DHMO, the global scourge!
December 9, 2010 2:19 PM Subscribe
College students went to the Cancun conference and circulated a petition calling for a world-wide ban on DHMO. (It was described as being a major component of acid rain, fatal if inhaled, and a major greenhouse gas.) Almost everyone they approached signed it.
This post was deleted for the following reason: 1997 called, they want their chain email fodder back. -- cortex
This really resurfaces multiple times a year. It's amazing.
posted by djduckie at 2:22 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by djduckie at 2:22 PM on December 9, 2010
It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water, that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused.
Ugh. Yeah, global warming is totally not man-caused, that's crazy talk!
posted by mathowie at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010
Ugh. Yeah, global warming is totally not man-caused, that's crazy talk!
posted by mathowie at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010
What happens if it gets in our water supply?
posted by zzazazz at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by zzazazz at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]
"The facts surrounding DHMO's presence in the nation's milk supply are surprising. What may be even more surprising is the silence of the U.S. Government on the issue of DHMO in the milk our families drink every day. "
posted by hepta at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by hepta at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010
Also, easyDNS provides DNS service for pro-DHMO websites.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010 [4 favorites]
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2010 [4 favorites]
Ugh. Yeah, global warming is totally not man-caused, that's crazy talk!
It isn't.
posted by clearly at 2:27 PM on December 9, 2010
It isn't.
posted by clearly at 2:27 PM on December 9, 2010
When you steal a bit from a 10 year old episode of Penn and Teller's "Bullsh*t", then you need to rethink some choices. I mean come on.
posted by Think_Long at 2:28 PM on December 9, 2010 [4 favorites]
posted by Think_Long at 2:28 PM on December 9, 2010 [4 favorites]
I heard about this from a friend of mine. She says that DHMO is being added to more and more food products. This is why you are fat america! They are poisoning us with chemicals. I grow all my own food so I know it won't have chemicals in it, but she says DHMO is in there too because of Monsanto.
posted by Ad hominem at 2:28 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by Ad hominem at 2:28 PM on December 9, 2010
Almost everyone they approached signed it.
So? Who cares if a bunch of people sign a two random petitions circulating around a conference? It's meaningless. It doesn't mean anything at all.
posted by muddgirl at 2:30 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
So? Who cares if a bunch of people sign a two random petitions circulating around a conference? It's meaningless. It doesn't mean anything at all.
posted by muddgirl at 2:30 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
... must ... not ... comment ...
posted by brokkr at 2:32 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by brokkr at 2:32 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
Have no illusions about this stunt, which is associated with Lord Monckton of GreatSwindle.com, whose climate-change-denying media tactics are relentless. I first heard him when he staged an event here at the Cambridge Union Society in 2007 for his film "Apocalypse? No."
posted by honest knave at 2:32 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by honest knave at 2:32 PM on December 9, 2010
I like this gag better when you do something that people actually would feel bad trying to ban. Like women's suffrage, courtesy of The Man Show.
posted by persona at 2:33 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by persona at 2:33 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
Hmm, who funds CFACT, the climate change deniers hosting this crap?
Sarah Scaife Foundation Grant ⋅ $375000 ('96→'07)
ExxonMobil foundation Grant ⋅ $70000 ('06) Grant ⋅ $90000 ('05)
More bullshit astroturfing by oil company lobbyists hoping to ride an old meme. Fuck these guys.
posted by benzenedream at 2:34 PM on December 9, 2010 [6 favorites]
Sarah Scaife Foundation Grant ⋅ $375000 ('96→'07)
ExxonMobil foundation Grant ⋅ $70000 ('06) Grant ⋅ $90000 ('05)
More bullshit astroturfing by oil company lobbyists hoping to ride an old meme. Fuck these guys.
posted by benzenedream at 2:34 PM on December 9, 2010 [6 favorites]
@Clearly: Yes, it is.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 2:34 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by furiousxgeorge at 2:34 PM on December 9, 2010
This. This is why people hate smart people.
posted by boo_radley at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by boo_radley at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2010
Almost everyone they approached signed it.
I call bullshit, no one ever signs those fucking things. Unless the person holding the clipboard is cute.
posted by fungible at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2010
I call bullshit, no one ever signs those fucking things. Unless the person holding the clipboard is cute.
posted by fungible at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2010
Almost everyone they approached signed it.
