O…M…G – Video explodes skeptical kids in bloodbath

Scarlet Pumpernickel says:
September 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Everyone should flag that video on youtube
Click flag – disgusting content. I felt sick seeing eyeballs going down the screen, this is not humour.”
YES

I would also say, send this to the PBS Ombudsman and ask if the NewHour is endorsing this, too.
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/feedback.html

Not stupid just evil?
Probably the most disgusting thing I have seen out of the CAGW camp — and that is saying a lot!

By the way, I’d like to be spared any remarks about the natural superiority of British comedy. Don’t want to be told about the wonderfully daffy and zany Monty Pythonesque touches. It makes me think of a humourless Prince Charles chortling over The Goons, unaware that the real comedy is his Aston Martin running on organic English wine.

Mr Gould,
The first step in preparing the way for slaughter is to dehumanize the victims. When they become less than human, when they can be murdered as nonchalantly as taking out the garbage, then comes the actual killing. This video was not about making an argument in regard to global warming. Intentional or not, this video dehumanizes skeptics and sets aside the need to debate the science under the guise of humour, and proposes that not only is the science settled, but that there is no longer any value in debating with the doubters, they are just a group of malontents who there is no reasoning with and who can be dismissed by making fun of them, going to far as to laugh at their murder.
There are parallels in history, and the most recent of these was not so long ago that those who survived still live and bear witness to the horrors that humanity is capable of sinking to. If you truly believe that there was no harm in this video, then you are either hopelessly naive, or harbour a belief system that is sympathetic to this strategy.
The epitaph at the bottom of war memorials says “Lest we forget”. It is unfortunate that some, in their zeal of advance what they believe to be true, have abandoned any semblence of a scientific discussion and instead adopted a strategy of dehumanizing their detractors in a fashion we have not seen since the rise of Adolph Hitler. You may have “forgotten” sir, but I for one have not.
That the proponents of AGW turn to this kind of strategy says much about the lack of science to back their position.

Really liked Blackadder. First couple seasons, anyway.
And 4 weddings and a funeral was OK, i guess.
this is pretty repugnant.
hope they get their butts sued off next time a fight breaks out in some school about global warming.

mosomoso,
I think that the comments were about British and American senses of humour being *different*, not necessarily that one is superior to the other. Obviously, being from the British side of our great anglophone family, I tend towards the British camp for a lot of my humour. But there is a huge amount of fantastic American comedy.

Smokey,
It would be silly for the word satire to appear in a satire – it would kind of ruin it, don’t you think?
Uncovers the identities? They are right there: the writer, director, organisation, commentators. You may have fantasies about there being some secret plot here, but reality is a little more mundane. ‘Reality’. Remember that word.

Is this any more than a visualisation of the sentiments expressed by Finnish “Philosopher” Pentti Linkola in this article?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/global-warming-alarmist-calls-for-eco-gulags-to-re-educate-climate-deniers.html
I have linked this before but it seems to fit right in here.

I think people are missing what the video correctly assumes. The video correctly assumes that a large portion of the CAGW foot troops consider skeptics on the same level as vicious pedophiles or worse.
So the reason this seems funny to them (in the Monty Python tradition), is that they have been very succesfully conditioned to believe that carbon emissions are raping the planet beyond repair, and that those who don’t oppose them are to be seen as inherently wicked, or at least sick. Like it or not, this is the prevalent view among the do-goody warming troops. And it is to the credit of the propaganda machinery that it has been able to create this kind of mindset. So they see it as funny because they say to themselves something like: “We don’t really want to blow them up, of course, we are civilized, but sometimes we fantasize along those lines, because they really are scum.”
Mike Hulme is the founding director of the Tyndall Centre, and Professor of Climate Change at the University of East Anglia. The Tyndall Centre has been described “an organisation so revered by environmentalists that it could be mistaken for the academic wing of the green movement.”
The following quotes from this man are simply amazing, and they are, in many ways, at the bottom of why the video in question is found funny. This is what it’s all about. The science itself is a side show for these people. They know they will never lack scientists to go along for the ride, as long as they have carrots to offer them.
http://buythetruth.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/climate-change-and-the-death-of-science/
Quotes:
[…]
The function of climate change I suggest, is not as a lower-case environmental phenomenon to be solved…It really is not about stopping climate chaos. Instead, we need to see how we can use the idea of climate change – the matrix of ecological functions, power relationships, cultural discourses and materials flows that climate change reveals – to rethink how we take forward our political, social, economic and personal projects over the decades to come.
Climate change has moved from being a predominantly physical phenomenon to being a social one…
Climate change also teaches us to rethink what we really want for ourselves…mythical ways of thinking about climate change reflect back to us truths about the human condition…
The idea of climate change should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identifies and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us…Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs.
…climate change has become an idea that now travels well beyond its origins in the natural sciences…climate change takes on new meanings and serves new purposes…climate change has become “the mother of all issues”, the key narrative within which all environmental politics – from global to local – is now framed…Rather than asking “how do we solve climate change?” we need to turn the question around and ask: “how does the idea of climate change alter the way we arrive at and achieve our personal aspirations…?”
We need to reveal the creative psychological, spiritual and ethical work that climate change can do and is doing for us…we open up a way of resituating culture and the human spirit…As a resource of the imagination, the idea of climate change can be deployed around our geographical, social and virtual worlds in creative ways…it can inspire new artistic creations in visual, written and dramatised media. The idea of climate change can provoke new ethical and theological thinking about our relationship with the future….We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects. Whereas a modernist reading of climate may once have regarded it as merely a physical condition for human action, we must now come to terms with climate change operating simultaneously as an overlying, but more fluid, imaginative condition of human existence.

To see the harm for kids in this video, you have to imagine them passing it among friends or schoolmates. Some of them will discover delight in this video and that delight will be associated with the alarmist message. At its least harmful, the message will be understood by some as “Justice has been done.”