My Inbox exploded with tips today, this one in particular. This unbelievably vile video from the 10:10 campaign takes the award for the most disgusting climate and carbon reduction video ever. It is in a class by itself, which is off the scale. See also Ryan Maue’s post below this one on the 350.org tie in for 10:10.
What were they thinking? They weren’t, because this is going to have the exact opposite effect they intended it to have. I don’t have words to describe my disgust with the video.
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO IMAGERY
Here is what they say about it on YouTube:
The1010Campaign | September 30, 2010http://www.1010global.org/no-pressure
Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis – you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief – and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie “No Pressure”. The film stars X-Files’ Gillian Anderson, together with Spurs players past and present – including Peter Crouch, Ledley King and David Ginola – with music donated by Radiohead. Shot on 35mm by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, “No Pressure” celebrates everybody who is actively tackling climate change… by blowing up those are aren’t.
I know people will be upset by this, please keep your comments civil – Anthony
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UPDATE1:
Some people in comments whether this is some sort of horrible spoof. It appears to be direct from 10:10, as the URL highlighted in yellow below on the YouTube description links directly to the 10:10 promotional web page:
http://www.1010global.org/no-pressure
which is a subpage of their main website.
UPDATE2: They are so proud of this “mini-movie” they did a “behind the scenes” video of it.h/t to WUWT reader “scarlet pumpernickel”.
UPDATE3: Hot Topic (an AGW proponent site) in New Zealand thinks this video is “obviously effective“
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Anthony Watts,
It is possible that the words that I used to describe those who believe that the US government caused 9-11 are on the banned list. Is there a banned list available, by the way?
In Spain, when some TV show needs an audience boost, usually the way to get it is to feature full naked people because that’s what a lot of people like most.
The same with the AGW show followers, but blood is the preferred sight here.
David Gould
What I find amusing in the bloodbath video is the apparent wishful thinking on the part of the Warmists, i.e. that very few people dissent. In reality
skeptics represent a majority in both the US;
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/americans_skeptical_of_science_behind_global_warming
and UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8500443.stm
David Gould says:
September 30, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Rick,
This may be a repeat, but:
This video is *fiction*; 9-11 was *real* (unless you believe the looney left conspiracy whackos).
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Umm…correction, for the record:
This video is *fiction*; 9-11 was REAL; this video is crap and this video is evil because it crosses the lines with pictures of blowing up children.
Is anything sacred anymore?
Obviously, David Gould, in your mind, it isn’t.
Res ipsa loquiter.
-Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
davidmhoffer,
It seems that you are another person who has misunderstood: *no children have been murdered*. This video is *fiction*.
As to me not believing in the concept of evil, I think that a discussion on that would be against Anthony’s policies, so unfortunately I am unable to defend the position. I added it because I do not want my use of language in common usage to confuse people as to my philosophical positions.
Mr. Gould, since you seem to be so fond of defending this video (on the government payroll no less) I’m wondering if perhaps you may be affiliated with any of the organizations mentioned? Are you a part of 1010, Greenpeace, WWF, or similar NGO?
Most of us are trying to understand why you act as you do.
David Gould says:
September 30, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Savethesharks,
Can you help me with the logic error?
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If you can’t figure it out yourself, then there is no use trying to help you.
-Chris
Perhaps people opposed to carbon emissions who like the video should begin by reducing their own carbon emissions by switching from a carbon-based to a silicon-based diet.
The ‘British humor’ (Gouldian mode) sarcasm tags were apparently ‘interpreted’ by the software and did not show up. 🙁
The people behind this movie need help
http://www.1010global.org/global/about/inside-1010-global
Any psychiatrist here that can scientifically explain this? Look at their self-described guilty pleasures:
Guilty pleasure: Out of season strawberries or blueberries.
Guilty pleasure: Blueberries not in season
Guilty pleasure: Having to drive, although in a shared car, to reach our organic vege garden and orchard in South Canterbury.
