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
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5iS7BL1tDA%3Fversion%3D3%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
“‘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;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k&feature=player_embedded
which was covered here on WUWT;
and Grist TV’s “How to Strangle a Climate Skeptic”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPsXZ5G5xyc&feature=player_embedded
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…
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Lubos Motl says:
November 5, 2011 at 11:14 am
“… 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 hope you don’t make this a frequent occurrence of overestimating your figures, or I will have to think about double checking your work. /jk
Barry Woods says: “The comments have now been disappeared/disabled….”
Looks like they touched a nerve, eh?
Talk about pro bozo work…
Dehumanize the enemy. That is the first rule of a propaganda war. It works when the people are with you. It make you look barking mad when they’re not.
A wonderful lot of emotes, all, I’m sure …
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Seems to be a lot of hatred around; you can also see it in the postings of the warmies wherever AGW is discussed.
Not sure of the psychology behind it.
I reported the video to YouTube, and sent a message to the original poster, a “thomasgrand1966,” ( who also appears to be associated with the video ) and is also one of the vehement attackers against anyone who disagrees with the video, ( thanks to WUWT poster Barry Woods, who posted some of the conversations) letting him know of my actions.
Wonder if Im going to receive a profanity-laced response? Im counting on it.
If anyone who has invested in carbon trading or credits, like the BBC has with their superannuation fund some must be worried their investment will go bust. Al Gore and cohorts in clean energy projects, and those stupid Australians still progressing into non effective projects. (They are advertising now in Australia for solar farms and wind turbines investors, with the Ord River hydro-electric scheme (that might be OK though). Geo thermal projects in Australia have gone bust. Australia is now becoming the last bastion for these scams, and our government is toeing the line too. These videos are disgusting. They won’t win converts put more people off I would think!
I wonder who the scientific advisors were who worked on Mike Gambino’s wonderful film portraying the desperation of a lost cause. Presumably he did get some scientific advice. This is too important an issue to rely on purely the collective knowledge of the production crew.
I look forward to more of these comedy shorts in the finest Hal Roach tradition. Perhaps a scene with a climate denier hanging from a clock as they try to deny time moving towards the world’s inevitable CAGW fate should we choose to do nothing. Or the bungling attendees at the various climate conferences arriving in the style of the Keystone Cops.
Thankfully, after nearly 30 years, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the CAGW movement.
As their cause gets weaker the cries get shriller. Quite telling how they don´t allow ratings or comments on that newest youtube video and seeing all the negative ratings and comments on the other ones.
[SNIP: a sentiment I sometimes share, but, pleae understand, not really appropriate for this site. -REP]
Steve Zwick from Chicago was involved with the ponzi scheme that was the now defunct CCX. He has zero crdibility with me.
I wonder if that video is picking up a large number of ‘dislikes’?
Doesn’t pro bono mean that there is money to be collected later for the work done if x pays out?
Myrrh says: November 6, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Doesn’t pro bono mean that there is money to be collected later for the work done if x pays out?
No, a “contingent fee (in the United States) or conditional fee (in England and Wales) is any fee for services provided where the fee is only payable if there is a favourable result. In the law is defined as “[a] fee charged for a lawyer’s services only if the lawsuit is successful or is favorably settled out of court…Contingent fees are usually calculated as a percentage of the client’s net recovery.”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee
On the other hand, “Pro bono publico (English: for the public good; usually shortened to pro bono) is a Latin phrase generally used to describe professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment or at a reduced fee as a public service. It is common in the legal profession and is increasingly seen in marketing, technology, and strategy consulting firms. Pro bono service, unlike traditional volunteerism, uses the specific skills of professionals to provide services to those who are unable to afford them.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_bono
However, I think your instincts are good. The question remains, what entities contributed to the conception and production of “Combustion” and “The Air-Conditioned Suit”?
Based on the one comment posted here and the snips of his comments on the YouTube page copied here, Mike Gambino strikes me as typical of the sort who believes themselves to be smarter, better educated and superior in their ability to think and create than most other people. For that reason they tend to think that anything they believe in has to be the correct way of thinking and anyone disagreeing with them as not worthy of even simple courtesy.
