Members of apocalyptic cults always are certain in the superiority of their wisdom over that of ordinary people who cannot grasp that the end is near!
Their frustration over the failure of others to share their sense of doom often leads them to engage in acts that strike nonbelievers as comical.
The lone fanatic walking the streets with a sign or sandwich board proclaiming “the end is near” has been a staple of mockery for generations.
But when you combine pseudo-science with the human impulse to believe that doom for all attends behavior that one objects to in the age of memes, sometimes the doomsters accidentally mock themselves.
Such was the case a few days ago in Australia when about 150 doomsday cultists titling themselves the “Extinction Rebellion” staged a demonstration at Sydney’s Manly Beach.
Believing themselves to be mocking those who refuse to accept their conviction that the computer models predicting escalating temperatures tied to a rise in the atmospheric trace gas CO2 are infallible, a group of protesters buried their heads in the sand.
Of course, this is the very cause that demands that skeptics be declared “deniers” and refuses to follow the scientific method, which holds all knowledge subject to challenge by data, with the nonsensical claim that science is determined by “consensus.”
Burying one’s head in the sand by refusing to hear contradictory data.
Writing in The Australian Daily Telegraph (paywalled), Alan Jones noticed their unintentional hilarity:
There were 150 of them, singing and chanting about the death of mother Earth. What an appropriate metaphor, heads buried in the sand.
Of equivalent significance was a comment by one: “A lot of our group have become middle-class white people who are quite privileged. To be honest, activism is a privilege.”
Jones goes on the catalogue just a few of the doomsday predictions purportedly based on science that have produced the doom so feverishly anticipated:
Remember in March 1998, scientists declared, if we believe in scientists, that a two-kilometre wide asteroid called 997XF11 was on a near-collision course with the Earth. [emphasis in original]
That’s what the scientists told us.
We later found that the asteroid missed the Earth by at least a million kilometres.
Remember Halley’s comet. The scientists told us it was going to clean us out. In the end you needed high-powered binoculars to even see it.
Remember during the Gulf War we were told we were going to run out of oil, so everyone raced for LPG.
Remember Y2K, the year 2000.
If you had a computer you were made to panic. The scientists told us.
So, we have “privileged” people burying their heads in the sand to demonstrate what the unprivileged refuse to see by being open to counterarguments and the scientific method.
Someone has no sense of perspective…and no sense of humor, either.
Read more at American Thinker
Put these idiots to work cleaning up after one of their idiotic protests lets see them show some responsibility for their acts of stupidity like gluing yourself to the top of a Airliner
Kick em in the ass.. they won’t see it coming
Having watched a few clips and news reports, I think it’s safe to say they weird, mentally dysfunctional fruit loops wanting attention. We and they know it is not about the weather but control, wealth redistribution and one work government. There are powerful people who want to run the world without being elected.
Ignorants, don’t they know the weather has been manipulated since the 50’s by technologies such as Haarp and Chemtrails? Here are some facts: “1976 UN Weather Weapons Treaty” – most scientists actually disagree with the physical science of climate change: “1992 Heidelberg Appeal” + “Leipzig Declaration” + “Oregon Petition”. Haven’t they had biology lessons in school, and learned a process called ‘photosynthesis’, meaning, CO2 is beneficial to nature cos trees and plants need CO2 to breath and live. But to be more specific, you save these quotes:
Senator Claiborne Pell, Senate Intelligence Committee USA/USSR, 1978:
– “Now that we control the weather, create earthquakes and tidal waves and, use it as a weapon of war, we do not need a treaty.”
William Cohen, former secretary of defense of the Clinton Administration, “Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Strategy”, 1977:
– “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set of earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves…so there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts [counter-terrorism].”
Zbigniew Brzezinsky, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, quoted by Chossudovsky, “The Elephant in the Room at Copenhagen: Washington’s New World Order Weapons Have the ability to trigger climate change”:
– “The emerging techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.”
James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defence informing ‘the Pell Committee”, 1974:
– “There is reason to argue for the use of localized weather modification where possible, as a humane replacement for modern weaponry.” – (so instead of killing people with weapons, freak ‘natural disasters’ are created)
United Nations, “Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques”, Convention May 1977, Geneva, Article 2:
– “It is the understanding of the Committee that the following examples are illustrative of phenomena that could be caused by the use of environmental modification techniques as defined in Article II of the Convention: earthquakes, tsunamis; an upset in the ecological balance of a region; changes in weather patterns (clouds, precipitation, cyclones of various types and tornadic storms); changes in climate patterns; changes in ocean currents; changes in the state of the ozone layer and changes in the state of the ionosphere.” – (so here we see that it’s not our CO2 emissions which are damaging the ozone layer – it’s chemtrails and Haarp)
– “The term ‘environmental modification techniques’ refer to any technique for changing – through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes – the dynamics, composition or structure of the earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.”
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, economist, “The Elephant in the Room at Copenhagen: Washington’s New World Order Weapons Have the ability to trigger climate change:
-”The US Air Force has the capability of manipulating climate either for testing purposes or for outright military-intelligence use. These capabilities extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes. In recent years, large amounts of money have been allocated by the US Department of Defense to further developing these capabilities. Ironically, the Pentagon, while recognizing its ability to modify the world’s climate for military use, has joined the global warming consensus.”
US Air Force Document, “AF 2025 Final Report”:
– “Weather modification offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary and, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes. Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally…It could have defensive and offensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth to modify space weather,…and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in us, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach and power.”
International Committee of the Red Cross, “Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons”, Lucerne, Geneva, 18th October, 1974:
– “The expert who put forward the subject of geophysical warfare for consideration stated that it included such activities as the modification of weather or climate and the causing of earthquakes. He stated that man already possessed the ability to bring about on a limited scale certain geophysical changes for which military applications were conceivable. In his view these would inevitable be indiscriminate, and could give rise to unforeseeable environmental changes of prolonged duration.”
Somewhere else, their heads are sticking out of the Earth, staring across the ocean. Easter Island?
That’s where all those heads on Easter Island came from!
Holy Ostriches Batman these Just Stinks Rebellion lose nuts are even more crazy then we thought they were when will they bring the nets for them?
That’s a start! Now if we could only bury the rest of their bodies as well.
And let high tide roll in…