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Backlash: Graphic Climate Ad Under Fire

Environmental activists are working to distance themselves from a violent advocacy video that hit the Internet last week depicting the gruesome murder of climate change skeptics.  The four-minute video was produced by a London-based group called 10:10 and was removed almost immediately after it debuted.  However, bloggers and news media have replayed the video, sparking critical backlash around the world.  Though 10:10 claims the film was intended to be comedic, the response has been anything but funny.

“With climate change becoming increasingly threatening, and decreasingly talked about in the media, we wanted to find a way to bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh,” the group wrote on its website.  ”Many found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn’t, and we sincerely apologise to anybody we have offended,” the group said. “Oh well, we live and learn.”

But what exactly has been learned?  This most recent case of environmental extremism is similar to an “anonymous” article posted last year on a popular left-leaning political site.  A June 2, 2009, article posted to Talking Points Memo was similarly scrapped after objections to its message: “At what point to do we jail or execute global warming deniers?”

Backlash: Graphic Climate Ad Under Fire

Additionally, as ClimateDepot‘s Marc Morano points out, the “execute skeptics” message is not new:

NASA’s James Hansen has called for trials of climate skeptics in 2008 for “high crimes against humanity.” Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at skeptics of 2007 declaring “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors”In 2009, RFK, Jr. also called coal companies “criminal enterprises” and declared CEO‘s ’should be in jail… for all of eternity.”

In June 2009, former Clinton Administration official Joe Romm defended a comment on his Climate Progress website warning skeptics would be strangled in their beds. “An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds,” stated the remarks, which Romm defended by calling them “not a threat, but a prediction.”

In 2006, the eco-magazine Grist called for Nuremberg-Style trials for skeptics. In 2008, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki called for government leaders skeptical of global warming to be thrown “into jail.” In 2007, The Weather Channel’s climate expert called for withholding certification of skeptical meteorologists.

A 2008 report found that ‘climate blasphemy’ is replacing traditional religious blasphemy. In addition, a July 2007 Senate reportdetailed how skeptical scientists have faced threats and intimidation.

In 2007, then EPA Chief Vowed to Probe E-mail Threatening to ‘Destroy’ Career of Climate Skeptic and dissenters of warming fears have been called ‘Climate Criminals’ who are committing ‘Terracide’ (killing of Planet Earth) (July 25, 2007) In addition, in May 2009, Climate Depot Was Banned in Louisiana! See: State official sought to ‘shut down’ climate skeptic’s testimony at hearing.

Further, the Hollywood starlet lending her voice to the 10:10 campaign — former X-Filer Gillian Anderson — has been in the spotlight before, warning of certain dangers facing the world.  In 1999, Anderson said she had been doing “a lot of research” and was sure Y2K was going to “break” everything, but saw a silver lining of a world without computers:

I think what this is about right now is, this is an opportunity for us to get back to basics in a sense, and for us to unite as communities to help each other, so that eventually, if there is a devastating effect, that at least we can join together with the people around us, instead of, you know, acting out of fear and robbing our neighbors for food, or for money, or whatever, because there’s nothing around. …

10:10 had intended to widely distribute its gory film to movie theaters, but has since scratched those plans and environmental allies are quickly retreating from their support.  One group, 350.org, has been an official partner with 10:10, but now claims it will sever all ties.  Under a post titled, “Days that Suck,” 350.org founder Bill McKibben called the 10:10 video “gross” and lamented how “Climate skeptics are going to make a big deal of this.”

“The video represents the kind of stupidity that really hurts our side,” McKibben wrote, “reinforcing in people’s minds a series of preconceived notions, not the least of which is that we’re out-of-control elitists. Not to mention crazy, and also with completely misplaced sense of humor.”  McKibben’s 350.org — also a cosponsor of this weekend’s 10/2 “One Nation” rally held in Washington, D.C. — claims the group had nothing to do with 10:10′s latest advertising ploy and did not know about the video until it was released on the Internet.

