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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Anyway Dave. I absolutely agree with you.
Stuart seemed to think that this was a parody of the climate cult, but it wasn’t, it was their fantasy as you point out so correctly.
Sorry Jimash, I read it the wrong way 🙂
“Sorry Jimash, I read it the wrong way :)”
I knew that . ‘s quite alright.
It might work in the UK and AUS, but unfortunately for them – it is a global campaign and it will not work in the US.
David Gould
Check it out.
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/1096/Execute-Skeptics-Shock-Call-To-Action-At-what-point-do-we-jail-or-execute-global-warming-deniers–Shouldnt-we-start-punishing-them-now
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David Gould,
You decided it isn’t about blowing up people who are skeptics?
Then mysteriously you shifted to something about homosexuals.
You are losing it Dave.
John
Isn’t that what Saddam Hussein was doing with dissenters? I guess it’s a cultural thing.
Sick and disturbing. The fact that they even think something like this would be funny just shows their true feelings towards those that disagree with them.
Blowing up children? Doesn’t get much sicker than that. What’s next? Vidoes of kittens and puppies being tortured?
Curiousgeorge says:
September 30, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Btw, I also think this video constitutes sufficient justification to place everyone associated with it’s production or promotion on the Terrorist Watch List and the No-Fly list.
Agreed.
I don’t believe for a second that this is just straight. It’s a parody and the 10:10 people (who?) must be hopping mad.
Until you get confirmation that a CAGW believer did this (which ain’t gonna happen), do not believe it.
What next “Doubters Raus?” I have lost a child. Destroyed my first marriage.
This makes me sick.
I cannot let this abide. Link- it get it out in their face. Beck,Limbaugh, Hannity.
for starters. Your congress person. (I have one who will go ballistic.) While I don’t
aways agree with the above but the audience is huge. In-their-face.
Fight this evil.
Mr. Gould,
Is it true that you work for the Government of Australia?
That is truly disgusting and will be an epic fail for them.
Jimash,
Yes, there are lunatics. Do we tiptoe around them all and ban comedy violence completely because it might tip someone over the edge?
Anthony Watts,
Yes, it is true that I work for the government of Australia. 🙂
REPLY:Thank you. I was wondering if there might be anything you could do to help the Thompsons?
see this:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/28/21-complaints-and-an-idiotic-bureaucracy-enough-to-ruin-a-life-a-livelihood-and-a-family-home/
John Whitman,
How was my shift ‘mysterious’ given that it was a direct response to someone who had raised the issue of whether I would find it amusing if the subjects were homosexuals?
It is in no way funny. It is sickening.
If I didn’t know better i’d say it’s a form of threat.
so dumb… so dumb… so dumb…
There was no humor in this. Just stupidity.
Oh and P.S. cutting back by 10% isn’t going to change anything. According to the numbers that supposed climate scientist suggest it would delay the inevitable by 8 years perhaps less?
Anthony
Sorry, but this is a case of America and Britain being two very similar cultures divided by the use of a common language. It is straight out of the poker-faced-irony comedy tradition that runs back to Monty Python. Trust me, it is lethally effective and, I think, hilarious.
Stephen Pruett says:
September 30, 2010 at 5:46 pm
David Gould, Are you serious? Ask yourself what would happen if this video picked any other group as a target (e.g., Muslims,
Christians, gay people, minorities). If it would be wrong to target any of these groups, then the entire premise is wrong. This is not about having a sense of humor, I have a great sense of humor, but this isn’t humorous. It’s vile.Fixed! 😉
DaveE
This isn’t about saving the world from global warming, it’s about us using less oil (and other natural resources) so that there’s more for developing nations to develop. Why don’t they just come out and say this instead of trying to scare the crap out of us with grossly over-exaggerated AGW consequences?
Unbelievable… The hardcore Warmists seem to be desperate, lashing out and grasping at straws. Given that the US midterm elections may mark the beginning of the end for the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Narrative, we’ll probably see many more bouts of unbridled stupidity during the next month and quarter, until the 112th US Congress is elected and seated, and the real investigations begin…
One other thing- supporting the bloody murder of children just because they
think for themselves?
No one can convince me that evil is funny.
My sound isn’t working, so I don’t know what’s going on in this thing. But I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure it out. They’re blowing up skeptics.
And wow… LOL! These people are looney tunes! And while I laugh at how incredibily stupid (yet illustrative) this is, I’m somewhat distrubted by the lack of a “no people were harmed in the making of this message” message…
David Gould says:
September 30, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Stephen Pruett,
It is not ‘targetting’ anyone in the sense you mean. This is not a video advocating blowing up people who are sceptics. Thus, if the video was blowing up homosexuals, I would look at it in the same light: as a video not advocating blowing up homosexuals.
I will point out that it is difficult to transfer the context of mocking the persecution complex that some sceptics appear to have, as homosexuals *have* been murdered for being gay and *are* targetted by groups of people who most certainly do want to kill them, but if you could transfer the context, I would find it amusing.
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Could somebody please tell me what the hell this guy is talking about?
Actually, never mind.
Not interested in what he has to say.
-Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA