Yech. Look what automatically assaulted me during my purchase today of a flash drive. Click to see full size – note red arrow.
And here’s the web page for this intrusive organization ACE aka the Alliance for Climate Education. The programs appear to be free for high school students, so the pitch isn’t exactly forthcoming.
Looks like they are doing education with superhero costumes and rap music. Yeah, sure, I wanna donate to “climate education” like that.
Looks like NOAA is partly pushing this outfit, looky who is on the science board.
And badges, they need lots of stinkin badges!
Here’s the video pitch (warning, air sickness bag recommended)
Shame on Ebay for promoting this dreck.
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“Teach them in a way that sticks.”
Re-Education camps? Maybe the warmists have some leftover material from operation paperclip… That could explain the psychotic behaviour of the ones already brainwashed. 😉
Well, let’s all tell eBay what we think!
Oh No Anthony !
It’s another arm of the Goracle octopus – The Climate Project, Alliance for Climate Protection, Repower America etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Climate_Protection
Couldn’t you guys have kept this crew in the US, as they are also indoctrinating our children here in Australia.
Regards,
Jeff
What absolute dreck! And to “Denver” for example, my backyard.
I am reminded of the London Spectator AGW-debate a couple months ago. One rare new point to emerge from it came from skeptic Nigel Lawson. Despite the grand uncertainty of AGW alarm, the young are the most vulnerable victims, terrorized into accepting pseudo-scientific causes, by EDUCATORS.
Is it any wonder that President Obama’s most fervent supporters are still those most recently released from State Educrats? Of course not. AGW is the same, only worse, since it is now .
cash only from now on????
The only way to stop this nonsense is to not use the services of companies that pander to the global warming movement. I have a lengthy list of brands I no longer purchase — all of them companies that have “jumped the global warming shark”. I refuse to fund the sort of thing mentioned in this article, and if it means going a little further for some things, or getting used to something different than what I normally purchase, so be it. Small price to pay to save the world from these fanatics…
Well, in the UK we’ve an “industry” bullying our educators into blaming most anything on AGW – the state funds made available to them mean that this sort of thing is common – dreck is away too polite to describe the moronic PR agency scripting that characterizes these “charity” appeals ….
I wonder how much of a boost in business eBayer joewy will get off this?!
[snip – we don’t need to introduce this hateful rhetoric into this thread – Anthony]
Clearly they are going after the young and gullible.
Dollars taken from the development of schools, clean drinking water, bug nets, and cooking fires that get hot enough to cook and use fuel that is easily available and quickly replaced.
I guess world hunger, illiteracy, unsafe water, malaria, and inadequate warmth and the ability to sterilize just aren’t very good subjects for dressup videos.
I smell George Soros
I recently had to review an application form for one of my students whose parents are considering sending their child to the States on a High School Education exchange program. ( We live outside the USA in the Far East)
Looking through the notes that came with the form I happened on:
“Exchange students are expected to fill some kind of charity or community work during their stay. (No problem with that for me, great idea).
Examples are Sierra Club, Audabon and another” (can’t remember the name but all related to AGW. No other agencies and groups were mentioned).
I advised her to do community work and not get involved with political entities. Don’t know if that will have any effect as she will not go to the States until next year.
That video pitch put me in the mood for a burger. If I can prevent just one cow from farting, I’ve done my part. But, seriously, can someone please explain to me how GHGs would be reduced if there were no cows. It just seems to me that vegetation will eventually produce the same amount of green house gases whether it is digested quickly in cows stomachs, is burned in a wild fire, or falls to the ground and decomposes slowly. Where am I wrong?
THE HotLINK in my comment above got abrieviated to a “‘.” period, without its identifier. Let’s try my concluding bon mot once more:
Is it any wonder that President Obama’s most fervent supporters are still those most recently released from State Educrats? Of course not. AGW is the same, only worse, since it is now “ecofacism of Nazi propaganda-proportions”.
http://www.ecofascism.com/review11.html
William Walter Kay’s 2008 review-essay of Oxford historian Anna Bramwell’s “Hidden History of Environmentalism,” who explores the fascist roots of ecologism, with applications to the Great Global Warming crusade. Well worth your time, if you haven’t read it.
glad I stopped buying from eBay a while back.
