I just saw this commercial and I will be watching for it again. Saw it on TBS.
It shows an old switcher locomotive spewing black smoke barrelling down on some guy whining about how Global Warming is taking its effect. Then he’s like its not going to affect me … steps off the tracks … and we see a little girl standing in the middle of the tracks in front of the moving train.
Interesting, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one.
A commercial by whom for what?
I don’t remember who it was by, but I am watching for it again. But it was about stopping global warming.
Wow.
You’ve gotta give them credit for being creative.
As for the message, that’s a whole nother story.
It just flustering that its the big bad railraods making all the problems that ease congestion and exhaust and a truck is never shown.
Global Warming = A theory, that is not proven…
I could go on about it…but I won’t
I grow tired of the whole thing…
I was discussing global warming one day, this person was adamant about it… So, I suggested that Volcanos do alot of damage to the atmosphere, and he stated “Volcanos are natural, they don’t do as much damage as man”… From that point on, it was quite evident I was arguing with a fool…
But, enough… I am tired of the “greenies” trying to infringe on our freedoms, as if they aren’t under attack from a bunch of other directions…
From all I have read on global warming, I have come to the conclusion that no one really knows what is going on…
Whether global warming exists or not … the steps proposed to curb it all are good things. If nothing else, they’ll make the air a little cleaner and I don’t know how anyone can perceive that as being negative.
The train was used as a metaphor. Has a much larger impact (pun intended) than seeing a girl mowed down by a ford escort.
There’s very little difference between this ad and the original “shock” ad - aka the Goldwater “Daisy” commercial from 1964. Absolutely no substance, absolutely no factual content, just an attempt to scare the ill-informed using raw baseless emotion.
Typical of the far left.
As for the few and proud in the scientific community who continue to debunk the whole anthropogenic global warming scam despite the attempts to smear them and otherwise repress their studies -
WE ARE ALL PROUD OF YOU!
And the Bush Administration.
Dave
That person either wasn’t born yet or lived in an area not affected by Mount St Helens in 1980.Myself,I was not in an affected area,but am aware of what the affects were for those involved.Wait for the next big eruption of one of the Northwest volcano’s and then bring up the subject again and see what they think.
As to the global warming ad.Heaven forbid they show a traffic jam on a major city expressway or someone’s oil burning clunker accelerating down a street passed a group of school kids.
Have a good one.
Bill B
I am not too sure that all the ideas to curb ‘global warming’ are a good idea.
Keep in mind we could throw ourselves back to the dark ages of no electricty and foot powered cars like the Flinstones and one good volcanic eruption would still erase all of our best efforts.
Not only that, no one has proved that global warming exists. If it does, then I have an idea. Right now this is the coldest it has been in October in WI for quite some time. I am almost tempted to go outside are just run my truck wide open for a couple of hours to help speed the greenhouse gases along a little bit.
Might as well make lemonade out of lemons, right?
Sigh.
You can’t look at temperatures for one year. They are AVERAGES. If we didn’t have colder years, then we wouldn’t have averages.
And no one is proposing giving up cars. Stop using scare tactics. But curbing emissions will not kill us. It can only help globally considering all the crap China is tossing into the air as they industrialize.
This is a topic that I feel kind of strongly about. and I dont do this too oftem so im gonna pull out my soapbox and hop up on it. [soapbox]
Yes, Man creates greenhouse gasses which does help Global warming. However, Global Warming will happen even if we don’t do anything to contribute. Here is an example, We have the earth… It goes into an ice age, and then melts, thne goes to an ice age again, Look at whats happening now. The glaciers are receeding, suggesting that we are on our way out of an ice age. Look at our environment, It all contributes to it, As said earlier, Volcanos. and other things are gonna help it along. But here is the rest of the story… I don’t know if any of you know this, but, our earth is in somthing called the Milenkovich Cycle, and basically what happens is that our orbit around the sun elongates at one end of the cycle giving us less time near the sun, thus causing the ice age. It the rounds out and gives us more time near the sun making the ice melt off. Now wait… that must mean that if our glaciers are busy melting, that we must be coming into the warm end of the cycle. So basically my point is that it is going to happen with or without us helping it out. The Discovery Channel had a whole big sh
Considering that we only have 50-100 years of reliable ‘average’ temperatures by which we can determine global trends in climate change, I certainly don’t give credit to those who claim the earth is warmer now than it was 800,000 years ago.
And weren’t you the one that claimed in another thread that it would be hard for us to breathe if there is nothing but sulfur in the air or something like that? Talk about scare tactics…
There isn’t wrong with trying to conserve fuel or being frugal with our natural resources - in fact, it should be encouraged. But I don’t buy the whole ‘we’re all going to be dead in 20 years scenario that Al Gore is screaming’.
Just a few thoughts about global warming:
The greatest danger of global warming is that enough people will come to believe in it to enact a call to action in a version of Kyoto. This is because a true call to action to stop global waming requires an awful lot more than just wearing a ribbon and buying energy efficient light bulbs. Many will be surprised by the sacrifice they will be ordered to make.
Political scientists know that socialism can only expand by hiding its intent to acquire power and control. It either has to pretend that it is something that it is not or it must come on so slowly that nobody notices; a mode referred to as creeping socialism. Saving the planet from global warming is the latest mask being used to hide the advancement of world socialism, which is intended to transfer wealth from the richest nations to all other nations. In the deepest terms, it is accurate to say that global warming has nothing to do with climate. Saving the planet is just the sales pitch for the bitter medicine that hides behind the mask.
The doctrine that is intended to promulgate this principle is the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. Basi
Have any of you guys seen an inconvenient truth?? I know many didn’t just because its “Liberal Crap” but it really brought out some great points. And in other words when Pat Robertson says its a problem, then I think we D’s and R’s need to be concerned.
If global warming exists - a point on which the non-political scientific jury is still out - how much of it is caused by the hot air developed by the technologically challenged media pundits pushing the idea?
When the “global warming” crowd starts going after slash-and-burn agriculture and the destruction of the South American rain forests, I may climb onto the rear platform of their bandwagon. As long as the “less developed” nations keep getting a free pass, I don’t see any reason to buy a ticket.
Chuck
And AlGore, the man who invented the Internet.
Sigh.
As a guy living within sight of a dike that will not be high enough if global warming turns out to be true after Al Gore’s 20 years I could write volumes about it. But it seems I would waste my time and energy trying to convince you clowns. Oh well, we’ll see and if necessary we Dutch will come to your country and claim a sizable piece of it, all 17 million of us. We will be preceded by a few hapless souls from those coconut palm islands from the Pacific on the last of their coconut palms used as floats.
In the mean time I’ll read up in the Bible about that Noah guy. I do have a balcony large enough to build a boat on and I may get it right before then, even with my lack of woodworking skills. I have time to build some muscle too to get it in the water which will be lapping about 1 meter below the floor level of my apartment here in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Until then, greetings,
Marc Immeker
PS Yes I am aware that mother nature can outdo us anytime she chooses to. But why should we behave stupid when it is not necessary? Live and let live including those not living in one’s own country.