At least “Burning Man” has an art component to it, “burning dolls”, not so much.
This is so stupid, so inane, so grade B movie “Plan 9 from Outer Space” level that all you can do is laugh at it. It is the latest effort from Al Gore’s “Climate Reality Project”. I suppose after this exercise in child brainwashing, anything goes. Watch:
From the YouTube Description:
The science girl takes a comedic look at the differences of climate vs weather. Created for the live broadcast of 24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report.
Even more bizarre are the comments from the faithful on YouTube.
Now for another child’s investigation of science to cleanse the pallette. video
The Gray Monk says:
November 23, 2012 at 12:22 am
Disgraceful. This little girl will no doubt go on the become someone who earnestly campaigns in the belief she alone has the “truth.” Actually I take leave to doubt she set up that “school science project” unaided …
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It was staged and she is an actor.
I note that many responses here are humorous. Unfortunately, you put this in front of most school children and they will believe it completely. Five years later those school children are voters and have not been shown anything to disabuse them of their beliefs. So will applaud madly when told that green energy will be subsidized and ‘dirty’ coal and oil will be taxed and regulated out of existence. This is why these simple propaganda tactics have been and are being used. So you might laugh and think them risible – but the propagandists are the ones that are winning the votes.
Can anyone here show any science education programming that is aimed at educating children to see what is wrong with this example clip? Can anyone here show any materials for teachers that demonstrates a real science approach to these ‘climate catastrophe’ hypotheses? Does anyone know any teachers that are not equally convinced by the warmist anti science propaganda? This is where science is losing, in the schools and in the materials and teaching given there. We face a frightening future because of ‘Nobel Laureates’ like Al Gore – and make no mistake he is winning, or probably has won; not by science but by propaganda to our children. This is not a matter for humor.
Nik said (November 23, 2012 at 12:04 am)
“…I’ve also look at the Alexa site to compare Al Gores site with WUWT.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/climaterealityproject.org
and compare to http://wattsupwiththat.com/
The stats do not support Al Gore’s claim of 16 million hits at all…”
True, but some folks are actually saying that link does NOT provide any evidence of deceit by Al Gore. They accept the fact that we’re suspicious, but to them, we can’t produce a shred of evidence to prove that Gore lied about the number of views.
On his website, (CRP), they’re saying “…On November 14-15, millions around the world tuned in to 24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report…”
Later, mentioning the “event”, they do say it was “…broadcast live on the Internet with more than 16 million views from around the world…”
Maybe it’s all USTREAM’s fault, then. Somehow their software failed to capture the massive influx of views – twice (last year’s 8M, and this years 16M).
Or, it’s just standard “climate science”. If they can use a single tree to show the world’s climate for a millennium, then they can use a single picture to “prove” their point.
[snip – not going there – mod]
Eric H. says:
November 22, 2012 at 8:47 pm
……………….The video is laugh out loud silly but the underlying politics is sad.
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Not sad, Scary.
I don’t think Al Gore believes all this crap but that little girl and millions more like her do.
He knows there is no viable ‘green energy’ ready to take over worldwide needs.
She thinks there is and we are just the world’s worst monsters on earth to destroy her future.
Al Gore wants her to believe that is what we are doing by refusing to switch to ‘green energy’.
He knows the truth because he was here in the 60’s and 70’s when US pollution was real. You couldn’t breathe in LA and rivers were on fire.
He knows how far we’ve come protecting our environment.
He knows only a prosperous people are conservationists. If one is starving one might eat the last poleybear or spotted owl on earth. Plus, cook it on burning coal.
Poverty is exacerbated by bad laws, bad rules and bad government but she’s too young to understand and he doesn’t want her to know. Truth is ‘it’s nothing new’.
It looks like he’s lying to us to get money.
We must’ve really pissed him off when we didn’t let him be POTUS. This is some payback.
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What I see is a highly visual appeal to emotion that likely will be effective in it desired goal. Change the mentality of a majority of future voters while they are young and impressionable. Everything I am reading is designed to appeal to the visual part of working memory. That is not hooked up to the part of the brain attuned to abstract conceptualization. That gets kept largely vacant these days anyway. Instead we get hands-on science, gathering data and interpreting it and creating models.
Readers at WUWT with their Axemakers Minds and knowledge of genuine science may be able to recognize that this is propaganda but the new Science Standards being prepared right now under the auspices of Achieve and with Carnegie funding have been deliberately designed to make sure the next generation of students cannot.
Gore is quite aware of what the Clintons’ Outcomes Based Education reforms did to the scientific body of knowledge of too many of today’s Twenty-somethings. He knows what is coming because it is generated through UN and Communitarian profs like Amitai Etzioni. He has produced a commercial to capture kids’ Hearts and Minds. Permanently. In kids habituated by education to rely on emotion, not rational thought.
These are devastating images to the cultivated low accurate info students and Young Adults it is directed at. Fits in perfectly with the plans of manipulation using the social and behavioral sciences the National Research Council has said it will resort to to cut off Climate Skepticism.
I was not being cute when I warned about using BF Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Tactics to Squelch Climate Skepticism via K-12 education globally.
Stark reality, they are winning. Just watch Obama and the EPA.
I saw Ian’s comment after I posted.
