Nov 24 2009DO NOT LIKE: It's Raining Polar Bears

WARNING: Video is graphic (in case you couldn't tell by the screenshot) due to simulated polar bear deaths.

This is a disturbing video of it raining polar bears (why couldn't it be men?!) funded by U.K. based Plane Stupid, an anti-airport expansion (read: terrorist) organization.

Brief: We wanted to confront people with the impact that short-haul flights have on the climate. We used Polar Bears because they're a well understood symbol of the effect that climate change is having on the natural world.

Granted I didn't even read the quote, but did that stop me from stealing my roommate's credit card and donating $30 to the SPCA? It did not.

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Thanks to Matthew, mike and The Baroness, who love polar bears but not enough to hug one because they will maul the shit out of you.

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wtf was that... just askin

If they're already dead, does that mean we can eat them?

@1, I think it was the last episode of Care Bears

Digital blood is soooo.... digital, just sayin.

Forgot to change my name back. Oops

@3 Ha nice. It must've ended with a bleach accident seeing all of them are white

Wow I didn't know Al Gore would go as far as pushing poor polar bears out of the air plane to get the point across.

@5 I've had that problem with the whore before... just sayin

i don't even know what to say.
the metaphor was weak.. (considering the fact that i enjoyed it)
but what were doing to the environment is getting fucking serious.
lets just control populations, douchebags and endocrine inhibors/pesticides and that sort of thing...

sweet... i know this video is closely related to the (uk) Animal Liberation Front... just sayin

When you're nailin as much Antarctic ass as me you need to do something with her when yer done.

Sick

Global Warming has already been disproved. No respected scientist will support it, considering that the earth has been cooling not warming. Global Warming is just a way for big business to pass the cost of running their business off onto the consumer. Think about it.

Yes, please, let's go back to living in the Dark Ages.


* Thinks about it.

Nope. You're still an idiot.

Sooo.. Flying solves world hunger?

I gotta fly some more, must help them poor etheopians get their polar bear meat.

On a related note if you see any cows missing a leg or two that was me, i like my meat living.

Give to NRDC

so did we forget that climate change has nothing to do with emissions?

I almost forgot

GLOBAL WARMING IS A FARCE!

The only reason the theory of global warming EVER turned into a popular "cause" is because this generations hippies *need* a problem so they can be a "part of the solution."

That's why they'll never admit it is B.S. This "global warming" thing has become what defines them. How else will they feel like they're the center of the universe?

plane stupid has done some other crazy stuff... like super glueing themselves to the Brit PM... check out my link. This is just sick though

don't like it, it reminds me too much of the 9/11 jumpers - all i could think about was the 9/11 jumpers, not global warming

Look at 'em bounce!

We have a zoo here in Northern Ireland. Used to be polar bears. I suppose they're gone now too. Of course, it could be something to do with the lead singer of therapy? feeding them acid. Like, LSD acid. Which ties nicely back to the video, which is in itself pretty trippy.

Did that make anyone else really hungry?

Twats... 400kg of gas is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

@24 it did strangely, yes. Seeing that YOU asked about it just put a 'BLT overload' (not to be confused with overlord, but much like one) on the lunch menu

Dont know why but I am only recently convinced that the geekologie writer is female or gay...?

Sorry, couldn't hear that, I was too busy clubbing this baby seal.

Damn ecofags

Disturbing

what about pollution?

I wonder what other things we could measure in polar bears

@27 GW has been mistaken for a battered shemale by the police more than once before, so you're not as far off as you might think

@25....you're a fuckin twat...twat. 400 kg...per passenger....times by how many passengers per plane....times how many flights a day...huge number. Go back to school moron!

*Barfs
Just sayin

That was Hilarious!!

I hope they spent a fvcktload of $$ making this movie.... Global warming. What a crock of BULLLSH1T....

wtf!! ki e ko ki tbt????? ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!

Global warming is actually a cover story for the government! It all started in America many years ago, the government indeed increased the temperature of the world, but only after they had talked to the other countries about what the plan was. The temperature increase was for nothing more than saying the world was just getting hotter when in reality the cause was the NUCLEAR BOMBS, dropped on Japan and the test bombs and with everyone following the bait of Global Warming the government had successfully took control of the hippies and people of low intelligence. And as for planes it's even worse!!! They are actually releasing gas that lowers the intelligence level of people, unless you have the shot. WHAT DO YOU THINK CONTRAILS ARE!?! If you think they are water molecules in the air gathering on the plane and falling off you are mistaken. When the revolution comes in 2012 I hope you all will fight.THE END IS NIGH!!!

Worst Coca Cola Christmas ad ever!

Where is Daisy?

Won't somebody PLEASE just do it for the children?!!!

In celebration of more global warming nonsense I'm going to go out and start a massive tire fire.

Global warming is a total fraud...over 30,000 scientists are suing al gore and have concrete evidence that most of the theory is made up and not backed by any particular studies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ

WAKE UP PEOPLE! Global warming does not exist. It is propaganda created to tax you for every mile you drive and on how energy "inefficient" your home is, all for the profit of those that propagate this fake theory.

Google 'CLIMATEGATE' for more info.

@ 40
aw, you beat me to it

lol, when it starts raining goddamn polar bears i think were fucked regardless of whatever were doing to help the Earf

Hats off! @40. Le mot juste.

Not a credible way of getting a message across at all..

@40 awesome.

