"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
h/t R. Black
Posted by Kate at November 21, 2009 2:56 PMThe sickness of the people making these things leaves me speechless. Almost.
To use the obvious parallel and emotionality from 9/11 makes the purveyors of this commercial scum.
If you sign up they'll send you stickers to begin their direct action campaign. I really want them, quickly. I wonder if they'll send it by airmail...
Posted by: the rat at November 21, 2009 3:12 PMBetter call Thor Hyerdahl. Engine propelled trans-oceanic travel just went out of vogue.
Truly a disgusting video.
Posted by: Brian M. at November 21, 2009 3:14 PMThe only thing the left hates more than people travelling around in cars is people travelling around in planes.
Posted by: Mr.g at November 21, 2009 3:19 PMYeah but how much greenhouse gas is emitted by the decomposing carcasses of polar bears that fall from the sky? That's what I want to know.
And one other question. How much greenhouse gas is emitted flying the caracass of Fat Albert around the globe to preach doom?
Posted by: JMD at November 21, 2009 3:21 PMi fix airplanes.....i love the smell of jet-A in the morning.
paul in calgary
Posted by: paul at November 21, 2009 3:21 PMHow many delegates are flying to Copenhagen? This is more stupid than a PETA ad.
Posted by: kevlarman at November 21, 2009 3:24 PMThe CGI bear-fall is stupid enough but squashing a perfectly good old Caddy just to make it more real? Pathetic, little minds.
Posted by: T. Robert Wolfram at November 21, 2009 3:27 PMWorld-Government Moonies walking amongst us. A sick, vile cult trying to brainwash credulous people with bald disinformation.
They must be exposed.
Posted by: EBD at November 21, 2009 3:27 PMhope that was shot in Bali!
Posted by: GYM at November 21, 2009 3:30 PMcan we make one like this with Gore & Suzuki dropping from the sky?
Posted by: ChrisinMB at November 21, 2009 3:31 PMI thought it was global warming that was killing off the polar bear. Someone better alert Suzuki.
Posted by: wallyj at November 21, 2009 3:34 PMsomebody call PETA quick
Posted by: blanks at November 21, 2009 3:37 PMThe message, of this example and other like propagit is this:
"Until you live in a small cold house, drive a tiny underpowered golf cart, take only the most necessary trips, have at most one child, and consume the smallest amount of locally grown food possible, you should feel really guilty".
These people are the eqivalent of your angry, purse lipped maiden aunt who spends her time condemning fun of all types.
They will become isolated and reviled for the same reason she is.
(the 9-11 theme is particularly contemptible and will win them no friends)
Posted by: Bart F. at November 21, 2009 3:42 PMWhen they did it on WKRP, with turkeys, it was hilarious since you only got the audio of Les paraphrasing the Hindenburg disaster, and then his shocked return to the station.
Posted by: Tregonsee at November 21, 2009 3:43 PMWallyj.... Global warming isn't killing them . It is that sudden stop that is screwing them up.
Posted by: Rob C at November 21, 2009 3:46 PMHAHAHAHA ... their website is called plainstupid dot com.............. HAR!
Posted by: OMMAG at November 21, 2009 3:48 PMActually I would encourage this sort of tripe. The average person simply rolls their eyes at the outrageousness of this sort of propaganda and is turned off. Only the cool-aid drinkers would view these as effective and opinion changing.
Posted by: ChrisinMB at November 21, 2009 3:49 PMIt's amazing what 79 billion will buy.
Posted by: Cjunk at November 21, 2009 3:49 PMMeh. A load of bunkum.
A polar bear falling at terminal velocity (ca. 55 m/s) would strike with an impact energy of more than 1,200,000 joules. That's the same energy as a transport truck travelling at 160 kph.
The damned things would splatter like a balloon full of guts. There would be fur, intestines, and partially-digested seal carcasses everywhere.
What a cop-out. If you're gonna spend 79 billion of my tax dollars on eco-tard propaganda, at least get a decent director and effects guy. For that kind of money the Plane Stupid folks could've got Skywalker Studios and David "squeeze'em for the last drop of blood" Cronenberg.
It's raining Mann.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 21, 2009 4:03 PMI know several enviro-green fruitcakes and they are always driving or flying, when you can get them to sit still long enough they preach.