It stopped having any real deals long ago, the few novel items on their are no longer quite so novel and are sold at other locations, typically with a lower price and many fewer attempts to juice the final price up beyond a teaser rate. That and the fact that I had three times when i never received my product, and eBay does not in fact have any valuable customer care service. The date of expiration on their promises seems to be one day before they get around to reading your complaint, not the date of your complaint.
And they wonder why kids can’t read their graduation diplomas and count change and know nothing about their country, civilization and how to think. Not all kids but enough to make our educational system a failure.
eBay should stick to their business and keep their keep their hands off our kids.
Disguisting. Makes me wish I was back in school do I could boycot this thing and make a big stink over it.
Bob Diaz;
I think comparisons to “Hitler’s Youth” are a bit strong and repugnant just as the warmists use of the term “Denier” is. Let’s not stoop to their level.
REPLY: I agree and have snipped that video and comment. We don’t need to go there. – Anthony
The fascist element to AGW enthusiasm was brought home to me in these quotes from John Hoggan’s book “Climate Cover Up”:
“You will be consuming a steady diet stories that suggest that some
aspects of climate science are still in doubt.” – John Hoggan
(“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“You should be hypervigilant.” – John Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“Join the neighborhood watch of those who people who no longer stand
for disinformation to be passed around your social circle.” – John
Hoggan (“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
“That’s what we need: vigilance. Eyes on the street.” – John Hoggan
(“Climate Cover-Up”, 2009)
I also realized in the shower today that Godwin’s Law applies to the use of the term “denier” to describe skeptics, for the root of this term refers to Holocaust denial, which is owned by various neo-nazi groups, mostly skinheads and tyrants.
You know that they are losing the debate when the only people left that they can convince are the children. My kids are out of school now, but when they were I encouraged this sort of thing…. on the proviso that a rebuttal be given equal time. School can’t say no, or they look like they are stifling debate and guess what happens if they say yes? Warmists suddenly have scheduling conflicts and can’t make it. They know darn well they can’t win in an open debate with a well informed opponent.
mods – my last comment had some of “those” words in it and fell down the rabbit hole. Mind rescuing it?
We need to start protesting the companies that are funding our unraveling economy and personal freedoms… useful idiots that they are. GE, Progressive Ins, Ebay, Disney, anyone that advertises on MSNBC. All I can think of off the bat, but we should compile a list and do unto them, as they constantly and quite effectively, do unto those they disagree with.
These greedy alarmists and eco-communists know they are losing the battle with adults. So, instead of giving up the easy money or the Marxist dream, they move to indoctrinate children. Succeed there, and they won’t think twice about obey the enlightened. Ever wonder why warlords recruit children fighters? When, not if, AGW is proven to be false, these same people will find something else to force us to hand over our money and our rights.
You want to see something scary? Ask a college student these 4 words “What do you think?” Society has already made a generation of young people who do not think, just do what the entertainment icons do. For instance, consider the rise and fall of the popularity of purse dogs. If young people follow the lead of people on MTV, is it really far-fetched to believe they will follow the leader of Marxists? Very few people think any more. If these people succeed, the war is lost.
davidmhoffer says:
June 4, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Monckton had good reason for comapring these eco-thugs to the HY movement. The tactics are almost exactly the same. It is scary, as many normal and intelligent people easily get dragged along with the ’cause’. I happen to know more than most as my mother was a member, as were all her peers, and they thought nothing was seriously wrong about it.
Of course, in hindsight, it is easy to see what is wrong. It seems to be occurring all over again, however, and the youth are being indoctrinated in much the same way. Let us campaign to see that it does not follow the very same National Socialism, or in this case, Global Socialism route that it appears to be taking.
Actually, David, I think how this administration is brainwashing our youth (which indoctrination continues through college and may even be accentuated there) is as close to what they were doing in Germany in the ’30’s as anything I’ve seen. I dare you read accurate history books and find many differences.