Oh dear, some of these folks aren’t the brightest CFL’s in the room.
Readers may remember this famous Penn and Teller video from 2006 where they get well meaning (but non thinking) people to sign up to ban “dihydrogen monoxide” (DHMO), which is an “evil” chemical found in our lakes, rivers, oceans, and even our food!
Yeah, they signed up to ban water. Now watch the video from the Cancun climate conference, you’d think some of these folks would have enough science background (from their work in complex climate issues) to realize what they are signing, but sadly, no.
Some people will sign anything that includes phrases like, ”global effort,” “international community,” and “planetary.” Such was the case at COP 16, this year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico.
This year, CFACT students created two mock-petitions to test U.N. Delegates. The first asked participants to help destabilize the United States economy, the second to ban water.
The first project, entitled “Petition to Set a Global Standard” sought to isolate and punish the United States of America for defying the international community, by refusing to bite, hook, line and sinker on the bait that is the Kyoto Protocol. The petition went so far as to encourage the United Nations to impose tariffs and trade restrictions on the U.S. in a scheme to destabilize the nation’s economy. Specifically, the scheme seeks to lower the U.S. GDP by 6% over a ten year period, unless the U.S. signs a U.N. treaty on global warming.
This would be an extremely radical move by the United Nations. Even so, radical left-wing environmentalists from around the world scrambled eagerly to sign.
The second project was as successful as the first. It was euphemistically entitled “Petition to Ban the Use of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)” (translation water). It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water, that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused.
Despite the apparently not-so-obvious reference to H2O, almost every delegate that collegian students approached signed their petition to ban that all too dangerous substance, which contributes to the greenhouse effect, is the major substance in acid rain, and is fatal if inhaled.
Perhaps together, the footage associated with these two projects will illustrate to mainstream America the radical lengths many current U.N. delegates are willing to go to carry out an agenda no more ethical, plausible or practical than the banning water.
Brilliant! Inspired satire. Please tell me the signatories’ names will soon be appearing somewhere on the web. In the currently fashionable spirit of full disclosure, of course.
starzmom
December 8, 2010 9:34 am
How embarrassing!! And they would have us believe they are the best and brightest for fixing Mother Earth.
Curiousgeorge
December 8, 2010 9:34 am
Let’s just get to the bottom line, hey? Ban Homo Sapiens and be done with it. That is the goal, right? Right? Hello! Hello, is anybody there!?
jorgekafkazar
December 8, 2010 9:37 am
i can hardly wait to see this on the front page of my local newspaper! Oh, wait…
Stefan
December 8, 2010 9:38 am
I confess I wouldn’t have known what “Dihydrogen Monoxide” is. But I expect I’d have asked, “what is it? where does it come from? who makes it? why is it bad?”
A charity once tried to sign me up to their anti-drugs programme which they said was very successful. I asked them, “so, how do you measure your success? how many of people you’ve helped stay off drugs?” He didn’t know. His colleague didn’t know. They rang their boss, who didn’t know. “Yeah but it is really successful!!” OK, but how do you know?
Severian
December 8, 2010 9:42 am
Words fail me…..
And these are the people who think they are the “elite” who deserve to rule over us as unaccountable global bureaucrats. Gods help us.
Kitefreak
December 8, 2010 9:43 am
Well, it’s just frightening how thick these people are and how much power they are given by the powers that be. That is the really scary thing, to my mind. Not so much the people in the video but the politicians, who are at least as thick on the issue. Gordon Brown, for example. David Milliband, for another. I could go on and on and on.
This is my favourite Cancun video though, Bureaucrats Gone Wild:
You’ve probably all already seen it, so apologies if that’s the case. I know the tune in the video but can’t name the artist – 60’s number?
Murray Grainger
December 8, 2010 9:45 am
No!!!!!!
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Next they will be signing the petition to get the word “gullible” put back into the Oxford English Dictionary.
Unbelievable and incredibly sad that it is true, but I guess if you believe all the CAGW guff you will believe anything. No point putting the brain (if any) into gear before signing.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Well, there’s our scientific consensus in action! We must believe our scientific brain-trust!