Guilty pleasure: Music, music, music, all day long, so my stereo and mp3 player spend some KWh every month.
This is the best one: Guilty pleasure: Oooo – heating in the winter
Guilty pleasure: far away cheese
Guilty pleasure: Long hot showers.
Guilty pleasure: High powered cars.
Guilty pleasure: long showers
Guilty pleasure: Good cheese!
Oh… now I get the joke – the AGW crowd are poking fun at their own totalitarian penchant for violence when faced with dissent.
It’s so tongue in cheek – not directed at sceptics at all, but at the closet dictators within the green movement that just about pop an artery every time someone disagrees with them.
Now that’s a relief – I first thought that there was a thread of serious intent in the subtext…
So, we can all reast easy, the AGW crowd are simply mocking their own fringe…
(arn’t they….)
Anthony Watts,
No, I am not part of any of the organisations listed or any similar NGO. I like discussing things with people who disagree with me, because that way you learn more and can test your own assumptions/prejudices/irrationalities in a more challenging environment.
I guess the question could be: why this topic? One of the reasons would be timing: today is a day on which I have limited other work to do, as the parliament is not sitting and the committee system is not yet up and running, it being a new parliament.
The other is that this is obviously a controversial issue: controversy is more interesting than consensus.
I should note that this does not mean that I am taking a devil’s advocate position; I honestly believe that this video is amusing and that the reaction to it (and to my defence of it) has been over the top. I am sure you agree that those saying that because I find this video funny I must support the murder of children or find Dachau hilarious are being ridiculous.
To David Gould: No, I just find the video juvenile and disgusting – and badly thought out, much like the polar bear falling out of the sky and planes swarming NYC videos produced by other NGO’s trying stupidly to make some point about carbon. If the were going to try to emulate the famous Monty Python skit where the fellow who kept hiding behind a bush gets blown up, they failed with the design. Gore, especially graphically presented Gore, is never funny.
I find your wasting taxpayer funded time on it bothersome also.
And, since you aren’t with an NGO, did you have something to do with the video production of this?
savethesharks,
I always try to help those having trouble with logic. Everyone can learn – even someone like me. 🙂
Frankly – looks like they are getting a 10% reduction in CO2 emissions via a (forced) 10% population reduction.
Graeme says:
September 30, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Hmmm.
The characters fall into three camps.
1. Sceptics who are explosively eliminated.
2. Believers who are spared, but shocked by the violence.
3. Authority figures, who blithly and cheerfully conduct the eliminations.
This structure fits a psychopathic structure, where the psychopath engages with everyone, lulls them into a false sense of security, i.e. everyone believes they are safe. Evaluates who to keep (the useful idiots) and who to remove (the non-useful, potentially threatening, sceptics). Of course, no remorse, no shock, no empathy, – a perfect depiction of a psychopath weilding power.
I suggest to all that they re-read rest of your posting, as it is an excellent expose of what this is all about. Almost a subliminal message that if you oppose them, there is a threat that has consequences. Often such threats are advanced in a dark humour vein so that if pressed on the issue the makers can deny any intent, after all it is only humour for God’s sake. Tell this to the many Australian scientists, EPA workers, employed in the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, and other government departments who will tell you privately that they doubt the extremist line that is being run in those departments today but, they feel they can’t speak out, for fear of losing their jobs, access to education, research grants or risking exclusion by the action of authoritarian extremists who zealously exact vengeance on those that don’t toe the “official” government line.
To these fearful individuals the underlying message is very clear. No pressure buddy, your choice, best to shut up and continue to feed your family, lest we push the extinction button! And if you want to complain we will deny any threat, and no one will listen anyway!!
the world socialists running the agw narrative have found their final solution.
I work in a creative industry, and for years I have been frustrating all of my co-workers by refusing to believe in the warmist theories. How frustrated were they? Lets just say I’m glad they didn’t have the magic little button.
