Of course, the 10:10 Splattergate video is only one in a series of horrible PR blunders made by the Greens. Read on for commentary and to see yet another shocking example of imagery about killing children in the name of climate change.
From Dr. Benny Peiser’s CCNet mailing, a collection of editorials regarding the 10:10 video:
Businesses Pull Out Of Climate Campaign After Green PR Disaster
Businesses have begun to distance themselves from the carbon-cutting campaign 10:10 over a promotional film the organisation premiered last week that depicts schoolchildren, office workers and celebrities being blown up for not taking action on climate change. Sony UK and Kyocera Mita, two corporate partners of the 10:10 campaign, both condemned the short film ‘No Pressure’, directed by Richard Curtis, today, for being “tasteless” and “shocking”. – GreenWise Business, 5 October 2010
If the goal [of the film] 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. –Andrew C Revkin, The New York Times, 4 October 2010
As often as 10:10 tried to pull the film off YouTube, their critics re-posted it. This, at least, proves what a cataclysmic misjudgement Curtis had made. When you try to satirise the critics of your campaign, and it turns out that those very critics embrace your film as demonstrating exactly what they find unbearable about the climate-obsessed eco-lobby, then you know that you have kicked the ball into your own net. Unfortunately, just as a star footballer who scores a spectacular own goal must now endure his foolishness being viewed endlessly on the internet, so Richard Curtis will have this hanging round his neck, like a stinking fish, for as long as he is successful enough to be worth mocking. –Dominic Lawson, The Independent, 5 October 2010
People who believe that humanity is heading towards destruction as a consequence of its misdeeds often take quiet pleasure in imagining the bloodshed to come. That, at least, is my explanation for Richard Curtis’s decision to make a short film for the 10:10 pressure group of climate change fanatics in which he depicted – with huge relish – children being blown to pieces. It’s important to grasp the quasi-religious nature of the 10:10 pressure group. Irrespective of where you stand on AGW, it’s clear that its pernickety commandments, most of them involving energy-saving lightbulbs, won’t make any difference to the fate of the planet. But they do have a sacred significance, as do the deaths in the Curtis snuff movie. There’s nothing like the prospect of the ritual slaughter of children to excite prophecy believers, in my experience. –Damian Thompson, The Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2010
The young don’t need religion, as the environment gives them all the certainty they need. Greenery, as a secular religion, has come to dominate not just the curriculum, but the imagination. It’s Blue Peter‘s recycled bottle tops on a grand scale: lessons on the dangers of global warming, projects on endangered species, litter-picking exercises. As any parent will testify, pester power is as often employed these days to guilt Dad into separating out the recyclables as to beg for the latest Transformer. Colleagues who have suffered their children’s eco-scorn assure me that no member of the Inquisition was ever so ruthless, ever so certain of his faith, as their tiny Torquemadas. –Robert Colvile, The Times, 6 October 2010
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Meanwhile, the last remaining sponsor of the 10:10 Splattergate video, the cell phone provider “O2” seems to be softening a bit.
Richard North has the story at the EU Referendum
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A bunch of people have been sending me this, and since it is getting wide play elsewhere, I suppose I’ll have to bring it up here. Last year, the Cannes film festival embraced this mentally repulsive child exploiting ugliness:
Source: http://www.act-responsible.org/ACT/ACTINCANNES/THEEXPO2009.htm
Act responsible?
Here’s the image from the upper right:
Source: http://www.act-responsible.org/ACT/ACTINCANNES/THE-EXPO/affiche.pdf
What sort of idiots would put their logo on something like this? The ones at the bottom apparently.
UPDATE: Apparently there are a few people, still so very dense, that this sort of thing does not phase their beliefs:
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Can somone with the know how make a copy of the film with a rolling tag line “the following companies sponsor 10:10 and give their profits to the making of films like this….O2 ; Sony ; …..”
then put it up on youtube and other friendly blogsites and send a link to the companies concerned. They will act pretty fast to distance themselves from 10:10.
It is not enough to make a statement distancing themselves, they have to cut their links to this evil film and the people who made it and find it funny.
Oh – dear – I was thinking of making a tongue-in-cheek comment about them 10:10’s ranking catching up to WUWT, but they passed you! (Not by much.) Hmm, I don’t see an easy way to make a URL for showing both “reach” lines.
Beck was all over this today .
Source: http://www.act-responsible.org/ACT/ACTINCANNES/THEEXPO2009.htm
Act responsible?
The child hanging add….
WWF are a PARTNER of that group…..
http://www.act-responsible.org/ACT/ACTINCANNES/ACTIVEPARTNERS.htm
Thanks for the contact link to green chip stocks Sent this.
“How can you possibly endorse the 10:10 ad campaign as per RT Jones appalling comment? Of course you have a self interest here but as a history teacher for 37 years the chilling association with mass murder by zealots is all too obvious. Oh, and by the way I am calling you on the bullshit that CO2 is even remotely dangerous to mankind. And yes, I taught science as well.”
“Jack Savage says:
October 6, 2010 at 1:04 pm
It is time to leave this alone.”
NO, it is not. The MSM is not covering it and hopes, like Jack, that it goes away. It is absolutely disgusting, amoral and should be held up to all as an example of the depravity of the global warmist religion. We must continue to disseminate it and have a wider audience view the examples of the use of the death, or impending death, of children to further their twisted campaign.
