h/t to Kate at SDA. Gotta hand it to her. Being a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, her headline made me laugh out loud.
As God Is My Witness, I Thought Polar Bears Could Fly
This video however, isn’t so funny.
Don’t know what I’m talking about with WKRP in Cincinnati? Read on.
Being in radio and TV requires knowledge of the groundbreaking broadcast comedy: WKRP in Cincinnati
There’s a famous scene in a 1978 episode where Mr. Carlson, “the Big Guy” (the general Manager) sets up a helicopter promotion to give away live turkeys at a Cincinnati shopping mall parking lot. He launches them from the helicopter into the crowd below. The event is reported by newsman Les Nessman ala the Hindenburg disaster. It is one of the funniest moments in television ever. Here’s the ending.
You can watch the entire episode on Hulu.com, 24 minutes. Well worth your time to see broadcast comedy history.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/322/wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away
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I don’t think they were even thinking about 9/11 because the impression I get is that the media has been hard at work pretending that at least 200 people didn’t die that way on 9/11 by avoiding the images of it and mention of the scale of it. Why? If images of computer generated polar bears dying like this were carefully chosen to enrage the public, think about what images reminding people that at least 200 very real people died that way might do.
More horrific footage of what can happen when bears take to the sky.
Technically it was excellently made. The physics of the bears bouncing was completely realistic. I wonder what model they used?
Yes, the CGI was terrific. If they are a bunch of Brits, I wonder why they set the drop zone in my home town of Vancouver, BC?
Regrettably, Plane Stupid mostly comprises of rich kids from the UK. Generally, they are known as ‘Trustafarians’ after Daddy’s trust fund. According to my kids at University, they are also known as ‘Yaas’. – Easy degrees in liberal arts, dont have to wait tables to get by, that sort of thing.
The job of planestupid is to stop oiks (me and you) from flying.
You see, if the oiks were stopped from flying, there would be more airspace to get to Daddy’s Chalet in Gstaad in quick time.
The graphics were quite good, so they must have access to some loot.
But there wasnt enough ‘pink mist’ on impact.
I say show it. It will p*ss off even more people than the bed time story advert.
They are on a loosing streak.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake – Bonaparte
I don’t know the exact ratio, but consider what happens. Each carbon atom in the fuel when it burns acquires two atoms of oxygen from the air, so of course the exhaust has more mass than the fuel.
Of course the exhaust has more mass than the fuel, because mass is added from the air. Burning hydrogen in air produces an exhaust of H2O, which of course has greater mass than H or H2 alone. But in what way is the mass relevant?
As a north american I only respond to unit/volume analogies in terms of “football fields” or “libraries of congress”, or in a pinch, “stacks of phonebooks”. Or, maybe, “tonnes of CO2 equal to the weight of how many polar bears, laid end to end, that would reach from here to the moon, given X number of airplane flights”.
Man I wish this insanity would be over soon.
JimB (03:56:04) :
Mike Goad (23:11:03) :
I raised ‘Broad-breasted Bronze’ turkeys. They even had trouble walking. If they managed to get into my strawberries I’d shoo them out and they would “hurry” back toward their enclosure. After about 40 feet of moving as fast as they could the biggest ones would collapse and have to have about a 5 minute time-out before they could make it the rest of the way.
The hockey team at work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah3nMStXV4&feature=related . Polar bears are too busy jumping out of planes to play hockey, it seems.
Where’s the usually required disclaimer that no animals were hurt or killed during the filming of this fantasy?
Kate (02:27:13) :
Polar Bear Population
1950s 5,000
1965-1970 8,000-10,000
1984 25,000
2005 20,000-25,000
That is due to an increase in intercontinental flights using the polar route and the melting arctic ice cap. Clearly more of the Polar bears are landing in open water and surviving the fall. Duh.
Take that Planet Stupid, you didn’t think about that now did ya!
“But in what way is the mass relevant?”
