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…
Grab a copy, before it disappears!!!
Already done. 😀
DaveE.
Barry Woods says: November 5, 2011 at 7:57 am
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?
Good point. I had assumed that it was WWF responsible for the Climate Change Initiative, because they seem to be hiring people for the role;
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/jobs/?191425/Leader-Global-Climate-Initiative
however Barry is right the link ClimateChangeInitiative.com that is burned into the end of the video, currently redirects to the William J Clinton Foundation:
http://www.ClimateChangeInitiative.com
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-climate-initiative/
I’ve corrected the title and link, and put a note at the top of the article, but would like to get to the bottom of this.
mike gambino, which group/initiative did you make this video in support of?
Mika Gambino is the man behind the Youtube account. Since 1995, Mike has been employed principally in advertising, working at agencies like DDB Chicago, and BBDO New York. He has created campaigns for many of the world’s super-mega-conglomerates including Coca-Cola, FedEx, Mars, and Visa, winning virtually every advertising award, including the Gold Cannes Lion and Gold One Show Pencils. His Visa commercial, BROADWAY TRIBUTE, was nominated for the 2002 EMMY AWARD.
His homepage is here: http://web.me.com/mikegambino/Mike_Gambino_Creative/Home.html
His biography is here: http://web.me.com/mikegambino/Mike_Gambino_Creative/Bio.html
He writes in this blog: http://andshakers.com/authors/mike-gambino
He is Chief Creative Officer at Realm after working at McCann: http://web.me.com/mikegambino/Mike_Gambino_Creative/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9.html
LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-gambino/1a/160/b98
Comments have been disabled for this video at Youtube. I’m guessing they know what the feedback will be like.
I don’t know why people expect the ideological, pseudo-scientists to forgo their most effective warmist techniques. Propaganda and brainwashing methods have been their mainstay since they began. Socialists, communism, fascism AND the current establishment, prefer such techniques to empirical evidence at all times… because it works, most of the time, especially on the indoctrinated young. Schools are the perfect forum of such emotional trite, however it is also effective for the usual conformists and scientifically ignorant. It is political power these people desire and lust for, NOT truth. It always comes down to “the end justifies the means”. Evil?- you betcha! GK
Anthony,
Please correct the link to http://www.climatechangeinitiative.com It has a typo.
Funny thing is that it is not redirecting to
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-climate-initiative/
anymore, as I and Barry Woods pointed out. It is now redirecting to
http://www.climatecentral.org/
Boy, Mike is going to give some explanations. And the Clinton Foundation too!
Ye Gads! Another snuff fantasy from the CAGW crowd. It is a good thing that they do not have an army, or they would have already marched into Poland by now.
One more *excellent* climate change stupidity video from Realm:
econddo/videos/30872938
Someone grab it too, before it disappears!
davidmhoffer says: November 5, 2011 at 9:02 am
Thank you. Your comment also has forbears… along the lines of Winston Churchill…
What concerns me is that Mike Gambino is only small fry, expendable by powers further up. There are huge forces of disinformation in science these days, it seems – disinformation which is difficult for outsiders to disentangle, in almost every subject area conventionally labelled “pseudoscience”. Climate Science is simply the biggest and most obviously corrupted of all these. And WUWT does an utterly fantastic unique and vital job in this area. But even on the fringes of climate skepticism, I don’t think this blog is yet up to handling serious “fringe” evidence as it deserves. Yet I live in hope that the consciousness level here too can evolve. I hope, for instance, that we continue to get informative posts on LENR with or without Rossi. Perhaps it would be good to remember, apropos of Rossi, that Christopher Columbus’s crew went with him only because they had nothing to lose…
It’s so fun he disabled the comments on youtube. Soon he might even understand how stupid and bad the video is. But as the saying goes never interrupt your opponent while he is making mistakes.
What a pathetic wasteof-time little film.
If there was a point to making it, I have missed it. And if the director is really ‘head of creative’ somewhere, I think their reputation and revenue just tanked.
I almost feel nostalgic for ‘No Pressure’. At least I could see a point – unpleasant though it was. This was just …nothing,.
Ecotretas says: November 5, 2011 at 9:51 am (Edit)
Please correct the link to http://www.climatechangeinitiative.com It has a typo.
Funny thing is that it is not redirecting to
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-climate-initiative/
anymore, as I and Barry Woods pointed out. It is now redirecting to
http://www.climatecentral.org/
Boy, Mike is going to give some explanations. And the Clinton Foundation too!
Yep, got it, thanks.
Even Mike can understand, I think, that if the video were to portray another type of believer – say a believer of a religion – and that believer was talking his delusional stuff on the phone, and he got vaporized, and someone got to kick his eyeballs… even Mike would realize.
It would be a realization about someone else, though. Would he be able to connect it to what he did?
Poor fella couldn’t handle it after my comment became the top rated comment, with a few facts instead of histrionics. He’s now removed commenting.
Ecotretas says: November 5, 2011 at 9:58 am
One more *excellent* climate change stupidity video from Realm:
econddo/videos/30872938
Someone grab it too, before it disappears!
Yep, I got a copy from the YouTube version and will post it as an update to the article.
GeologyJim says:
November 4, 2011 at 8:55 pm
“All she does is kick his eyeball in the puddle of soot.”
Is that what she did? I was too focused on how high the wind was blowing her skirt up in the air to notice what her foot was doing.
The Realm website:
http://therealmnyc.ehclients.com/
The Difference Explained
They think it is funny imagining sceptics bursting into flame, even though we dont believe in ‘global warming’.
We think it is funny actuallywatching warmists standing in the snow to protest the ‘gloabal warming’ that they believe in.
I didn’t know that global warming burns people in suits in this way so that only eyeballs are left. It’s quite remarkable! Now, once I saw it, of course, I agree that global warming skepticism is misplaced and Anthony Watts may close this blog. 😉
More seriously, just try to estimate the IQ of the people who could be affected by this video, i.e. to completely fail to distinguish the reality (where absolutely nothing unusual related to the temperature is happening) from ludicrous video tricks. My estimate is 60.
I wonder if the Bill Clinton Foundation knew about the redirect or not?
I wonder if these people at Climate Central are happy with this new redirect:
ie VP communications Heidi Cullen, Jane Lubchenco NOAA, managing Editor Andrew Freedman, or Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton Uni.
http://www.climatecentral.org/about/people/
I wonder if they even know about it. I wonder if they have given permissoin, maybe somebody could ask.. they probably will be horrifed to be redirected to lie this..
Could someone ask nicely…
Burning skeptics would sure put up a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere these days. I predicted on a WUWT thread (forgotten which) over a year ago that there would be a crescendo of hysteria from the CAGW zealots after the sea change that began to gather momentum after climategate. It is no surprise to me that reasonable believers in CAGW would begin to move away in outrage after climategate (Matt Ridley is an example) and that what would remain would be a tar-like, distilled down residue of desperate and hateful ideologues that never did have a scientific argument as their underpinning.
Are you sure this isn’t a video from occupy stupidity?
Of course the “you may not believe in climate change but climate change believes in you” is a blatant rip off, from the fundamentalist and evangelistic religious meme “You may not believe in God, but God believes in you”.
Does one require further evidence of the religious nature of catastrophic climate belief. This is a new wave religion, and present day historians, are not cataloging it. The birth of a modern religion should be studied and documented. Where are the anthropologist? GK
I wonder if some of the CAGW zealots turned into inhumane loons, or if the CAGW cause attracted some inhumane loons