I am shocked to learn that people can sign petitions without understanding what they are signing. Petitions are way more important than mortgages and other legally binding documents (e.g. T&C of websites) and people exercise so much caution while signing those. I certainly hope that this signing-without-knowing will not become general practice.
posted by vidur at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2010 [5 favorites]
I am shocked to learn that people can sign petitions without understanding what they are signing. Petitions are way more important than mortgages and other legally binding documents (e.g. T&C of websites) and people exercise so much caution while signing those. I certainly hope that this signing-without-knowing will not become general practice.
posted by vidur at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2010 [5 favorites]
The best part about taking advantage of people and making them look dumb by acting in bad faith is that it's so easy!
posted by theodolite at 2:38 PM on December 9, 2010
posted by theodolite at 2:38 PM on December 9, 2010
[citation]
Also note, the MSM and/or Al Gore is not a legitimate source for information.
posted by clearly at 2:38 PM on December 9, 2010
Also note, the MSM and/or Al Gore is not a legitimate source for information.
posted by clearly at 2:38 PM on December 9, 2010
I was particularly impressed with the numbers and verified identities of the 5-10 people they showed signing the petition, proving that they were not members of the CFACT group, but rather representative of the majority of attendees at the conference. It's a well known fact that leftist crazies just don't get science or understand anything about critical thinking, because that would be a self-fulfilling prophecy and global warming is basically a religion when you strip away all the dogmatism and ritual trappings.
I'll have more to say about this after I've fed the invisible monster that lives in my basement. Some people insist that my house does not even have a basement, but they're lying. I mean how would I be able to keep an invisible monster in captivity there if I did not have a basement? Those kooks better keep their filthy hands off my monster or someone's gonna pay.
posted by anigbrowl at 2:40 PM on December 9, 2010 [3 favorites]
I'll have more to say about this after I've fed the invisible monster that lives in my basement. Some people insist that my house does not even have a basement, but they're lying. I mean how would I be able to keep an invisible monster in captivity there if I did not have a basement? Those kooks better keep their filthy hands off my monster or someone's gonna pay.
posted by anigbrowl at 2:40 PM on December 9, 2010 [3 favorites]
fatal if inhaled
Untrue. Everyone inhales DHMO with every breath.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 2:44 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
Untrue. Everyone inhales DHMO with every breath.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 2:44 PM on December 9, 2010 [1 favorite]
This is fantastically inciteful. Now can I stalk college Republican conventions with a petition to axe "Don we now our gay apparel" to show how dumb the other side can be? And that's when they're sober.
Goddamn Internet, I feel obligated to mention "inciteful" was intentional.
posted by yerfatma at 2:45 PM on December 9, 2010
Goddamn Internet, I feel obligated to mention "inciteful" was intentional.
posted by yerfatma at 2:45 PM on December 9, 2010
Everyone inhales DHMO with every breath.
Leave me out of your freaky habits, lefty.
posted by yerfatma at 2:45 PM on December 9, 2010
Leave me out of your freaky habits, lefty.
posted by yerfatma at 2:45 PM on December 9, 2010
Almost everyone they approached signed it.
fungible: I call bullshit, no one ever signs those fucking things. Unless the person holding the clipboard is cute.
Or if they're two young professional looking fellows in suits, with a camera and a microphone. Then you don't want to look like some dumb jerk on camera, so you sign whatever it is they're holding and get away from them and do something more important.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:46 PM on December 9, 2010
fungible: I call bullshit, no one ever signs those fucking things. Unless the person holding the clipboard is cute.
Or if they're two young professional looking fellows in suits, with a camera and a microphone. Then you don't want to look like some dumb jerk on camera, so you sign whatever it is they're holding and get away from them and do something more important.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:46 PM on December 9, 2010
Everyone inhales DHMO with every breath.
Yea, bong DMHO amirite?
posted by clearly at 2:47 PM on December 9, 2010
Yea, bong DMHO amirite?
posted by clearly at 2:47 PM on December 9, 2010
When you steal a bit from a 10 year old episode of Penn and Teller's "Bullsh*t", then you need to rethink some choices. I mean come on.
Penn and Teller cribbed it from the guy who told me about it in 7th grade chemistry class, longer ago than that.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:47 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]
Penn and Teller cribbed it from the guy who told me about it in 7th grade chemistry class, longer ago than that.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:47 PM on December 9, 2010 [2 favorites]
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