surely it would be more environmentally friendly to NOT attend, we would all emit less co2 if we stayed home and didn't drive anywhere. I'm torn.

Neill said...

surely it would be more environmentally friendly to NOT attend, we would all emit less co2 if we stayed home and didn't drive anywhere. I'm torn.

Put it this way... if you don't drive to this event then you're probably on you're way (driving) somewhere else, or at home sucking energy through your air conditioner. This is about choosing to put your hand up and say, I recognize that our way of life is unsustainable and I want to be a part of changing it.

As Mr Float said though, if you can choose a better way of getting there than please do. And there are events being held all across Australia, so get on your bike Neill!!

Yewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Should be epic.

kitethrills said...

Yeah the point of this is to make a bigger change than is possible individually. Change all the light bulbs you want, switch off your appliances, drive a Prius, - It wont do didly squat unless the governments of the world make similar efforts. Let them know you want them to do it. Turn up, fly your kite, get in the media and put public pressure on them to get real at Copenhagen.

Kitethrills is putting on a BBQ sausage sizzle up at 2:30 - 3PM at Pt Cartwright Drive and Pacific Boulevard - (S-Bends access). All welcome to come together and share a sanga banga on us..

Please tell your friends. This is just one of over 150 similar actions from a variety of communities around the country and one of more than 2000 actions in over 140 nations - the 24th October will be the biggest day of climate action ever.

Come along - put your kite up between Pt Cartwright and Kawana Surf Club at 2PM. Photos will be in the papers, tv and on the big screens at Copenhagen and New York UN offices.

I hope that is a fart powered methane BBQ

This is event is now one of over 3700 other similar rallies around the world in 162 nations.

Its truely global. So please help us put the pressure on the politicians. Neither the Governments or the oppositions proposed ETS's do enough. They're all talking about not losing jobs - its crazy.

Australia needs to shift its economy to low carbon consumption. what jobs are lost in coal industries will be saved in tourism, generated in new clean power projects x10. The cost of the change and transition to new power is tiny compared to the cost of drought, wild fire, flood, barrier reef death, refugee resettlement etc etc.

Politicians will do nothing if they think thy can get away with it. Help us pressure them. Come to Point Cartwright and fly your kite, show you care, have a fun day, and send your message.

This is an issue that should be close to the heart of all of us wind-powered waterpeople! Climate change is affecting our oceans. Globally this is going to attract attention, go on throw your support behind it if you can get there.

ezza said...

This is an issue that should be close to the heart of all of us wind-powered waterpeople! Climate change is affecting our oceans. Globally this is going to attract attention, go on throw your support behind it if you can get there.

why ? When the waters rise i won't have as far to go to get to the beach and the fat cat wankers (whose practices and greed probably caused global warming)who lived on the pre global warming foreshore will be flooded.My house on the hill will have nice water views too,maybe the wind will get stronger ,more mad weather events to ride in big swell and mad winds. bwa ha ha ha ha

Haa ha ha Mr Floater you're so selfish wanting water views. So who are the fat cat wankers causing global warming? Aussies produce more CO2 per person than any other nation. Ouch! We are also the fattest nation in the world - Ouch! Also I think there's some data somwhere that claims Aussies hit a hell of alot of porn sites per capita - so maybe we are bad ass wankers as well? Shame Shame Shame.

As for no wind events on the east coast - I clearly remember running the Perth Round of the Aussie Kitesurf Tour at Scarborough in mid January - with not a breath of wind for days.

So maybe its not the east coast - maybe its just me.

Anyway - the forecast is looking up now - more north and more wind. Those of us with Ozone Zephyrs will be able to get out for some fun

Im gonna bring up all my 2nd hand kites (about 15) - we're gona lay them out in the sand and make a huge 350 to tie it all together. so if anyone has a spare hour from like 12:30, and a few spare kites, please bring them along and lend a hand.

See y'all at Kawana.

i can't believe people still buy this co2 human responsible climate change rubbish...

.. those that sold us the so called problem are now selling us the so called solution

... bahhh sheep bahhh, its for a good cause bahhh bahhh

.... stupid sheep

theDoctor said...



i can't believe people still buy this co2 human responsible climate change rubbish...

