In the past we’ve seen polar bears dropped from the sky and animals committing suicide rather than face climate change.
Those didn’t go over very well. So, the Sierra Club and the McKibbenites muse to themselves; what to do? Why “kittens” of course. We”ll borrow from the old National Lampoon Magazine cover and say “do this or the kitten gets it!”. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Now it’s “March or the Kitten Gets It!” as a way to promote the “March for Climate” in New York City on September 21st. I can just see weepy Bill McKibben breaking down again like some crazy cat lady for dramatic effect. If that had been an actual wind turbine at the end, that cat would be history…just like so many birds. Watch the video:
The video, posted three days ago according to comments on YouTube, so far has about 228 views as of this writing. I’d say they’ll likely get more views from WUWT readers than they ever will from people who might be convinced to march the streets due to some cat video.
If that’s all the views they have then I’m not going to give them the pleasure of counting one more.
I can haz climate burger?
Seriously, don’t they realise that most people associate internet cat videos with stupid jokes and memes? The humorous connotations of “cat video” are so strong that the format itself totally undermines any attempt to deliver a serious message.
We need a “march and the kitten gets it”. Promise to contribute to an animal shelter local to where the march is planned, UNLESS the march actually happens. An animal shelter that euthanizes kittens.
Maybe we can reuse some of the footage from one of those ads I only vaguely remember as they are on at 2am.
But did they ditch the polar bears out of the plane so we can watch them fall majestically from the sky and splat on the cars and ground?
“But did they ditch the polar bears out of the plane so we can watch them fall majestically from the sky and splat on the cars and ground?”
As god is my witness I thought polar bears could fly.
Lord help all those who have been or ever will be stuck at a dinner party along side these “jokesters”.
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don’t remind me. I usually ask if they would like to move outside to enjoy the pleasantly warm evening.
which is neither warm nor comfortable in Vancouver much past sunset on the warmest day of the year without a patio heater, gloves, parka, toque, and mukluks.
For extra chuckles, I just emailed the Sierra Club and offered to sell them the rights to my GNKSHF video. I neglected to mention it’s a spoof because I could use the money, and I don’t think they could tell the difference (to be honest, several WUWT commenters thought it was a real — demented — lefty product).
I heard their first choice was The Dramatic Chipmunk, but he was already booked. And their second choice, Toonces The Drving Cat is (sadly) no longer with us.
Bruce wrote: “These organizations have assets well into the tens of millions, some into the hundreds of millions, what am I to make of their use of these resources?”
It is a good question. I think it is very significant that the preferred use is to make ads which are basically “Repent, the End is Near” sign boards.
Pious moral posturing is right at the center of the hair-shirt environmentalist movement: “My intentions are better than yours because I at least care about the earth. If you disagree you are a selfish, hard-hearted, greedy American. Therefore you should be on the moral defensive while my ideas, and I, take precedence.”
If one understands that self-important praying in public IS the point, then spending all their money on these ads makes perfect sense.
As God is my witness, they’ll probably be dropping turkeys from helicopters next.
That’s really out there.
Is that going to cause a person to show up at a march? If anything, it is just saying this march is a complete crock and why would any potential molotov thrower show up to such an event.
Old Cat Ladies were probably the fore runner of modern Asperger’s
Cook told them, psychologically, cat videos get more views on YouTube, or was that Lew?
They are joining an ever-larger crowd of folks abandoning polar bears as an icon for global warming.
Tom Nelson tweeted this morning about a new guide about “climate change” for visitors to Alaska National Parks. http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2014/08/new-guide-looks-climate-change-national-parks-alaska25545
The 24-page pamphlet has a number of testimonials on various topics, with the following goal:
““In developing this visitor guide, we’re providing our rangers with a much-needed tool for raising awareness about this critical issue. It’s likely to be a topic of conversation in the parks for many years to come,” said John Morris, one of the project leaders from University of Alaska Fairbanks who helped develop it.
Wonder of wonders, however, there is no mention of polar bears – even though several National Parks in Alaska are in polar bear territory (Chukchi Sea and/or Southern Beaufort).
Who would have thought?
I don’t think kittens will work for them, somehow.
Susan Crockford, PolarBearScience
“DNA shows that domestic cats are most similar to wildcats currently living in the deserts of Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.”
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070628/full/news070625-10.html
Actually, kittens was a poor choice. Cats can tolerate global warming better than most. Ours hates to go out when it’s below 60 F.
Can you imagine any other scientific question of empirical fact where the proponents of one side feel compelled to resort to cute images and propaganda to convince the public of their case? “What will happen to the little lemurs in SE Asia if the continents keep moving as Alfred Wegener proposes?” “You must defeat the theory of quantum mechanics. Look what happened to Schroedinger’s Cat!”
The inanity of the Warmist believers knows no bounds, and clearly has nothing to do with science.
/Mr Lynn
Do these duffers even know just how environmentally destructive little pussy cats are ??
Now from my mouth, to your ears; I am one maxi cat lover. Don’t have any right now; no place to let them run around. Last one I had, ate everything that came in our yard, gophers, moles, snakes, mice, even ate a whole jack rabbit, as big as the cat, except for just the hind legs. They evidently taste just like chicken.
But cats, are hell on wheels, when it comes to wild life. Mine ate my tame Blue Jay, that I had rescued from it, when it was just a dumb kitten.
So let’s here it for these wild feral varmints, that are decimating the bird populations in cities..
Well we could use a good bit of raining cats and dogs in California, right now; beats the shakeys any time.
We are watching people who are slipping over the edge.
Carl “Bear” Bussjaeger
August 25, 2014 at 5:00 pm
> Oh dear Bog. Do you think I can sell them my old “Gender Neutral Kitten Salvation Happiness Fund” global warming video?
Ah yes, that post. First class bizarre.
I expect that you will find that the Sierra Club is more interested in getting money than giving it out….
L. E. Joiner
August 25, 2014 at 6:31 pm
“You must defeat the theory of quantum mechanics. Look what happened to Schroedinger’s Cat!”
Would there be such concern if it had been Schroedinger’s Polar Bear?
Just wonderin’.
Here’s the aforementioned National Lampoon cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_%28magazine%29
They did it for satirical purposes. The wingnuts do it for real.
1957chev on August 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm
Read and learn the differences …
Liberalism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Socialism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
Ric Werme
August 25, 2014 at 6:49 pm
“First class bizarre.”
Mission accomplished. [proud smile]
I smell cat pee. And poop. Carry out McKibble on a Kitty Litter.
Here’s their modus operandi!
http://youtu.be/gIgZ66DlkKI