“I think the idea of a comedy is fine, and even the gore and blood is part of our pop culture,” Morano told Greenwire today. “What is not fine, and what is actually very revealing, is that their impulse — the intellectual strain that runs through the alarmist movement — is to try to silence their critics. They blame a handful of skeptics for ruining all their schemes, and this is them expressing their frustrations,” he said.

Perhaps more disturbing, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film shows one of the school children — covered in the fake exploded flesh of a classmate — giving his official endorsement of the questionable messaging medium, saying, “I think it is fine to explode children for a good cause.”

The whole 10:10 video debacle has been unofficially dubbed “Splattergate,” and many are questioning whether it will have as significant negative impact on the environmentalists’ movement as the Climategate controversy from earlier this year.

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  • Lori
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:00pm

    If the commercial makers had gotten together with the Donald Duck loving, anti-Beck propagandist (see the story elsewhere on this site), they could have had Donald Duck pushing the button with cartoon blood and gore and called in “fantasy violence.”

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  • barrycooper
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:59pm

    I have little to say, except to point out that we are at AT LEAST a thirty year low in hurricanes. Prior to that (and this applies to temperature and atmospheric CO2 levels) they didn’t really keep good records. Satellites changed a lot. I can’t be the only one who remembers all the doom and gloom that was going to beset us from all the increased hurricane activity.

    It’s not clear to me exactly how these people think they are going to die. Higher seas? Are they happening now? Bangladesh is sinking, so that hardly counts as evidence. More vicious storms? See my first paragraph.

    From a profound sense of meaninglessness? Yes, I think that gets much closer. They thought they had a good fight on their hands, one in which no hard decisions had to be made that forced them to consider just what they believe. Now, they are back to existential ennui.

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:19pm

      This certainly isn’t an end all, but the following offers some level of engagement with your point:

      http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/09/hurricanes-and-global-warming/

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:26pm

      30 year low? Where did you get that? We have had 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, 5 of which were major(cat3 or above) which is all above average which is 9-10, 5-6, and 2-3 respectively. lets not forget there is still a over a month and a half left in the season.

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    • Dr. Booda
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 4:17pm

      Of course Hurricanes are at a 30 year low; one just has to actually search for the real data that the eco-facists never show the public:

      From Dr. Ryan Maue, Florida State University
      http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

      The graph is pretty simple to read so all of you AGW believers won’t need a Doctorate degree in Chemistry (like I have) to understand it.

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  • GnomeChomsky
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:56pm

    Yep, we all know there is no global warming. The fact that 2010 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record EVER means nothing.

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    • realAmerican
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:08pm

      Nope, no climate change at all *Puts hands over ears* lol Right wing= mentally deficient.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:19pm

      ACTUALLY TEMPERATURES FOR 2010 ARE BELOW THE 10 YEAR TREND I am not sure where your getting your facts from but during the last ten years there has been evidence to the contrary. Global warming is a hoax. period. Now even though it is a hoax doesnt mean we should not look for more efficient and less damaging fuel scources, because that would be irresponsible and actually finding new things that are better is what science and progress is all about in a civilization. Global warming and cap and trade is just a scam to tax rich countries so a few can control the money and spread it around the world to secure their grasp on POWER. plain and simple…….motive included.enjoy

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:38pm

      GNOME, have you spoken with the peeps in San Diego this summer? Take fifteen minutes and do a little research on global climates over several centuries and not just the last 9 months.

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:39pm

      @Psychosis. Could you point out specifically what you are referencing? I would also point out that not reaching a “10 year trend” doesn’t contradict it being the hottest year on record. It seems your argument would be “It’s the hottest year ever, but it’s not as hot as the trend suggested it would be”. Again, it would be helpful if you pointed out what you are referencing.