Posted by: bob at November 21, 2009 4:03 PMAnd I guess those Chinese cloud-seeding experiments were a little too successful.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 21, 2009 4:04 PMActually I watched this a few times and the message I came away with was one of perhaps criticism towards the AWG moonbats.
The message to me was plainly that "Hey...you guys are hypocrites for pointing the finger at average joe citizen when you in fact constantly use airtravel,(read that AL Gorebbles and David Fluffflakie et al.)
I suppose on second take it could be an MB(moonbat)...the world is going to disolve & die tomorrow by CO2 video... but I digress.
Posted by: middleagegrump at November 21, 2009 4:14 PMThese F*****G idiots won't be happy until we're all running around naked in the snow. Even then they'll find something to complain about. I swear to God that if anyone of these environazis crosses my path I'll kick them in the teeth.I've had it.
Posted by: Warren Z at November 21, 2009 4:16 PMMore importantly, according to the overpass thingy, I can maybe rent a car for 20 bucks. That'd be great - I can pollute on somebody else's dime! (well, it could be a night with Al Gore, currently being heavily discounted, or its the going rate for a Climate Research Unit director these days...)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2009 4:17 PMOK. Fine then.
Why not a "planesjihad.com" commercial to make folks aware about how Islamic terrorists might use planes to attack buildings in our cities?
Then they could show innocent people falling to their the deaths from the sky.
Oh, wait. That really happened.
Posted by: JJM at November 21, 2009 4:20 PMI thought they left was selling us on that polar bears were an endangered species. How can they just waste them in a stupid video clip.
Does Fat Al know about this slaughter?
Posted by: Abe Froman at November 21, 2009 4:22 PMThat was such an awesome advertisement... screw polar bears!
Posted by: Kommentar von Anonymous at November 21, 2009 4:28 PMWhat this?
Shopping gone wild hollyweird style? It's Raining Polar Bears?
Oh wow I'm in,
one condition,
if they could please,
and yeah I'll accept those bumper stickers and stuff,
- just drop one of those (with a parachute, I'm sure that'll avoid the messy part) in our back yard that'd be just great!!!
( ps, avoid the little mound by the house it's the septic bed...) :)
Thanks!
ps2
Can you make sure it's dead first k? thanks.
{Well if they're just gonna waste them, I have a great long term use in mind so really I'm being eco friendly by recycling.}
/
Seriously though, couldn't even continue watching this garbage and bailed after a few seconds.
un-bearable...
Posted by: DaninVan at November 21, 2009 4:38 PMreprehensible beyond description.
this is one of the most repugnant and offensive video clips I have ever seen anywhere regardless of 'context' or 'objective'.
this is what they are parroting:
http://www.charonboat.com/2007/08/wtc_jumpers.wmv
a very sad day then and sad commentary now what some people think is appropriate.
Posted by: curious_george at November 21, 2009 5:08 PMDemonstrates what really is in the little demented AGW Hippie's mind.
- The sky is falling.
- They don't give a damn about the 9/11 victims.
- Yeah Islam, the west had it coming.
- To hell with jets, can't thumb a ride anyways.
- Use a polar bear, crush a Caddy.
- Man is bad.
- Civilization must be turned back to pre-industrial revolution.
Producer's disclaimer:
No actual polar bears were killed in the production of this propagit.
Certain thoroughly discredited climate "scientists" were on their way home from various extravagant overseas boondoggles, er, conferences - to lick their intellectual wounds - so we thought: "Their careers are dead anyway; why not dress them up and let them make a real impact!"
That was cool! Who knew polar bears were so impervious to such high velocity impacts?
Posted by: Knight of Good Mr. Iron Man at November 21, 2009 5:19 PMMy impressions as they occurred....
Lizzy May now organizes Churchill's Polar Bear relocation programme.
The nutbars reacting to the Hadley e-mails leak.
CGI has come a long way....
The crazies definitely have way too much financing.
The moonbats didn't think this through---message wise....
CGI is only partly realistic---but then the carcasses had to be recognizable....
Quite a bit of work put into trying to inflict guilt on us with that ad, but it just made me laugh and for some strange reason, crave a Coca-Cola beverage...