Earlier this week we were having our seemingly bi-monthly argument on the topic when one of my fellow drones announced that he too was finally convinced that CAGW was wrong.
I am looking forward to sending the link of the 10:10 video to the rest of the co-workers tomorrow. Methinks by about noon that a couple more will be firmly in the ranks of CAGW skeptics. Keep up the good work 10:10, every bit helps.
I can imagine only two perspectives from which this video might be humorous. From one, the video is a satire of warmist fanaticism. It’s not that funny, but ok. The video is much funnier if it combines the satisfaction of a guilty desire with the reassurance of membership in a righteous in-group.
Perhaps they should air their little masterpiece in Israel. I have a hunch it wouldn’t be so well received by people who have to live with sort of thing as a reality.
Imagine for a moment turning the tables on them. Suppose some anti-warmist group made a video depicting protesters at a coal fired power plant being roughed up and dragged away behind huge, gas-guzzling pick up trucks. Oh….ha ha ha.
They would (quite rightly) be appalled and *NOTHING* about it would be deemed amusing. This little 10:10 video is like Monty Python on meth. Maybe they should torture puppies until everyone comes around to their way of thinkin’.
Repulsive, and completely irresponsible. Particularly coming after the lunatic who took over Discovery channel’s headquarters with bombs and firearms. Encouraging environutcases even more is such a good idea right?
“This video is *fiction*. ”
For some abstract concepts, like hate speech, there is no distinction at all between fiction and reality. This video seems very REAL on some of those concepts.
AGW is fiction.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
We have this video, where children and people are blown up for not having the ‘right’ beliefs, quite ironically on the same day that we have reports of children who found a person’s body – and proceeded to take photos of it with their cell phone cameras, laughing, and began throwing stones at it. These things begs for consideration of just what many children are being taught these days – by parents (or lack of any decent parental oversight), by ‘games,’ by the media – and by commercials or advocacy pieces like this CAGW video (along with the 100’s of planes circling NY commercial, the animals committing suicide one, the polar bears being dropped out of planes, the bunnies (or puppies?) being drown in the child’s bedtime story one… these are all really horrific)
Schoolchildren who find body in stream then throw stones and take pictures on their phones
By Claire Ellicott
A group of schoolchildren who discovered a dead body callously took pictures and threw stones at the corpse.
Robert Wilshire, who is believed to have been murdered, was discovered partially submerged in a stream by a group of youngsters from a local school.
They gathered around the body and some of the children took out their mobile phones to take pictures and film the scene. Footage is believed to have been posted on the internet.
— read the rest online —
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1316604/Schoolchildren-body-stream-throw-stones-it.html#ixzz114hrNGea
David Gould says:
September 30, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Sorry, late to the discussion. Please point to the humor for me, any humor in this video.
What is funny about murder of people that disagree with your perspective? What is funny about the advocating murder? You know what I find funny? People that believe they are in any way part of decent society that advocate such lunacy. You don’t believe in evil? That’s because you’ve never been confronted by it. Come back when you grow up and have had experiences you can relate to life. Until then, child, you would do well to shut up and pay attention.
The problem with seeing this as ‘British Humour’ in the vein of Black Adder and Monty Python is that alarmists are being spoofed. Yet serious alarmists have produced this. This does not compute, David Gould.
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Anthony Watts,
Okay – we will have to disagree on gore. It can be hilarious.
As to wasting taxpayer dollars, I do not consider it a waste to learn more, as knowing current affairs and the various viewpoints on them is part of my job description. Engaging with people on things like this is very useful.
avid Gould says:
September 30, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Francisco,
Rest assured that I do not consider sceptics to be on the same level as vicious paedophiles. I think a slogan that was used by people on your side of the debate re Al Gore sums up my thinking: not evil, just wrong. (Not that I believe in the concept of evil, but hey …)
So what was the wholesale slaughter of millions of people in the death camps of Nazi europe in the 1940s – if not evil?