How low can they go? Considering slick sick flick they flew at Copenhagen … lest anyone has forgotten see 2:12 – 6:22 in:
http://cop15.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop15/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=2279&theme=unfccc
This includes a recycling of some of Pachauri’s more egregious claims (for good measure!) and ends with an oh so inspiring “we have the power to save the world” … and watch for one scene towards the end which almost prefigures (and might even have “inspired”) Franny & co’s button box.
And now this? One can hardly wait to see what they’ll conjure up for Cancun.
No pressure.
RichieP says:
October 6, 2010 at 1:19 pm
@Gary Young
Bad things happen in October, financial crashes seem to be a particular favourite, and British history has a number of battles, often lost by misjudgement, at this time of year (Hastings; Agincourt; Trafalgar) . Maybe it’s something to do with some sort of fundamental human cycle and its relationship to the weather (or do I mean climate? – and can I have a grant?)
The battles of Agincourt and Trafalgar are two of the biggest victories against the French in British history. Granted, the October jinx was in operation in 1066 when we suffered a pasting at Hastings but two out of three isn’t bad.
;0)
The true meaning of “no pressure” can be seen illustrated here:
What is most interesting about the film, is what it tells you about its creators.
The school children as well as the people in the hall were shocked by the explosion of the ‘non believers’. This demonstrates that the leadership elite, and not the masses, are the ones who are making things happen. They are similar to the Bolsheviks, Pol Pot and other notables.
This is not to dissimilar to the Weather Underground
Neo-paganistic Earth-worshipers. The new state-sanctioned religion.
UK Sceptic says:
October 6, 2010 at 3:37 pm
‘The battles of Agincourt and Trafalgar are two of the biggest victories against the French in British history.’
I didn’t in any way mean to imply these battles were losses for the English ( I am fully aware we won!), just that serious misjudgements were made by the losers, which also IMO was the case for Hastings – Harold should have bided his time.
Here in England, up until a couple of years ago, my daughters at the same school were inundated with CAGW propaganda. I explained to them that, as with every assertion, there was another side. I introduced them to various blogs, WUWT being the first, where they gained exposure to differing opinions to the ones they were being force-fed. I let them proceed at their own pace and I let them draw their own conclusions.
They became, of their own accord, ‘sceptics’.
I was approached by their headmaster at a PTA meeting and I was TOLD not to ‘corrupt’ my children by telling them that CAGW was so much garbage; my daughters were considered to be ‘disruptive elements’ in the classroom (both in different classes).
My reaction startled the headmaster somewhat!
Both of my girls are now University students and are well-able to differentiate between facts and propaganda. And they are educating others.
Thankfully, nearly all those responding to Green Chip Stocks idiot are reasonable and reasonably informed; but one is not, and I do fear how far this represents the still very young folk being exposed to science teaching as it currently stands. Here it is:
Does anyone have some reasonable overview on (a) the syllabus (b) the watermelon-factor (green-outside, red-inside) of science teachers at present, in the countries which WUWT represents? Because I strongly suspect indoctrination, though I would wish otherwise. But need evidence, not just anecdotal but statistically significant, or likely to be such.
@Greg, San Diego, CA says:
October 6, 2010 at 3:14 pm
I fully agree with you. The fight now is as much with the politics as with the science, in fact even more so now they know they are losing the scientific arguments. The apparent collapse of NIWA’s temperature fiddling is another example that has got to be fought out on the political stage. Change can only come by political means.
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/10/observations-on-niwas-statement-of-defence/
Richie P. & UK Skeptic,
Would seem that October was bad enough for the French….
Is there any clarification on how many sponsors have pulled out of 10:10?
‘The battles of Agincourt and Trafalgar are two of the biggest victories against the French in British history.’
Since when do people celbrate victories against the french. Even Mexico kicked french butt in Puebla on cinco de mayo, and they don’t celebrate it. Cinco de mayo is purely an american holiday created by corona.
Ed Fix says:
October 6, 2010 at 1:41 pm
‘The sole remaining 10:10 corporate sponsor, O2, seems to be having trouble with their website.’
O2’s now back up (00.56 BST) but doesn’t appear to have any references to 10:10. The search function delivers nothing, whilst their eco sections also seem to make no reference to 10:10.
http://www.o2.co.uk/thinkbig/planet
I wonder what this means? The 10:10 website still has them listed, so who knows. Perhaps 10:10 should be checking their emails ..
“Cinco de mayo is purely an american holiday created by corona.”
Which reminds me:
Q: What do you call four Mexicans in a leaky boat?
A: Quattro cinco… ☺
I’m trying to figure out how to respond when I see some say they are calling “b******t” on people being offended. How far out of touch are they? What kind of person cannot see how the film is offensive to most people and even frightening to some??
“CO2 IS pollution when there is more than our world can process. Car exhaust is CO which can actually combine with additional O and create CO2. ”
Oh boy. I have had this discussion. This one is a step ( a very short step) ahead of some of the others, and of course the facts are true, only the numbers elude this one.
Feedback,
Speaking of which, I wonder what the latest is on The Gore Effect?
Hockey sticks don’t work out so good for ‘global warming’.
@Robert Wykoff:
‘Since when do people celbrate victories against the french.’
Um, you might check out some European history then. The English have fought the French, on and off, bitterly and bloodily, for a bit under 800 of the last 1000 years. The Mexican experience, to be fair, isn’t quite the same, either in degree or duration. Even our (now obscene) gesture of disdain and abuse, the V sign, is alleged to have come from the bowmen of the 100 Years War and was aimed at the French – and frequently still is when drunk English football supporters rampage around Europe (no change there then). And Napoleon was no walkover.