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"Hide the Decline" is a music video parody 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 one of the e-mails from what has been called the Climategate scandal in the media. The music video became an instant YouTube sensation, receiving 500,000 hits and was played on the Rush Limbaugh radio show. With Mercedes Bunz writing in The Guardian that the video had reached number 6 in the Viral Video chart.
Synopsis
The video is based on a phrase from one of the e-mails which were released from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit in which professor Phil Jones use`s 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. The video was removed from You Tube after Mann threatened legal action.
Reception
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".
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. Minnesotans for Global Warming responded to the legal threat by posting the letter on their website and by creating an update to the video.
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".
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"
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".
Andrew C. Revkin writing for the New York Times in a run down of stories covering the controversy said, "Minnesotans for Global Warming has a music video of a song titled “ Hide the Decline,”"
Anthony Watts on his website Watts Up With That said of the video, "I’m still wiping the tears from my eyes. This is hilarious and extremely well produced".
References
- ^ 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) - 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) - ^ 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) - 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) - ^ 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) - ^ 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - Revkin, Andrew (December 4, 2009). "Copenhagen, Climate Files, Hot Sharks". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- Watts, Anthony (November 24, 2009). "Must see video – Climategate spoof from Minnesotans for Global Warming". Watts Up With That. p. 1. Retrieved 26 June 2010.