Kids & Globaloney Contest

Are YOUR kids being victimized by global warming hysteria? Tell us and win!

Have they been forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in 5 different classes?
Have they been ostracized because you don't have a hybrid car, solar panels, or other "green" item de jour?
Have their "science" courses been hijacked by global warming zealots?
Are they being confronted with the half-truths and downright falsehoods that greenies and junk-science believers are using to foist the cult of global warming on the rest of us?

Are you shocked, amused or just plain disgusted about what your kids are being told about global warming? Kids Ahead, the publisher of the new book, The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming wants to hear your kids' funny, unbelievable, or just plain weird stories of greenie overreach.

The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming is the book for parents sick of their kids age 8 and up being indoctrinated by has-been politicians and Hollywood hacks. In Sky, natural resources management expert Holly Fretwell gets kids excited about science and shows them that it's human ingenuity combined with an "enviropreneurial" spirit that will lead us to a bright environmental future -- not government programs controlled by magical-thinking, tax-happy left-wing zealots.
Here's the chance to write the story or create the YouTube® video that shows what YOU find most ridiculous or offensive about the global warming hysteria being hyped in your childrens' classrooms.

Judging

Contest judges include Holly Fretwell, author of The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming, the Kids Ahead editorial staff, and junk-science experts from around the country.

Entering the Contest

There are two ways to enter - write an essay between 200-500 words, or create and post a YouTube® video. Prizes will be awarded to contest winners in both categories. You can enter either an essay or a video, but not both.

Eligibility

In order to submit a video or essay, you must be a legal United States resident 18 years of age or older.

Criteria -- Videos

Your video must be your original work and no more than 3 minutes in length.
In order to show on YouTube, Video must be in one of the following formats: .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG.
You cannot use the trademarks or copyrighted materials of other persons or companies (such as names, logos, products, music or video), and you must obtain written permission from any individual whose name, voice or likeness is used in your entry.
One entry per person.

How to submit your video.

Get a free account in your own name at YouTube® (you'll need a valid user name and URL for the Submission Form as well). You can sign up at www.youtube.com
Video clips should be uploaded to The Sky's Not Falling group at YouTube® that has been created for the contest, Video Upload Link
Fill out the on-line Submission Form to enter your video here.

Terms and rules

the Submission Form must be submitted and your YouTube® video posted by March 1st, 2008 to qualify for contest entry.
Submissions that do not meet contest requirements are void and will not be considered when judging this contest.
Please note that in order to enter our "The Sky's NOT Falling!" contest, you must register at www.youtube.com, which will be collecting personally identifiable information, such as name, email address, and phone number. By entering the Contest, you agree to the YouTube®, Inc’s Privacy Policy, located at: http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy.

Criteria -- Essays:

Your essay must be your original work and no more than 200-500 words in length.
Your essay must be typed and sent within an email (no attachments) to globaloney@worldahead.com

Submission

Fill out the on-line Submission Form to enter your essay here.

Terms and rules

the Submission Form must be submitted and your essay emailed by March 1st, 2008 to qualify for contest entry.
Submissions that do not meet contest requirements are void and will not be considered when judging this contest.

Contest Prizes

Contest winners will be announced and posted at both www.worldahead.com and World Ahead's Youtube® channel by March 31st, 2008. Three winners from both the video and essay categories will be selected and their winning entries posted online.

The two grand prize winners in both categories will receive $200. Second place winners will receive $100, and third place winners will receive $50. Plus, all 6 winners will receive copies of "The Sky's Not Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming" to donate to their child's classroom and school library, and a copy of the hard-to-get DVD "The Great Global Warming Swindle."

General
By entering the The Sky's NOT Falling: Why It's OK to Chill About Global Warming contest, entrants accept and agree to these rules and the decision of the judges, which shall be final. All entries and all rights of ownership and publication of same will become the property of the sponsor to use for any and all purposes including publicity and will not be returned.

Other conditions
Sponsor assumes no responsibility for computer system, phone line, hardware, software or program malfunctions or other errors, failures of any kinds, delayed computer transmissions or network connections that are human or technical in nature. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend this Contest, in its entirety or in part should virus, bug, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or other causes beyond Sponsor’s control corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper play of the Contest. Sponsor is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information whether caused by Internet users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest by any technical or human errors which may occur in the processing of the entries in the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to withdraw the transmission of this Contest at any time and award the Prizes from among eligible entries received prior to the date of the withdrawal. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or to be acting in violation of the Rules. Sponsor is not responsible for entries, releases or other required filings, whether electronic or paper and however returned to Sponsor or its agents, that are illegible, late, tampered with, forged, incomplete, misdirected, lost, misplaced, stolen, destroyed, or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules, and all such entries will be void.