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:46pm

      As to where I am getting my facts from http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

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    • flytb28
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:20pm

      You are right, it means nothing. Wasn’t the reporting also that the winter of 2009/2010 was one of the coldest on record? Did we ever have an Ice Age? Did we have a thawing from that? What was the climate like during the age of the Dinosaurs? Did T-Rex drive an Explorer? Sadly he ran out of gas and couldn’t keep the carbon emissions up enough to keep his climate warm. Mother Nature would not like you saying we have more power than her. Is your Kool-Aid grape?

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:34pm

      @FLYTB28 I am curious why one season is pertinent in a temperature record that is consistently trending upwards.

      As to ice ages and past fluctuations: Those have been dealt with in exhaustive detail by scientists. (I’m not simply throwing that out there as a “stand alone” rebuttal and am more then willing to provide various linked explanations of why past fluctuations are inadequate to describe current trends.)

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    • norweaver
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:37pm

      Apparently, you are not aware you are playing with a BROKEN HOCKEY STICK!

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:40pm

      One decent place to start is here:

      http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period-intermediate.htm

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:48pm

      @Fly Actually winter 09/10 was the second warmest in recorded history. Just because it is cold in the US doesn’t make it cold everywhere, you have to look at the GLOBAL temperature (hence the name GLOBAL warming not USA warming)

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:49pm

      @Norweaver. May I suggest a careful reading of the following:

      http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/myths-vs-fact-regarding-the-hockey-stick/
      http://www.skepticalscience.com/broken-hockey-stick.htm

      I’m well aware of the accusation. I’m just not sure how many are aware that the accusation is incorrect.

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    • Farmhand
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:59am

      This is perhaps a low shot, but considering NASA’s apparent top mission now is Muslim outreach, I hardly view them as immune to political bias and pressure.

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    • Farmhand
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 1:06am

      And Jumper, so far all of your links are to heavily biased websites run by the very same people so called “climate change deniers” accuse of fudging with the numbers to get a result and silencing any dissenting opinion. The whole climategate scanal gives this line of thinking at least a little credibility. Does that mean the information is necessarily wrong? No. It simply means those links arent going to change many minds. Sadly thats the way of politics and even science. You can spin or tweak numbers, conclusions and facts until it fits YOUR truth, and both sides do it.

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    • abc
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 5:48pm

      Psychosis, you must be aptly named, since globally, the hottest 12-month period ever recorded was from June 2009 to May 2010. Why do you choose to hide the truth with your lies and half-truths?

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  • Stegall TX
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:56pm

    In the “Behind-the-Scenes” video, just past the 1:00 mark, one of the actors says, “… I believe it is fine to explode children for a good cause.” Not a surprise, I guess, but one would think that they would be a little more subtle.

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    • shorthorn
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:57am

      Can you imagine what would happen if someone created a video showing the President being “blown up for a good cause”? The outrage would be mind-boggling. Blowing up school children for eco-fascism, no problem with that! Man, this country better wake up and wake up fast!

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    • Chevalier
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:12am

      Not if the President was GW. . . .if it was Obama, they would call us all racist

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  • Contrarianthinker
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:54pm

    We also today had a subjcet about Glenn Beck in a Disney cartoon. The answer rememebr was to shutgun Glenn to stop him from talking. This is NOT an isolated instance. There is a trend growing. Of course it is covered by “humor” so when the revulsion comes, they can say “you have no sense of humor.. we’re just kidding.”

    I’m so glad that God promised Glenn divine physical protection on August 24, 2009 just as long as Glenn spoke up for God and remained humble.

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  • MiketheTrucker
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:52pm

    I honestly, and I’m not making a joke, these people(climate freaks) need to be analyzed for mental illness.

    What has happened in the “climate-gate” investigations?

    For God’s sake a THIRD GRADER can understand photosynthesis. It‘s UNBELIEVABLE that we’re even having ANY discussion about Carbon Dioxide as a “pollutant”. It’s SOOOOOO ridiculous!!!

