The heartless scolds who produced the exploding people 10:10 mini-movie discovered that their idea of humor doesn't quite sync up with the other 99.999% of the population so they pulled it.
Here is a copy found at another location:
Hat tip to Daily Bayonet for the link -- he ripped a copy of this and will host it if YouTube backs down and decides to aggressively stop hosting it.
Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That was, for a lot of people, the person who brought this to public attention. The popularity (and furor) of this post has catapulted him from a modest science blog to the Third Most Popular post in the entire WordPress network of almost 350,000 blogs. Read on for his reception from a New Zealand commenter -- comic gold!
James Delingpole is also doing a wonderful job of covering the story.
From his post at the UK Telegraph:
'Go green or we'll kill your kids' says Richard Curtis eco-propaganda shocker Gillian Anderson, Peter Crouch [a tall footballer], Radiohead, David Ginola [a French footballer] and � above all � Richard Curtis, I salute you! You have just released a video which has entered history as the most emetic, ugly, counterproductive eco-propaganda movie ever made. Believe me this thing is going to go viral beyond your wildest dreams. But unfortunately that virus is ebola. (Hat tips: Barry Woods/Tom Dalton/Pete Hayes/Old Goat/half the civilised world�.)
Had a look? Well, I�m certain you�ll agree that detonating school kids, footballers and movie stars into gory pulp for ignoring their carbon footprints is attention-grabbing.
It then goes on to quote one or two of the usual suspects, such as this light-hearted, �no we don�t really want to blow up schoolchildren for showing insufficient environmental zeal, that�s just our sense of humour, ha ha ha ha� little missy:
�Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody�s existence on this planet? Clearly we don�t really think they should be blown up, that�s just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?� jokes 10:10 founder and Age of Stupid film maker Franny Armstrong.
What�s fascinating, reading this kind of thing, is seeing just how far removed from reality the green movement has gone. Kyoto is dead. Copenhagen was a flop. Cancun is going to make a mockery of all those green dreams about global carbon emissions legislation. And how do the environmentalists respond?
By force of argument?
By presenting new evidence which supports their cause?
Nope.
By threatening to blow up anyone who disagrees with them.
The comments on Jame's post are a wonderful mix between rational thought and brainwashed kool-aid drinkers.
Posted by DaveH at October 1, 2010 8:05 PM