Y2Kyoto: As God Is My Witness, I Thought Polar Bears Could Fly

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein

h/t R. Black

73 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: As God Is My Witness, I Thought Polar Bears Could Fly”

  1. This 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.

  2. i 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.

  3. Love 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.

  4. 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.

  5. One thing is for sure. At terminal velocity, the bears didn’t suffer when they hit the pavement.

  6. I 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.

  7. Re: “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.

  8. 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.

  9. Birdie, 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

  10. 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.

  11. Interesting 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.

  12. The 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.

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