    To think that supposedly “intelligent” human beings, IN POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP, are so STUPIDLY believing the junk science we’re being beaten over the head with, and are allowing our children to be frightened by, are not laughing in Al Gore’s face is preposterous!

    THIS MUST END!!! Al Gore needs to be brought before a congressional commission, with Lord Monkton, and MANY other REAL scientists, to permanently SHUT GORE’S MOUTH!!!!

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  • Carl McPherson
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:49pm

    I have updated my article to include more videos:
    http://tinyurl.com/Eco-or-Die-Updates

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  • WisdomOfSoloman
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:49pm

    I guess this is what they call, “Doing it for the children.”

    Meh.

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  • Will NV
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:48pm

    November the climofanatics will self destruct.
    Thank GOD.

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  • C. Schwehr
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:48pm

    The really scary part, is that there might be people out there that think this is an acceptable way to force compliance. How long before we see the real thing????

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    • Renascent
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 2:19pm

      It is important to recognize that we have seen the real thing. The Unibomber blew people up that he thought were environmentally incorrect. We are downstream from there, and the threat continues to gain momentum.

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  • Contrarianthinker
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:48pm

    I was wondering how God would expose these Luciferian people. Notice also the woman who said that a loving mother would use a pillow to kill her own baby.

    What God is doing is clouding their minds to show their insanity so that the Luciferian programs are placed in the open for all moral people to see and KNOW the battles against the forces of darkness we’re facing. Jesus promised us that God would have these shouted from the rooftops in the last days.

    It is now up to us who are on God’s side to use this material to wake up moral Progressives and people sitting on the fence. God has given us a great opening.. let’s run with the ball to victory.

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  • denise veronica
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:45pm

    This is very disturbing. I just received a notice from my child’s school requesting my permission for him to participate in a Think Energy program. The program was developed in concert with Resource Action Programs. The collaborating partners on the program are 1. National Energy Foundation (this is an independent British charity, established to encourage the more sustainable use and generation of energy.) 2. PPL Electric Utilities (our local energy company) and 3. The Pennsylvania Department of Education. I wondered why my child’s school, North Pocono Intermediate School grades 4 and 5, chose to participate in this project; when I investigated, I learned that teachers get college credit for having students participate. After seeing this insane video I am very concerned about a British Energy Charity being involved in my child’s American education. I am also wondering if my school district actually investigated this project prior to accepting their presentation at my child’s school. Furthermore, I wonder how many other children around the country have brought similar letters home. My child wants me to sign the permission slip because the entire school all 4th and 5th grades are participating. I was going to sign it but after seeing this video I may have changed my mind.

     
    • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:16pm

      Only way I would sign it is if they allow you to go and see what it is too
      that way if it gets all ******* crazy you can grab your kid and go.

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    • drbage
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:06pm

      At least, they are actually asking your permission to expose your child to this indoctrination. You should ask if they are also going to present the opposing viewpoint and let the children with the help of their parents draw conclusions OR is this going to be a typical lib one-sided Homer Simpson style debate. How many school systems are presenting this to the children without asking parents’ permission? How many parents are actually involved in what is being taught(indoctrinated) in the so-called public schools?

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  • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:43pm

    I can see it now…the ******** are going to get together and build a Ark cuz the worlds going to end.
    And it will be a green boat because they will fuel it with methane gas emitted by the animals …yes that‘s right it will run completely on critter farts sadly all the people on board will starve because the animals will eat all the vegetation they bring to feed them and their selves and all the tree hugger animal rights people won’t let them eat the animals.

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    • Randy Courtway
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 3:14am

      you have to love that thought process, truely I mean that, no irony here

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  • WILLIAM E.
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:38pm

    Yip. The Global Warming Hoax was uncovered by a professor @ the Climate Research Unit in England & the media ignored. Later Senator Boxer urged prosecution of the hackers who uncovered & revealed the e-mails !!! Imagine that. We used to applaud whistleblowers !!! What happened to that?

