That’s a sign in one of the videos below.
This is what college churns out these days, at least in UMass Lowell, but I’ll give them points for not wasting state funding or seeking grant money. From their YouTube website:
This video was produced by students as part of the UMass Lowell course, “Climate Change: Science, Communication, and Solutions.” After spending most of the semester learning about climate change science, technological solutions, and policy, students participated in a three-day, NASA-sponsored workshop to create one-minute film shorts about climate change. They hope to bring needed attention to climate change in a creative and attention-grabbing way. Please note that students had no previous filmmaking experience, no actors, and no money to spend on this project! For more information about this project and the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative, please visit http://www.uml.edu/centers/climate-change
First the “trailer”, which is sort of a collection of scenes from all the videos:
Next up “Mystery Man” perhaps they were thinking of Gavin in the role he made famous?
And then there’s this one, the “climate change monster in the closet”. I thought that the addition of “my home melted” was a nice touch, it was very Rommian.
You can watch the whole series here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL096C9CF4439BDB50
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Good grief, our tax dollars paid for that?
Gross. Anybody with half a brain knows the goldfish will die in a bath of Sprite or 7up. The fish were killed for no good reason. And what gardner would dump crap on his well-tended crops to prove a point?
The point I get is that if we don’t give them money, Mr. Climate will kill all the fish and crops.
Remember, only you can prevent Climate Fires (by giving us all your money).
a three-day, NASA-sponsored workshop to create one-minute film shorts about climate change
I supposed it’s a relief that only federal funding was wasted, not state funding.
Education FAIL.
“..Please note that students had no previous filmmaking experience, no actors, and no money to spend on this project! ..”
And now that they’re done, they have filmmaking experience, acting experience, and no money…..but most important, they still know nothing about real climate science.
Is this what universities are now turning out, scary, very scary. That is the monster.
You can’t stop climate change but you can super insulate home to save energy.
With this;
Starlite, the nuclear blast-defying plastic that could change the world
Two decades ago amateur scientist Maurice Ward invented a material that could resist the force of 75 Hiroshimas. So why haven’t we all heard about it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5158972/Starlite-the-nuclear-blast-defying-plastic-that-could-change-the-world.html
Or this;
Union Carbide’s Super Insullation
Please note that students had no previous filmmaking experience, no actors, and no money to spend on this project!
and however many years spent in a classroom, or reading, or ostensibly learning, no intelligence, no reasoning or deductive ability
A whole generation of wasted school time foisting a brainwashed deluded mass of green/red luddites onto the developed world
We could do with some Global Warming (or localized warming) here in Los Angeles. I’m running my heater all weekend trying to keep the place warm. Perhaps all the California CO2 has run away to Arizona or Texas or the Eastern Seaboard where they are having unusual heat. We all know that CO2 is what causes the earth to warm. IPCC told us so. [sarc off now]
‘Tis a strange physics where CO2 warms some cities but not all.
Gees Mr Watts, you MUST be pulling our legs..
That could only have come from some Junior High students or younger.
Wonder how those fishes survived when the CO2 concentrations were 5 times what they are expected to be under the infallible models?
Are these European Literature Majors?
Come on Anthony – you can’t fool me for an instant.
These are NOT real university students studing how the climate changes.
They are some of your reactionary right wing scum mates.
You have put them up to this lark to make fun of a serious university program.
Anthony- ANSWER me – tell me that this is not for real.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese
/sarc off (I think)
“In the not too distant future most coastal cities will be under water.”
A nice bit of accurate and responsible science ?
Imagine those guys in positions of power in a few years.
“Climate Change: Science, Communication, and Solutions.”
So! What ever the problems are, they have the solutions! Brilliant! They should be put in charge of the world because they can solve climate change with science and communications. Tell the IPCC they are redundundant as they can only provide unworkable policies.
/sarc (not really! What is the code for unmitigated disgust?)
Stephen, we don’t need to imagine, it is happening already.. eg Gore, Flannery, Garnaut etc etc
Grass roots propaganda, can any thinking student of history comprehend the NASA inspired agenda to sell the ability to destroy the democratic and economic future and from within? So sad, and taxpayer funded organization ?
Not just dumbed down but also dumbed out of their tiny minds…
These people are supposed to be the scientists of the future? Shakes head in disbelief.
Some of my ideas on climate change are not looked very favourably at Tamino’s.
I am also testing Gavin’s Real Climate too, result: blissfully ignored .
No, they aren’t wasting our money.
WORSE.
They are using our money against us!
Thanks
JK
Send them a link to this site, so they can see people’s responces.
They can learn.
Hopefully not the hard way, though I know from my own experience that TSOHK is a great teacher.
(TSOHK = The School Of Hard Knocks)
Don’t miss the fact that the guy in the last video is armed ….. with a hockey stick. 🙂
I am afraid that the American citizens are being ripped off with their tax dollars. Refuse to pay.
These so called ‘students’ have produced a load of c##p.
You can watch the whole series here:
Thanks but I think I will pass.
UMASS in a MESS !!
I hope those goldfish got their 72 virgins. We would have the same result had the eager student dumped in a lot of non-acidified ocean water. Call the ASPCA, somebody.
“Please note that students had no previous filmmaking experience, no actors, and no money to spend on this project!”
And no criticism from professors. No one needed to attend school to make these videos. No one was challenged to think in making these videos, except of course for the students who do not buy this garbage. They were challenged to think about their grade and keep their mouths shut. No better example of what is wrong with modern college education needed. So much of it is a fantasy of education that serves only the great god Political Correctness. You want to make a good video about climate change? Then find a half dozen students with different views on climate change, seat them at a conference table, and film the debate. Now that is education. Sadly, today it is unAmerican. It would offend PC sensibilities.