From cartoonist Marc Roberts, via Andy Revkin:
We await Josh.
A new apology today from 10:10’s director, to replace the half-witted first one. [Game show buzzer sounds] too little, too late.
Statement by Eugenie Harvey, Director of 10:10 UK
Last week, 10:10 made available a short film. Following the initial reaction to the film we removed it from our website and issued an apology on Friday 2 October.
Subsequently there has been negative comment about the film, particularly on blogs, and concern from others working hard to build support for action on climate change. We are very sorry if this has distracted from their efforts.
We are also sorry to our corporate sponsors, delivery partners and board members, who have been implicated in this situation despite having no involvement in the film’s production or release.
We will learn from this mistake. Today I have written to supporters and stakeholders explaining that we will review processes and procedures to make sure it cannot happen again. Responsibility for this process is being taken by the 10:10 board.
The media coverage of the film was not the kind of publicity we wanted for 10:10, nor for the wider movement to reduce carbon emissions.
If people have been in touch with us personally about the film, we will be replying to individual emails over the next few days. Meanwhile our thanks go out to all those who support 10:10 and who work to combat the threat of climate change.
Eugenie Harvey
Director, 10:10 UK
hello@1010uk.org
NYT’s Andrew Revkin says:
If the goal had been to convince people that environmental campaigners have lost their minds and to provide red meat (literally) to shock radio hosts and pundits fighting curbs on greenhouse gases, it worked like a charm. Of course the goal might have been buzz more than efficacy. Too often these days, that’s the online norm. They succeeded on that front. I, among many others, am forced to write about it. Congratulations.
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I’d like to see the group’s sponsors, including Sony, figure out an upside to this effort. They should either state why they continue to provide support or pull out.
Ask and ye shall receive, WUWT commenter Katabasis notes:
Official response from Sony:
“Thank you for your email concerning the video released by the 10:10 climate change campaign group. Sony has supported the 10:10 climate change campaign because we share its objective to reduce carbon emissions. However, we strongly condemn the “No Pressure” video which was conceived, produced and released by 10:10 entirely without the knowledge or involvement of Sony. The company considers the video to be ill-conceived and in extremely bad taste. We also believe the video risks undermining the work of the many thousands of members of the public, schools and universities, local authorities and many businesses, of which Sony is one, who support the long-term aims of the 10:10 movement and who are actively working towards the reduction of carbon emissions.
As a result we have taken the decision to disassociate ourselves from 10:10 at this time.
In our press statement we will be posting tomorrow morning we reaffirm our ongoing commitment to the reduction of global carbon emissions as part of our ‘Road to Zero’ environmental plan.”
First seen here:
http://ktwop.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/sony-disassociate-themselves-from-1010/
Paul Chesser at the American Spectator writes:
It looks like Sony and Kyocera Mita have demanded their removal from all associations with the extremist climate group 10:10.org, which produced that exploding schoolchildren video last week. The corporations’ names have been removed from the list of partners, and a lengthy post by Sony’s point-person on climate change, Naomi Climer, has been deleted from the 10:10 site.
Not only that, but a huge U.S. environmentalist promoter and partner, 350.org (headed by Bill McKibben), is no longer listed as an organizational partner. Both 10:10 and 350 have been heavily promoting an October 10 (10/10/10) “global workday” to supposedly bring fresh attention to the global warming threat. The message from 350.org’s press shop:
We respect 10:10’s previous work to encourage companies, schools, and churches to voluntarily cut their carbon emissions 10%. Upon seeing the video, however, we have informed 10:10 that we can no longer remain partners on 10/10/10 or any other initiative. 350.org maintains an absolute commitment to nonviolence in word and deed.
Ow, that’s gotta hurt.
More from NYT:
This from the article suggests that the 10:10 blunder has sucked all the online oxygen out of the environmental movement:
A YouTube repost (of the 10:10 video) by a third party Thursday got more than 149,000 views over the weekend and elicited more than 2,300 comments. Several other versions have topped 100,000 views, as well.