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:07pm

      You just said yourself, they weren’t “whistleblowers” they were hackers. Last I checked hacking into someone else’s computer is still illegal regardless of your intentions.

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:40pm

      So then Gnome its okay to arrest a starving person for stealing an apple to eat right? Ends never justify the means? Come on thats the entire platform for you moonbats!

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    • WILLIAM E.
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:05pm

      They were whistle blowers. Boxer called them hackers. E-mail was intercepted in England & sent to a proffesor @ The University of Pennsylvania. UK has a Freedom of Information Act & no laws were broken.

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:36pm

    It’s the notion that bothers me, not the ad itself… it’s really pretty lame.

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    • Farmhand
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:45am

      Yeah the idea of singling out dissenters (especially children) and murdering them is just plain creepy.

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:36pm

    Terrible ad.

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  • adifftake
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:36pm

    Hitler lives! Evidently. My God in Heaven, this is sick. May your Kingdom come quickly. Thank You it will.

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  • Freedom Trooper
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:35pm

    Again, i do not believe that these people were joking, You don’t blow up school children, or anyone for that matter, with that much gore and the amount of muscle and meat strewn all over the place and call it a joke. These people really do consider killing skeptics or those who will not join them as an option if all else fails.

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    • RONALDREAGAN1980
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:46pm

      You are right. The video would have been better if there had been some entrails or brain tissue splattered about.

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    • shorthorn
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:52am

      I don’t think they were joking either. I think they were threatening us. They always go too far, then they back down a little when the reaction is overwhelming. But they never back down quite all the way. Their agenda moves forward just a little bit more every time. People will remember those children being splattered all over their classmates…because they had a view that differed from the eco-groupthink. I don‘t think they’re joking at all. There are too many comments by too many leaders of these eco movements that go right along with the theme of this video for it to be just a coincidence.

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    • beekeeper
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 10:08am

      SHORTHORN – wrote:

      ” They always go too far, then they back down a little when the reaction is overwhelming. But they never back down quite all the way. Their agenda moves forward just a little bit more every time.”

      Interesting, sounds sorta-like I book I heard about, can‘t quite remember what it’s called… Can anyone help me with the title? ;^)

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  • parmajohn
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:34pm

    In the video game world I”M sure its quit mild But to us Non gamers its disturbing to say the least The dumbing Down of the youth needs to be addressed There is no restart button after a killing no 2nd chance to score more points…Society has changed…..For the worse

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    • Freedom Trooper
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:40pm

      Just to let you know i am a huge Video Gamer, and this this was extremely repulsing, sick, i have no idea what else to call it except evil. These people don’t care about Human life and never will. I don’t think this was meant to be a joke, i think this was meant to be a warning to those who are not on board with their agenda to get on bored now or be killed.

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    • Farmhand
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:41am

      Im with Freedom Trooper. Even to a gamer this is gross. Its mostly disgusting because of the creepy message of “dissent and we’ll blow you up, kiddies.” And yeah it was more graphic than it needed to be. I dont how this is funny. Seriously its not that I just think their humor style isnt funny. I literally dont understand what the joke is supposed to be.

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    • CommunismSurvivor
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 6:39pm

      I agree with FreedomTrooper, I’m also a gamer. I play a lot of games that are quite violent, but I was sickened and angered by this. This is worlds apart.

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  • solaveritas
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:31pm

    Was “splattergate” a subtle attempt to place fear in our children, despite the reassurances of parents?

    The left just knooooows they are RIGHT, and the end justifies the means, even violence!!

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    • Randy Courtway
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 3:02am

      Boy I hope you were being sarcastic

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    • tjdavid21444
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 3:30pm

      Randy, what I think he meant was that in THEIR minds, as long as it achieves THEIR ends, violence is a justifiable means. Beck had video of one of the leftards at the 10/2/10 rally saying exactly that. He said that a violent civil war between the classes would be okay in his mind, if it achieved what they were after – socialism.

