Two comments:
1. You have to see this to understand some mind sets regarding “global warming”.
2. I didn’t know trains still ran on time at the end of the world.
(h/t to Paul Biggs of Celestial Junk)
Two comments:
1. You have to see this to understand some mind sets regarding “global warming”.
2. I didn’t know trains still ran on time at the end of the world.
(h/t to Paul Biggs of Celestial Junk)
Words fail me.
(The last time words failed me was my calculus exam in 1975.)
My wife is a lawyer who defends people unjustly accused of child abuse and neglect. The Child Protective Service people she battles share a mindset with some of the AGW folk – both groups are certain they’re right, both know the end justifies the means. A big difference is that CPS tends to hide behind a legal veil of secrecy, but the AGW crowd has to continually recruit.
This video is the sort of thing CPS might produce (replace animals with children) to recruit new foster contractors and case workers. I decided to get more involved in climate issues in large part because there is science behind it instead of the steady mantra of “our children are our next generation”. Tactics like these smack of desperation and putting emotion far above the science. This is so far beyond people’s perception of Global Warming (such as it has been lately) that I hope it will have the opposite impact and show the AGW believers as far worse crackpots than anything Al Gore has called his opponents.
More on New Hampshire’s CPS, the Division of Children, Youth, and Families is at http://wermenh.com/dcyf_tricks.html and too many other pages around my site.
Here in the Seattle area we are alternating between snow and Modified Artic Air with daytime highs below normal nighttime lows, 36F, if not below 32F and nighttime lows in the teens and twenties, since Dec. 14. It’s not going to get back to normal temps and dear old rain for at least ten days. I’m having a battle to keep my water pipes from freezing. If the electricity goes it’s going to be challenging. The roads are skating rinks. Global Warming, my fundament.
J. Hansford,
Look at Australia’s anomalies over the last 30 years.
http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/30yrbig.jpg
Not really a whole bunch of change.
Mike
Mike Bryant (20:23:21) :
Yeah, but that was effective because people could watch it and see a path to fix the problem. In the cartoon, the animals die and it’s too late to change things. The cartoon offers only despair, the Indian offered sadness and guilt, but also motivation to fix things.
Disturbing little video. This chimp hanging himself was a classy touch. It would be comical, but when shown to children (including the older variety) this kind of propoganda does harm.
CGI is expensive. Where are these guys getting their money from. There’s this seemingly never-ending torrent of cash pouring out of somewhere.
The banks and the automakers didn’t think their well could ever run dry though. So when the cash finally stops flowing even into the bottomless pit of Warmism are these environmental groups going to need a bailout?
Joseph Goebbels would be proud. I wanna go vomit now. Funny, the polar bear diving into the ocean…so he can swim a good 100km to the nearest landmass or next icepack. Cause God knows, the species name isn’t Ursus maritimus ::rolls eyes::
The disgusting ad is a silent commentary on:
(a) the admaker’s perception of the public’s stupidity;
(b) the stupidity of the viewers who will believe it;
(c) the cynicism of the admaker himself;
(d) all of the above.
Where is this all going?
I think this one provides a more balanced view
Biggest PROPAGANDA piece ever.
They better give that and ‘R’ rating, and if they ever show that to children under 15yrs they should be taken to court within an inch of their lives, as it would be considered Child Abuse to show such disgusting images.
BTW the “Old Indian” with the tear was Iron Eyes Cody-who wasn’t even an
Native American (I prefer that myself as I’m part Cherokee) he was of Italian
extraction.I lost a stepson to teenage suicide-by hanging.This is a sick,sick
ad..
Oh,Pamela,got snow?
Just starting here in La Grande…
Heh! Linked! Very funny. And so TRAGIC!
I wonder if Tim Flannery could identify the Kangaroo species for us? Road Kill Cafe anyone?
Anthromorphizing, making these animals so much more pathetic, cuddly even….even if it is animated it is designed solely for an emotional repsonse. People all too often act on emotion vice rational thought when it comes to issues this complex.
All I can do is shake my head, show it to my son and explain why AGW and this kind of tripe is all garbage – and not to fall for the things they “teach” in school about it.
That add would have cost a heck of a lot of money to make and will cost a lot more to broadcast. Who is funding this?
Wow. Just… wow.
Fortunately for real animals, they tend to not be as weak-minded as us humans, and so they actually won’t be offing themselves as soon as things get a litle rough.
I don’t get a couple things, though. I mean, a Polar Bear.. OK. And everyone likes monkeys. But a kangaroo? When did we start sympathizing with the plight of the kangaroo?
I posted this in another thread, but it was kind of out of place there. It fits in much better here. Speaking of propaganda, check out the new “musical” some schools are sponsoring: “Santa Goes Green.” I linked to a clip of the music. You have to listen to that.
And then, there’s an unrelated book by the same name that apparently is flying off the shelves.
http://digitaldiatribes.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/santa-goes-green/
Full indoctrination is in motion.
That was the funniest thing I have seen in months. Only someone with a heart of stone could resist laughing out loud.
Given the number of roos killed on the roads in Oz (a lot of us have roo bars on the front of our vehicles) I think the end of the world has already come.
Dear Pamela Grey. Kangaroos are found right inside of cities in Australia. I saw one from my front verandah by the lake two weeks ago and I live in the Northern suburbs of Brisabane. They are everywhere in Australia. Come on down! It is forecast to be 95 degrees farenheit tomorrow.
This panders to the people Jay Leno interviewed on his “Jay Walk.”
Unfortunately, they are in the majority now…thanks to 2 generations of “Progressive Education”…
Dear Pamela . Sorry for all of the typos, I cannot see my keyboard for the sweat running into my eyes. But please come on down. I feel for you with all of that freezing weather. I have read many of your posts and I feel that you get a little bit fed up now with the frost and the snow.The white beaches here are but 10 minutes drive from my home and Brisbane is sunnier than Florida (I am not rubbing it in, I am just trying to promote Australia; a country that I love).
That was one humongous ice berg the polar bear took the header off. What was his problem?
Oh no, I’ve been proved wrong again. I thought all that warming would increase the amount of evaporation and there would be lots of rain and everywhere would be green and there would be dynosaurs all over the place and the world would be a much better place without all those mammals.
I’m reminded of the ad from the early 70’s that had the small kid taking about how there would be no oil to make gas from when he grew up.