Off the rails – Godzilla and climate

I’ll just say that he’s a little confused, and 60+ years too late. It’s been done already – the original “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal. And Gort was a lot shorter.

Again, let me reiterate the importance of just turning these people OFF. Don’t buy their “products”. Don’t link to their websites. Tell everyone you know how much you despise them and their politicization of the weather/climate. And especially, let us hold the climate fear mongers in science, politics, and the media accountable for their flat out lying to people about the climate.
Most of all, for all of us U.S. citizens, remember in November. The left-wing, eco-progressives are literally destroying our country, and together we can stop them…

Ironically, as kenw points out, the Godzilla movies beginning in the 1950s were warnings about Mankind playing around with nuclear devices such as low emissions atomic power. Then again, liberals managed to turn their original Klanbake and Jim Crow policies into a myth about conservative racism too.

Well he just blew a chance at any Oscars. Even Hollywood isn’t this stupid!
Note: sorry if I’m commenting to much. I’m packing for a coast to coast move and have been taking [breaks] with WUWT for amusement. I hate moving!

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[Be sure to carefully move your beaks lest they break through your packs … Mod]

Why do so many of the celebrity climate alarmist have Godzilla-sized carbon footprints?

Janice Moore,
Are you sure that’s not a fertility goddess?

I couldn’t get past the first paragraph of the interview, but my takeaway is that anthropogenic climate disruption is as real as Godzilla. Trite comment for a serious geopolitical fraud, but I am sick and tired of this chicanery.

mjmsprt40 says:
May 14, 2014 at 2:05 pm
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You’re thinking to hard. Pop some Corn and enjoy the side-show. Its bound to get better ; )

Given all the composition associated with Godzilla, perhaps Nature is disappointed that we haven’t been producing enough CO2? I hope he takes on some wind farms.

what’s the footprint of Godzilla’s poo? The methane has to be off the chart….I bet he shoots flames at both ends…..

This is what religion of global warming spawns. Idiots and more idiots. Nothing more sentient than a monkey is given to the world by this dumb religion. It’s a large waste of time and resources of human beings. The religion of global warm only generates ignorance and violence.
It creates small cranky child men like Mann and the brain dead like Al Gore. And makes women ugly.
It’s a plague of stupid.

I can’t wait for a sequel. I’m picturing Daryl Hanna et al in silk and olive leaf crowns chanting to Gia and dancing around mothra to undo all of the unintended consequences from Gozilla. Should be fantastic.

…So there’s this rainforest with a big scar in the landscape with this quarry, slave labor, and a Western company.

Yeah, probably Koch Industries. The stupid, it burns like Godzilla’s breath…..

Many people in the Entertainment industry are foolish outside their area of expertise. There are many actors who are downright idiots. But that does not mean they can’t do a good job playing a part, or making a movie.
Judge Godzilla on the takeaway by the actual audience and not what the director might be projecting into it. After all, it’s nothing new. Just about every monster movie ever made had a background theme that we are responsible for the monster. We either created him through mad science, pollution, nuclear power, or we went into his territory and poked him with a sharp stick.

A timely reminder that it’s important to push back. Not because the intent is to change peoples minds but as a warning to others that they are not guaranteed a free pass when they promote irrationalism.

I think the original English version with Raymond Burr also had an environmental angle, in
that the monster was the product of nuclear testing. The trouble with these more modern
future distopias is that none of them pass the scientific smell test. I was thinking of seeing
this movie, mainly to see crowds of Japanese running through the streets looking over their
shoulders in abject terror. Did it never dawn on anyone to take a turn down a side street?
And was this before Perry Mason got his law degree?
There was a recent Internet hoax about a monstrous squid that washed up in Santa Monica.
The story included a phony scientist who explained that it was a product of “Radioactive
Gigantism.” I had to ask myself one question about this concept. Where were all the 10
foot tall NBA players from Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the war? So, even the original
Godzilla was based on a shaky scientific premise.
The trouble is with the more radical concepts like global warming causing the Earth to
be flooded above Mt. Everest in Waterworld, or Silent Running starring Bruce Dern.
We are not crapping in our lunch boxes! If we were, advances in medical sciences
alone could not explain the fact that lifespans are getting longer, not shorter. As much
as I wanted to bang that Hippy chick Melanie back in the 60’s, we were not putting our
trees in a tree museum and we did not pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
(Silent Running)
If I refused to watch a movie written, produced or starring liberal Dingbats, I would never
see another movie in my life. I do however try to avoid the socially preachy or the
scientifically illiterate. This is the difference between 2001 and 2010, as opposed to
The Core, which was so bad that a Canadian science professor used it as an example
of truly bad Sci-Fi.

