‘Climate Emergency’: Activists Calling for Civil Disobedience Scale the Gates of Buckingham Palace
- Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:16pm by
Erica Ritz
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(The Blaze/AP) — Climate change activists scaled the gates at Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace home on Saturday, locking themselves to railings to demand more urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The group, from the Climate Siren environmentalist movement, wore T-shirts with the slogan “Climate emergency. 10 percent annual emission cuts” and chanted through a loud hailer.
London’s Metropolitan Police said the group had climbed up a gate at the front of the palace and secured themselves to it, sitting with their legs through the railings.
The protesters unfurled a banner quoting a 2008 speech by Prince Charles, the queen’s son and heir, warning over a lack of progress on tacking climate change. It read: “`The doomsday clock of climate change is ticking ever faster towards midnight.”
In a letter to the queen posted to the organization’s website, the activists claim they are carrying out the protest to draw attention to the stalled progress on environmental issues, while comparing the effort to WW2.
“We believe that our national security is at stake now, no less than it was during the dark days of the last Great War, albeit in a very different way. As you celebrate this year’s Jubilee you must find it impossible not to view with consternation the dark clouds that once again are gathering to threaten the future of this island, with which your name has been so closely associated these last sixty years,” the letter reads.
“These are the dark clouds of what looks increasingly likely to be a much greater global tragedy than the last World War.”
(Photo: AP)
Climate-Siren.com, the website listed on the group’s Twitter page, dramatically elaborates:
We are calling for a great effort of civil disobedience in the UK.
We are calling for this great effort of civil disobedience in order to demand urgent, concerted and meaningful action to tackle the unprecedented national and global emergency presented by the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate.
We have been watching with quiet anger and deep despair the relentless approach of an unprecedented tragedy.
Since the path of human history is so littered with pain, cruelty, catastrophe and tragic folly it is hard to imagine something yet more unspeakably vast in the sheer scale of human anguish that it will encompass. Yet we can see the spectre of such a monumental tragedy approaching with a clarity that increases almost as fast as the time we have left to prevent it slips away.
No amount of wishful thinking or double talk can obscure the fact that the science is brutally clear. Without a radical change of course we will see the deaths of billions of the world’s population before the century is out. It will simply be the biggest catastrophe ever in human history. Given the course we’re currently on, any outcome less calamitous is now clearly unrealistic even if the precise nature and ultimate scale of this oncoming catastrophe is impossible to predict.
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We are calling for a great effort of civil disobedience as a clarion call for urgency that will break the paralysing spell of apathy, creeping despair, ignorance, myopia and self-deluding make-believe. If there ever was a time when such an effort is needed it is now. If there ever was a time when such an effort was justified it is now.
(Photo: Twitter/Climate Sirens/Occupy London)
About 100 people stood at the scene, watching the protest, the Associated Press reports.
Siobhan Grimes, a 24-year-old from east London, said she agreed that there was a need for more urgency on green issues.
“Our politicians aren’t doing enough. We’re hoping to inspire people to wake up to the consequences of catastrophic climate change,” she said.
The queen was not at the palace Saturday, since she was attending a horse racing event in Ascot, southern England.
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Comments (93)
Doc Rosceaux
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:56pmFirst, where’s security to protect this place? Allowing these useless clowns to do this will only embolden them to be more aggressive and potentially disruptive and dangerous. Now, the real point is why aren’t these groups of idiots protesting in India, China, Russia and Brazil that actually pollute .. They are cowards and don’t have the cajones to address these countries, so they have their narcissistic, self inflated protests where in these free countries they can get away with it before they go to the coffee shops and compare their demonstration photos as though they are PIC trophies of something that they think is significant. Good grief, what a bunch of useless buffoons !!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 8:42pmThe Grounds are all Show if the Queen is at another Castle… because the Royal Guards protect her, not the property…
Report Post »Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 9:18pmExactly! Let them even try that at the Russian or Chinese embassies much less go to those countries capital’s and do the same.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:50pmGreen is the new ‘red’. In the name of ‘environment’ the left seeks to take over the world. ‘Green’ is just an arm of the left. It is another tool in the socialist/democratic-party toolbox. They are controlling our lives from the judicial bench and the white house…., and now in the name of ‘saving the earth’. It is ALL a lie and a ploy. Of course we need common sense conservation but the extremes these ‘greenies’ go to are laughable and they use them for control. We need to take our lives and government away from these lawyers and leftist in the US government.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 9:06amThe real ‘Reds’ from the former Soviet influence have now covered themselves with an outer skin of green. Thus, they are called ‘watermelons.’
