Somebody just can’t handle satire.
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Wednesday, April 21st 2010
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Video Spoofing Michael Mann Removed by YouTube – Bogus Reason Given
St. Paul — At a Washington DC press conference yesterday, the No Cap and Trade Coalition announced a new video spoofing prominent ‘climategate’ scientist, Dr. Michael Mann and his infamous ‘hockey stick chart’ showing rapidly increasing global temperatures in recent decades. The video was posted on YouTube until Wednesday afternoon, when the Google-owned video site removed the video, citing non-existent copyright claims by Jib Jab as the reason. The video was produced in response to a cease and desist demand from Michael Mann’s attorney over an older video produced by Minnesotans for Global Warming. The original Hide the Decline video they created used some Jib Jab-provided animation, under their general license and with their expressed written consent, but the new video, recently removed by YouTube contains no such content.
Spokesman for the No Cap and Trade Coalition, Jeff Davis said, “It looks like Dr. Mann has gone into overdrive trying to hide ‘Hide the Decline,’ since the new video was launched and began to spread like wildfire across the internet.” In the span of less than a day, the video had been linked on over 1,000 websites, including News Busters, Junk Science, and the American Spectator. It was going viral fast and the press was calling when YouTube pulled the plug.
According to the No Cap and Trade Coalition, Jib Jab has no rightful claims on the new video, titled ‘Hide the Decline II.’
“They have no basis for this copyright claim. It’s outrageous that they would claim ownership of content we produced, if that’s indeed what’s happened, as YouTube claims in the removal notice,” said Davis.
Although YouTube has decided to stifle the popular new satirical video, it’s still available through other venues and can be viewed at NoCapAndTrade.com.
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Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW) uses humor to illustrate the absurdity of anthropogenic global warming fears. Their slogans are “Turn your snow shovels into lawn chairs,” and “Nothing would be green without CO2.” – M4GW.com
The No Cap and Trade Coalition consists of over 40 state and national organizations that are opposed to cap and trade legislation. For more information, see NoCapAndTrade.com
Dan McGrath
Minnesota Majority
http://www.minnesotamajority.org
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The Minnesota Majority have reposted the video at Vimeo and it can be viewed here:
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Google owns Youtube, and Google is left-wing and in bed with the regime. Which is why no real, genuine network neutrality is a bad thing. Content controllers like Google can control what is available on the internet 🙁
REPLY: And why I recommend using WordPress over Blogger. Blogger is another Google division. -A
The original video ‘Hide the Decline’ is still on YouTube.
There are a lot of Hide the Hide the Decline videos as well…
Hide the Decline II is back up here and at no cap & tax coalition site
IT/CS types are overwhelmingly pro-AGWH, see their complete coup of wikipedia. I guess they trust computer simulations above all else..
…no way to fix that, save introduce scientific methodology as a compulsory part of all IT programs. Currently they en masse believe that studying some recursive math and linear algebra makes them (actual) scientists.
PS. Having said that, I have recently come across many computer scientists that *are* able to look further than the tip of their nose. Even more props to them.
Eugenic BELIEVER LOL
They call us DENIERS, they are BELIEVERS!
They who control information dissimination and content control the direction of the world. (or they would like to think)
Censorship is the greatest evil of all. Followed closely by any ideology one can think of.
You do not hear my father whinin’ and fussin’ about the pure unadulterated bull cookies they print and discuss about him over Depropagandablog. Does anybody think that (snip) is for real? Double standards all around, barkeep !!
Is it ok for someone not from Jib Jab to say they are from Jib Jab? Sounds illegal……
The videos that must not be mentioned.
Please, kind ladies and/or gentlemen, read “over AT depropagandablog”. Thank you for your time.
The bigger they get the more cowardly they become?
the biggest problem with MOST CAGW-ers. NO SENSE OF HUMOUR.
Just to be sure, the first Hide the Decline video is here:
I hope it works not only on the Czech territory. You can turn the subtitles on/off by the “CC” button.
We still have a freedom of speech over here. In fact, our new environment minister – an iron lady – is going after the neck of the warmists. The first step she did as the minister was to abolish the whole climate department. 😉
I just ran into this with a YouTube search for “Hide The Decline” —
Al Gore is a ‘senior advisor’ to Google – he is probably helping them invent internet 2.0 – and, as we know, where there is a quid there is a pro.
err… quo!
Is YouTube an offshoot of Peer Review?
(The above video of Hide The Decline II is courtesy of the Fox News Channel on YouTube. I guess Google hasn’t decided to take them on, yet.)
Wow….(yawn – fidgets with post it notes and scratches head)
Like censorship is gonna somehow dissuade, oh,…I don’t know, a bazillion peoples, that AGW is sacrosanct, unbiased, and manifestly true.
Cos when they tell someone they can’t have an opinion, WE present them with the eagle, and procede to leave burning poo on their door step.
Kudos to those here, and on other blogs, with the courage, and the diginity to face this stuff down, with all the contempt it deserves.
And lawyers beware,…..i’m coming for all of you….(dude? thats like 100 million lawyers,…)..yeah?, Well…. hell, I never said i’d git to em’ all at once…
Should Sarah Palin get a cease and desist for these videos?
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http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/vp-debate-open-palin-biden/727421/
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http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/couric-palin-open/704042/?__cid=thefilter
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http://www.hulu.com/watch/141545/saturday-night-live-sarah-palin-network
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I think she’s a bigger person than Michael Mann, and not so insecure about what she is all about that she would want to control any public image of herself.
But then again Michael Mann’s got nothing to hide….. except declines and such.
VS (21:28:16) :
As A software engineer etc… I assemble that…
err resemble that … I cant spell.. (next I’ll be loosing my losing )…
Actually I would have thought that IT types would be VERY very aware
of how easy it is to stuff it up, and or manipulate outcomes (model wise)
cheers
J
Mann is not the only one wanted to sue people or papers that tells the truth… here in Canada we have our own witch-hunter; Andrew Weaver. When out of scientific arguments, they turn to court. I thought only politicians and Hollywood people had such egos… but so called scientists???
“UVic climate scientist sues National Post”
http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/saanichnews/news/91768534.html
I believe this is because the left wing ciphers that run Google actually believe in junk science. Like many other scientists, they all think they are equally smart. As Google, like Microsoft and Netscape descends into a uniform business model that relies upon its industry weight to survive, rather than science or creativity, it gravitates to edgy, and frequently unsubstantiated, ‘science’ in order to validate its existence as a real breakthrough business. Of course Google has done nothing but acquire other promising business models for the last 10 years. Like Microsoft, it has reached the limitations of its own creativity. So being ‘edgy’ is important to these condescending dilettantes. But it means little to real science. That involves much more than selling advertisement space. Because that is what Google is, the Newsweek of the internet./
Parody of Parody.
I saw this one at Lucia’s site. I doubt it will be up long.
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/parody-of-parody/