Most WUWT readers see this Climate Change issue with the kind of rational minds that everything in education policy is designed to make go away. To literally change “the way we think and what we think about” to quote Radical Ecology Prof David Orr. I have jokingly called what is going on Individualism Extraction Devices but I am being snarky and this is no joke.
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/ridiculing-the-1860s-mind-as-unsuitable-for-the-21st-century-cui-bono/ was a piece I wrote after reading the recent NAS report “Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy” and listening to former NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein pushing making Tablets and visual images the focus of future education.
The kinds of minds and mental processing aspired to will be Molding Clay for a commercial like this.
Ian W says:
November 23, 2012 at 6:26 am
I note that many responses here are humorous. Unfortunately, you put this in front of most school children and they will believe it completely…
Does anyone know any teachers that are not equally convinced by the warmist anti science propaganda? This is where science is losing, in the schools and in the materials and teaching given there….
This is not a matter for humor.
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You are correct.
For example, High School Graduation Requirements for Arizona’s minimum course of study.
Very sad. This was set up by ADULTS. This is (of course) not true.
This is a paid ACTRESS.
AND, even as such…it amounts to CHILD ABUSE.
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Max
The people that are stupid enough to be the expected audience of such a video are too stupid to care – they are busying themselves watching Jerry Springer. And kids like preachy propaganda films even less than adults do. Anyway, can anyone remember a single thing they saw on TV from this time last year? It’s been proven time and time again that watching TV is so passive that you can’t remember any of it.
Clarification on my previous comment: “This is (of course) not true.” I’m commenting on the concept (and some people WILL make that mistake, probably not most WUWT followers..) that there REALLY is a “little girl” doing this as her “science project”. NADA, NO, not in this universe.
So, Al Gore is now ripping-off 1981, Michael Richards, sketches from ABC’s defunct Saturday Night Live rip-off, Fridays. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON5QDDfgbIs.
Truly, truly, truly, pathetic.
If you have the stomach for it, for an even more outrageous video, watch their “Spread Truth. Destroy Denial” video. They have the sheer chutzpah, the gall, the audacity to compare what they are doing to the breaking down of the Berlin Wall. The mind boggles at the enormity of the lie. http://climaterealityproject.org/
My grandson built a tennis ball flinging trebuchet for a science fair, the school confiscated his tennis balls. Maybe he should have built a flame thrower.
Does anyone here remember “Mr. Wizard’s Science Secrets” on T.V? He had a nifty formula for napalm.
I wonder what would result from graphing the ages of the Al Gore faithful? Even the acolytes whom he blessed and gave sanction to let them present his Inconvenient Truth.
Someone said, if you are not a liberal when you are young, you have not heart, and if you are not conversative when you are old, you have no sense.
When your global policies are determined by people who haven’t got to the teenager-raising stage, you are in the grip of the Robiespierre crowd of the coffee houses.
And guess how that cute little girl gets to and from school? In a big SUV of course, and her home is heated and cooled and uses electricity.
Doug,
That quote was only valid before the modern age of media. The masses no longer have time to reason, they are too busy being programmed.
In North Korea they teach school kids to hate Americans as part of the core training. Al could learn a lot there.
Just a reminder that Sustainability is to be the major focus of classwork in the new curricula being created in the US to implement what is being called the Common Core State Standards Initiative or CCSSI as I call it. It is interdisciplinary and lends itself to the desired problem-based learning and project-based learning. This was one of the reasons the Literacy/ English Progressions call for a focus on nonfiction.
Gaia may not actually have a temp but little of that info will be getting through to schoolchildren. Moreover college is being restructured to make “envisioning alternative futures” a requirement of coursework. That in turn is premised on having used K-12 to make students Believe that an alternative social, political, and economic vision is a necessity.
Hence the need for such propaganda right now as CCSSI started rolling out in many US classrooms several months ago. By next fall, 2013, it will really be in high gear and with data being collected on each student to determine if they have the desired values, attitudes, and beliefs.
Orwell’s imagination in literature has nothing on the realities of the Data Quality Campaign or the Global Perspectives Inventory (higher ed).
As a book from the early 80s I am reading right now put it, “if we can change the prevailing mentality, we can transform it all.” Let’s remember such scheming when we see such propaganda.
We are not the desired audience.
The new CommonCore State Standards would rate this demonstration poorly. Whoever wrote the script for this clearly was not up to speed on the rigorous standards facing school children from here on.
Doug Proctor says:
November 23, 2012 at 7:45 am
Someone said, if you are not a liberal when you are young, you have not heart, and if you are not conversative when you are old, you have no sense.
It seems the saying has changed over time, but in any case it’s a false dichotomy, as evidenced by the CAGW cultists. They have neither brain nor heart.
Much higher production values than Plan 9 (or the Mohammed video for that matter). Crisp edits, screenplay by the perky Katie Couric, and the Foley work was solid. Knockout special effects done in camera – you don’t see that happen much these days. Is the sound track available on CD?
Textbook publishers cater to the largest ordering entity. States like California used to be that entity. The rest of us on the west coast bought textbooks that were essentially developed for states like CA. All that ends with the new CCSS. However, adoption of new textbooks is hugely expensive. Many states r currently without books. One of my fellow teachers has only 9 books for her class. The same ones one of our younger teachers used when he was in 4th grade.