@48 agreed


Climate change is real, HOWEVER.

However, man has next to no (for all intents and purposes, no) affect on this change. What does?

Volcanoes (although even at that only due to their geological force, not due to gasses emitted). THE SUN. The big one. Our orbit round the sun changes, K? Understand that the effect of the earth's position relative to the sun is almost (within the tiniest margin) the only affecting force in climate change. Look it up.

Yes, the world is degrading. No, Virgin Airways is not to blame.

Is it wrong I was laughing the entire time I was watching this?

Looks like The Island is throwing a fit again... QUICK CARLTON! FETCH THE DHARMA BISCUITS!

Shiiit that was so ridiculous, I freaked out.

DISLIKE

@51 PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU MEAN CARLTON FROM PRINCE OF BEL-AIR! I will start watching Lost if he is in it. Also Hillary. For fitness.

pffffffffffffff HAHAHAHA!!! Look at those fat bastard tumbling on buildings XD...

sorry if I offend anyone :P

Cue the nightmares in 5, 4, 3, 2...

Why did a UK company go all the way to Raincouver to film this piece? Limey weirdos.

ok wtf

Hey a happen to come across this site and saw this video. Is this a trailer for the new M. Night Shyamalan movie?

lol, here come the fear-mongering tinfoil hat brigade! how can anyone with two working eyes and a critically thinking brain say that global warming is a government plot and doesn't really exist? yes, asshats like Al Gore give global warming a bad name, but why should that stop you from recycling, consuming less, using green fuel, using solar and wind power, etc, etc? why NOT do those things? humans create enough pollution that not only HAS AN IMPACT on the earth, but has a major impact on our own health. We're killing ourselves slowly, and all we care about is running around like chicken little screaming "obama is gonna get us!"
gotta keep yourself clean
or be a has-been
like the dinosaur

I own a Hummer.
My toilet tank holds 16 gallons.
I wash one shirt at a time on large load setting.
I not only turn on every light in my house but in my neighbors house as well.
I purposely look for appliances without the energy star label.
My other car is a Hummer.
I work one block from my house but prefer to drive to work.......in my Hummer.
At least 3 days a week I take my bicycle for a ride.......in my Hummer.
When my kitchen faucet started dripping in the middle of the night I just turned it on and discovered that the flowing water made a pleasant white noise sound. I leave it on all the time now.

Did I tell you about my Hummer?

sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The average herd of cattle emits the same amount.
Kill them.

It is as stupid as the name itself: Plane Stupid.

dude...NIPPLE!

HAHAHAHAHA that was hilarious

the video makes sense and sticks with you whilst having a deep meaning, good job with the idea (whoever made it) but not for the little ones

the whole thing about Global Warming misses the point entirely. yes, we should stop fucking up the planet by being thoughtless with waste products/byproducts and find ways to exist in a more naturalistic, ecological setting (hell, building forests on skyscrapers sounds pretty awesome to me), but this whole CO2 farce is way out of control. plant more trees. sure, the planet might turn on us, but there's a good chance that's gonna happen anyway.

damn they wasted a whole lot of polar bears making this commercial about saving polar bears

I know its been said before by a number of people who posted about this artical, but I have to say, Im with the Global Warming skeptics on this one. The biggest driver of planetary climate change in our solar system is the sun - not humans and their cars/aircraft. An increase or decrease in solar activity in the sun, will affect the temperature of the planets around it. I think the upshot of the environmental movement is that people are more conscious of the environment around them, and think twice before littering, but I disagree entirly with this kind of propaganda because its aim is to provoke a strong Emotional response. Thats not whats needed. What IS needed is some critical thinking about the issues of climate change, and how to use the planets resourses more efficiently. Regardless of whatever altruistic aim the planestupid.com group have in mind, I'm saddend by the fact that they tryed to take a complex problem like climate change and turn it into that overly simplified farce advertisement. Tasteless, irrational content like that should not have any place in an adult debate.

global warming is real, look at species dying, where are the bees going? if one animal is extinct it affects everyone, learn how to recycle, reuse and just plain quit being an idiot towards the earth, theres ways we can save it, but theres people out there that are just to lazy or think a lil bit of this won't hurt, when you add a lil bit of this that everybody does it makes it alot, think about it.

ok, for one global warming exists, every scientist will agree that it is real. The SOURCE of the matter is the debate (i.e. human emissions or natural cooling and warming). Even if you don't believe were polluting the Earth and your too stupid to realize the world's geographic effects then don't act like your a world renown scientist. Global warming is real.

All the planets in the solar system are warming. I wonder how our SUVs are able to effect Pluto. Everything changes over time. Beaches erode, species dwindle, planets tilt closer to and further from their sun that will eventually die. Life is impermanent. When we're gone the universe won't bat an eye.

nice graphics why i laughed idk but emissions from cars and shit come on if that were the case we would of die along time a go from our own methane and damn even the cows do u know how much methane a day they make "this is my opinion the reason y the polar ice caps are melting is from the poles shifting because of nibiru ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-3RLx_4Y5Y ) one of my sayings is wat is life without question defiantly not w life with answers

This was stupid.

Whoa fuck - dude!
Who made this little movie needs seriously a therapy...
btw:
I think the global warming is caused by the human race (who else?)
And cars are just polluting a really smart piece of Co2 or whatever...
excuses for my baaaad language (and English as well)
FORGIVE ME! I'M DRUNK (and German) ... (maybe that explains something)

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