On October 15th this year, join us blogging about Climate Change and the need for immediate action. The global climate crisis has been getting a lot attention since world leaders convened two weeks ago at the UN to discuss the issue. Surrounding the event, awesome activist group The Yes men pulled a series of pranks to raise awareness. First they distributed a fake NY Post that tauted the dangers of climate change and the near term consequences.

"SPECIAL EDITION" NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo.

The ironic thing about this appearing in the Post is that A) the Post basically denied global warming a year ago -- if Fox News was in print, it would be the Post and B) everything in the "fake" newspaper was factually correct, based on consensus research from around the globe. Check out the full paper here in PDF. Next they planned to launch Survivor Balls up the Hudson River.


The Yes men are also doing this to spread the word of mouth of their new movie. Self interest aside, I have to tip my hat to them for getting New Yorks riled up about climate change.