By WUWT regular “Just The Facts”
Correction: This video appears to be associated with the William J Clinton Foundation versus the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as was previously stated.
Updated Below – New “The Air-Conditioned Suit” video surfaces
“‘Combustible’ is a web video, created as part of a campaign, for the Global Climate Initiative, an organization that was borne to raise awareness of the fact, that we as human beings, are actually having a negative impact on the global ecology, and we shouldn’t wait until it’s too late to see this truth, and act.”
From Ad Week:
“Global Warming Targets Its Enemies First in New Ad Climate change ‘doesn’t need you to believe’“
“The spot was created pro-bono by New York agency Realm.”
“Combustible” follows 10:10’s “No Pressure” video of exploding skeptical children;
which was covered here on WUWT;
and Grist TV’s “How to Strangle a Climate Skeptic”:
Why are believers in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Narrative so afraid of reasoned skepticism?
Update:
Another video from the same source as “Combustion” has been surfaced by reader Ecotretas. This one is a somewhat amusing video of a man going about his business in an “Air-Conditioned Suit”, that is until he suffocates on a subway…
“Jace says (November 4, 2011 at 10:48 pm): They were just missing the onlookers chanting “burn the witch””
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether he/she is a climate skeptic.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with climate skeptics?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from climate skeptics?
Peasant 1: More climate skeptics.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do climate skeptics burn?
Peasant 3: …because they’re made of… wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!… It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: …Exactly. So, logically…
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck… she’s made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore…
Peasant 2: …A climate skeptic!
😉
I posted a comment to the YouTube video that said “fantasy climate porn, really”
I got an email from the guy that posted the video:
“Nope. In the true fantasy, blow-hards are locked in their little rooms, commenting on my video post, getting upset.”
Mike Gambino says: “Wow. I touched a nerve. This is fun. Keep it going.”
Mike,
The majority of readers here believe in global warming but are skeptical about the magnitude which is attributed to man-made versus natural causes. I think most people (not just readers here) will be offended to see a skeptical businessman being burned alive. All we know about the man is that he is a skeptic and then we see him burning alive – I think your meaning was quite clear. Did you honestly not expect to touch a nerve?
I’d recommend you take a look at the propaganda videos lampooning the priests of CAGW – like Mike Mann or Al Gore. There is a more tasteful way to get your message across.
I suggest you consider carefully your motives and why you think “this is fun”.
“Things worse than death”…… You’re a Believer in manmade climate change, a raging, frothing-at-the-mouth Believer, you Hate skeptics, wish they would all die a really horrible death, then you go to bed, and have this dream/nightmare where you now realize that it was all a giant hoax, and that climate is just doing what it always does naturally, and man has practically nothing to do with it, and now, you have this horrible urge to vote Republican. No-o-o-o-o-o! Then you wake up, and realize the dream was true, and now you are no longer a Believer, and actually do have this horrible urge to vote Republican. You have now become what you hated most: someone who prefers actual science and truth to a pseudoscientific ideology. No-o-o-o-o-o!
These people are really out of touch. They are simply incompetent.
One of the first rules, in creating propaganda, is not to repeat the message of your enemy. You do not start off saying “Winston Churchill says xyz, but that is untrue!” The typical listener will take away the message xyz, saying “Oh, so Churchill said xyz. Interesting!”
Here it starts off with the guy saying “Guess what, global climate change is fake. It’s false, it doesn’t exist. The tornado is broken, it’s a hoax. Think about that!”
I think I have worked out what a typical viewer will absorb as the key message – and I don’t think it’s what the WWF wanted. Of course, True Believers will find it utterly convincing – but they did not need to be convinced anyway.
Who is reposnsible for the Global Climate Initiative? (is it an official eco group, NGO, gov?)
The guy that created it has this to say (youtube comments) before he hides them…
The comments are not going down to well… but I think he loves it winding people up he despises, apparently..
“Everyone’s entitled to a little venom oozing, once in a while. It can’t be all balloon animals and waiting for people to actually act in the self-interest of themselves, and their children.”
thomasgrand1966
Fantasy climate porn, really Forced – Halo 8 hours ago
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@ForcedHalo Nope. In the true fantasy, blow-hards are locked in their little rooms, commenting on my video post, getting upset.
thomasgrand1966 3 hours ago
Even the big oil companies finally agree with 97 percent of scientist that Climate Change is a scientific fact. You probably also believe in ghosts, spirits, and the Easter Bunny. It is an arrogant man who stands alone, against fact.
thomasgrand1966 11 hours ago
Only a fascist would make a video like this . More propaganda from the Green fascists.
david222444 7 hours ago 5
@david222444 When someone like a Tea Party zealot calls me a Fascist, I take it as the greatest compliment. It means I am touching a nerve. Or is that your conscience?
thomasgrand1966 3 hours ago
@thomasgrand1966 Yes I bet you would love to burn books too.
david222444 3 hours ago 3
PR blunder? You are promoting the video right now. Thanks for the PR.
thomasgrand1966 10 hours ago
You are delusional, as are all your cronies. And there is a especially hot place in hell reserved for those who would put personal profit before the good and well-being of all living things on earth. Sleep well.
thomasgrand1966 12 hours ago
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http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=U5iS7BL1tDA
I’m glad I don’t live in the USA, the apparent hatred of climate sceptics isn’t as bad as this.. Even 10:10 in the UK, very very quickly realised, what a total pr disaster it was. and pulled it.