This is somewhat reminiscent of the Man-show and their petition to end woman suffrage. They got several signatures, too, from women.
Baa Humbug
December 8, 2010 9:50 am
I’ll be passing this little gem along as far and wide as possible.
David
December 8, 2010 9:57 am
“I know the tune in the video but can’t name the artist – 60′s number?”
Tequilla, by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Yes, I’m entirely for replacing all the Di-Hydrogen Monoxide consumption with consumption of PURE ETHANOL!
Save the enviroment, and live in a drunken stupor…Wait, it seems the people at Cancun already are doing nothing but CHOOH consumption.
Max 🙂
Dave Springer
December 8, 2010 10:03 am
Stefan says:
December 8, 2010 at 9:38 am
“I confess I wouldn’t have known what “Dihydrogen Monoxide” is. But I expect I’d have asked, “what is it? where does it come from? who makes it? why is it bad?””
Dihydrogen monoxide is a widely used industrial solvent which is harmless in pure liquid form but evaporates into a powerful greenhouse gas when exposed to air.
Retired Engineer
December 8, 2010 10:04 am
Without DHMO, I would have to consume ethanol straight up. That could be deadly.
Like CFL’s, these folks don’t light up very quickly. But, after the truth comes out, they will claim they knew the whole thing was a joke. And are still entitled to tell us how we have to live.
As for dismantling the U.S. economy, who needs the U.N.? We are doing a good job of that all by ourselves.
woodNfish
December 8, 2010 10:06 am
James Sexton says: December 8, 2010 at 9:47 am: This is somewhat reminiscent of the Man-show and their petition to end woman suffrage. They got several signatures, too, from women.
Well, there are some English words that should be banned from use because their meanings are very confusing in relation to similar words in common use. “Suffrage” is one and “restive” is another. I’m sure others can come up with man more.
[I do not recommend banning “man” …. Though many in Cancun seems to want to do just that. 8<) Robt]
woodNfish
December 8, 2010 10:06 am
Oops. That was supposed to be “many more”. Sorry.
J.Hansford
December 8, 2010 10:07 am
LoL…. Classic. The arrogance and the ignorance of these bureaucrats and activists. It’s scary that they have so much influence over our lives…..
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Kitefreak says:
December 8, 2010 at 9:43 am
You’ve probably all already seen it, so apologies if that’s the case. I know the tune in the video but can’t name the artist – 60′s number?
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The song is “Tequila” by The Champs….:-)
Roger Knights
December 8, 2010 10:11 am
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Larry, Moe, and Curly say, “Cancun spelled backwards is nuc nac.”
Incidentally, what was the actual count of signers?
Roger Knights
December 8, 2010 10:11 am
Oops–signers.
Rational Debate
December 8, 2010 10:13 am
And this was the U.N. Delegates, not the NGO’s or activists?? I wonder if they were careful about that? Displaying my own ignorance here, but are all of the delegates involved in the negotiations? Is there just one per country? That first girl/woman that signed looked like a kid!
I hope to heck that CFACT and everyone notifies every media outlet they can think of about this video.
Harold Pierce Jr
December 8, 2010 10:13 am
Max Hugoson says on December 8, 2010 at 10:01 am:
“…but CHOOH consumption.”
That would be formic acid aka ant acid. Very nasty stuff.
That stuff corrodes the finest steels and wears away the highest mountains.
Just think what it would do to your insides.
Let’s see the names on the DHMO petition!
I’m gobsmacked.
Brilliant! Inspired satire. Please tell me the signatories’ names will soon be appearing somewhere on the web. In the currently fashionable spirit of full disclosure, of course.
How embarrassing!! And they would have us believe they are the best and brightest for fixing Mother Earth.
Let’s just get to the bottom line, hey? Ban Homo Sapiens and be done with it. That is the goal, right? Right? Hello! Hello, is anybody there!?
i can hardly wait to see this on the front page of my local newspaper! Oh, wait…
I confess I wouldn’t have known what “Dihydrogen Monoxide” is. But I expect I’d have asked, “what is it? where does it come from? who makes it? why is it bad?”