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    • QueenDarlene
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 4:00pm

      I think that in order to create an atmosphere to forward their agenda they HAVE TO target our children. It will scare some into wanting to protect their children wether they are on board or not. Not only does the brainwashing of our youth continue, they have desensitized them for years through video games and the media. As for me, you mess with my baby bear you mess with Mama Bear!

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:29pm

    sadly this is not “splattergate” but an ideology that rings true with the progressive agenda. Not only that but climate change scientific data has been proven to be fallacious, with many scientists standing up against what the eco-idiots clame as fact has come out to be “FIXED”

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    • abc
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 5:45pm

      No, it’s splatter-gate. Otherwise known as a clever way to distract the masses from real problems that require them to rethink their ideology and the Fox-delivered narrative. I call it rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:29pm

    This is just simply revolting. All these people are really interested in is the billions of dollars they’ll make on this mega scam. I’ll admit that some of the nuts really believe all this crap but Al Gore believes in Al Gore and the billions he stands to make. But none of them cares a da_n about human beings.

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    • realAmerican
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:07pm

      That group is not run by Al Gore you ******. You far right morons are insane.

       
    • flytb28
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:07pm

      RealUnAmerican, what a post. Now you can go back to watching SciFi in your underwear. MaryLou is right, follow the money. Have you seen Big Al’s homes? He isn’t worried about mortgage or electric bill payments. He also has plenty of jet fare to fly around spreading his word. The huffington post misses you. Thanks for your input. Did the “******” comment come to you all at once or did you have to think about it for a while?

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:24pm

      Thanks realUNamerican, coming from you I consider being called a moron a compliment.
      FLYTB28 you’re the best.

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    • Farmhand
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:44am

      Eh ignore Realamerican. He’s just a troll trying to piss people off. It comes off as the actions of someone too insecure in real life to be assertive so he attacks people and acts the proverbial “badass” on the anonymous internet, but whatever I dont know the guy.

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    • CoFX
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:57am

      Real, the issue here is that the posters on this site are smart enough to draw a parallel between 10.10 and the leading spokesman for the evils of climate change. (hint: they both have to do with the environment) If you would like for us to explain why she mentioned Gore, I’m sure us morons can help you out. How about instead of making an @ss out of yourself, you try to think for two seconds before insulting people for no reason. Maybe being a tool makes you feel better about yourself, but I’m glad you vented here instead of on someone in real life. We already know your type around here, and simply ignore you.

      We love you, Marylou!

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  • Hardnox
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:27pm

    “Global Warming”, “Climate Change”, now “Climate Disruption” is over. They can call it whatever chatchy phrase they want. The lie has been exposed. Only the kool-aid drinkers and tree-humpers refuse to believe that the climate actually cycles. They will now need to find a new religion.

    The left‘s version of funny isn’t funny at all. Us adults have had it with the climate trolls. STFU already!

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:02pm

      The hour hand on a clock also cycles, but I’m certainly going to get my clock fixed if it ever starts doing so twice an hour.

      Scientists are well aware of the cycles, but are submitting that these cycles alone do not explain what is taking place.

       
    • computerdweller
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:56pm

      Jumper1977
      Take a northern greenhouse. Inject four times the amount of co2 into it during a sunny winter day when the vents are closed. All that happens is plants grow faster and eat the co2 and make oxygen for us and animals to breath. co2 is a harmless gas that the plant cycle keeps in balance. Taxing co2 emissions is a plan to bring all the world economies to the same lethargic state so they can introduce their one world governance. It’s what Obama and the rest of the washington boys and girls are all about. It will take this election and the next to end this madness.

