Bizarre plot twists aren’t limited to recent climate science.
I’m sitting in my study and Law and Order came on on NBC 10PM PDT. They have a fictional crime episode regarding a climate scientist where stolen emails are mentioned in the first ten minutes, “climate deniers” are named, and it looks like they are interviewing a fictional GISS scientist in NYC.
Cap and Trade shenanigans with the word “scam” are mentioned too.
Here’s a preview video from NBC and a new link to the whole episode:
http://www.nbc.com/Law_and_Order/video/preview-brazil/1211024/
The preview doesn’t show the Climategate portion, apparently it starts out with a skeptic being poisoned at a conference breakfast.
It looks like the plot now turns toward some sort of custody battle. One of the fictional scientists looks like he was modeled after Gavin or maybe Romm.
Here’s a line:
“We’re scientists, we deal with disagreements with emotional detachment and reason”.
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UPDATE: Commenter “Ando” provides this link to the whole episode, which follows after a short into commercial: http://www.wisevid.com/gate-way?v=3Abf99A85wzc
You may have to click on the “let me watch” button since it has a rating.
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Isn’t Captain Kirk in Law and Order? I’ve always been a Picard fan myself.
Jack Simmons (02:47:15),
For some reason your comment reminded me of this quote:
James Lovelock warms to climate skeptics, calls fudging data a sin against science.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/29/james-lovelock
I watched that episode last night, too. When they were reading the scientists emails it actually had “Yamal” in it, and “hide the decline”, where they then mentioned the data manipulation.
Shatner was in “Boston Legal”, a superior show that managed to retain it’s sense of humor in spite of the serious topics covered. (my favorite scene was when Shatner flipped open his cell phone and looked at it like it was his old communicator)
The sad thing about Law and Order is that it *could* have been such a good show, and yet the writers are stuck in a kind of adolescent, politically correct harsh black and white world. The cops are never wrong, authority is never wrong – that’s not real life at all, that’s a fantasy, and because of this every episode is stiff, preachy, and wooden.
Imagine what this show could have been if someone like a Dashell Hammett or Dalton Trumbo had written it. But I can’t think of a single writer of that quality working in television today.
Watched it and it was a good laugh especially the line…
Looking into the e-mail “There is a cooling anamoly data that we have to get rid of.”
Cop goes “Looks like they’re cooking books by taking out the cooling data numbers.”
They followed who makes money from carbon credits and who loses when some statement can bring down the value by a scientist.
Good first 15 minutes.
Here is a possibility for another episode: Wind turbines cause more CO2 emissions, because of the backup required by conventional electricity generation. It is either comedy or tragedy.
From Pielke Sr’s blog:
http://www.clepair.net/windefficiency.html
http://www.clepair.net/windsecret.html
interesting article on a legitimate use of tree rings:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/03/29/tree-rings-reveal-two-droughts-that-sealed-the-fate-of-angkor/
Global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist were found frozen to death only 90 miles from their destination, South Pole Station, seen here during the warm season.
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/south-pole-tragedy.htm
REPLY: This is a HOAX ignore it – Anthony
Senators working on bi-partisan climate/energy bill
Link via Icecap.us
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a28df5a6-3b71-11df-b622-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fa28df5a6-3b71-11df-b622-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icecap.us%2Findex.php
Make yourself 21.7 % smarter.
Kill your TV.
The big bang theory really is a comedy, written by a belgian catholic priest.
Since NBC Universal is owned by GE, expect the AGW promoters to be portrayed as positive, peace-loving, defenders of life from the evil corporations and expect the AGW disbelievers to be portrayed as negative, money-loving, evil elitists of Big Oil.
G8, err, G7 ban ice ages and order a global economic collapse
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/07/g8-err-g7-ban-ice-ages-and-order-global.html
Massively bad news for warmistas
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Its getting worse by the day hahahaha.
“We’re scientists, we deal with disagreements with emotional detachment and reason”
Romm, Hansen, Jones and the rest of the carbon cabel are pure emotion and zero ambivalent science.
Gaven Schmidt didn’t even slow down blogging to resond to FOIA requests.
I was watching a Marx Bros. marathon so I missed L&O. In Horsefeathers Groucho sings the skeptics themesong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0
😉
Thanks for posting this thread. Can someone please summarize the rest of the plot? I only saw about 10 minutes before the cable in the hotel went on the fritz.
@wws
Thanks for the correction. It’s good to know that Shatner was in a higher quality legal drama than Law and Order. Here’s a trivia question for you: Name the actor from the Star Trek universe who had a major starring role in the legal drama “L.A. Law”.
Did you notice that Bernard and Lupo called Carbon pollution?
Otherwise some good laughs were had
And to those complaining. Its called a procedural drama. That’s their shtick. And they are sticking with it.
I watched it. I was disappointed that they referred to skeptics repeatedly as ‘deniers’, downplayed the significance of the ‘stolen’ emails impact on the ‘science’, and treated ‘global warming’ as established ‘fact’. They literally stole the entire sequence from the actual happening and played back the AGW proponents ‘talking points’ about the ‘stolen’ emails significance.
That lasted about 10 minutes, then they were off to the real twist to the story. Could have done without the whole ‘Global Warming opening’.
Bizarre plot twists aren’t limited to recent climate science.
I’m waiting for “The CRUTape Letters” to come out on DVD…
Klaus: Global Warming Science New Religion
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/18/czech-president-klaus-global-warming-science-new-religion/
Better Off Ted is, IMO, much better than Big Bang Theory.
I watched the episode last night, and I think it was a very reasonable (tho8ugh tangential) treatement of AGW. At one point, the Jones-like scientist defends his actions, saying that he just changed a couple of data points that don’t matter because warming is real. Det. Barnard’s reply is along the lines of: “If it’s real, then why did you need to change the data?”
As to the line: “We’re scientists, we deal with disagreements with emotional detachment and reason”, the main underlying theme of the episode is that they don’t. Considering that entertinment tv has long treated AGW as gospel, this is really a huge step forward for this medium…