*with apologies to Josh
Normally I don’t go with a Godwins Law parody but…
- The Skeptical Science Kidz made it a front page issue
- It’s darn funny!
h/t to “Foxgoose” who made the parody.
*with apologies to Josh
Normally I don’t go with a Godwins Law parody but…
h/t to “Foxgoose” who made the parody.
The guardian is taken seriously by far fewer people than the Sun or the Daily Mail or the Telegraph. It sells 200k copies and a large chunk of them are to the paedophile protecting BBC and the public sector unions.
It is Not taken seriously by anyone else.
Hey – I have had a novel idea.
Let’s just settle this endless and tedious battle with a contest – who can make the best Hitler video! Originality gets points and points mean prizes! This could end the blog-wars at a stroke and leave us all with much more time to be doing more interesting things. Fishing or gardening, for instance. The leading question must be, though, who would be the judges? A panel, representing all corners fairly (Slayers included) would be quite necessary… and the films would need to be new ones and a mutually-agreed deadline for submissions would be necessary too – there could even be a mini-film festival, bringing much-needed business to a location mutually agreed. Whaddya say, guys?
I’ve posted it before but the warmist zeal always makes me think of this comedy video where two SS officers come to the slow conclusion they’re on the wrong side.
http://www.snotr.com/video/3167/Are_we_the_baddies
It is hard for me to marry the awful emotion on the faces of the actors (who did it well I might add), and the funny subscripts. I am a student of all things WW2, and each time I read about it I feel the raw emotions of the times though I wasn’t even born yet. Which is probably why I love Charlie Chaplin’s take on Hitler. It allows me to appreciate someone making fun of this twisted man and his beliefs.
What I am saying is that I guess I am uncomfortable in calling or portraying another human being Hitler-like. Even in jest and even if they have done it to themselves. It kind of surprised me that I feel this way.
Thomson Reuters is at it peddling the Tom Karl report and quoted by CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/08/07/technology-state-of-the-climate-report-2012.html
However, other changes detailed in the report paint a more complex picture:
• Sea levels reached a record high, after a sharp decrease in 2011 possibly linked to the Pacific Ocean phenomenon La Nina, which can have a cooling effect;
• Arctic sea ice shrank to its smallest summer minimum since satellite records began 34 years ago, while Antarctic sea ice reached a record high;
• More than 97 percent of the ice sheet covering Greenland melted at least a bit in the summer of 2012, four times greater than the 1981-2010 average;
• Average sea surface temperatures rose, but not much, making 2012 among the 11th warmest years on record;
• Ocean heat was near record high levels in the upper half-mile (.8 km) of the water, and temperatures also increased in the deep ocean.
Imagine that “Sea levels reached a record high, after a sharp decrease in 2011 possibly linked to the Pacific Ocean phenomenon La Nina, which can have a cooling effect”… over ONE YEAR???? And “More than 97 percent of the ice sheet covering Greenland melted at least a bit in the summer of 2012, four times greater than the 1981-2010 average” most stupid claim given that it occured 150 years ago too… etc…
That is unbelievably brilliant and produced so quickly too.
This is great. 🙂
Funniest version since the Gordon Brown parody.
😀
brilliant
Does this mean I’m allowed to repost my own climate related Downfall video? (WARNING: contains profanities and will only make complete sense to Brits):
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deedSFoguBw ]
When the presumed (and implied from their comic collection?) SkS progenitor recited the line below was when all composure was lost and outright laughter ensued:
” We’ll look like a bunch of immature adolescent fantasists with a world domination complex ”
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Anthony; I would recommend you let the links to Downfall subtitle videos disappear. At least here in Germany Constantin Film was pretty mercyless with regard to copyright violations. In America you have the DMCA; be careful, it’s not worth it.
REPLY: Thanks for the concern, but there is no risk in it for me, since I did not produce it. A person in England did. Plus there is broad “fair use” interpretation for parody, under which this clearly qualifies. – Anthony
Cook’s Skeptical[-less] Science site, with its weird phantasy images, adds a whole new dimension to meaning of this quote,
John
Hitler parodies are rarely funny. Was that funny? Yes. Yes it was.
foxgoose has a career in comedy script writing waiting if he ever needs it. side splittingly funny.
Pamela Grey, you have a major point.
Even in parody, there is nothing funny about a social movement that caused a world war and exterminated several million innocents.
As important as the debate about CAGW is, it should never stoop to this level. If SkS does even in parody, we should pity, assume error, but NEVER forget. But not in this way here. It detracts rather than strengthens what were supposed to be scientific and political arguments.
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Pamela Gray,
Emotion can be surprising.
I have an emotion somewhat like an embarrassing pity for people who act as inanely as shown in this exposé of Cook’s Skeptical[-less] Science site.
Also, imagine how the ‘settled / consensus’ scientists may feel who may have previously praised Cook’s Skeptical[-less] Science site. Those scientists may now have emotions that are not so charitable toward that site’s management.
If this whole weird phantasy image situation at Cook’s Skeptical[-less] Science site turns out to be some kind of Lewandowsky-like conspiracy baloney experiment gone bad, then I have no pity at all.
John
I thought this was very funny [Citation Required]
Actually this is satire.
I’m not complaining about the production of the satire, just pointing out the distinction.
One can only wonder what Cook’s employers at the pretend University of Queensland think of his latest efforts as “Climate Communication Fellow”. As one whose taxes fund these sheltered workshops I am less than amused. I did get a great laugh out of the Hitlerian rant, so I guess it’s not all money down the sewer of Oz academia.
Anthony, DirkH do has a point! It is simular to all the court cases, where torrent site owners has been convicted for linking to copyrighted material (for illigal distrbution). In this case, just a different angle …
SS was basically set up has a ‘fan site ‘ by Cook for ‘the Team’, no scepticism was ever really intended when it came to ‘the cause ‘ but a rather Orwellian ‘good or double good’ approach to how it should be viewed .
Its main job is to act as a ‘smear centre ‘ against any AGW sceptics who are seen as a threat, and that should be taken as a complement.
Brilliant and well aimed, I truly hope the end is accurate!
The Guardian is a left middle class liberal rag that’s subsidised by local governments, schools and libraries. Even is circulation figures are falsified as the BBC and aforementioned organisations buy tens of thousands just as the old Soviet Union used to buy half the print run of the Morning Star.
‘bunker’ parodies have a permanent exemption from Godwin’s Law.
This one was excellent!