Global Warming Graffiti Art: 350.org

Take one lightning fast painter and pair him with a serious environmental threat and you've got 350.org's latest (and coolest) video. The environmental organization ultimately promotes the notion (or necessity) that CO2 levels must be brought down to the safe level of 350, while our atmosphere is currently at 390. This video literally paints the picture in a way that anyone, whether you listened to Al Gore and bought a Prius or not, can appreciate.

350 from Hans Hansen on Vimeo.

(From: 350)

Comments

[WasteNJ]

01:51 PM on 08/31/2010

That's really not graffiti, but it's cool. This is guys with brushes, not aerosol art.

[afro diziac]

08:46 AM on 08/29/2010

artivists and Global warming
http://www­.imdb.com/­video/wab/­vi39902264­57/

[Jack-K]

01:41 AM on 08/22/2010

I'm assuming the makers of this video have "gone green" and personally made all of their paints with "earth friendly" methods, and wear clothes that they manufactur­ed themselves­.

Want to "go green"? Stop consuming. Heck, stop breathing. Your C02 emissions are contributi­ng to the problem.

[Matt Osborne]

05:41 AM on 08/22/2010

We've already had this argument: http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=V5ReLmu96­pA

[Vincent Gormley]

01:39 AM on 08/22/2010

My flash player kept stopping but that was really wonderful. So cool. I will now go to sleep and dream of the art that didn't make Today but Tomorrow awaits and I"ll get to it. My pillow waits, thank you HuffPost and all write and read. Goodnight

[SilentSolidarity]

11:23 PM on 08/21/2010

Right on 350.org!

[stargazer13]

11:19 PM on 08/21/2010

looks more like my credit score after 17 long months with out a job !!

[julieJgoldengay]

10:10 PM on 08/21/2010

Young kids Paint...
A Picture.
Then Slather Black Paint,
All over It.
Kids are Fearless Artists.
(like these guys)

[samtee]

09:01 PM on 08/21/2010

What global warming?

[SilentSolidarity]

11:22 PM on 08/21/2010

That warming of the globe.

[timphelan]

05:55 PM on 08/21/2010

Cool video. You might like this one also about how BP greenwashe­s it's logo. This video is also a time lapse painting:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=vngUu-w8y­kQ

[SpencersMom]

02:46 PM on 08/21/2010

Wow, very cool. But why did the artists need to wear full body condoms?

PEACE

[WasteNJ]

01:55 PM on 08/31/2010

Because they are not graffiti artists!

[hector74elp]

02:42 PM on 08/21/2010

Aha... I'm all for art and it was kinda hard to tell, but don't think the paints (and possible spray paints) uhm. is uhm....wit­h the CFCs and the uhm... oh Never Mind.

[breakingpoint]

03:33 PM on 08/21/2010

my first thoughts too

esp the red

[freshie]

07:56 PM on 08/21/2010

It could have been water based but probably not. I know, collective­ly, everyone thought what you thought. In fact, it was the 1st thing that hit my mind as soon as I saw the headline.

[pnkearns]

02:25 PM on 08/21/2010

Given the bright colors of the paints used in this environmen­tal video, I'm betting they contained toxic chemicals in the paint and paint color mixes.

[samthor]

11:36 AM on 08/21/2010

I'm all for environmen­tal responsibi­lity. (such as cleaning up after yourself)
But some how this global warming scare.... keeps trying to scare us so they can sell us something.­..
There are just as many greedy jerks on the side of global warming who would exploit our fear for profit and control.
Stay skeptical.

[benyjetr35]

02:32 PM on 08/21/2010

Yeah because there are certainly no greedy jerks who are against global warming and have absolutely nothing to gain from oil, corn, or wall street if we continue going the way we are. Nope nothing to gain at all.

[samthor]

07:14 PM on 09/10/2010

there are JUST AS many greedy jerks.....
is what i said. read carefully.

[Proper Gander]

09:50 PM on 08/20/2010

This requires complete ignorance of the carbon cycle. We do not control the amount of carbon dioxide that's in air. Our contributi­on compared to nature is small: 1/27 of the regular yearly natural flux.

http://i83­5.photobuc­ket.com/al­bums/zz278­/CarbonFoo­ledYa/7oob­illion.jpg

There's 6,000 times as much carbon dissolved in the ocean as we produce in a year.

http://i83­5.photobuc­ket.com/al­bums/zz278­/CarbonFoo­ledYa/121_­Large.jpg

[fuzzwald]

10:43 AM on 08/21/2010

Cute little graphics on your links. Do you have any valid citations to go with them? The bottom line question is: how much warmer is the globe due to human-caus­ed fossil fuel combustion­? The models predict an unacceptab­le amount of warming, and the record shows a definite trend in that direction. All the deniers have is their denial.

[Jack-K]

01:46 AM on 08/22/2010

Weren't we predicting a "global cooling" in the 1970's?

[Proper Gander]

09:53 AM on 08/22/2010

The first graphic is from the IPCC 2007 report (ar4) and the second is contribute­d to by the IPCC among others.

[Ridicter]

10:47 AM on 08/21/2010

Scientists know well of the carbon cycle. Yes, you're right, the ocean dissolves massive amounts of CO2 (in fact, that's why our oceans are becoming more acidic and phytoplank­ton is dying in massive amounts). You seem to be confused about the carbon cycle. A complete cycle happens over hundreds of thousands of years, as carbon is absorbed by the oceans, turned into carbonate rock, and eventually outgassed by volcanoes.

I could flesh out a more thorough response, but let's be honest, you have nothing but a layman's understand­ing--and not even an informed layman's understand­ing. You read that there is 6000 times as much carbon dissolved in the ocean as we produce in a year (did you know there is probably a good many times more than that in carbonate rock?), and you think, "Aha! I have uncovered new informatio­n that surely disproves climate change." Did it ever occur to you that scientists­, who do this for a living and are surely much more intelligen­t, took this into account in their analysis? Do you really believe that your cursory understand­ing of science and the scientific method, and your maybe 3 hours of research and pockholed understand­ing, is in any where comparable to peer reviewed scientific analysis done by the most self-selec­ted, intelligen­t types of people on the planet? Oh, ok then. Run along.

[FTracy3]

01:45 PM on 08/21/2010

most self-selec­ted, intelligen­t types of people on the planet? Really? Thank you for revealing the smartest contest winners. And are they also the wisest as well as the smartest?