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November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping

2007-11-28 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Science & nature · news analysis

In a four-part video Hank relays Eagle's Nest Camp's reaction to Nerdfighters' search for a private person, announces the brothers' Blogger's Choice award, and attacks a New York Times article on green Christmas for quoting an Exxon-funded scholar, arguing Christmas should be less materialistic.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; a video in four parts; Part 1: Eagle's Nest Camp's director reports Nerdfighters calling about a private person

  • ★★★ Hank says Paige Lester-Niles, director of Eagle's Nest Camp, emailed him: many people have been calling and emailing the camp about a private person. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank thinks the director wants Nerdfighters to stop calling; she was not angry, said the camp can't share such information and couldn't answer every request. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:39 — Hank's Appalachian Trail hike with the director; camp recommendation; Part 2: the brothers win Best Video Blogger in the Blogger's Choice Awards

  • ★★ When Hank was a camper at Eagle's Nest, the now-director was his counselor and they went on a 100-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail together. — 00:00:39
  • ★ Hank calls Eagle's Nest Camp awesome and recommends it to anyone looking for a summer camp. — 00:00:39
  • ★★★ Hank announces that he and John have won Best Video Blogger in the Blogger's Choice Awards because Nerdfighters clicked for them; he doesn't know what the prize is. — 00:00:39 · Nerdfighteria, John Green
  • ★ Hank says the competition wasn't very stiff because he doesn't think many people knew about the awards. (hedged) — 00:00:39

00:01:16 — Part 3: comments on his last video; a New York Times article on the mainstreaming of Green 'taking Christmas away'; the 'Green Grinch'

  • ★★ Hank cites a New York Times article saying 80% of Americans wish Christmas were less materialistic. — 00:01:16 · The New York Times, United States, Christmas
  • ★★★ Hank objects to the article's claim that the mainstreaming of Green is taking Christmas away: he is not taking Christmas away but trying to make it suck less. — 00:01:16 · The New York Times, Christmas
  • ★★ Hank says the article may have coined the term 'Green Grinch', which he calls ironic: the Grinch took away the presents, yet the people stayed happy because they loved each other. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:16

00:01:45 — The article quotes Kenneth P. Green of the corporate-funded American Enterprise Institute

  • ★★★ Hank objects that the article quotes Kenneth P. Green saying the point of the holidays is the joy of giving, and asks why the Times chose him as its environmental scholar. — 00:01:45 · The New York Times
  • ★★★ Hank says Kenneth P. Green and the American Enterprise Institute are funded entirely by billion-dollar corporations including Exxon, which don't care if we're unhappy as long as we spend. — 00:01:45
    • number check: entirely — doubtful

00:02:17 — Green's $10,000 offer to IPCC dissenters; why the Times chose him; fathers don't suffer for lack of gadgets

  • ★★★ Hank says Kenneth P. Green offered $10,000 to any scientist who would publicly disagree with the IPCC, which Hank calls bribing people to disagree with global warming. — 00:02:17
  • ★★★ Hank says he truly believes the fathers of the world don't suffer for lack of electric shavers and temperature-sensing barbecue forks. (playful) — 00:02:17

00:02:47 — Bill McKibben's article recommended; Part 4: the scavenger hunt (no clue spoken); sign-off

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