I’m still wiping the tears from my eyes. This is hilarious and extremely well produced.
From the website Minnesotans for global warming
Sung to the tune of :
Draggin The Line by Tommy James & The Shondells
h/t to L. Gardy LaRouche
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OMG! The first 10 seconds is priceless! The tree ring shuffle by Michael Mann…
Minnosotan’s 4 Climate Change Rock!!!!!
Go for it guys, Satire rools!
perhaps one day I’ll learn how to spell Minnesota as well.
The great thing about “Hide the Decline” is that it can be used in conjunction with so many other things: Obama’s poll numbers, NYT readership, CNN viewers, the value of the dollar, etc. etc.
This video is much better the the one where the polar bears blood and guts are splattering all over the cars , sidewalks, and streets of a city.
A google search for the phrase “hide the decline” just now returned the following:
Results 1 – 10 of about 2,470,000 for “hide the decline”. (0.16 seconds)
Catchphrase of the year.
Reply: If you limit it to the past week it’s only 108,000, but still very impressive. ~ ctm
Results 1 – 10 of about 2,470,000 for “hide the decline”. (0.16 seconds)
Catchphrase of the year.
Reply: If you limit it to the past week it’s only 108,000, but still very impressive. ~ ctm
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What on earth were the other 2,362,000 hits referring to?
Brilliant!!!!
I like it.
Oh, do I ever like it.
But, the tree chopping part is not suitable for younger audiences.
Remember the drowning puppy?
Consider changing the tree chopping bit and you have a winner.
Thomas (17:08:12) :
Don’t really like this one. Had things backwards.
Given better writing it could have been funny.
I still like it, and I wan’t to see it on national TV.
Perhaps have the rabbits kick Mann into a snowbank, cut the scene to the 2 rabbits, deer & tree inside a warm cabin with Mann teeth-clattering in the Minnesota jailhouse.
I believe in political humor and satire. It works.
Jib Jab worked.
This can work.
tokyoboy (19:09:29) :
The last 2 weeks should have been a full-blown ramp with healthy spots.
Sadly, most of it was SOHO-only spots w/ blinkers and I was only successful projecting 1 day out of 7 tried.
Gene Nemetz (22:12:18) :
Thomas (17:08:12) :
I am referring to the Downfall scene video in an earlier comment not the Minnesota video in this post.
Wear The Decline!
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/wear_the_decline/
Oops, I meant this site…
http://www.cafepress.com.au/hidethedecline
Thomas (17:08:12),
Thanks, this was brilliant! What made it really funny is that the bad guy in this case defended the good cause of the skeptics. If that was what Gene Nemetz means with having things backwards then Gene lacks a sense of (black) humour.
Roger Harrabin of the BBC says (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8377465.stm): `But in the world of science policy, many others find themselves in a war of influence against those firms who fund the amplification of the messages of the relatively small number of genuinely sceptical scientists outside the consensus. The sceptic business lobby aims to keep scientific doubt alive to paralyse policy. This is the world of science Realpolitik.
Over two decades I’ve spoken to mainstream scientists who are sick of hearing their work attacked and their motives questioned. In this world, climate science extends beyond arguments about trend-smoothing to become a matter of life and death for millions of people, according to the mainstream projections on temperatures.’
He could equally well have written:
`But in the world of science policy, many others find themselves in a war of influence against those firms who fund the amplification of the messages of the consensus. The alarmist business lobby aims to keep scientific alarm alive to galvanise policy. This is the world of science Realpolitik.
Over two decades I’ve spoken to skeptics who are sick of hearing their work attacked and their motives questioned. In this world, emissions reduction extends beyond arguments about trend-smoothing to become a matter of life and death for millions of people, according to the mainstream projections on energy costs.’
rbateman (22:08:43) :
I like it.
Oh, do I ever like it.
But, the tree chopping part is not suitable for younger audiences.
Remember the drowning puppy?
Consider changing the tree chopping bit and you have a winner.
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NOOOOO. There is nothing wrong with chopping trees down! Trees make lots of things and they are renewable….. Chopping down trees is good.
Good grief don’t tell me that the greenies have managed to successfully engender the concept of Anthropomorphized bluddy trees…. omigod… blink.
(… and I can’t get this song outta my head…. That’s it. I’m going for a beer…. hide the decline, ta ta tah daaaaa, hide the decline, ta ta tah daaaa;-)
>>Richard Lawson (17:21:09) :
>>BTW The Daily Mail seem to be smelling blood:
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230635/Scientist-climate-change-cover-storm-told-quit.html
That’s the problem with being toooo clever, Mr Monbiot (of the Gruniad). If he did write his piece about sacking Phil Jones with tongue in cheek, it has backfired, because the Daily Mail has taken it literally. So now the call for blood is out – and straight from the Global-Warming-Gruniad (Guardian) too!
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Guido Fawkes is a big beast, maybe the biggest, in the British blogosphere. He’s on the case:
http://order-order.com/2009/11/25/time-to-defund-crus-global-cooling-deniers/
Henry chance (19:05:18) :
ROTFLMAO
One effect of Jones et Mann’s (2009) incidently release of ten years of informal AGW job maybe is this TV studio climate:
Peer reviewed studies, peer reviewed, peer reviewed, read peer reviewed, peer reviewed studies, peer reviewed studies … crash-bang…
Here is how it ends:
http://video.foxnews.com/11904096/the-science-is-very-clear
Thanks for the laugh. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a realclimate scientist – all seriousness and righteous indignation.
They need to get out more (no – not to another conference in Tahiti) – really get out and have some fun, like play with cold stuff!
There is an interesting back-story to all this.
You may not have noticed, but there has been a subtle shift away from real news stories, involving some investigation of the truth, towards the mass regurgitation of “press releases” by various organizations.
Of course, these “press releases” are not written by the people at the center of the story, but by public relations companies who are skilled at putting things in the best possible light. Not only that, the PR companies will guarantee a certain press coverage, and to do that, they have back-to-back agreements with the editorial boards of various news media outlets.
Right now, I am having a lot of fun noting which news media are trying to ignore this real news, or continuing to publish doom and gloom messages, and those that have picked up this story and are running with in.
When deciding which media outlets you will trust in the future, look at what they are saying now.
Oh, and one final thing – this story in big in the English speaking world, but has barely made any impression at all elsewhere.
What has happened at the CRU, is unlikely to make much difference at Copenhagen, I am sorry to say.