Just read on SEQKA that there is a kite rally this Sat the 24th Oct here on the Sunny Coast for the International Day of Climate Action http://www.350.org/node/5536.
I'll be there for sure!! Come one come all & make a difference 
surely it would be more environmentally friendly to NOT attend, we would all emit less co2 if we stayed home and didn't drive anywhere. I'm torn.
Yeah the point of this is to make a bigger change than is possible individually. Change all the light bulbs you want, switch off your appliances, drive a Prius, - It wont do didly squat unless the governments of the world make similar efforts. Let them know you want them to do it. Turn up, fly your kite, get in the media and put public pressure on them to get real at Copenhagen.
Kitethrills is putting on a BBQ sausage sizzle up at 2:30 - 3PM at Pt Cartwright Drive and Pacific Boulevard - (S-Bends access). All welcome to come together and share a sanga banga on us..
Please tell your friends. This is just one of over 150 similar actions from a variety of communities around the country and one of more than 2000 actions in over 140 nations - the 24th October will be the biggest day of climate action ever.
Come along - put your kite up between Pt Cartwright and Kawana Surf Club at 2PM. Photos will be in the papers, tv and on the big screens at Copenhagen and New York UN offices.
Everybody wants to save the Earth....
but nobody wants to help Mum with the dishes.
lol.
This is event is now one of over 3700 other similar rallies around the world in 162 nations.
Its truely global. So please help us put the pressure on the politicians. Neither the Governments or the oppositions proposed ETS's do enough. They're all talking about not losing jobs - its crazy.
Australia needs to shift its economy to low carbon consumption. what jobs are lost in coal industries will be saved in tourism, generated in new clean power projects x10. The cost of the change and transition to new power is tiny compared to the cost of drought, wild fire, flood, barrier reef death, refugee resettlement etc etc.
Politicians will do nothing if they think thy can get away with it. Help us pressure them. Come to Point Cartwright and fly your kite, show you care, have a fun day, and send your message.
I've been putting off a trip to the Sunny Coast for so long, and still won't be able to make it there this weekend. 
Though, instead I'll be attending the 350 screen printing event on Magill Road here in Adelaide.
It's an open invitation 
This is an issue that should be close to the heart of all of us wind-powered waterpeople! Climate change is affecting our oceans. Globally this is going to attract attention, go on throw your support behind it if you can get there. 
So here's the plan, It's looking like being light easterlies with a little north maybe - probably too light for a beach run back to Currimundi. Sooo the social side will inevitably take more prominence than the kiting side of things.
The Photos for the Climate Change Summit will be shot at 2PM - if you could all get your kites up then. Photographers welcome - the photos will taken from Pt Cartwright looking south.
The BBQ will take over shortly after in the carpark and grass area at S- Bends. Sausage sizzle and drinks free for kite flyers.
Around 4PM there's another action happening at Kings Beach - a human tide line to show the current vs potential high tide line. Its also at teh site for the Caloundra Music Festival. the Festival has a great line up and its in a public space so tickets are not really essential to be able to hear the music and enjoy the atmosphere. If the Kings Beach Tavern Balcony isnt too packed it offers a great venue for non-ticket holders to enjoy the scene. Otherwise the stage is right on the beach, next to the park, and surrounded by high rise apartments. Hoodoo Gurus, Josh Pyke, Blue King Brown, Augie March, Toni Childs, Bertie Blackman, and more.
come along - kites up.
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So here's the plan, It's looking like being light easterlies with a little north maybe - probably too light for a beach run back to Currimundi. Sooo the social side will inevitably take more prominence than the kiting side of things.
Yeah like most bloody kitesurf events in the eastern part of Oz 
Haa ha ha Mr Floater you're so selfish wanting water views. So who are the fat cat wankers causing global warming? Aussies produce more CO2 per person than any other nation. Ouch! We are also the fattest nation in the world - Ouch! Also I think there's some data somwhere that claims Aussies hit a hell of alot of porn sites per capita - so maybe we are bad ass wankers as well? Shame Shame Shame.
As for no wind events on the east coast - I clearly remember running the Perth Round of the Aussie Kitesurf Tour at Scarborough in mid January - with not a breath of wind for days.
So maybe its not the east coast - maybe its just me.
Anyway - the forecast is looking up now - more north and more wind. Those of us with Ozone Zephyrs will be able to get out for some fun
Im gonna bring up all my 2nd hand kites (about 15) - we're gona lay them out in the sand and make a huge 350 to tie it all together. so if anyone has a spare hour from like 12:30, and a few spare kites, please bring them along and lend a hand.
See y'all at Kawana.
i can't believe people still buy this co2 human responsible climate change rubbish...
.. those that sold us the so called problem are now selling us the so called solution
... bahhh sheep bahhh, its for a good cause bahhh bahhh
.... stupid sheep
hell yeah! ill bring a couple of cartons of beer, so every1 bring ya kite and come and have a snossage and brewski[p] its gunna be sic
Everyone's entitled to their opinions and beliefs. And sure we are predicitng the future - always tricky. There's a thing called the precautionary principle. If you do nothing cos your not sure well your asking for trouble. If your best science, observations, and estimates suggest there's a problem, but there are some people who arent sure, then doing nothing about isnt good.
