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ClimateGate: Turning The Amps Up To 11 — Maybe 12

December 7, 2009 - 8:16 pm - by Ed Driscoll

Yesterday, I noted that in response to ClimateGate, the left wants to see the global warming scare tactics cranked to #11 — as if those amps haven’t been playing the same chord for ages:

As I noted in last week’s “Hide The Decline” edition of my Silicon Graffiti video blog, in what turned out to be, in retrospect, the run-up to ClimateGate, the left seemed to be dramatically escalating the craziness of their global warming-themed PSAs and advertisements. By the fall of this year, it reached the point where the WWF was comparing global warming to a whole fleet of terrorist-controlled planes attacking the World Trade Center. Which was followed by this ad from Plane Stupid, the British anti-aviation group, which, in what was clearly another 9/11-inspired ad, featured photorealistic digital animation of polar bears falling from the sky, hitting skyscrapers, leaving blood trails on the sides of those buildings, and ultimately flattening parked cars:

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Short of replacing the bears with humans falling from the sky for the complete 9/11 experience, once you’ve reached this level of hysteria, where else do you go to ramp up the hysteria?

Here.

Filed under: Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, God And Man At Dupont University, Liberal Fascism, The Assault On Reason, The Return of the Primitive

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  1. 1. Rose

    I thought you were gonna say you go here.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CALT45t3TsY

    The World Wildlife Federation ad – they seem to like the bodies falling from skyscrapers and 9/11 themed scare tactics.

    Propagandists have no shame and no conscience.

    December 7, 2009 - 9:17 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Ed Driscoll

    Rose,

    Hey, I mentioned (and linked to) the WWF clip in the above post. In a way, the “Plane Stupid” falling polar bears ad is the logical extension of it — first the WWF rip-off of the attack on the WTC, then the mirror-image of the office workers leaping from the buildings.

    As I wrote yesterday, I was trying to figure out how you ramp the rhetoric up beyond those two craven ads.

    Ed

    December 7, 2009 - 9:30 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Rose

    Agreed, Ed. ‘S what I get for multitasking above. It seems the way they ramp it up is to declare the simple act of breathing out to be a greenhouse gas emission.

    They’re pulling out all the stops though, wasn’t Al Gore quoting scripture or something?

    December 7, 2009 - 11:27 pm   Link to this Comment

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