“Environmentalists”

The upper-crust halfwits of Just Stop Oil are causing misery to ordinary people.

Reading about Cressida Gethin, the latest Just Stop Oil protester to be convicted of causing a nuisance, I found myself thinking of the strange days when British débutantes, young women making their first appearance in upper-class society, used to curtsey to a cake. I also thought of their other odd rituals, such as the parlour game, ‘Are You There, Moriarty?’, as splendidly showcased recently in Netflix’s One Day. Such customs appear perfectly reasonable to the ruling class, while utterly insane to the rest of us.

Watching the news, you get the sense that climate change is making the planet unlivable. We are bombarded with images of floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. We see deadly events nearby but also far-flung disasters when the pictures are scary enough.

Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux against an oil drilling project; 24 hours earlier the 21-year-old Swede was further east, adding her voice to those activists opposed to the construction of a new stretch of motorway between Toulouse and Castres. ‘We are here in solidarity with those who are resisting this project and this madness’, said Thunberg in English, her now familiar keffiyeh round her neck.

Some French media described Thunberg as an ‘anti-global warming icon’ and the ‘figurehead in the fight to protect the planet’. She might have been once.

Climate campaigners now accept they have to get the public onside more so than polarise them

On Tuesday morning, Jess Knowles carried her 20-month-old son Rico out of her terraced Victorian home in southwest London in a mad rush, conscious that she probably could not waste a minute if she was to make it on time to her child’s hospital appointment.

The stay-at-home mum was greeted by a disastrous sight after she walked over to the driver’s side of her black Jeep Night Eagle, a sports utility vehicle (SUV) that she uses through her disabled father’s mobility allowance — two deflated tyres.

SACRAMENTO — California’s environmental-friendly lawmakers were quite proud of themselves when, in 2014, they passed a first-in-the-nation ban on stores from handing out so-called single-use plastic bags as a means to turn back the tide, so to speak, on an ocean-pollution “crisis” that was threatening marine wildlife and supposedly turning our beaches into waste dumps.

‘We are here in solidarity with those who are resisting this project,’ said Thunberg with her now familiar keffiyeh around her neck

Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux against an oil drilling project; twenty-four hours earlier the twenty-one-year-old Swede was further east, adding her voice to those activists opposed to the construction of a new stretch of motorway between Toulouse and Castres. “We are here in solidarity with those who are resisting this project and this madness,” said Thunberg in English, her now familiar keffiyeh around her neck.

Some French media described Thunberg as an “anti-global warming icon” and the “figurehead in the fight to protect the planet.” She might have been once.

The fossil gallery at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa is temporarily closed after some specimens got caught in the splash-back of pink paint sprayed by an activist at a replica dinosaur skeleton.

Climate protester sprays paint on dinosaurs at Nature Museum of Canada
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The stylized red car splashed against a black background certainly looks threatening. The question posed on posters lining the streets of the French capital ahead of a referendum on Sunday is rhetorical: “Do you want more SUVs on the streets of Paris or fewer?”

Mayor Anne Hidalgo is hoping the 1.3 million Parisians entitled to vote will opt for the latter choice. “The bigger, the more environmentally damaging” is how the center-left politician sums up her views on cars. It’s around this stance, and others, that she has been radically remodeling Paris in recent years.

You can bet this is on Chowtown’s agenda.

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was given a “final warning” by police before she was arrested for a public order offence, a court has heard.

The 21-year-old was arrested during a demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair on 17 October.

Oil executives had been meeting inside for the Energy Intelligence Forum.

Ms Thunberg appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday after previously denying breaching the Public Order Act 1986.

A scientist who believed humans would die from the climate crisis has made a U-turn and now believes the issue may have been overblown.

Hannah Ritchie, a data scientist at the University of Oxford, claims that doomsday warnings of floods, widespread famine and deaths from disasters are overshadowing the progress that has been quietly made in recent years.

She pointed out how emissions per person peaked in 2012 and remained the same since, along with the notion that organic food is not more climate-friendly and that the dreaded 2.7F of warming is not a tipping point into oblivion.

As the International Court of Justice in The Hague prepared to announce its verdict on South Africa’s charge of Israel committing genocide on Jan. 26, Greta Thunberg posted a photo of herself with a keffiyeh wrapped around her neck and holding a sign stating “Palestine will be free.”

The 21-year-old, left-wing Swedish activist, who rose to fame calling attention to climate change, wrote on social media that “we cannot remain silent during a genocide.”

Climate activists just saved the planet. They threw soup on the Mona Lisa. pic.twitter.com/xAtTf0Z9vY

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 28, 2024

h/t Mauser

HALIFAX – A 22-year-old Nova Scotia man has been charged with allegedly lighting a fire last May that grew to become one of the largest wildfires in the province’s history.

The Barrington Lake fire southwest of Shelburne, N.S., was ignited on May 26, 2023, and burned 23,000 hectares before it was brought under control on June 13 and extinguished more than a month later amid heavy rain. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 6,000 people and destroyed 60 homes and cottages, as well as 150 other structures.