Posted by: hoil at November 21, 2009 5:25 PMHow cool would it be if we invented Jets that ran on polar bears with no CO2 exhaust would they let us breed them for fuel?
I have a plan for a Bunny Reactor somewhere in my computer, and now the whole rabbit penis thing is fixed up ...sounds like its funding time!
Renewable Rabbit Resource, consumes CO2, infinite supply of bunnies, side business in mittens, handcuffs, rabbits feet, hats and coat liners... its a new type of Breeder Reactor.
Snort. Funny as hell.
Now, I;d pay to have a remake of politicians, activists & do-"gooders" falling to ground, on the condition of no special effects allowed.
Posted by: Fred2 at November 21, 2009 5:31 PMI laugh at stupidity on a daily basis, not all stupidity, but some everyday. I see a lot of it. Usually it comes to me, but sometimes I have to search it out for myself... I enjoyed this one. I liked how the producers made certain that Susan landed in the middle of that cadillac for greater effect, although a direct hit on a fire hydrant is always good use of cinematic flair.
thanks Kate
This whole discussion has made me realize how what I used to relegate to the category of "wingnut" has infiltrated the rational world. When I think of the resources the world has invested in climate change propaganda (research?)--resources that might actually have been devoted to achieving something useful like...yes, developing more energy efficient homes, better medical treatments, cleaning up of environmental messes, even just planting a few trees here and there, I want to weep. They try to persuade us that living in destitution is the moral choice--one that would make it possible for billions of other people to live in equal misery. What a world! It became illegal to pitch ads at kids that made smoking attractive or made them badger their parents for certain toys. Why isn't it illegal to produce such emotional, heart wringing garbage?
Posted by: rita at November 21, 2009 5:42 PM40 years in the future, in the midst of the Great Al Gore Minimum, when millions have died due to massive global cooling, some kid will ask his/her parent:
"What did you do to prepare us for all this Dad?"
"Oh I made ridiculous adgitprop for the fools who believed in Global Warming"
Posted by: Fred at November 21, 2009 5:43 PMdoes this mean all the eco-nazis will be walking to Copenhagen?
Posted by: lylebert at November 21, 2009 5:53 PMThese environmental groups are a violent bunch. I'm glad few of them wear firearms.
Posted by: rabbit at November 21, 2009 6:00 PMOh so funny, almost as good as watching humans hurl themselves from the 9/11 towers. Which was bad enough watching it live on TV, when it happened...but that was a conspiracy!!
SICK BASTARDS...
Hey ah Satan, we can cosmetically tone down those horns.
Just a little clip and some halo polish...voila right as raining polar bears!
This is just as demented as the nutcases who had all the airplanes flying into tall buildings ad, or this one from Greenpeace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZreEBnqlZlk
Greenpeace - Nuclear Power VS Plane
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"
Great...
The pathetic teachers at my kids' elementary school will be showing this to their classes soon.
Posted by: DaveR at November 21, 2009 6:40 PMNow that Climate Change has been debunked what's the Green's platform going to consist of?
Posted by: Rose at November 21, 2009 7:11 PMNow that Climate Change has been debunked what's the Green's platform going to consist of?
Posted by: Rose at November 21, 2009 7:11 PM
Well I would vote for them if they promised to shut Bucky the Beaver up.
Posted by: Johann at November 21, 2009 7:13 PMI hate these eco-twits, but do not revile my angry purse-lipped maiden aunt. To each his own, I always say.
Posted by: larben at November 21, 2009 7:14 PMObviously, those polar bears ran out of Coca-Cola, and are committing mass suicide due to caffeine withdrawal. Quick! Someone notify Atlanta.
Posted by: KevinB at November 21, 2009 8:28 PMKate you're too sick.
Posted by: ok4ua at November 21, 2009 8:36 PMThis is sick. During 9/11, the folks heard people fallinh from the sky and hitting the pavement.
Posted by: RW at November 21, 2009 8:39 PMWeren't there dead bodies falling out of aircraft at the end of Bre-X too?
Posted by: richfisher at November 21, 2009 8:51 PMThis clip reminds me of an ad many years ago. The earlier add was by an animal rights group rather than a global warming group which did this one. The earlier ad featured female models modelling fur coats. The models walked down the runway and then did a twirl in front of the judges and audience. As the twirl was done, the bottom edge of the fur coat come out and up and blood came out from the bottom-side of the fur coat and sprayed the judges and audience with a good soaking. When the twirl was complete, the bottom edge of the coat come back into its natural resting place but now the underside of the coat was soaked with blood and it dripped onto the runway and made a small circle of blood around the model.