But I could be wrong here. After all I’m a former torpedoman – strong back and weak mind – whose knuckles are scarred from dragging along the ground. I doubt even the three degrees I’ve earned since have overcome that basic fact. Yep, I’m pretty sure Mikey is by far the superior intellect.
It goes well with his also being the bigger ass.
If you don’t think the dehumanizing effect is real, just watch this video of a Prius owner confronting a pick-up truck owner in a parking lot.
Who knows what the pick-up owner thinks about climate change? It doesn’t matter, guilt is assumed because he owns a truck. Do you think a person would be brash enough to confront someone in such a hostile manner if it weren’t for alarmists’ mouth-foaming rhetoric and activist media outlet ads like this one emboldening them?
Q,
That was great. Doubt the yelling woman saw the irony in her characterization of the driver and his wife as mindless, ignorant, obnoqueous, substandard intelligence, inconsiderate, etc, etc.
The wife was much more on target with her characterization of the woman.
justthefactswuwt says:
November 6, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Myrrh says: November 6, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Doesn’t pro bono mean that there is money to be collected later for the work done if x pays out?
No, a “contingent fee (in the United States) or conditional fee (in England and Wales) is any fee for services provided where the fee is only payable if there is a favourable result. In the law is defined as “[a] fee charged for a lawyer’s services only if the lawsuit is successful or is favorably settled out of court…Contingent fees are usually calculated as a percentage of the client’s net recovery.”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee
On the other hand, “Pro bono publico (English: for the public good; usually shortened to pro bono) is a Latin phrase generally used to describe professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment or at a reduced fee as a public service. It is common in the legal profession and is increasingly seen in marketing, technology, and strategy consulting firms. Pro bono service, unlike traditional volunteerism, uses the specific skills of professionals to provide services to those who are unable to afford them.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_bono
However, I think your instincts are good. The question remains, what entities contributed to the conception and production of “Combustion” and “The Air-Conditioned Suit”?
Thank you for sorting that, I’ve obviously not got the plot in American dramas where this was mentioned.. 🙂
I’ve always associated it with there being a payout at the end, for the benefit of the client in the interim…
Found this on pro bono: http://centerforprobono.wordpress.com/ I’m impressed.
And from my favourite firm of lawyers:
Denny Crane: So am I! Frankly, I hope this planet survives. I really do. But I am getting sick of you smug, hybrid
driving socialists telling the rest of us how to live our lives! I’m rich, okay? Like to guzzle a little gas now and then.
I keep my thermostat at 72 during the winter. I prefer night games in football. And I am fed up with you global-
warming wusses raining on my electric parade!!
Walt Bonner: He shakes his head. You can be such an arrogant, ignorant, ass!
Denny Crane: So can you! He lifts the gun in his hands and starts shooting. Walt looks down startled. The
gun flashes as the sound of a machine rattles on for several seconds. Denny keeps aiming directly at
Walt’s chest which is now splattered with red blobs of… paint. Good news! It’s paint. Bad news. It’s not bio-
degradable. Nobody comes into my office and ruins my Christmas with a load of ‘Save the Planet’ atheist,
communist crap! Off you go now.
Walt takes his jacket and leaves.
http://www.boston-legal.org/script/BL04x10.pdf
I don’t like how they connect the ozone hole and AGW. The ozone hole is real and you can see it. You cannot see agw, and it does not cause cancer.
Nic says: November 8, 2011 at 5:19 pm
I don’t like how they connect the ozone hole and AGW. The ozone hole is real and you can see it.
Firstly, it’s not a “hole”, “The word hole isn’t literal; no place is empty of ozone. Scientists use the word hole as a metaphor for the area in which ozone concentrations drop below the historical threshold of 220 Dobson Units.”
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/ozone.php
Secondly, while not the right forum for the discussion, the Anthropogenic “Ozone Hole” and Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming narratives share several common elements and may have similar roots. For more background read this article:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/29/new-wuwt-polar-vortex-reference-page/