.. those that sold us the so called problem are now selling us the so called solution

... bahhh sheep bahhh, its for a good cause bahhh bahhh

.... stupid sheep

amen

climate change is a crock of ****

theDoctor said...



i can't believe people still buy this co2 human responsible climate change rubbish...

.. those that sold us the so called problem are now selling us the so called solution

... bahhh sheep bahhh, its for a good cause bahhh bahhh

.... stupid sheep

It is my full and honest opinion that in 50 years, this whole "climate change" drama will be number 1 on Bert Newton's "20 to 1 biggest global swindles" right after the Y2k bug, peak oil, SARS, bird flu, swine flu, etc...

And yes, Bert will probably still be alive too..

I think they should concentrate on trying to predict tomorrow's weather before trying to predict what will happen in 20 years time.

While on the topic, i don't understand this trend of "lets do something i enjoy doing, and then say it's for a good cause". Whats wrong with "Kiting for fun on the Sunny Coast"?

I came and kited - now I want my beer!!!!

Only saw about 8-10 kites doing the run?? Did I get the day wrong!

they are called sheeple guys ,,

mattyjee said...

theDoctor said...



i can't believe people still buy this co2 human responsible climate change rubbish...

.. those that sold us the so called problem are now selling us the so called solution

... bahhh sheep bahhh, its for a good cause bahhh bahhh

.... stupid sheep

It is my full and honest opinion that in 50 years, this whole "climate change" drama will be number 1 on Bert Newton's "20 to 1 biggest global swindles" right after the Y2k bug, peak oil, SARS, bird flu, swine flu, etc...

And yes, Bert will probably still be alive too..

I think they should concentrate on trying to predict tomorrow's weather before trying to predict what will happen in 20 years time.

While on the topic, i don't understand this trend of "lets do something i enjoy doing, and then say it's for a good cause". Whats wrong with "Kiting for fun on the Sunny Coast"?

Thanks Mike

We set up downwind a bit and thought the beers were at the shop!
Just kidding, thought it would be crowded so we spread out a bit....

Planet stuff, well I was there for a kite first, event second but I believe the answer is simple, too many people. Limit population growth imho. One or two kids per couple and limit parenting to people who can afford to do it and who aren't a long way down the genome tree....as above.

CLIMATE BOMBSHELL: Hacker leaks thousands of emails showing conspiracy to “hide” the real data on manmade climate change

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Friday, November 20, 2009

A hacker has leaked thousands of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University that appear to show how climate change data was fudged and the peer review process skewed to favor the manmade climate change hypothesis.

The link to the data appears to have been posted to a number of climate science websites yesterday by an anonymous hacker or insider going by the name “FOIA,” an apparent allusion to the Freedom of Information Act in the United States. One of the first sites where the 62 MB file was posted was The Air Vent. It was soon picked up by Watts Up With That, Climate Audit and other climate science sites.

The information contained in the leaked emails and documents are as shocking as they are damning of the scientists who have been most vocal about the manmade global warming scare. Some of the excerpts include this email, purportedly from Phil Jones to researchers including Michael Mann of “Mann’s hockey stick” fame:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxxxxxx,mhughes@xxxxxxx, mhughes@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxxxxx,t.osborn@xxxxxxxxxDear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

And this excerpt in which researchers appear to discuss ways to discredit James Saiers of the Geophysical Research Letters journal because he seems to be sympathetic to climate realists:
M,

This is truly awful. GRL has gone downhill rapidly in recent years.

I think the decline began before Saiers. I have had some unhelpful dealings with him recently with regard to a paper Sarah and I have on glaciers -- it was well received by the referees, and so is in the publication pipeline. However, I got the impression that Saiers was trying to keep it from being published.

Proving bad behavior here is very difficult. If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. Even this would be difficult.

How different is the GRL paper from the Nature paper? Did the authors counter any of the criticisms? My experience with Douglass is that the identical (bar format changes) paper to one previously rejected was submitted to GRL.

T.

According to Investigate magazine out of Australia, Dr. Phil Jones has now confirmed that these emails do appear to be real.

The importance of this information will not be lost on The Corbett Report’s audience, as a recent interview I conducted with Tim Ball discussed the very issue of the Climate Research Unit and Phil Jones’ intense secrecy regarding their data: