"SPECIAL EDITION" NEW YORK POST

"WE'RE SCREWED": MEDIA HEIST BLANKETS CITY WITH "SPECIAL EDITION" NEW YORK POST
Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World

Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a "special edition" New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most alarming thing about it: the news came from an official City report.

Distributed by over 2000 volunteers throughout New York City, the paper has been created by The Yes Men and a coalition of activists as a wake-up call to action on
climate change. It appears one day before a UN summit where Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will push 100 world leaders to make serious commitments to reduce carbon
emissions in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate conference in December. Ban has said that the world has "less than 10 years to halt (the) global rise in
greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid catastrophic consequences for people and the planet," adding that Copenhagen is a "once-in-a-generation opportunity."

Although the 32-page New York Post is a fake, everything in it is 100% true, with all facts carefully checked by a team of editors and climate change experts.

"This could be, and should be, a real New York Post," said Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men. "Climate change is the biggest threat civilization has ever faced, and it should be in the headlines of every paper, every day until we solve the problem."

The fake Post's cover story ("We're Screwed") reports the frightening conclusions of a blue-ribbon panel of scientists commissioned by the mayor's office to determine the potential effects of climate change on the City. That report was released in February of this year, but received very little press at the time. Other lead articles describe the Pentagon's alarmed response to global warming
("Clear & Present Disaster"), the U.S. government's sadly minuscule response to the ...

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[raffi7900]

free energy non polluting devices no good for the world fossil fuels are better and higer taxis on everything will make the world a better place , and why dont they just jack the price of gas to 50 dollars a litter so we wont have to do nothing just sit at home and pay taxis with the money the government gives us besouse we will have to close company's too too much co2 emissions

[MillyVanillification]

@magicjohnson1423 And an asteroid also?

[oztang1]

..WAKE UP KIDS..ITS HERE

[creamaster]

What do you say that?

[Acofailed]

Hes an actor. Paid by yes men lol

[lopalvas]

NY is next...first was Pittsburgh, climate changes..o yea...troops from Iraq will come to control your climate changes!!!

[magicjohnson1423]

"Greatest threat we have ever faced"? Greater than the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis? I choose a slight chance of a couple extra hurricanes over a nuke in the ass anyday.

[creamaster]

What an idiot. 1:23

[frankodelic]

Gotta love the Yes Men!