A Sierra Club video featuring a National Football League player warning that coal ash is a health threat to children got 95 YouTube views during the same interval.
And speaking of oxygen, the list of sponsors dwindles, and then there was one:
O2 is the only sponsor holdout thus far, we’ll see how long that lasts.
Post your updates and latest tips below, and I’ll include important ones here in the body of the post.
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1. Oh, and I should add this for Mr. Gareth Renowden, of “Hot Topic” New Zealand, the purported leading global warming website of New Zealand
Well Gareth, looks like your wrongheaded opinion of “sense of humour failure” has been falsified. Time to come clean and admit you’ve boobed.
We are also sorry to our corporate sponsors, delivery partners and board members, who have been implicated in this situation despite having no involvement in the film’s production or release.
We will learn from this mistake. Today I have written to supporters and stakeholders explaining that we will review processes and procedures to make sure it cannot happen again. Responsibility for this process is being taken by the 10:10 board.
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The Sony Timer claims another victim.
As a long term Sony customer I immediately emailed Sony Australia and complained about their sponsorship of this organization. Good to see Sony take immediate action when the true nature of this organisation became clear.
Cheers
Michael
evanmjones
LOL!!
This is just criminal and cowardly. I can’t believe they’re using a propagandist strategy of frightening children into compliance now their fear tactics no longer work on adults.
Sickening. They should be ashamed of themselves.
carbon emissions?….CARBON EMISSIONS? IT’S CARBON DIOXIDE! Can we call it what it is instead of what it isn’t? In the mind of the unassuming public, Carbon=black=dirty=bad for you . Carbon dioxide=colorless, odorless, harmless. The warmers have bastardized the language once again.
October 10, 2010 (delayed from the earlier planned date of October 8, 2010):
The Swedish Academy announced today that the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the 10:10.org for promoting nightmares in young children and for blowing-up children in the noble cause of reducing CO2 emissions by a miniscule amount. The Academy also congratulated the 10:10 team on providing an immoral video to the new world of the Internet (understanding that such bizarre immoral violent videos go viral on the Internet today even when pulled 24 hours after release).
For promoting the killing of 10 year olds that do not support coercing their parents into wasting their efforts through reducing 1 gram of CO2 for one day, the Nobel Peace Prize goes to 10:10.org.
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Don’t laugh. It has happened before.
Please, 10:10 there is one lesson still to learn. The most important lesson of all.
FREE THE DEBATE.
Skeptics would love to have opportunities, not for equal MSM time, but for fair interactive debate concerning the science, and the proper handling of science, with those who believe in manmade global warming. Al Gore has had a standing invitation for several years but has not responded so far.
tom s. “In the mind of the unassuming public, (…) Carbon dioxide=colorless, odorless, harmless. ”
Sadly, I wouldn’t bet on it. Wait around long enough on some message boards and a hysterical warmist will play their trump card. “If carbon dioxide is so harmless why don’t you stand in a garage with the doors closed and your car engine running!”
This erroneous impression isn’t helped by the government ads which concentrate on images like exhaust fumes. I am sure the potential for misleading isn’t unwelcome to some.
Sony can try, but I’ll not be buying. Maybe others will think of conducting a psychological examination before getting in bed with the insane.
(Not that hard, really, Sony products are junk, IMHO.)
Eugenie Harvey’s apology was to those “working hard to build support for action on climate change”, “corporate sponsors, delivery partners and board members”. Conspicuously absent from this apology were those who should have felt the most threatened by this video: those who have not yet accepted her group’s outlook as well as those who will likely never accept it. Even more reprehensible is the weasel wording that makes the offense a fault of those receiving the message – apologies to those who were “distracted from their efforts” or “have been implicated in this situation”.
Either way, the whole thing sounds like someone who still believes in the message of this video but is sorry that so many people just don’t understand it. Perhaps they truly wish they could just blow up those people, thus removing their problem.
Lucy Skywalker says:
October 4, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Please, 10:10 there is one lesson still to learn. The most important lesson of all.