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:10pm

      @computerdweller. Beyond questioning your assertion, I’m certainly not suggesting that in the right quantities CO2 is harmful. (And neither is any serious scientist) The question is at what point this balance is shifted.

      http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/11/how-much-co2-emission-is-too-much/

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 10:17pm

      I would also suggest reading:

      http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1995.tb03067.x/abstract;jsessionid=9F3B962CED734B32C6DA3B545C64805F.d01t01

      Lastly, I think it should also be quite evident that the considerations with our climate moves well beyond what makes plants grow the fastest.

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    • NoName22
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:17pm

      There is a balance that is important to be held. In our atmosphere, it is about 70% nitrogen, 26% oxygen, some other gases, and 1% or less of CO2.

      The problem is, being how dumb humanity is…..We think taxing emissions is the way to go. What we should be doing is planting trees and other plants to offset the extra CO2.

      But of course that’s a long term idea that is not much of a money maker. Why do you think “Global Warming” is only picking up steam now? It wasn’t this big of an issue 10-15 years ago…..It’s always been an issue that is long-term, and tackling environmental issues does not garner votes…..Of course until it’s supposedly “catastrophic” and the only way to fix it is to tax it.

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 12:46pm

      @Jumper…Yes they are aware of the cycles. Think about this though. We are not as warm as we were prior to the Ice Age. How do we know this? Most of Florida (for example) use to be underwater before the Earth started cooling leading to the Ice Age. The coast lines were far different then.

      People are saying “It’s the hottest summer on record.” How long have we kept records? When they put the sensing stations in place, where were they located? Where are they located now? The stations themselves haven’t moved but we have moved around them. One is now in a narrow alley way between two buildings. Is it any wonder the temps being recorded from these sites have gone up?

      NASA says the only way to get an accurate reading of the Earth is from space, not on the ground. They have done so and surprise! surprise! the temps are NOT going up.

      It’s funny to me that in a single country, one place is hitting record highs while another is hitting record lows on the same day at the same time.

      When you cherry pick your information, you can make anything true. What people need to do is research for themselves. BOTH sides and get the WHOLE truth, not just the parts they want you to know.

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    • abc
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 5:43pm

      TheWholeTruth, the claim about NASA finding no warming IS NOT TRUE. There are sensors at every level of the atmosphere, as well as in space, and they all point to warming, as do sensors recording ocean temperatures. You can find responses to your and many other bogus climate-denying arguments at http://skepticalscience.com/argument.php. Check it out, if you dare.

      Also, if it is the hottest temperature since human civilization existed, then we ought to be worried about continued warming. pointing to periods of time before we had to sustain human civilization provides small comfort to the intelligent scientists wondering whether we can continue to sustain such a civilization. But you totally ignore this fact by comparing our current climate to pre-ice age levels. Finally, the rates of change are happening faster than in any recorded period of time even before civilization. If that doesn’t scare you. nothing will.

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  • RONALDREAGAN1980
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:26pm

    I can hear the public outcry from my window

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    • RONALDREAGAN1980
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:30pm

      I need to correct that previous statement. It wasn’t public outcry after all. Turns out it was just a disorganized group of liberal zombies roaming the streets.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:25pm

    these people are insane.

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    • Rock Knutne ND
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:41pm

      Don’t worry…

      Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will explain it all in good humor to the ‘Useful Idiots’ that watch and get their ‘news’ from them.

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    • NoName22
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:42pm

      Anybody think it’s coincedental (coincidental?) that Osama came out in support of climate change recently???????

      That would just make me a conspiracy theorist……Those don’t exist.

       
    • RONALDREAGAN1980
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 8:42pm

      the video would have been much funnier if the children in the classroom were replaced by adults, and the people who exploded were glenn beck, sarah palin, and rush limbaugh. and maybe have a john candy look-alike replace the teacher, and he can say the classic, “they blowed up real good”.

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    • 5
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:15pm

      When you don’t have GOD in your life someone has to play Him.

      PROGRESSIVES ARE VERY SICK & THINK YOU ARE STUPID. ARE YOU?