Wasn’t oxygen depletion going to be their next angle of attack? If they can’t use the planet burning up from a runaway greenhouse they were going to use the fact that the oxygen in the CO2 comes out of the air and is depleting the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Wait until some politician discovers that automotive vacuum leaks are sucking up atmosphere at an alarming rate! They will issue regulations that all vacuum leaks must be plugged so as not to suck up all of the earth’s atmosphere.
It’s not bad. Really, I mean that most sincerely.
But I must confess that my very, very favorite is the one where the animals commit suicide.
Martin Brumby (03:21:28) : “But it would be interesting to know where the money for this pathetic nonsense came from.”
Plane Stupid’s funding comes from both individuals and foundations (see this article and also this link to APE, one of their sponsors). However, as of last year, much of their funding has come from one man – millionaire owner of Lush cosmetic shops Mark Constantine.
According to this article from December 2008: “”I’m no hypocrite,” he says. “I’ve never said I’m against airports, just airport expansion. I personally fly to the US, Japan and Europe six times a year and people from my company fly all the time. Sadly, there is no environmentally safe way to fly but I do worry about the impact, which is why we charge the company a double carbon tax for every flight we make and then donate that money – £72,000 so far – to half-a-dozen environmental organisations, one of which is Plane Stupid.”
He adds that in the case of Plane Stupid, he has already given the organisation £5,140 and has agreed to another £10,000 to underwrite the legal expenses of the 49 protesters who were charged with aggravated trespass after breaching Stansted security last week.”
Lush has 600 stores throughout the world (as of December 2008, anyway), including store at three airports -Tokyo (Narita), Toronto and Orlando.
An adult blue whale emits 87 tons of CO2 annually, should we kill the whales?
If only we eat more beans, we can have free meat falling from the sky?
The city of Boulder Colorado is sending a delegation (of 2) to Copehagen for the climate conference. How many polar bears are they killing to get there?
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>>Plane Stupid is just another militant organisation which
>>has morphed out of the Animal Liberation Front.
Or morphed out of the anarchistic socio-communists, who had nowhere to go to after communism collapsed in the European East.
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Hey, I recognize that street. That video is set just a few blocks from my place in Vancouver.
“AnonyMoose (11:28:53) :
Patrick Davis (01:48:37) :
I don’t know or recall, it has been a very busy w/e for me, but I am sure I read somewhere that for every tonne of fuel, 5 tonnes of CO2 are released. Can anyone confirm/deny that?
I don’t know the exact ratio, but consider what happens. Each carbon atom in the fuel when it burns acquires two atoms of oxygen from the air, so of course the exhaust has more mass than the fuel.
Of course the exhaust has more mass than the fuel, because mass is added from the air. Burning hydrogen in air produces an exhaust of H2O, which of course has greater mass than H or H2 alone. But in what way is the mass relevant?”
Thanks for the definition, seems obvious now, D’oh! The 5:1 ratio of CO2 emissions:fuel was something, I think, I read in a pro-AGW article some time ago.
If we round up, as the alarmists do, say we kill a big fat healthy 500kg bear (CO2), that equates to 100kg of fuel per person on a flight as described. to me that seems pretty efficient.
When the Brits were developing their high speed train they came to the point where they needed to test the windshield’s ability to handle a bird strike. They borrowed NASA’s chicken cannon. When they fired the cannon at the windshield the chicken went through the windshield, through the engineer’s seat and badly damaged the partition behind the seat. They e-mailed NASA for advice and help, NASA e-mailed back: “Try thawing the chicken”.
That video is set just a few blocks from my place in Vancouver.
Yeah, it’s kind of cool – I’ve worked in most of the buildings shown, due to a very chequered work history 😉
In other news, Climate Change Forces Women Into Prostitution
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/177346/climate-change-pushes-poor-women-to-prostitution-dangerous-work
Mark in Cincinnati
Dr Rajendra Pachauri has been in the news quite frequently lately, with pronouncements on the dire state of the Planet and exhortations to reduce our carbon footprint, by not eating meat, or by flying less. On the latter subject Dr Pachauri is something of an expert:
UN Wants Us To Fly Less http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/07/un-wants-us-to/
At a meeting in the UK .., Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, a climate scientist(?) with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), strongly urged businesses to cut employee travel, and to fill the void with video conferencing.