No crass comments like the above. He seems delighted to upset people..
Surely the Phelim McAleer one is really and April Fool’s, and is merely satirizing the other ones (and climate alarmism)?
oh deep joy ;( ;( (sarc off)
http://www.Climatechangeinitiative.com
The link shown at the end of the video…
Redirects to this !!!!
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-climate-initiative/
Anybody feel like asking ex President Bill Clinton for an apology..
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/about-the-clinton-foundation/
mike gambino says: November 5, 2011 at 4:26 am
Wow. I touched a nerve.
Yes, torching people tends to stoke the emotions…
This is fun.
As a New Yorker, do you think this WWF 9/11 video is funny too?
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/9/crazy-9-11-wwf-ddb-commercial-1180487
Keep it going.
We will. You don’t seem to realize that videos such as yours help to drive more people to be skeptical, i.e.:
“The USA recorded one of the steepest declines in concern about climate change/global warming among global markets over the four-year period from 2007 to 2011, dropping 14 percentage points. Today, less than half of Americans (48%) say they are concerned about climate change”
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/press-room/2011/global-warming-cools-off-as-top-concern.html
“69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/69_say_it_s_likely_scientists_have_falsified_global_warming_research
Note to All
“Combustion” was
“Written by Mike Gambino
Produced by Andy Wilcox, Tom Colella, Kevin Anderson, and Heather Berman
Directed by Mike Gambino and Tom Colella
Edited by Tom Colella
Visual Effects by JianChao Li, Fred Salkind and David Rogers for Realm
Titles by Karolina Dawson for Realm
Audio mix by Dan Ricci at CreativeGroup”
Please keep any comments to Mike Gambino cordial, as we should not treat him as he treats us…
OT, but back in grade school a teacher pointed out to us that uncured wood was used to burn a victim, so that death would come slowly, ever so slowly.
Totally agree.. ANY abuse of stupidity directed at Mike Gambino, will simple reinforce his stereotype of ALL sceptics… AND I even think he would revel in it…
Please be REALLY civil to him… but constructively critical.
Any abuse, and you become in his ‘eyes’ the cliche man in the video…
And I am VERY disapointed and concerned by this video..Durban only a few weeks away. Imagine this sort of rubbish in the run up to Rio 20 next year.
For people new to the debate ours, his and this type of behaviour is very enlightening.. let the sceptics be the reasonable patient, civil people, not forced into an abusive stereotype of this person’s creation.. (pls do not respond to this in anger) imho
I still can’t quite get over the fact that the URL at the end of the video redirects to ex President Bill Clinton’s Foundation. This is Totally polarising, democrat vs republican,
(which means nothing to me bcos I’m in the UK)
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-climate-initiative/
I would really like to know at what level this was endorsed and signed of.. if that redirection official or not?
The comments have now been disappeared/disabled.
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=U5iS7BL1tDA
The real fun is that comments on the video are now disabled. 😉
DaveE.
Revision #1 =>
Six Steps . . .Seven Steps . . .Add a step 7 . . .
Step 7 – have someone in MSM say skeptics are not sentient humans after all; that is have someone say skeptics are not normal humans. Like a journalist contributor in a Forbes article (Steve Zwick) said, “If you’re one of these self-proclaimed “skeptics” who still deny that man caused this mess and that man must fix it, then you’ve sacrificed your credibility as a sentient human being”.” There you have it, the circle is complete, skeptics are not Homo Sapiens; not normal human beings. It is the necessary de-humanization step that precedes justification by normal humans for acts against non-normal human skeptics.
I have attached below my new version “Seven Steps . . .”
John
PS – h/t to commenter Barry Woods (@November 5, 2011 at 6:36 am) for the reference to the Forbes article.
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The warmist must use computer-manipulated images as reality just doesn’t play along. See as further examples the collage that is the banner image of realclimate or the photoshopped picture that skepticalscience uses as banner.
This is another piece of evidence that CAGW is a complete fantasy ideology. Just like socialists dream that socialism leads to wealth for the masses, so dreams the warmist about being right some day in the future. CAGW comes out of computer models, and is illustrated by CGI. Even Gore’s movie had CGI, the rendered polar bear, and the glacier sequence lifted from Day After Tomorrow.
Even Mann’s original hockey stick can be counted as a computer fantasy.