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:01pm

      Progressives are infatuated with death. They advocate for abortion, so called “mercy killing” for grandma or “undesirables” and now they desires to kill people who don’t follow their environmental prescriptions.

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    • FreedomMissMeYet
      Posted on October 4, 2010 at 11:21pm

      There are none bigger than Progressives…just ask them.

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    • ME
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 5:07am

      “At what point to do we jail or execute global warming deniers?”

      Please come to my house and try to jail or execute me:) Global climate changes is real it has been happening sense the ice ages dam caveman with there new Bic lighters started it all:) What a joke how do people buy into this crap?

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    • bjelkier
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 9:46am

      Global Warming – what a crock. It is cold here in Texas – colder than it has been in previous years at this time of year. I remember 30 years ago when the big thing was Global Cooling. These people are just making billions selling us five dollar light bulbs while they rake up the cash. Force us to do things they will never be subjected to. I am glad I am not a young person or a child living in this insane world now…….

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    • Promotefreedom
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 10:51am

      I heard of a Communist manifesto how-to book that suggests in order to complete a successful revolution, up to 20% of the population of the country must be eliminated. (Those that too strongly oppose, and therefore must be silenced.)

      10:10 meant those violent commercials as a threat, not a joke.

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    • Alydia
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 2:13pm

      Yes, MrButcher these people are INSANE! You listen to them time after time and it is still the same thing….INSANITY! Here is another word for them….DEPRAVED!

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    • anOpinion
      Posted on October 5, 2010 at 6:51pm

      I hate seeing this idiocy on the topic of climate change, not only is it a disgusting video, it really shows the mindset of the extremists.

      All I care about is the objective scientific conclusions about climate change; is it real, and if so how do we prepare for it. Unfortunately we‘ll never know the truth because the extremists on both sides have politicized the issue and made it so toxic that they don’t care what the truth is, they just want their side to win.

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    • SPHEREBOUND
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 11:10am

      The ole bait-n-switch trick … works every time. Can‘t fool ’em … BLAST ‘EM !!!! Looks like London bridges are actually fallin’ down, (less the fair lady – [teacher in video]), when trying to connect a lesson and/or message to the vulnerable young children in a captive setting.

      Wonder if the “fair lady” plans to (press-the-button) on Justice Burton of the Royal Court of London that ruled on a case brought against England‘s Secretary of State for Education and Skills concerning making Al Gores’ …MOCKUMENTARY : AN INCOHERENT SPOOF… part of the cirriculum for secondary students ??? The court ruled that the film “ promoted partisan political views”
      and contained at least NINE “ERRORS” that are easily researchable – should you become – (skeptical). While your searchin’ Gore … check his take on the Earth‘s core temperature as per his claim while on Conan’s Show. He claimed our Earth’s core is MILLIONS OF DEGREES !!! (try 7,000).
      Where is Katie C. and/or Charlie G. when ya‘ need ’em ??? Conan and his audience sort-a ooooooo and then seemed to uhhhhhhh ( in stead of the ahhhh that normally follows a productive and interesting learning experience ) … then morphed the conversation on into the next mindnumbing quest for sense. Remenber Gore and Obummer stated that the “DEBATE IS OVER” concerning
      “man-made-global warming” … uhhhhhh … “climate-change” … uhhhhhh … “clean-green-energy” …
      uhhhhhh … and the latest spin term from the White House … “global-climate-disruption”. WHAT NEXT !!!!!!!

      Finally, looks like parts of Europe are buyin’ into the Islamic “BUTTON-BLAST“ approach to getting an opposing view to ”see-it” their way. The self-appointed (annointed) ruling class elites, MUST convince the infidels (skeptics) by any and/or all methods possible because THEIR IDEOLOGY is soooooooooo important and valid (in their mindseye) that the proverbial ENDS justifies the MEANS,
      regardless of the opposing views evidence and/or proposed ideas for more civilized and rational approach to alternative MEANS.

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