User:A Quest For Knowledge/Hide the Decline

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"Hide the Decline" is a music video parody[1] of the song "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James. It was posted on YouTube on November 24, 2009 by user M4GW, an acronym for Minnesotans for Global Warming. It was created in response to the contents of one of the e-mails from what the media have called Climategate. [2] The music video became a hit on YouTube,[3] receiving 500,000 hits and was played on the Rush Limbaugh radio show.[3][4] The video also reached number six in The Guardian's weekly Viral Video chart.[5]

Synopsis[edit]

The video is based on a phrase from one of the e-mails of the Climatic Research Unit email controversy‎ [6] in which professor Phil Jones uses the phrase "to hide the decline". It features a cat with a guitar, a singing tree and an animated character with a picture of Michael Mann's face.[7][3] The original submitted video was removed from YouTube by M4GW after Mann threatened legal action.[3][7]

Reception[edit]

Wyatt Andrews of CBS News has said of the video, "The phrase "hide the decline" is now so infamous it is being spoofed on you tube".[2]

Ed Barnes writing for Fox News has said that Michael Mann has threatened legal action over the video as Mann feels that it uses his image to sell merchandise.[3][8] Minnesotans for Global Warming responded to the legal threat by posting the letter on their website and by creating an update to the video.[9]

John Tierney writing for The New York Times has said of the video, "the phrase that has been turned into a music video by gleeful climate skeptics: “hide the decline,” used in an e-mail message by Phil Jones, the head of the university’s Climatic Research Unit. He was discussing the preparation of a graph for the cover of a 1999 report from the World Meteorological Organization showing that temperatures in the past several decades were the highest of the past millennium".[6]

Dan Gainor in an Op-Ed for Fox News wrote, "“Hide the decline” is such a memorable term that it has been enshrined in song in a humorous video by Minnesotans for Global Warming".[10]

L. Gordon Crovitz writing for the Wall Street Journal has said the video is, "a mocking send-up of the scientists who tried to suppress data showing global cooling. It was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube".[11]

Jeff Tollefson writing in Nature called the video "catchy" and reported on Manns reaction to it.[7]

Stephanie Gutmann writing in The Telegraph said "So you thought you had to be on the Left to have fun with a guitar and a computer graphics program? Hah! Welcome to the new Climategate counter-culture. Here’s a video entitled “Hide the Decline”, put together by some clever young men called Minnesotans for Global Warming".[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Harkinson, Josh (4 December, 2009). "No. 6: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (A.K.A. ClimateDepot.com)". Mother Jones. Foundation for National Progress. p. 1. Retrieved 30 August 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b Andrews, Wyatt (9 December, 2009). "Global Warming Naysayers Turn up Heat". CBS. CBS News. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e Barnes, Ed (26 April, 2010). "Climate Scientist, Heated Up Over Satirical Video, Threatens Lawsuit". FoxNews. Fox. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Limbaugh, Rush (25 November, 2009). "The Universe of Lies: Climate Hoax Lives, Obama to Join Copenhagen". The Rush Limbaugh Show. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Bunz, Mercedes (27 November, 2009). "Viral video chart: The Animal is back!". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b Tierney, John (30 November, 2009). "E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to Spin Science". New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ a b c Tollefson, Jeff (30 June, 2010). "Climate science: An erosion of trust?". Nature. 466. Nature Publishing Group: 24–26. doi:10.1038/466024a. Last November, a catchy music video popped up on YouTube and attracted thousands of fans {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Tollefson, Jeff (3 May, 2010). "Mann targeted again, this time by the state (of Virginia)". Nature. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Newswire, PR (20 April, 2010). "Climategate Figure Threatens Lawsuit Over Satirical YouTube Video 'Hide the Decline' - No..." Forbes. PR Newswire. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Gainor, Dan (3 December, 2009). "Climate-Gate Heats Up But Mainstream Media Ignore Firestorm". Fox News. Fox News Network. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Crovitz, L. Gordon (6 December, 2009). "Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Gutmann, Stephanie (November 29th, 2009). "Meet the new Climategate counter-culture". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. p. 1. Retrieved 30 August 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

External Links[edit]

Category:Spoof films Category:Viral videos Category:Parodies

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