Report Post »Watermelons, green on the outside while red inside.
whynott
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:37pmThese are the same bums as the occupy bums here. Jobless bums on welfare with nothing better to do. Since they don’t contribute whatsoever to society, lighting their hair on fire about some grand cause is the only way they can give their pathetic little lives meaning. This is what you get with a massive welfare state. When you reward weakness and stupidity, expect to see a lot. More of it.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:26pmAncient priests had measuring sticks to measure the Nile day after day during flood season. The nilometers helped priests keep track of rate of increase or decrease of the river level & so when it was safe to plant.
So far so good.
Here is the kicker.
I read where they had secret chambers next to the river to take the measurements. You wouldn’t want the locals to know that the mathematics was something that could be easily taught to everyman. The ancient priests kept their trade secrets like the scientists/priests of today, who purge email & hide data.
Become numerate or forever be under their thumb.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 8:54pmAncient Egypt was organized into 3 Separate Functions: 1) The Military; 2) The Priesthood, which was their sense of Arts, Sciences & Education, and produced Clerks; and 3) Governors over Barons over Farmers, who produced Food. And, this was also the Hierarchy of Power… where the Priesthood was above all the Common People!
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:22pmWealth Redistribution…
(OTTMAR EDENHOFER): First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.
For the record, Edenhofer was co-chair of the IPCC’s Working Group III, and was a lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report released in 2007
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:29pmIf a person is ambitious, energetic,educated or self taught, has a plan, they can achieve wealth.
Unless if you tell them economic activity is metabolic death & pass laws from them being to industrious.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:21pmWhat can you say about the predictions of alarmists? They are wrong.
Back a mere 12 days ago I heard a strange news cast that a hurricane was going to hit Texas. They start following depression or hurricanes several days before they may hit the U.S. I get that.
But this seemed a little outside the normal hurrricane season talk so I thought “What is up?”
Well RIO+20 was happening in mid June & they need a catastrophe, a scare story, which showed their vaunted prediction abilities.
FAIL!
It is the 23rd & now I hear that a disorganized mass of air has finally collected itself into something respectable enough to call itself a tropical depression Debbie.
I wonder if she will do Dallas?
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:17pmJust more of these people who are confronted with the truth and totally ignore it. Its June, and I just flew across the Bering Strait coming back from Japan.It was frozen solid. There are only two kinds of people who support the idea of Global Warming. The incredible stupid, or those who want to profit from it.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:16pmAs if their electric rates and fuel prices aren’t high enough… ya can’t fix stupid. It’s all be DEBUNKED.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:01pmSo sad…as the overlords look down and laugh at the stupidity of the lowly, unwashed masses, smug and pleased with themselves that the gullible fools have acted so predictably, falling for the lies that leads them to their own demise.
Not only did these minions follow lockstep, never once questioning lack of common sense in their direction, but they now have become a rabid beast in defense of the very ones who will crush them when they have out lived their usefulness.
Yes, it worked very well…it only took a little over a hundred years to recondition, reeducate and
breed out the human spirit from many of the masses and it only took a select few to accomplish it.
And you wonder, “when will they know? Will their mush of brains even ever know that it was they, themselves, that contributed to the end or will they willing lay themselves down on the alter of globalism, with pride of ultimate sacrifice for their mental masters?”
Yes, Prince Chuck, Van Jones, the UN, Soros and their pals look down at you with great pride, in themselves, for you idiots making it so damn easy for them to extinguish us.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:01pmAh… ZEN!
Report Post »tj1961
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:58pmIf they are REALLY so alarmed about CO2 emissions DON’T EXHALE!!!!!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:55pmLet them stay up until the emergency is over.
Report Post »The clock is ticking ever faster….. Any time now…..Don‘t pretend you don’t care. Tic, tic, tic.
