“Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body.
From AOL News:, this artistic project is described as: “…off London’s Millennium Bridge. Taiwanese artist Vincent Huang used two glass penguins and a stuffed toy polar bear for the eye-catching project, which aims to raise awareness over climate change.”
Never mind that polar bears and penguins don’t share the same icecap, it’s “art”.
Read the story behind this at AOL News.
Also, the idea of suicidal animals to raise awareness on global warming is not new, it was used last year in this video below from an outfit called Quercus in Portugal. The “artistic rendition” above is simply a low budget copycat.
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Don’t worry. There’s been so much snow around in UK this year, the polar bear and penguins will feel right at home :).
They should fine Vincent Huang for littering.
Just a quick note from way down under. We cruised through Gurlach Straight and Paradise Bay, Antarctica during the past 4 days, after visiting the King Penguin colony on the Falklands. Every Falklander we spoke with talked of how the colony has been steadily INCREASING for several years now, and they believe a second colony is now forming in another area of the island.
Oh…the ice is all still there, too, at least what we could see of it 🙂 In spite of all that, there’s no shortage of talk about AGW on the ship I’m on, which has a very international mix to the population.
More later,
JimB, live, on the scene…
[snip – poor taste in associating w/ living persons]
After I took my daughter and 6 other kids to see Happy Feet when it was at the theatre, she told me she didn’t want to eat fish anymore because it would make the penguins starve
I’m still pissed
Roberto Calvi, ‘God’s Banker’. He was murdered (hanged) in a manner overflowing with symbolism and yet this was all ‘missed’ at the time.Now,with the ‘right’ taxable topic,we are supposed to marvel at childish stunts.
My, that’s a really convincing scientific argument, isn’t it. These arty types are clueless as to how ridiculous they are.
The art a person admires allows us to see the person’s essential values and shows his/her view of life and reality.
This is info, even though it is repulsive. It can be used as a basis for strategy discussion on developing a more positive attitude toward climate science.
John
And someone paid for that !!!!!
Don’t know about those kangaroos with faces like dogs, but if anyone is concerned about the Eastern Greys…just be careful you don’t trip on one as you walk out my front gate.
http://mosomoso.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/dirtylook.jpg
Id like to see them try that stunt with a live polar bear. My guess is he wouldn’t be too happy.
NickB LMAO!
I think this piece of “art” would go down well with the Turner Prize judges. They seem to be able to pick out the worst piece of inconsequensial, conceptually vacuous tat and give the perpetrator, sorry winner, a £50,000 wad.
Showing suicide in commercials is a serious felony in Europe.
That’s a first.
Environmentalists handling overpopulation.
Is this fellow deranged? Why would anybody want to symbolically hang a poor innocent Polar Bear & a couple of Penguins? Surely he should show them being happy that the ice is back up north, & even more down south, not exhibit them as though they appear to have been tried, sentenced, & executed for some mysterious crime, poor things! Must be a denier I expect.
On a more serious note, I bet the British Arts Council funded this crappy stunt along with money from the Peoples Democratic Republic of the European Union! Hide the decline, commrades! We’re all very happy here in Britishtan, we all work very hard for our Beautiful Leader who is a god, & looks after all the people! We love the freezing cold, the expensive heating fuel, the high prices, the clean hopsitals, the great schools, the streets paved with gold, the economy is booming he said so, (but we only need a small amount of it to satisfy ourselves, whereas our wonderful, noble, loyal, honest politicians need lots of it because they do such an important job) the lack of freedom, being told what to think, what to say, how to behave. Pig, snout, trough, spring to mind. It’s nice being screwed but not quite how I imagined it to be. Now, where is that little red book of mine? Snip away, mod, it’s coffee time!
Erm, it`s hanging under a bridge. How the hell are people supposed to have their awareness raised when they won`t see the stupid thing?
I think the artist is ill and in need of immediate professional help.
“The artist cleverly makes reference to Roberto Calvi, the Vatican Banker who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in 1982, to draw comparisons between the failure of quality control and simple moral courage that gave us both the Credit Crunch and Climategate.
Remembering that the death of Calvi was initially stated to be suicide; this installation is a particularly damning indictment of the moral failings of climate scientists.
It is particularly ironic that the chosen bridge was opened with such fanfare as a technological marvel and then promptly closed to pedestrians because of resonance problems. Only after extensive re-engineering could it be opened to the public. ”
Well, that’s what this art critic thinks.
We need a large three-sided object the size of a locomotive. Label one side ‘endangered things’, one ‘common sense” and the third “science.” Each month it could be moved to one of the world’s high bridges and dangle in the wind. Makes better sense.
I find it pathetic that such great artists could not find something that is actually currently endangered to showcase. But, of course, the things that are endangered follow from mostly solvable issues (making farms from forests, for example) and seem to go undetected by these brilliant minds.
Even more craziness. Yesterday was a typical summer day, and it was warm overnight…in fact at about 10:30pm, it was still 31c. Not unusual for Sydney inner west and summer and westerly winds. But today we get more climate garbage;
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/sydney-sweats-through-hottest-night-in-13-years-20100223-p07b.html
Notice the airport is mentioned.
Followed by;
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/start-preparing-sydney-warming-is-inevitable-20100222-orrf.html
More alarmist rubbish!
Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body.
Nup — that’s merely where it *originates*…
Sorry for the length of this – I can’t vouch that it is authentic, but it resonates with aspects of carbon trading schemes.
…………………….
Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London
16 July 2009
Dear Secretary of State,
My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs. I would now like to join the “not rearing pigs” business.
In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to rear pigs on, and which is the best breed of pigs not to rear? I want to be sure I approach this endeavour in keeping with all government policies, as dictated by the EU under the Common Agricultural Policy.
As I see it, the hardest part of this programme will be keeping an accurate record of how many pigs I haven’t reared. Are there any Government or Local Authority courses on this?
My friend is very satisfied with this business. He has been rearing pigs for forty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in 1968. That is – until this year, when he received a cheque for not rearing any.
If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding
myself down to about 4,000 pigs not raised, which will mean about £240,000 for the first year. As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious, perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not reared in my second year, for which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department. Incidentally, I wonder if I would be eligible to receive tradable carbon credits for all these pigs not producing harmful and polluting methane gases?
Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tonnes of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops. Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to not feed the pigs I don’t rear?
I am also considering the “not milking cows” business, so please send any information you have on that too. Please could you also include the current Defra advice on set aside fields? Can this be done on an e-commerce basis with virtual fields (of which I seem to have several thousand hectares)?
In view of the above you will realise that I will be totally unemployed, and will therefore qualify for unemployment benefits. I shall of course be voting for your party at the next general election.
Yours faithfully,
(Name supplied)
It has been pointed out before on WUWT that Polar Bear numbers are up over the past 50 years, Arctic sea ice area is up each year since 2007, Antarctica ice is at a maximum extent. How many more times do we have to remind these naive fools?
Arctic Ice:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20091005_minimumpr.html
Polar Bears:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1545036/Polar-bears-thriving-as-the-Arctic-warms-up.html
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/polar-bear-numbers.jpg
Antarctica:
http://www.news.com.au/antarctic-ice-is-growing-not-melting-away/story-0-1225700043191
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/08/antarcticas-ice-story-has-been-put-on-ice/
Isn’t art often disturbing? I can thing of plenty that is. I can also think of plenty of artists once ridiculed who are now much more respected.
REPLY: Climate skepticsim has followed the same path. -A