Could it be the movie is just poking fun at the alarmists. Climate change causes everything, droughts, floods, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, Godzilla.

“We deserve it.” “Western companies and slave labor.” What boorish tripe.
Was going to see this flick to unwind, but these people wont be getting my money.

He’s only a model. 🙂

So was Pacific Rim “Gods” revenge?
I guess I am not as smart as you as I would never think anyone could be that stupid. That is why I am constantly surprised.

What’s the next contrived scare campaign –
UFO’s invading to save the planet from
‘Man Made Global Warming’?
… It’s probably already in planning… lol.
These manipulators won’t be happy until we’re all in
a UN-ruled global undemocratic communist/marxist police state,
then the facade of it being about the environment will be dropped like a hot potato.
Beware the wolves pretending to be green if you wish to remain in a somewhat free & somewhat democratic society!

Charles Nelson, the movie was probably on the level. The idiots on the left
actually believe it! One day, I saw a trailer on a Blog for a movie called
Run Bitch Run! It was so bad that I had to put it on my Netflix queue.
it made Ben Hur look like Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. It was truly
the worst movie ever made! I laughed my ass off from beginning to end.
(Warning: Mindless violence, rape scenes, T&A and the worst acting ever!)
Stark JohnsonsomethingGerman, Wrong era! While the original Godzilla
probably was anti-nuclear propaganda, it was produced in the 50’s. The
closest thing we had to Hippies were the Beatniks. Think Maynard G. Krebs
and Dobie Gillis, not Jane Fonda or Abbie Hoffman.
The original Japanese language Godzilla was made a few years earlier. I love
nuclear weapons. I was born in 1956 and had a hard enough time learning
English. I had no desire to learn Japanese. Every year, I celebrate August 6,
and August 9.
We saved millions of lives, and manage to contain the savage impulses of
the most barbaric culture on the planet at the time. Today, we cannot even
call Islamic terrorists terrorists!

One movie that I really would pay to see is the “Mann Made Global Warming ‘Scary Movie’ Edition”
ie: a full-on send-up of AGW/CAGW using as many of these http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm as possible

I wouldn’t even pirate this film

btw BlackRock has plans for public monies:
13 May: CNBC: Lawrence Delevingne: BlackRock says green investing should be public
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager at $4.3 trillion, is urging investors with a social and environmental bent to go public. ..
“Impact investing has historically been very associated with venture capital and private equity. If we’re thinking about the whole investor and they want to address climate change, then why should we ignore public equities, fixed income and alternatives?” asked Robert Morris, a member BlackRock’s strategic product management group, which helps the firm’s clients align their ethical goals with investments.
Morris also encouraged clients to be public with those investments. “It’s important to make this visible, and activism is also critical for it to actually have an effect,” he added while speaking on Tuesday at the New York Society of Security Analysts’ Sustainable Investing conference in New York City…
In fixed income, BlackRock has focused on so-called green bonds, which are issued by companies and international organizations and only back environmentally friendly projects. He called green bonds a “fascinating market” despite its now small size and often low returns.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101668729

urederra says:
May 14, 2014 at 2:34 pm
And the sequel would be Jesuszilla, the son of Godzilla.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
ROFLMAO.
I’ll tempt the mods and their snippers here. In the modern era a jet fighter would be used to finish off Jesuszilla. The pilot’s name would be Pontius.

Göt·zilla·däm·mer·ung ·ung
The Twilight of The Götzillas.
OK, not as good (so bad its good) Jesuszilla.
John

Being ‘saved’ from ‘Global Warming’ by Godzilla? Whole city blocks stomped into the ground? Thousands left dead or homeless? Massive infrastructure devastation? Radioactive halitosis?
Riiiiight. Suddenly 0.8 degree rise in temperature per century doesn’t sound so scary any more. Sell me some more sun tan lotion futures.

LOL When the first Godzilla came out years ago, my son an animal lover, said he felt sorry for her.
‘Horses for courses’ eh?

Janice Moore says:
May 14, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Rushing to Disney World?
Road Trip!!!
Driving directions to FL-528 W/FL-528 Toll W
28.452414,-81.045322 (The road sign visible at 1:58)
From Chico, CA
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Toll road
Destination will be on the right
FL-528 W/FL-528 Toll W
I thought it would be amusing to see what Google recommended to get from here to there. I wasn’t disappointed.

Gee, I wouldn’t remember a tenth of those directionss. I lived in Cyprus where all the road signs are in Greek if there were any at all once you got out of the urban townships.
A friend of mine following written instructions ended up turning up a dry river bed. Some of the roads were rough, but not that rough with big boulders in the way!