Dr Pachauri wants to fly more:
I recently examined a UN document entitled “Details of Outreach Activities carried out by the Chairman of the IPCC, Dr. R. K. Pachauri Jan ‘07 July ‘08” http://tiny.cc/mpjNp
I discovered that Dr Pachauri flew at least 443,243 miles on “IPCC business” in this 19 month period. He generated 101 tonnes of CO2 which he could have mitigated by giving J.P. Morgan around $1450 to make his travels carbon-neutral, in line with the claims of the UN. “UN leads by example, purchasing carbon credit offsets for September convention.” http://tiny.cc/Z9Hhr. In my calculation of his travel, I made full use of the carbon calculator on the JP Morgan Climate Care website, http://tiny.cc/SoQv0
I have taken their airport distances on trust but I may not have used the right airport in some cases. I have no information on stop-overs and there is no allowance for internal travel, so the actual result is likely quite a lot higher.
Dr Pachauri is based in New Delhi at the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), http://tiny.cc/h73nH and operates his IPCC role from that base, which is reflected in the journeys that he makes. The UN document shows the contacts and organisations that he reaches out to, mostly it seems, fellow travellers, (quite literally!)
He met with many Heads of State, AGW luminaries such as Sir Crispin Tickell, Professor Stephen Schneider, Lord Stern, Professor John Schellnhuber, Ban Ki Moon, Kofi Annan and Prince Charles amongst others. He has attended presentations and honorary degree ceremonies and his book launch. He likes to attend Clinton Global Initiative meetings, Rockefeller Foundation and Brookings Institute events.
On 19 February 2008 he flew from Helsinki to Mumbai for a Brookings Institution Dinner, just 3656 miles away. On the 11th/12th March 2008, he did a Mumbai – Copenhagen return trip of 7965 miles, after which
he was working from home again for a few days, receiving former Vice President Al Gore on 14 March 2008. More “celebrities” arrived later in the month and on 20 March he entertained Tony Blair and Nancy Pelosi. He met Kevin Rudd in China and Arnold Schwarzenegger at Yale and in May he was back in New York again for another Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
In June 2008 his itinerary was Auckland, Bangkok, Paris, Brasilia, Tokyo, Geneva, New York, Sacramento and New York again, a mere 53,884 miles in the month.
In spite of the problem of less than two weeks left to save the planet in Copenhagen, IPCC AR5 is on the stocks for 2014 and Dr Pachauri is seeking more funding: This is from his speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 30th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Antalya, Turkey, 21st April 2009. http://tiny.cc/YoLLr
“..let me also highlight the growing demand for outreach activities by the IPCC. These have no doubt had an important effect in the past two years, because awareness on the scientific facts related to climate change have reached a level which could not have been anticipated even at the beginning of 2007. But, all this has only added to the demand for more information, which the IPCC will have to provide and disseminate on a much larger scale in the future. Indeed, this demand will not end whatever the outcome in Copenhagen, but is likely to escalate.
All the office-bearers and authors involved in the work of the IPCC will have to play an important role in outreach activities.” In other words, keep collecting the frequent flyer points boys and girls and tell everyone else to stop flying. Now just imagine all the different UN organisations and all the international conferences, http://www.un.org/en/events/archives.shtml. Most of them have several thousand delegates including all the NGO’s and journalists.
That’s some emissions bill.
If there were any doubts that the IPCC is anything but a political advocacy arm of the UN, this travelling salesman should surely have dispelled them. “Outreach” of course, is the latest buzz word for propaganda. Just Plain Stupid.
I saw this earlier today and laughed my butt off!
My first thought was … they should have dropped Prius batteries.
Later, I thought … the polar bear population is out of control!!! (CGI I know) Melodrama is the foundation of the church of Gore.
I’ll bet those were stunt polar bears and none were actually hurt.