UPDATES:
The press conference released a video, some screen caps below. Video follows below.
From the “anyone has to be better than sex fiend Rajenda Pacahuri” department…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has named the red bird, from the blockbuster game franchise “Angry Birds”, as the new honorary ambassador for the International Day of Happiness.
18 March 2016 – The United Nations today appointed Red, the leader of the “Angry Birds” mobile game characters, as an envoy to inspire climate action toward a sustainable and happier future for all.
Red’s appointment, as Honorary Ambassador for Green, is part of a UN campaign launched today in partnership with the globally renowned characters to make a direct link between tackling climate change and people’s happiness and well-being on the occasion of the International Day of Happiness to be observed on Sunday, 20 March.
“The Angry Birds have entertained millions of people around the world – and now they are part of making the world a better place,” said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a launch event at UN Headquarters in New York.
“We are proud to give Red a reason to go Green,” he said. “There is no better way to mark the International Day of Happiness than to have our animated ambassador raise awareness about the importance of addressing climate change to create a safer, more sustainable and happier future for all.”
Read more: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53491#.Vuz6RMdeSXg
There is no news about how UN Climate Ambassador Leonardo DiCaprio feels about the new appointment, whether he is concerned the appointment of Red will overshadow his own role. Perhaps DiCaprio is as disappointed as I am with the UN decision – I think it would have been far more appropriate, if the honorary appointment had been awarded to Goofy.
United Nations – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed the Angry Birds character Red an Honorary Ambassador for Green on the International Day of Happiness. Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph, and Josh Gad – some of the stars behind the upcoming animated film The Angry Birds Movie – attended a red carpet event at UN Headquarters where they asked a young audience for their support to the campaign by doing their part to make a difference on climate change.
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…OMG, ROTFLMAO …Is there no end to the stupidity of the left ?
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Angry Birds are Happy Birds.”–George Orwell
Is it April 1?
You CANNOT be serious!
This is a joke, right? Seriously – I can’t tell anymore.
Hard to know which of these two characters is not imaginary…a bit like global warming hysteria
I suppose it is appropriate for all the angry bird brains.
Angry happy. Ah, yes, I get it.
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UN Names Cartoon Character as their Latest Climate Ambassador for a Cartoon Speculation about CO2.
Bludgeoned or fried by green energy sources, the birds are indeed angry.
Angry Bird is already the Spokesbird” for anti-wind turbine groups, worldwide! He does not want people preaching about the climate scam, the wind scam, or any other scams that hurt birds. Back off, UN! You are NOT our friend! Angriest of the Angry Birds, SAYS NO!
omfg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Happiness
I never knew it existed either. That, or I successfully repressed the memory.
It gets better, err, worse:
http://site.sohp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Awestruck.jpg
I’m starting an International Day to Gouge Your Eyes out….
But they don’t want happy people. They scared and angry people.
Maybe that’s it didn’t fly?
31 types of hapiness? Golly! That looks like a toasted Bugs Bunny. Did he venture too near the Ivanpah boiler?
I’m just so happy not to be a member of that society, I think it would make me very sad.
James Bull
I’ve always found clowns creepy but these guys – Illien Global – are just plain scary.
The spectacular irony of Happiness for All “TM” is a dead giveaway that “All” is not as it seems. It frightens me to hear that “Illien Global has been creating happiness for over 33 years.” ;-(
Illien Global
There is an Angry Bird movie coming this summer, and the trailer is out there. From what I’ve seen of Red’s reaction to the smooth talking ‘green’ pigs, I have a feeling he would not look kindly to them putting words in his mouth.
The perfect alliance of corporate with world governance…
Similar to the marketing adage; if you cannot sell the science, find a celebrity.
You have to admit, there is a certain consistency in all this cretinous/childish posturing.
People working at/for the UN do not live in the real world (or pay taxes). The UN is the ultimate collection of supercharged bureaucrats, the “best of the best” spewing self-flattering PR.
There may, in fact, be no better way to mark the Fictional Day of Happiness than to have this fictional ambassador raise awareness about the fiction of addressing climate change to create a safer, more sustainable and happier future for all.
News to these morons, the actual ‘climate deniers:’ THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING! Don’t deny it! Attempts to hold it static or reverse it are as fictional as ‘Red.’
Did they forget already that the problem was solved at the Paris climate conference ?
They “conveniently” forget (or, at least, hope we forget) the failure of all the past solutions to “the problem” that political “science’ can perceive.
Since green is the new red, the choice is perfect.
Watermelons – Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
“There is no longer a shared reality.” Yup!
Exactly, but talk to any of the kids today and they’ll tell you Angry Birds is sooooo 2013.
But hey, there’s no reason not to try a little cross promotion I guess.
Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t work and the Pope didn’t work, so who knows . . Angry Birds might just fit the bill for Tim Flannery’s “Angry Summer” promotion.
This’ll work for sure . . I mean . . it will, won’t it?
An adult’s conception of what the kids and teens consider “cool” these days always lags behind by at least a few years. It’s why you shouldn’t try to be “hip” around young people. You’ll just embarrass yourself (and embarrass your kids in front of their peers).
Red is red and angry because he has nearly been fried at the Ivanpah solar power plant.
and he is a cartoon as he was fried
That thing reminds me of Michael Mann sitting on Homer Hansen’s shoulder as Hansen climbs out his sixth floor window at his office in Manhatten to get in his rowboat and go home.
Excellent business opportunity here. Gonna make me lots of Angry Bird costumes so the left have clothes to wear at their next paid protest against – well, they are angry, but none of them know why they’re angry.
Wow.just wow. An “angry bird” is the ambassador for happiness? A bird that destroys all the things protecting the “hiding green pigs”!
Once again, the irony totally escapes them!
“We’ve got to control the weather!”
How do we do it?
”Sue anyone who says we’re lying!!”
You tried that Dr Angry Bird,
but you claimed you had won a Nobel Prize in the documents you filed with the court,
when you haven’t won one.
”Oh.”
Greens…. red on the inside , now red on the outside ?
And now even better prepared for flyover country ?
Don’t they know there are wind turbines there ?
The Climate bird-brains are just mad because their fav ideology, Climatism has FAILED;
I love angry Al Gore he should have been tin the Angry Bird movie.
I’m lost, I’ve heard about these “angry birds”.
Why so angry ??