Hide the Decline

"Hide the Decline" is a music video parody of the song "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James. It was posted on YouTube on November 24, 2009 by user M4GW, an acronym for Minnesotans for Global Warming. It was created in response to one of the e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit email controversy relating to false charges of data manipulation. The music video became a hit on YouTube, The video also reached number six in The Guardian's weekly Viral Video chart.
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The video is based on a phrase from one of the e-mails which were hacked from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit
Ed Barnes writing for Fox News has said that Michael Mann has threatened legal action over the video as Mann feels that it uses his image to sell merchandise. Minnesotans for Global Warming responded to the legal threat by posting the letter on their website and by creating an update to the video.
John Tierney writing for The New York Times has said of the video, "the phrase that has been turned into a music video by gleeful climate skeptics: “hide the decline,” used in an e-mail message by Phil Jones, the head of the university’s Climatic Research Unit. He was discussing the preparation of a graph for the cover of a 1999 report from the World Meteorological Organization showing that temperatures in the past several decades were the highest of the past millennium".
Dan Gainor in an Op-Ed for Fox News wrote, "“Hide the decline” is such a memorable term that it has been enshrined in song in a humorous video by Minnesotans for Global Warming".
L. Gordon Crovitz writing for the Wall Street Journal has said the video is, "a mocking send-up of the scientists who tried to suppress data showing global cooling. It was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube".
Andrew C. Revkin writing for the New York Times in a run down of stories covering the controversy said, "Minnesotans for Global Warming has a music video of a song titled “Hide the Decline”"
Anthony Watts on his website Watts Up With That said of the video, "I’m still wiping the tears from my eyes. This is hilarious and extremely well produced".

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