Sexing Up Global Warming

The German magazine Der Spiegel has a lengthy piece on the plans by the environwackos to make global warming a sexier topic in order to gain more attention from the world's media:

Climate change used to make headlines. But these days the issue appears to have largely fallen off the radar.

World leaders recently negotiated a new climate agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, but public interest in the issue was limited. It was a marked contrast to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, which had been declared of historic importance in the runup to the meeting, only to then fail spectacularly. The theft of e-mails from the University of East Anglia had badly damaged the image of climate research shortly before the summit.

Environmentalists and scientists are concerned about the massive drop in public interest in the topic over the last year. Now they are looking for new strategies to turn the tide. They're searching for so-called "mind bombs" -- highly emotional images that reduce a complex problem down to one core message.

Let's take a look at some of the proposals:

Sex: Perhaps advertising's most potent weapon can be harnessed for climate protection campaigns as well. One initial experiment showed an attractive female researcher posing in a bathing suit in front of Arctic ice. "Climate change is sexy," was also the motto of several working groups at the Global Media Forum in Bonn.

India has even managed to turn a sex symbol into an icon for climate protection. The Ice Shiva Lingam, an enormous ice stalagmite in the Amarnath caves of northern India, is revered as a fertility symbol. Major news outlets in the country have begun reporting on global warming since the frozen phallic symbol began to melt.

A new kind of journalism: Climate activists have begun directing millions in funding into training programs for environmental journalists, with the goal of encouraging what's known as "advocacy journalism."

Let's stop right there. If it involves advocacy, it's not journalism. The bastardization of the language is also part of the environwackos agenda.

We continue:

The search for a new messiah: Just as Martin Luther King Jr. awakened the civil rights movement, the climate cause needs its own messiah, says environmental researcher Andreas Ernst from Kassel University. That messiah's analogous message might run along the lines of, "I had a nightmare," Ernst suggests. Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his film that jolted viewers out of their climate complacency, seemed to be successfully fulfilling this role for a while, but he has since all but disappeared from the public eye.

Needless to say, Gore had some problems with his own phallic symbol.

There are more, but I think this gives you an idea of how the environwackos are hoping to brainwash people into supporting their basically communist agenda. Fortunately, the whole global warming argument suffered what was a pretty much fatal blow when the whole ClimateGate mess broke a year ago. Attempts to shock people into ignoring ClimateGate will be unsuccessful with all but the most liberal/unthinking types.

And the continued cold weather, such as the snow that's falling in the valley just north of Los Angeles this morning where there hasn't been snow for over 20 years, isn't helping sell the idea that the world is dangerously warming.

It's a hoax, no matter how you package it.