A charity once tried to sign me up to their anti-drugs programme which they said was very successful. I asked them, “so, how do you measure your success? how many of people you’ve helped stay off drugs?” He didn’t know. His colleague didn’t know. They rang their boss, who didn’t know. “Yeah but it is really successful!!” OK, but how do you know?
Words fail me…..
And these are the people who think they are the “elite” who deserve to rule over us as unaccountable global bureaucrats. Gods help us.
Well, it’s just frightening how thick these people are and how much power they are given by the powers that be. That is the really scary thing, to my mind. Not so much the people in the video but the politicians, who are at least as thick on the issue. Gordon Brown, for example. David Milliband, for another. I could go on and on and on.
This is my favourite Cancun video though, Bureaucrats Gone Wild:
You’ve probably all already seen it, so apologies if that’s the case. I know the tune in the video but can’t name the artist – 60’s number?
No!!!!!!
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Next they will be signing the petition to get the word “gullible” put back into the Oxford English Dictionary.
Unbelievable and incredibly sad that it is true, but I guess if you believe all the CAGW guff you will believe anything. No point putting the brain (if any) into gear before signing.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Well, there’s our scientific consensus in action! We must believe our scientific brain-trust!
This is somewhat reminiscent of the Man-show and their petition to end woman suffrage. They got several signatures, too, from women.
I’ll be passing this little gem along as far and wide as possible.
“I know the tune in the video but can’t name the artist – 60′s number?”
Tequilla, by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
I find very little about this funny.
Yes, I’m entirely for replacing all the Di-Hydrogen Monoxide consumption with consumption of PURE ETHANOL!
Save the enviroment, and live in a drunken stupor…Wait, it seems the people at Cancun already are doing nothing but CHOOH consumption.
Max 🙂
Stefan says:
December 8, 2010 at 9:38 am
“I confess I wouldn’t have known what “Dihydrogen Monoxide” is. But I expect I’d have asked, “what is it? where does it come from? who makes it? why is it bad?””
Dihydrogen monoxide is a widely used industrial solvent which is harmless in pure liquid form but evaporates into a powerful greenhouse gas when exposed to air.
Without DHMO, I would have to consume ethanol straight up. That could be deadly.
Like CFL’s, these folks don’t light up very quickly. But, after the truth comes out, they will claim they knew the whole thing was a joke. And are still entitled to tell us how we have to live.
As for dismantling the U.S. economy, who needs the U.N.? We are doing a good job of that all by ourselves.
James Sexton says: December 8, 2010 at 9:47 am: This is somewhat reminiscent of the Man-show and their petition to end woman suffrage. They got several signatures, too, from women.
Well, there are some English words that should be banned from use because their meanings are very confusing in relation to similar words in common use. “Suffrage” is one and “restive” is another. I’m sure others can come up with man more.
[I do not recommend banning “man” …. Though many in Cancun seems to want to do just that. 8<) Robt]
Oops. That was supposed to be “many more”. Sorry.
LoL…. Classic. The arrogance and the ignorance of these bureaucrats and activists. It’s scary that they have so much influence over our lives…..
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Kitefreak says:
December 8, 2010 at 9:43 am
You’ve probably all already seen it, so apologies if that’s the case. I know the tune in the video but can’t name the artist – 60′s number?
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The song is “Tequila” by The Champs….:-)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Larry, Moe, and Curly say, “Cancun spelled backwards is nuc nac.”
Incidentally, what was the actual count of signers?
Oops–signers.
And this was the U.N. Delegates, not the NGO’s or activists?? I wonder if they were careful about that? Displaying my own ignorance here, but are all of the delegates involved in the negotiations? Is there just one per country? That first girl/woman that signed looked like a kid!
I hope to heck that CFACT and everyone notifies every media outlet they can think of about this video.
Max Hugoson says on December 8, 2010 at 10:01 am:
“…but CHOOH consumption.”
That would be formic acid aka ant acid. Very nasty stuff.