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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wws (04:08:37) :
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
I agree with wws, that L&O iniverse has been great propaganda for the Progressivist/Statist/Authoritarians – I’ve had students argue that they decided to major in Forensic Science because they liked the certainty of it all. My prediction is that in about ten or fifteen years time we will have learned that innocent people have been convicted and executed based on irrefutable DNA evidence.
I’m guessing the attempted homicide had nothing to do with the fact that he was a skeptic. The guy probably had an affair and his wife tried to kill him.
Could be their choice of topic was intended to make a point about the public displays of vitriol and animus which have been spawned from these “climate wars.” The cops will all be debating climategate with each other when they are not out chasing criminals or testifying in court.
It is interesting they chose to poison the skeptic. I guess we’ll have to tune in to find out what the peripheral message is….
Climategate + Alana De La Garza = “Must See TV”
Question
If The Met Office lost the data, how could I be a denier when there is no data to deny?
It will take 3 years to reconstruct the data? A reasonable person should be very suspicious of that. It takes a long time to tamper and manipulate data and hide the cheating. If they can restore it somehow, it would not take but a few weeks at the most.
When a car is stolen, it may go to a chop shop and the parts are sold.
Where is the chop shop for their records?
Uh Oh……
I saw the sequel…. The Evil Denier Blog Writer did it!!!
Run Anothony, Run!!!!!
P Gosselin (01:14:35) :
The parent company of NBC is GE, producer of wind turbines and power management systems.
GE is one of the biggest profiteers of the climate change scare.
Now they’re using Ronald Regan to claw back credibility.
http://www.ge.com/reagan/video.html
“Law & Order” –> NBC –> GE –> Cap N Trade/Environmental Agenda –> Big Government Chee$e
“Stephan (06:34:30) :
Massively bad news for warmistas
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Its getting worse by the day hahahaha.”
Could explain why Lovelock suddenly finds the skeptics position so appealing and the climate science so weak. He’s smarter than we think. He knows when to switch sides. Schneider and Hansen will be next.
“Ripped from the headlines!”
The excellent series “Damages” also has an AGW/Wind energy sub plot this year going on this year with a “reformed” tycoon finding his green soul, making a movie, getting Hollywood support.
Kate (01:11:13) is so right! All the cop shows are completely predictable nowadays. And the dialog seems to be written by halfwits dragged in from afternoon soap operas.
And what’s with the supermodels who can’t find a better job than policewoman? It’s preposterous. Also preposterous is all the eye makeup. Why do these gals want to look like raccoons with caterpillars on their eyelids? Not to mention the bee-stung lips painted with high gloss varnish.
All I watch on TV anymore is reruns of The Office. I like the realism.
Elizabeth (Canada) (08:17:41) : What a good idea!: Make a conference for all climate scientists’ wifes to explain them the skeptics view of the issue…In returning home they very convincingly will deliver the skeptics view to their husbands, and we’ll see the results next day on the MSM.
Anthony, you should sue NBC for plagiarism.
Interestingly Law and Order has a British version! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Order_UK
It’s pretty fun to watch for a few episodes because it’s so much the same and yet they have to change some of the elements to fit in with the British legal system. Very fun to see especially if you’ve been watching law and orders for a while.
Anyway I thought I’d post a link to the Climategate epsisode. All the climategate stuff stops after like 12 minutes, so if you don’t wanna watch anymore you don’t have to after 12.
The site makes u watch a short commercial before you see the show.
http://www.wisevid.com/gate-way?v=3Abf99A85wzc
I’ve always wondered what an alien would learn from network TV. With Law & Order, NCIS, CSI, Cold Case, Bones, The Mentalist and all the other crime programs. Top that off with “Lost” where most watching it relate directly with the name.
I loved (note past tense.. ) Law & Order!
But then I remembered (last night) I was a pseudo-scientist, and I deal with disagreements with emotional detachment and reason.
So I shut it off and will never watch it again.
… Like Dick Wolf cares. LOL
Gee, missed it. Was the victim killed with a hockey stick?
“My prediction is that in about ten or fifteen years time we will have learned that innocent people have been convicted and executed based on irrefutable DNA evidence.”
Exactly the same thing has been said many times about fingerprints since Haque and Bose set up the very first fingerprint bureau in Calcutta in 1897. Since then there has not been one instance of two people bearing the same fingerprint.
Fingerprints are still definitive evidence in Courts of Law around the world. DNA has achieved the same degree of reliability in a much shorter time-span.
Fingerprints are better than DNA –identical twins won’t have the same fingerprints.
But there are almost certainly cases where fingerprints got the wrong guy executed, and it doesn’t in the least require “bad science” to have that scenario happen. Just a bad cop, or unfortunate timing, or a unsympathetic suspect.
I haven’t watched Law and Order for years (even Alana de la Garza isn’t enough reason although she comes pretty close) but I’m willing to bet that the murderer is a rich, white businessman. A few years back I watched several episodes in a row and it got so all I knew the guilty party as soon as he was introduced. Rich, white and in business was all I needed to know.
Since this took all the fun out of figuring out who the killer was I finally emailed the network asking if just once the villain could be a handicapped, black, lesbian social worker who does volunteer work for environmentalist organizations? And if possible, could she also be homeless?
I didn’t get a reply.
geo (14:46:12) :
Fingerprints are better than DNA –identical twins won’t have the same fingerprints.
But there are almost certainly cases where fingerprints got the wrong guy executed, and it doesn’t in the least require “bad science” to have that scenario happen. Just a bad cop, or unfortunate timing, or a unsympathetic suspect.
As in this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_McKie
Kate (01:11:13) :
they find out the guy didn’t do it and it turns out this story is about something else entirely.
This about the show made me lose interest in it too. I liked the show a lot at the beginning. But I still like Vincent D’Onofrio’s acting (for the most part).
@ur momisugly wws (04:08:37) :
“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)”
I like the attempted mugging scene
I never watch Law and Order; I’ve seen enough shows to understand that the writers of the show bend the storyline to preach a left wing rant. More crap TV from NBC.
The link to the full episode isn’t working…