Get your tickets! The National Science Foundation has awarded $700,000 to the Civilians, a New York theater company for a great new show on climate change. From the New York Times Arts Briefly (required reading for fly-over country):
“The Great Immensity,” with a book by Steven Cosson (“This Beautiful City”) and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”), tells the story of Polly, a photojournalist who disappears while working in the rain forests of Panama. The grant is a rare gift to an arts organization from the foundation, a federal agency that pays for science, engineering and mathematics research and education.
More information from Princeton:
Drawing on interviews with botanists, paleontologists, climatologists, indigenous community leaders, polar bear tour guides and trappers, “The Great Immensity” gives voice to people whose stories make the reality of the present crisis accessible in fresh and compelling ways.
Rare gift? That pretty much sums it up. I suspect Return to Almora, published by IPCC UN Climate Chief Dr. Pachauri will be green-lighted for a Broadway production soon.
Update: Appropriate citation to Tom Nelson, who was first with this good news (Sunday at 6:30)…
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Senator Inhofe’s office might be interested in this.
Is the NSF actively campaigning for the Republican Party? Because there can be only one result.
I love theater but this is a show I’m not going to see.
Creating green jobs. What’s wrong with jobs?
This sure isn’t science.
Enneagram says:
October 4, 2010 at 9:14 am
– Can it be a comedy?
It’s a travesty.
State sponsored propaganda
@crosspatch…..Sen Inhofe may be interested in this, but is most definately interested in the enormous sums of taxpayor money spent by NASA, GISS and CRU producing agenda driven science. If the republicans take the Senate in November, the ensuing senatorial hearings into the “science” produced by these entities will be “the show to end all shows”.
Agitprop. “Political propaganda (especially communist) communicated through art, literature or cinema.” November 2 can’t come soon enough.
evanmjones says:
October 4, 2010 at 9:25 am
– I do object when it’s pubic money.
Even worse when it’s public money.
Mark says ; ‘I’m waiting for the stage adaption of this 10:10 video spoof.’
Just make sure you look under your seat before settling down!
No worries, it’s just another case of “social promotion’s” fruits, only this time right from Nursery School on up. They’re all still stuck exactly at Children’s Cartoon ‘grade level’ so it’s really “Educational Justice!” [you ignorant rednecks].
I think they mean The Great Mendacity. But yes, it is pretty immense.
And I bet y’all haven’t considered the boost the play will give to the self-esteem of the Muslim Nations!
“Drawing on interviews with botanists, paleontologists, climatologists, indigenous community leaders, polar bear tour guides and trappers, The Great Immensity gives voice to people whose stories make the reality of the present crisis in fresh and compelling ways.”
Does this mean that WUWT will be a major character in this play?
If so, we must nominate whoever plays Anthony for an Oscar or whatever the stage equivalent is, because he will steal the show.
NSF spending our money on propaganda should be a firing offense. At least if public flogging isn’t on the table.
The “reality” of the current crisis? Inconvenient “truth”? “Art”? “Science” Some people need to seriously invest in dictionaries.
What about
“The Prophet”?
“The prophet’s Climaterium”?
“Gorezilla counterattacks”?
Unbelievable that they’d throw more money away on useless tripe in this particular time of fiscal apprehension. #$@ur momisugly%^#$&@ur momisugly!#^%$!@ur momisugly!@ur momisugly#……..that’s about all I have to say about that.
The GAO fraud, waste, and abuse site can be found at:
http://www.gao.gov/fraudnet/fraudnet.htm#federal
The above site gives automated forms to lodge complaints and a fax number as well as the phone number below:
A telephone number is 1-800-424-5454. The site warns that this is automated. I’m just about to find out what that means.
Mark 9;34 am
Here a more correct one, that makes more sense!
Don’t miss the punch line at the end.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=37546
OK, the phone number that I showed above doesn’t get you to a human – it’s just a recording giving the same info as the web site.
And they keep saying there is no spending that can be cut from the Federal Budget. May I present item #1 for elimination, and I thank you! And then there is NASA, GISS….and a whole host of other programs engaged in rewarding the dimwits pushing the AGW nonsense, all to the detriment of the middle class taxpayer. So much for their pretended concern for the middle class.
Now I see why they can fund a play.
A drop in the bucket for these guys.
Here are their areas of funding. I can’t see anything for “entertainment” but maybe it’s there somewhere.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Oh wait! I think I found something close:
“If the republicans take the Senate in November”
Alas, there just aren’t enough of the other party up for election in the Senate this cycle, it will probably have to wait until the next one. But we can probably look forward to stalemate as one party controls the House and the opposite party controls the Senate and at this point, stalemate is better than what we have now.
If you use the fraudnet site above, you can e-write directly to the GAO fraud waste and abuse people. You don’t have to give your name.