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 9:09pmSleepy little sheepie…baa..baa..baa..baastards.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:54pmAs the CowClock strikes 12, the CowLemmings assemble…
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:50pmMore irony. They protest on the same day the news breaks that Jerry Sandusky (a Penn State faculty member retired) is convicted. Let’s not forget the other great Penn State faculty member that was never charged with fraud. That’s right, Michael Mann the great hockey schtick “player” is also a Penn State faculty member.
Protest on Europe! You only make yourselves look more foolish than our own Democrat party (and that is hard to do).
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:47pmHey alarmist! If you’d really like to do the planet a solid, kill yourself now.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 9:21pmCarpe scrotum with vise grips…
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:46pmShould have just left them up there – matter of fact, should have secured them to their perch and about 30 days later, come back and ask if they wanted down.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:59pmUsing the logic of the great Fabian Society… if the Economic System is dying… then Kill it, in order to end it’s Pain & Misery!
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:44pmAnd they now try to spread their chaos to the rest of Europe. Economic terrorism is being spread under the names of climate change and green initiatives, however, these so called causes are mearly tools(you know, M.O.s) . The truth be known, it is Socialists, Communists and Marxists destroying the Nations economies to create fear in the citizens in order to throw the society into chaos to create a window of opportunity in which they can say come with us, we can save you and the people will if for no other reason than they feel hopeless. Oops, did I let the cat out of the bag? GOOD!! We all need to be afraid for out of fear comes courage!!
Report Post »sbmmomma
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:42pmA huge fix for this is real science and real history in our public schools, and constant checks on the literature in class as well as the library. Liberals should not be in charge of our children.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:40pmWhy don’t those idiots go to China and try that. Hey, the Chinese have almost “zero” environmental safeguards in place. Start there and see where you end up. If you’re lucky, it will only be in jail. Besides, trees love CO2, in fact, they suck it up. Go get a job and wake the “F” up!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:15pmQuestion: Why did the feckless Palace Guards not stop them from scaling the gates and placing their banners? Are they really that PC over there? Guess so. The UK is FINISHED!
Report Post »VoteRightDammit
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:38pm“Green ‘drivel’ exposed
The godfather of global warming lowers the boom on climate change hysteria
lorrie-goldstein
By Lorrie Goldstein ,Toronto Sun
Lovelock is a world-renowned scientist and environmentalist whose Gaia theory — that the Earth operates as a single, living organism — has had a profound impact on the development of global warming theory.
Having observed that global temperatures since the turn of the millennium have not gone up in the way computer-based climate models predicted, Lovelock acknowledged, “the problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago.”
… says it’s now clear the doomsday predictions, including his own (and Al Gore’s) were incorrect.
He responds to attacks on his revised views by noting that, unlike many climate scientists who fear a loss of government funding if they admit error, as a freelance scientist, he’s never been afraid to revise his theories in the face of new evidence.”
Read more:
Report Post »http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/22/green-drivel
michael48
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 6:49pmin addition ..he spoke of the new “enviromental religon” as becoming the “new Christian relgion” and certainly saw this as a BAD outcome…I hope this does not evolve into Jihad…these idiots are nutty enough to strap a bomb on them selves and , who knows what. seriously, anyone who would take what fat al bore utters as presenting ANYTHING factual is well beyond insane…
Report Post »exilemusic
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:36pmWhy do protestors think being as annoying and immature as possible is going to get people to side with them? I guess it works if you’re also an annoying and immature person.
Report Post »Goldi
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:36pmWas one of the climbers prince charles? The Queen must be so proud. I hope the Queen lives long enough so that William will be made the King.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:06pmIt has been well understood in the UK… after Elizabeth, Charles will immediately Abdicate… and William will be King… regardless of Age.
Report Post »neiman1
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:30pmThe man who invented the theory of man made climate change destroying the Earth now says….Oops….never mind
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/22/green-drivel
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:30pmThese morons are too stupid to breath , I guess they want to have more taxes, and even less liberty than they already don’t have in the UK they must be all friends of Al Gore because he has non in America We woke up to his false claims, we know it’s all about more power and redisbution of wealth
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 5:35pmAfter reading your post, I’ve determined that you must have gone through public school.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 4:26pmWankers should have been shot or at the very least tazered a few times.
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