UPDATE: Bill McKibben doesn’t seem to want to address the question. See below.

Earlier today, 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben tweeted this:

[Source: http://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/442052998324551680 ]

Tom Nelson asked about those boxes and the environmental impact to which I replied:

[Source: http://twitter.com/wattsupwiththat/status/442055366595977216 ]

And sure enough, here’s a picture of those boxes full of comments delivered today by Bill’s claimed “100 people” from NRDC, 350.org, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth. League of Conservation voters, and many other environmental organizations:

Source, NRDC news website. Credit Rocky Kistner NRDC Note some boxes don’t have labels. more on that below.

I made up a humorous comparison photo that speaks to the photo op issue:

But having finished that, I decided to look around a bit more for news, to see if there was a complete list of organizations involved and maybe an actual number of petitions. I found this video shot today of the march to deliver these described by Bill McKibben.

With 18 minutes to go, over 2 million anti-kxl comments into State Dept. Took 100 people to carry the boxes over. Amazing work by all!

(BTW: Note the banner says 1.5 million, in the news article, they say that another half million comments were added at the last minute, and the banner had already been printed)

And watching that video, I noticed something very odd at the 27 second mark, note the arrows:

Either those gnarly looking protestors are endowed with near superhuman wrist strength, or those boxes are empty.

It makes me wonder how many petitions they really delivered, and how many boxes were empty, but brought along just for the photo op.

Who knows with these clowns? So much for Bill’s required 100 people.

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UPDATE: 3/8 10AM PST

No response from Bill since this post went up last night.

@billmckibben Hey Bill any comment on those "2million" KXL comments delivered in empty boxes? http://t.co/wnz0PlgKjQ — Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) March 8, 2014

Readers that have Twitter accounts might want to ask him as well.

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