FREE THE DEBATE.
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Nice to hope for, but I’m not sure they’re there, yet. Neither do I believe they’ll ever get there. Even when this debate gets put to rest, they’ll simply shrink to the shadows only to show themselves again under a different guise. If this 10:10 video did nothing else, it exposed many of the alarmists for what they are. The argument for these people has nothing to do with humanity and everything to do with control over humanity. Spin control will engage, and if necessary, and apparently it is, they will throw the 10:10 organization under the bus.
Let’s not forget, this group was well funded by both corporations and government. They enlisted mainstream celebrity. The video is of good quality(content excepted). Is it really possible that the majority of the world has no sense of humor and that the benefactors had no knowledge of the humorless video at the same time? I’m a flexible guy, but I just can’t stretch that far.
10:10 features in Black’s Blog – and it seems to have sucked all the CAGW life out of him and many of the commenters:
BBC: Richard Black Blog: Campaigning explodes as climate process risks disintegration
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/2010/10/this_week_marks_a_first.html
I wonder how many people would disassociate themselves from James Hansen if the general population became aware of his activism? And of his heated 1988 testimony room?
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
October 4, 2010 at 7:38 pm
and his view of coal trains as trains of death?
…even more horrific “remixes” of the video that are now being propagated….
probably the most—don’t watch if your squeamish
[snip let’s leave well enough alone ~mod]
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
October 4, 2010 at 7:38 pm
“I wonder how many people would disassociate themselves from James Hansen if the general population became aware of his activism?…..”
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They were told, they just compartmentalize. Hansen, to them, is a useful idiot. He’s consider fringe by his actions, yet scientific by his position and education. While I’m sure later, this video will be viewed as a production by the extreme and fringe, we should hold this in complete remembrance. Funded by Sony, Kyocera, the U.K. government, O2 and more. Written by a world famous movie writer. Actors and actresses from the X-files, radiohead, etc…. This was well funded, well staged, embraced and employed of world famous people. Well concerted in every way imaginable.
@ur momisugly artwest: Standing in a closed garage with a car idling will kill you by Carbon MONOXIDE poisoning before the CO2 does. Let’s get our gasses correct! Hmmm?
“Meanwhile our thanks go out to all those who support 10:10 and who work to combat the threat of [man made]climate change.”
Their violent words and thoughts continue. They haven’t learned a thing, but they will be more careful in who they trust and how they present their message. But they still consider this a war against man. They haven’t apologized for that, yet.
Rule number one: Never and I mean never, embarrass your boss! Those sponsors are your boss. The message is not the point, your work, good, bad or indifferent is not the point. Embarrassing your boss is the point. My free advice, and worth every penny, look for a new job in some other line of work.
James Sexton,
I’m meaning the general population. The general population doesn’t know who James Hansen is and where he works. They don’t know he’s “the grandfather of global warming”.
It’s not even original…
Does it mean that skeptics == Martians who hate country music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhgnMX73Pw&feature=related
Or are the warmers trying to convince us of “The Importance of Not Being Seen… to be a Skeptic” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmRgQX82O4
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
October 4, 2010 at 8:13 pm
James Sexton,
“I’m meaning the general population. The general population doesn’t know who James Hansen is and where he works. They don’t know he’s “the grandfather of global warming”.
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Sad, but probably true. Were it not for CA and WUWT, there are times when I would think I was the only one watching this horrific event unfold. Even still, it is unimaginable to me to let an avowed activist as the keeper of the keys. We can’t be the only ones that know this!
Somebody in the USA didn’t get the message. http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The_Civilians_Receive_700000_Grant_from_National_Science_Foundation_20101004.
REPLY: Too late, story on WUWT earlier today. Always check the main page first, but thanks. -Anthony
“Today I have written to supporters and stakeholders explaining that we will review processes and procedures to make sure it cannot happen again.”
That’s simple: as I heard an old Cajun say once, “Pull dat head out dat ass, boy!”