Climate [hoax] activists close down world's largest coal port | World | Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian climate change activists on Sunday closed down operations at the world's largest coal port after entering its three terminals and attaching themselves to loaders, the terminal operator and the protesters said.

The action by climate change group Rising Tide in Newcastle stopped operations at all three terminals operated by Port Waratah Coal Services, which normally run continuously, a company spokesman said.
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Rising Tide said about 50 people in total were involved in the protest, some entering before dawn on Sunday morning, abseiling down machinery and attaching themselves to loaders. Others demonstrated with banners.

Spokeswoman Annika Dean said nine protesters attached themselves to infrastructure, calling it an "emergency" action to highlight climate change, which she blamed for recent fires in Russia and floods in Pakistan.

"We have stopped all operations in the coal port," Dean said.

"These weather events are consistent with the scientific predictions for climate change. We feel like Australia's coal exports are contributing to this problem."

Flashback: CCAN Blog » Al Gore, James Hansen, and Civil Disobedience

In a little-noticed op-ed in this past Thursday’s New York Times (“The Big Melt,” with a tip of the hat to Free Democracy for posting it) , Nicholas Kristoff reported on a conversation with Al Gore in which the former Vice-President said: “I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” His comment was in response to the ever-quickening pace of polar ice meltoff, with all its deadly and catastrophic implications, and the role played by coal-fired power plants in advancing our demise.

The comment was also strikingly similar to a recent quote from Dr. James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA: “It seems to me that young people, especially, should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty (no CCS) coal-fired power plants.”