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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I think I’ll make it my goal to increase emissions by 10%. What are you gonna do? Kill me? Bring it.
Bet GM liked it. {Ducks the snipping stick}
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.
The useful idiots discover too late, once the coercive power has been put in place and revealed who the authority really is. Of course who would dare dissent afterwards if you can be simply blown up with a press of a button.
Note also that AGW Believers are cast as the Authority figures and the Useful Idiots. Says it all doesn’t it.
Yes it is hard to believe that an AGW Believing group could be this dumb in managing their message. But on the plus side, they are revealing themselves. They will calim this is just a joke/satire, but it’s not. It’s a clearly drawn wish fulfillment scenario based on their own rage and frustration as the AGW movement crumbles.
I expect that the AGW “all power” wish fulfillment will translate into actual violence, first against property and tehn against people.
Smokey,
How is this video inciting criminal behaviour? If it is inciting criminal behaviour, then showing it is inciting criminal behaviour, and Anthony should probably not include it on his website.
Get a sense of humour, stat.
The absurdity is that a 10% emission reduction will have negligible effect even in the CGM’s with the largest positive feed back. But “nobody expects the Spanish inquisition”. I guess we all have our dark fantasies but some of us are mature enough to suppress them.
Oh! I get it. Don’t forget to vote.
Thanks!
“Believe or die.” How very intelligent.
Very dark Monty Python funny for ADULTS, unfortunately UK AGW mentality will probably put it into schools.
Scaring kids into going with their particular flow would be par for the course.
Now we can see the emperor has no clothes.
Sometimes the warmers show their true intentions.
That’s incredible. I’m now going to buy some premium gas. I say to 10:10 “Blow Me”
Behind the scenes of blowing up kids
I also like how most of the kids and people who are not participating are portrayed as a little sketchy compared to others. Kind of like the people who are targeted for bullying anyway – so no one will miss them after they have been ‘sploded. Nothing like sending a message. Humanity is always good for a laugh.
Our very own Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings trilogy fame) started his film making career creating low tech. splatter movies having similarly stupid and mindless plots.
Difference is that his intent was to have stupid and mindless plots whereas these 10:10 clowns are trying to be serious which actually makes them funnier in a perverse sort of way.
Fine print, bottom left, end of video.
Everyone should flag that video on youtube
Click flag – disgusting content. I felt sick seeing eyeballs going down the screen, this is not humour.
David Gould,
This video incites
criminal behaviormurder. No trial, no jury, just eco-wackos with convenient red buttons. And you are still apologizing for it.Rationalizing murder by laughter is no different from certain 20th century Europeans who laughed about buying vacant houses extremely inexpensively because the former owners went “up the chimney.”
Ha, ha.
No profanity here –
I unleashed all that using their own “contact a friend” email system
hello@1010global.org
“Get a sense of humour” …
Yeah, it’s as funny as Pol Pot has been.
It better stays on top of this Website for a while to show some warmists which kind of friends they have. I would change sides after that.
Gould,
Oh! Forget it! You’re so sick, trying to reason with you is a waste of time.
(Mr Watts: This is not meant as a personal attack on a contributor. It’s an admission of failure. I can’t communicate with such a *&^%.
What I found most shocking was the nonchalant way The Guardian covered this dirty little story. Here’s my comment on their website (I expect they will delete it):
I’m from Germany, and I’m still grateful to you, the British (and to your kin from America) for saving us from barbarism (“Die Juden sind unser Unglück”) some 60+ years ago. And now one of the great “liberal” English newspapers embraces barbarism itself (“the skeptics are our misfortune”), and a great deal of their readers seem to think that’s OK. Where will you stop? Driving cars, for instance, causes much more deaths than weather related incidents do…
The thought that the Guardian could drop to such appalling low levels makes me sad. You don’t expect us to save you from barbarism this time around, do you?
Reason be with you!
“Sep 1, 2010
SILVER SPRING, Md. — A man who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.”
Global warmers seem to like bombs for some reason, blowing things up?
Good find Anthony. These people will stop at nothing. Pretty sick!
This is a clever if not too subtle dig at the methodologies employed by not only the AGW and “Inconvenient Truth” brigades, but also cults, religious organizations, dictatorships, peer groups, political and environmental groups. Actually any group that excludes alternative views or opinions – quite common when you think about it.
Look throughout human history. Think about Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge. Or the Natzi gas chambers. How could such banal things have been done? This video is an education on that. The immature, makers of this video have no awareness of those periods in history called the ‘Renaissance’ or the ‘Enlightenment’. And killing children? Who merely disagree? I’m single, but I’ve changed diapers & have many nieces & nephews. And guess what? They disagreed with me all the time. They were entitled to & I liked them for it. I don’t like the word ‘evil’ but this video maker espouses things that in human history fit that description. Perhaps they should move to North Korea. In any case this has to be confronted.
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David Gould,
This video that you imply is a so-called “joke” should be shown but not to children. Al Gore did enough harm to children already.
We will just judge for ourselves what this video is. If it really is by supporters of AGW, then independent thinkers have new intellectual ammunition to use.
John