Posted by: Brent Weston at November 21, 2009 9:16 PMi love the smell of jet-A in the morning.
paul in calgary
Posted by: paul at November 21, 2009 3:21 PM
I love the smell of jet-B, in the afternoon. It means the helicopter came back to get me, and I don't have to stay in the bush, overnight.
Posted by: dp at November 21, 2009 9:16 PMLove to do a revision of this clip:
Would be poetic justice if every single person - who was involved in the making of this colossal dump of excrement - had their faces put on every single dropping bear, but change the bear body's to a human turd?
Colossal size turds, each one with one of these faces attached ... falling to the ground, minimizing human death and suffering, making a mess and dirtying up everything, destroying... like terrorists do.
Did they fall out of Bearforce One?
Posted by: Tommyboy at November 21, 2009 9:43 PMHaven't seen a Cadillac like that on the road for years. Anybody recognize what year that one is? My guess would be about '78 or '79.
Posted by: CJ at November 21, 2009 9:50 PMNope, they fell out of the Teddy Bears' picnic basket!
Posted by: sonofAtilla at November 21, 2009 9:52 PMOne thing is for sure. At terminal velocity, the bears didn't suffer when they hit the pavement.
Posted by: Joe Citizen at November 21, 2009 10:14 PMI just came back from taking the family to Sea World and San Diego Zoo. (Yes, we flew.) It's funny that they reassure people that the bears are just fine living in San Diego because it's the same temperature that it gets on the tundra during the summer yet they also warn about the threats from global warming. It's nice to see that more people are seeing through this scam.
Posted by: kmn at November 21, 2009 10:15 PMI assume that those bears were dropped from an AIRPLANE?????
Posted by: TimothyJ at November 21, 2009 10:22 PMWell Kate, if it keeps raining fresh Polar Bears you will never be hungry again.
Posted by: Jema54 at November 21, 2009 10:33 PMROTFLMAO @ Tommyboy @ 9:43 pm.
Posted by: Louise at November 22, 2009 12:36 AMRe: "The message, of this example and other like propagit is this: Until you live in a small cold house, drive a tiny underpowered golf cart, take only the most necessary trips, have at most one child, and consume the smallest amount of locally grown food possible, you should feel really guilty."
That's about the size of it: inducing unearned guilt leading to psychological enslavement.
Re: "Haven't seen a Cadillac like that on the road for years. Anybody recognize what year that one is? My guess would be about '78 or '79."
Oh, the ad's producer has driven this Caddy about 400,000 miles, so he can let it go. He's off to buy a new one.
Posted by: nv53 at November 22, 2009 1:26 AMInitial reaction: Are they f*ucking kidding?
Second reaction: No....they're not.
Ohh, boy.
Hey, at least I tried to self-censor, and as all emotion driven activists know, it's the good intentions that count. Hope their arms aren't too tired from that long swim to Copenhagen and back.
Posted by: tower at November 22, 2009 7:35 AMBirdie, birdie in the sky
You dropped something in my eye
But don't worry, I won't cry
I'm just glad that polar bears don't fly
Just signed up.
Can't wait for my stickers...
Yes, by all means, lets pretend to care about imaginary, falling polar bears and pay no attention to real people leaping from burning buildings. We have our priorities in order.
Posted by: Thomas_L..... at November 22, 2009 1:47 PMInteresting that, even though this piece of propaganda is being presented by a British organization, the skyline being shown is that of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Might uber-green-PR-hack James Hoggan of Vancouver, the chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, be behind this campaign? Just asking.
Posted by: Terry at November 23, 2009 1:16 AMThe final picture of the pedestrian walkway was filmed from the parking lot entrance of the Guinness Tower at 1055 West Hastings Street in Vancouver BC (the corner in the background is Burrard Street) - you can check it out on street view in Google Earth.
Posted by: Boatguy at November 23, 2009 11:16 AMI fixed this video to make it more realistic.
Posted by: Mike at November 24, 2009 1:56 AM