Humor

Environmentalists (and Feminists, not coincidentally?) are often accused of being humorless, even prophets of gloom. Nonsense, humor is a key way to stay sane in the face of the daunting forces and problems we are standing up to (in fact ridicule is an important weapon, as we recently saw when the Heartland climate skeptic conference went bellyup when they overplayed their hand with silly billboards (generate your own!).

See also Culture Jamming

Comedians Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis have a new video about the ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas called Exxon - Energy Everywhere. See Oil.

Frakalypse Now: DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." Making its debut in honor of Gasland 2, which features the details of the gas industry's psychological warfare scandal.

“Head-Bangers” In Mark Fiore’s new cartoon, he pokes fun at the backward logic of those who want to maintain the fossil fuel status quo in the face of climate change.

While away the pre-apocalypse laughing at these randomly generated eco-doom headlines.

Mr Burns speaks up for Chevron: We Agree

Coal powerplant snow globe. Canadian tar sands globe.

What cities are really made of (red pill warning)

Shell Arctic drill fail video. Yes Men also have a billboard. 7.12 Weather girl goes rogue video.

Humor: video. Evil mad scientists are clearly behind all energy innovations humor/. US is T-Rex of energy use.

All the insanity of modern car culture, in one image

Penn and Teller's humorous take on the subject of bottled water.

Good use for plastic bottles? (humor).

Fun mockumentary on the plastic bag. alt link

Stephen Colbert appeared with United Farm Workers (UFW) President Arturo S. Rodriguez today to testify before Congress about a day he spent working in the fields, having taken up the UFW on its dare to American citizens "take our jobs." (Humor)

Lord of the Rings recycling parody (video).

The Ig Nobel Prizes for science that cannot and should not be replicated. video. Humor for geeks. The mayor of Vilnius ran over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane USING A TANK? (video) He's just won an Ig Nobel prize, the coveted award for research (or, you know, a mayoral publicity stunt) that first makes people laugh, then makes them think.

How Not to save the world (humorous short animated video)

The I'm-a-PC guy explains design. TEDtalk.

Writing Commas save lives. Typo costs man three years in prison. Loss of half million dollar spacecraft. sign fail.

Bulwer-Lytton bad writing prize for 2012.