Doomsday Global Warming Fearmongering Accompanies Copenhagen

Darryl Mason
Your New Reality
Dec. 09, 2009

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC

"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment

"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

Some impressive fear-mongering, sure. But it still pales into comparison to the one minute ad that shows a sighing ape hanging itself, and a suicidal kangaroo jumping into the path of a speeding train :



There used to be a YouTube clip of the above ad where someone had added Simon & Garfunkel’s Bright Eyes as the soundtrack. It made the scenes of animal suicide so intensely grim it became funny.












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