When I started studying computer science, I didn’t foresee that computers would become the major propaganda instrument of the future.
mike gambino says: November 5, 2011 at 4:26 am
The reason I’m skeptical of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) Narrative is that Earth’s Climate System is ridiculously complex, it has a plethora of variables, many interdependencies, copious cycles, an array of positive and negative feedbacks and the whole system is continuously evolving. We don’t understand how the sun works, we don’t understand how the clouds work, we barely understand how the oceans work and volcanic activity is a complete wild card. Our understanding of Earth’s Climate System is rudimentary at best.
Based on our limited understanding of Earth’s climate system, any predictions about Earth’s climate system and the long term trajectory of its average temperature are, at best, educated guesses. We have 133 years of suspect surface temperature data and 32 years of reasonably accurate satellite temperature data, on an approximately 4,500,000,000 year old planet. We are still learning how to accurately measure Earth’s temperature, much less accurately predict it 50 – 100 years into the future. Those who claim to be able to accurately predict the long term trajectory and likely future state of Earth’s Climate System, are either deluding themselves, or lying.
In order to form a logical basis for evaluating the scientific basis of CAGW I have been helping to build the Watts Up With That (WUWT) Reference Pages;
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/
which I believe to be the largest collection of current climatic data in existence. Each chart is linked back to its source, NOAA, NASA, etc., and all credible data sources have been included in the reference pages. Please look through the Global Climatic Indicators Page;
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/global-climatic-history/
and Global Temperature Page;
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/global-temperature/
and let us know all of the signs of catastrophic global warming that you find.
Also, if us skeptics are so “anti-science” why would we be compiling all of the empirical data in one place? We embrace the facts, CAGW believers run from them. We seek the truth, it is the CAGW believers who have been misinformed…
Re:Combustible. Gee, isn’t this the same argument priests, monks and the Spanish Inquisition used? Repent or burn in the fires of Hell? You don’t have to “know”, you just have to “believe”?
And we skeptics are the flat earthers? Please!
Is this how all religions start? It appears so with the warmistas, simply substituting God with, something else. Combine that with the UN giving serious consideration to giving plants and trees civil rights and we’ve come full circle back to being Druids!
Re: Strangle. Is it just me or does the warmista woman look just like every other unattractive, hysterical, liberal, feminist, save the earth female I have ever seen at an OccupyWhatever demonstration? Is there some reason they all look like this?
Maybe it’s the weather.
Does anyone know where I can find a list of Realm’s clients?
I just want to know what products not to buy.
It didn’t take long for a reaction video to come out:
For what it’s worth, my two penn’orth before the comments were disappeared was…
DaveE.
Damn! I got there too late to leave a comment on the Combustible video! They have shut it down to new comments and haven’t left the old ones up!
That tells me only one thing. The push back from us must have been tremendous!
Good going guys and girls!!!!!
I only regret I didn’t get MY licks in!
MIke Gambino; are we talking the “Lady Gaga of Climate Scare” ?
You are delusional, as are all your cronies. And there is a especially hot place in hell reserved for those who would put personal profit before the good and well-being of all living things on earth. Sleep well.
thomasgrand1966 12 hours ago >>>
Once wrapped in the cloak of morality, one need pay no heed to those of contrary opinion, for are they not, by virtue of their willingness to dispute with you, the wearer of the cloak of morality, not by definition both wrong and immoral despite the weight of their arguments? These immoral beings, unable to fathom the wisdom of you who are ensconced in the cloak of morality, may become troublesome as they raise others up against you. How dare they challenge you? For do you not wear the cloak of morality? Ensonced in the cloak of morality as you are however, your rage against those who dispute you knows no bounds. From within your cloak of morality, you may belittle them, accuse them of vile crimes, and if still they will not cease and desist from their unwanted criticism, dehumanize them, and wrapped still in the cloak of morality, eliminate them.
To those who brought this video into existance, you have wrapped yourself in the cloak of morality, and tread down a path walked many times in history. Those who have walked this path before you are well known. They have names like Hitler, Stalin, Pohl Pot, bin Laden, Kruschev, Milosovec and many others.
You seem amused that you have “touched a nerve”. You have. You’ve touched a nerve amongst those who survived these and other atrocities and amongst those who have studied sufficient history to know that it repeats itself. That you do not recognize that you have donned the same cloak of morality as they, and set your feet upon the same path that they themselves did tread, shows that you have already succombed to the fanatasy world of superior morality conferred upon those who wear the cloak. You’ve taken the step that those before you have taken, which is to deem further debate of the facts of no purpose since it is you that wears the cloak of morality, and so have no need of facts, and hence the next step, to dehumanize your detractors, is the next logical step.
Your amusement is no more endearing, and your facts not more correct, than those who have worn that cloak and trod that path before you.
We each as individual actually can choose which commenter warrants our individual responses. N’est ce pas?
Respectfully, ignore it is my conclusion about the baiting commenter phenomenon that is “mike gambino (@November 5, 2011 at 4:26 am) says: “Wow. I touched a nerve.”
Some savvy veterans of the skeptical blogs have pointed out to me that the best strategy to deal with such cases of baiting commenter phenomena is not to talk to them but to others about them in the third person in their presence. They then self-deflate. : ) I have seen it happen.
John