George says:
May 14, 2014 at 4:59 pm
He’s only a model. 🙂
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Yes Godzilla is CGI – and just as real as the accuracy of the GCMs.

A few years back, I participated in a bicycling weekend, exploring the wineries around Prosser and Zillah Washington with about 60 other folks on 2 wheelers. The adventure (‘Shoot the Pass’) started on midmorning Friday at the top of White Pass and led us east to Prosser for the night. Saturday was spent bicycling to various wineries in the hills around the Prosser area and sampling/buying their wares, with a ‘SAG wagon’ (‘Support And Gear’ wagon, a purple hearse driven by one of Seattle’s more fun loving rogues, now deceased) running the trap line of wineries to pick up purchases made by the groups of bicyclists pedaling about. Great fun….
Sunday took us over to the town of Zillah and the wineries spread around the hills in that area. As we came into the small town of Zillah, a thought occurred to me “I wonder… Is it possible? Could there be a ‘First Church of God – Zillah’ in his hamlet?” I spent the next the next half hour pedaling the village streets looking and hoping. As some parishioners were leaving the catholic church, I asked and was told “No. There is no First Church of God – Zillah here!”
Que lastima…..
Mac

I’ll wait for the sequel, “Godzilla versus Manbearpig”. He may just meet his match there.
!
I am on the edge of my seat wondering who will win.

Human civilization lived and thrived long before Hollywood. Hollywood as one of the strongest centers of pop culture is less than 100 years old.
Civilization will be fine after Hollywood goes under from lack of interest in what they are selling.
As much as I love SF and fantasy, I have no interest in preachy, derivative, poorly written remakes.
G-g-g-good bye. Godzilla. Not gonna watch ya.

Yes, this is somewhat off this very important topic of discussion, but I feel compelled to say that one of the very few crucial global entities not effected by CAGW is the Detroit Tigers. Currently at 24-12, 5.5 games in front on May 15 – the cold, wet weather caused as a result of CAGW in April and early May has not affected them in the least; and, with enlightened people like Mann, Gore, and others bravely forecasting increasing higher temps in the coming months as a result of CAGW, I foresee no ill effects for the Bengals for the rest of the regular season, despite the global warming to come. I would greatly prefer that, come the World Series, they play a National League team from America’s heartland – Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, perhaps – or some such, given that by late October entire coastal states like California and Florida will be under water – it will still not be late enough in the year for all that water to freeze, and the possibility of artificial turf placed over the ice mounds that will from over parks like the Dodger’s or Giant’s in the winter months as the flooding casued by CAGW subsequently freezes over. I want NO climate distractions on the Tiger’s rightful, divinely ordered path to the World Series championship.
And yeah – rest of the world – the World Series is only open to teams from ‘Murica, with one token hoser team in Toronto to make it worldwide– you’d never understand unless you were a true Murican.
[The baseball is colder, and thus hit further in Detroit. Mod]

What I find ludicrous is the idea that a single A-10 couldn’t chew a giant lizard into dog food.

For some reason, the name “Gojira” disappeared from the above.

Godzilla! Is that Michael Mann’s Love Child?

Why does this remind me of the thoughts of Dougas Adams?
Resplendent in their black-jeweled battle shorts, they were meeting for the last time, and a dreadful silence filled the air as the Vl’hurg leader was challenging the G’Gugvuntt leader to retract the insult. At the precise moment, the phrase “I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle” (muttered by Arthur Dent to himself, which for some strange reason was carried by a freak wormhole in space back in time to the farthest regions of the universe where the G’Gugvuntts and the Vl’hurgs lived) filled the air over the conference table, which in the Vl’hurg tongue was the most dreadful insult imaginable. It left them no choice but to declare war on the G’Gugvuntts, which went on for a few thousand years and decimated their entire galaxy.
After millennia of battle the surviving G’Gugvuntt and Vl’hurg realised what had actually happened, and joined forces to attack the Milky Way in retaliation. They crossed vast reaches of space in a journey lasting thousands of years before reaching their target where they attacked the first planet they encountered, Earth. Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was swallowed by a small dog. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states that this sort of thing happens all the time.
In the same way this director is having difficulty with his lifestyle, sets up an an attack, but the size of the global warming problem is so small it is eaten by a little dog.

Unless that stupid message is directly discussed in the film, like Avaturd and it’s hideously preachy heavyhandedness, I’ll just let the director have his little fantasy about what he made while I sit there and watch cgi monsters fight and break things.

Oddly enough, the movie itself seems to be pushing the opposite message, i.e. we cannot control nature and should leave it alone.

This [article] has more bullshit in it t[than] [global] warming [itself]