbon emissions, more than any other country, and uses as much coal as the rest of the world. Since 1990, it has matched the U.S. in cumulative carbon emissions. China is representative of a developing world that is taking the global lead on emissions, at nearly 60 percent of the total.

There are many things we should be attempting to persuade China to stop doing: Arbitrarily ruling over its own people. Imprisoning and torturing dissidents. Occupying Tibet. Making aggressive territorial claims in its region.

Compared with all of these, availing itself of the wonders of the industrial economy is welcome. And if we can’t stop China from doing these other things — self-evidently violations of human rights or international norms — how are we going to keep it from continuing to ramp up its economic growth, as any rational society would?

The answer is that we almost certainly aren’t. Anti-global-warming activism consists of symbolic protests against a highly complex planetary phenomenon we understand poorly and don’t control.

The unpredicted pause in the rise in global temperature since the late 1990s is so embarrassing to climate activists, who are filled with a fiery certitude about the “science,” that it goes unmentioned (the climate marchers could have chanted, “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Where did climate change go?”). In their fevered urgency, they give off the sense that they are desperate to save the planet before it might become evident that it doesn’t need saving.
Our direct influence on global warming is highly limited, even if you assume the science is completely settled. As a country, we could end our emissions entirely, and it would barely cause a blip in the cumulative carbon buildup in the atmosphere.
There are causes to which the climate marchers could devote themselves that would have an immediate positive effect on human welfare: from promoting clean water in the Third World to agitating for cures to all manner of diseases. None of this, though, is as alluring as anti-industrial apocalypticism.


As writer Oren Cass has noted, today’s climate activists resemble the unilateral nuclear-disarmament movement of the 1980s, which also cloaked “plainly ineffectual policies in the language of moral necessity.” We could have eliminated all of our nuclear weapons — as we were urged to do by protesters who insisted it was necessary to saving the planet — and it wouldn’t have moved the Soviets to do the same; in fact, it would have delighted them.

ALL of it here:
The Climate March to Nowhere National Review Online

Ah, a blogger from a right wing publication. Of course, I didn't really expect anything more. Move on folks, nothing to see here.

 

[Mr. H.]

Did ya see how much stinkin' GARBAGE those morans left behind?

 

[Stephanie]

Did ya see how much stinkin' GARBAGE those morans left behind?

they're too good to pick up their own garbage. that's what they pay the garbage man for.
they're pigs and hypocrites all rolled into one

 

[TheOldSchool]

Oh brother look what conservatives are reduced to

Give me a break

The repository of blah blah blah

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Oh brother look what conservatives are reduced to

Give me a break

The repository of blah blah blah

Those marchers are the conservatives so I agree with your sarcasm.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Sums it up fairly nicely. some of them are trying to RELIVE the 60's but of all dumb things to pick, our CLIMATE. good lord save us from these idiots

SNIP:
Manhattan hosts a symbolic protest against a complex phenomenon we don’t control.
By Rich Lowry

• 
  
  

Everywhere a sign. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)


Comments
57

​

Rich Lowry
Anti-climate-change marchers took to the streets of Manhattan in the hundreds of thousands over the weekend to demand international action to fight global warming.

The throng would have better advised to parade in downtown Beijing, assuming the Politburo wouldn’t have called out the infantry.

China is the locus of the alleged crime against the planet that is carbon emissions, yet the marchers staged their event in the United States, where prior to last year emissions had been declining (thanks, in part, to the natural-gas revolution, which oddly didn’t get much love from the climate marchers).

China is responsible for 27 percent of carbon emissions, more than any other country, and uses as much coal as the rest of the world. Since 1990, it has matched the U.S. in cumulative carbon emissions. China is representative of a developing world that is taking the global lead on emissions, at nearly 60 percent of the total.

There are many things we should be attempting to persuade China to stop doing: Arbitrarily ruling over its own people. Imprisoning and torturing dissidents. Occupying Tibet. Making aggressive territorial claims in its region.

Compared with all of these, availing itself of the wonders of the industrial economy is welcome. And if we can’t stop China from doing these other things — self-evidently violations of human rights or international norms — how are we going to keep it from continuing to ramp up its economic growth, as any rational society would?

The answer is that we almost certainly aren’t. Anti-global-warming activism consists of symbolic protests against a highly complex planetary phenomenon we understand poorly and don’t control.

The unpredicted pause in the rise in global temperature since the late 1990s is so embarrassing to climate activists, who are filled with a fiery certitude about the “science,” that it goes unmentioned (the climate marchers could have chanted, “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Where did climate change go?”). In their fevered urgency, they give off the sense that they are desperate to save the planet before it might become evident that it doesn’t need saving.
Our direct influence on global warming is highly limited, even if you assume the science is completely settled. As a country, we could end our emissions entirely, and it would barely cause a blip in the cumulative carbon buildup in the atmosphere.
There are causes to which the climate marchers could devote themselves that would have an immediate positive effect on human welfare: from promoting clean water in the Third World to agitating for cures to all manner of diseases. None of this, though, is as alluring as anti-industrial apocalypticism.


As writer Oren Cass has noted, today’s climate activists resemble the unilateral nuclear-disarmament movement of the 1980s, which also cloaked “plainly ineffectual policies in the language of moral necessity.” We could have eliminated all of our nuclear weapons — as we were urged to do by protesters who insisted it was necessary to saving the planet — and it wouldn’t have moved the Soviets to do the same; in fact, it would have delighted them.

ALL of it here:
The Climate March to Nowhere National Review Online

Ah, a blogger from a right wing publication. Of course, I didn't really expect anything more. Move on folks, nothing to see here.

But you can't rebut his fact-based logic.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Oh brother look what conservatives are reduced to

Give me a break

The repository of blah blah blah

Those marchers are the conservatives so I agree with your sarcasm.

I was trying to pull a stephanie. What do you think did I pull it off?

I think my grammar might have been a little too good though

 

[Old Rocks]

You know, I'll bet if we were to push for a climate march on a certain date, worldwide, that we could get millions of people out, thousands even in Moscow and Bejing. You see, people are becoming aware of the changes in the weather and climate in all of the world's nations. I think an international march for the climate our grandchildren will have would be a good idea.

 

[Zander]

They are garbage.


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[Bush92]

Decaprio, Gore, a d other high profile Ecowarriors, went to airport in their SUVs and flew out of town. Shouldn't they have walked home and picked up garbage along the highways?

 

[Youch]

In other words: You don't know any science at all. None.

So Lowry is as dumb a fuck as you are, Staph. What else is new. Sounds to me that the people that did this march know how to "roll". Maybe you need to join them, so you could get more than a few tens of people to "roll".

Same old tired rag.....the left dismisses, fails to argue or acknowledge the point, then insults. It's all they got. They ignore the argument and the piles of garbage and the incoherent rants of the attendees of the "march."

News and commentary of the weak "march" and the piles of garbage that are typical of lefty protests, is interesting as it always underscores how weak their argument is.

They are a pathetic minority with a sympathetic media and government to blow their horn for them.

 

[Old Rocks]

You think that we are a minority? That was true yesterday. From here on in, as more people see what is happening in their own backyards, it will cease to be true. You silly assholes could not even get 100 for your American Spring. The people concerned about what we are leaving our grandchildren in the way of climate got nearly 400,000 in New York alone. I think that we should have a march in all the cities of the world on this matter.