Besides, there's wind, food and beer.
Keep believing your way - going your way and everything will work out. those that care will do something those that dont care wont.
Dont worry be happy
I came and kited - now I want my beer!!!!
Only saw about 8-10 kites doing the run?? Did I get the day wrong!
Ah No! - Kurt, you mustve been in the wrong place. There was beer, beam, (thanks Evan) soft drinks, bread, snags, etc. It was good - about 40 - 50 kiters left on down winders in the half hour after 2PM. Sorry if you didnt get the later info - make sure your signed up to our newsletter. I havent seen you up here for ages, sorry i missed you.
Conditions were perfect. Small manageable swell, with the wind nearly straight down the beach. there were loads of clean waves to slice up. Thanks everyone who came and made the sky look awesome. We layed out about 15 - 20 kites on the beach and made a huge 350. The journalists came and took their photos with loads of colour. It looked great. A bloke came up to me with his son and they booked a double lesson tomorrow. All the sausages were eaten (except a few for the dog). Plenty of drinks left – oh yeah!
Then I raced back to Currimundi to give a board lesson for a customer, he got up and riding for the first time today. He was fully buzzed and wants a kite. At the end of the day in the shop, I get an email from another recent student. She wants to take the plunge and buy her kite. She knows she will be riding around loving it soon.
So then, when I finally get home to sit and relax, the tv national news has 350 as its headline.
Great day! Thanks to the crew who helped out, thanks to those who flew today. Come in and get your 350 tshirts which I forgot to display and distribute. Oops.
This sort of public action for attention will happen the world over as the sun passes around us today. I hope the worlds leaders of government industry and community can take us to a new economy and way of living, that’s sustainable into the centuries. This coming meeting in Copenhagen is important. The last one of its kind was Kyoto. They don’t come around too often and the polies should be basing their decisions on the science (observations and predictions) they see before them. They’ll be more inclined to do it if public and media attention is focused on the science. That is; 350ppm CO2 concentration in our atmosphere, is sustainable, not more. Let head for that as quick as practical.
they are called sheeple guys ,,
just like the cane beetle was a good idea ,,,that was such a sucess now lets move on to the planet
Thanks Mike
We set up downwind a bit and thought the beers were at the shop!
Just kidding, thought it would be crowded so we spread out a bit....
Planet stuff, well I was there for a kite first, event second but I believe the answer is simple, too many people. Limit population growth imho. One or two kids per couple and limit parenting to people who can afford to do it and who aren't a long way down the genome tree....as above.
surely its more environmentally friendly to kite AGAINST climate change? I boycotted the event just in case it made things worse. 
hope it went well.
CLIMATE BOMBSHELL: Hacker leaks thousands of emails showing conspiracy to “hide” the real data on manmade climate change
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Friday, November 20, 2009
A hacker has leaked thousands of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University that appear to show how climate change data was fudged and the peer review process skewed to favor the manmade climate change hypothesis.
The link to the data appears to have been posted to a number of climate science websites yesterday by an anonymous hacker or insider going by the name “FOIA,” an apparent allusion to the Freedom of Information Act in the United States. One of the first sites where the 62 MB file was posted was The Air Vent. It was soon picked up by Watts Up With That, Climate Audit and other climate science sites.
The information contained in the leaked emails and documents are as shocking as they are damning of the scientists who have been most vocal about the manmade global warming scare. Some of the excerpts include this email, purportedly from Phil Jones to researchers including Michael Mann of “Mann’s hockey stick” fame:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxxxxxx,mhughes@xxxxxxx, mhughes@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxxxxx,t.osborn@xxxxxxxxxDear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers
Phil
And this excerpt in which researchers appear to discuss ways to discredit James Saiers of the Geophysical Research Letters journal because he seems to be sympathetic to climate realists:
M,
This is truly awful. GRL has gone downhill rapidly in recent years.
I think the decline began before Saiers. I have had some unhelpful dealings with him recently with regard to a paper Sarah and I have on glaciers -- it was well received by the referees, and so is in the publication pipeline. However, I got the impression that Saiers was trying to keep it from being published.
Proving bad behavior here is very difficult. If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. Even this would be difficult.
How different is the GRL paper from the Nature paper? Did the authors counter any of the criticisms? My experience with Douglass is that the identical (bar format changes) paper to one previously rejected was submitted to GRL.
T.
According to Investigate magazine out of Australia, Dr. Phil Jones has now confirmed that these emails do appear to be real.
The importance of this information will not be lost on The Corbett Report’s audience, as a recent interview I conducted with Tim Ball discussed the very issue of the Climate Research Unit and Phil Jones’ intense secrecy regarding their data:
So, instead of believing the huge volume of peer reviewed scientific papers, we're all to believe some twaddle, anonymously posted on some website and emailed around?
Seems like there is a little too close a relationship between some people's heads and the sand from which they launch.
