Tuesday, August 16, 2011

If guessing weather conditions 100 years from now is settled science, why should crowd size estimates at a single event today vary by a factor of five?

Abbott stars at anti-carbon tax rally | Noosa News | Local News in Noosa | Noosa News
TONY Abbott got a rock star welcome from several thousand protesters at a boisterous anti-carbon tax rally outside Parliament House, though he was plainly wary about some of them.

The chant of "Tony, Tony, Tony" rose to a crescendo as the opposition leader repeated his mantra "no tax collection before an election".
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Unofficial police estimates put the crowd between 5000 and 6000, but organisers said there were up to 10,000 people present.
Anti-carbon tax rally hits Australian parliament | Environment | guardian.co.uk
More than 2,000 protesters gathered outside Australia's Parliament House on Tuesday to demonstrate against government plans to make the country's biggest air polluters pay a tax on the carbon gas they produce.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"More than 2,000 protesters gathered outside Australia's"

Wow, that's some nice bias because it's both true and makes it seem as if there was little support.

SOYLENT GREEN said...

Yes,but the numbers were "adjusted" by NASA and hadCRUT...just as the models predicted.