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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As a taxpayer, yet again I am depressed.
At last! the Great Propoganda Musicale!
Just imagine… All those distinguished dignatories at the glittering First Night. Look! There’s Michael Mann and , um, is that Phil Jones, I can only see the back of his head, do you think it’s him ? Hey, there’s Al Gore dispensing gracious gestures from the Royal Box ? Listen carefully, you might be able to hear the accolades of the Main Stream Media… Wonderful really 🙁
Oh, I am so stealing that. Thanks Dave
davidmhoffer says:
October 4, 2010 at 11:55 am
PaulH from Scotland says:
October 4, 2010 at 9:46 am
Stumbled across this wee gem today,
It’s O/T, but wanted to share.
Unfortunately I don’t know who the author is so I can’t hat-tip them.>>
Hat tip accepted, glad you enjoyed it. Wrote it for one of the 10:10 threads, don’t remember which one.
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David,
Thanks heaps for that piece.
What I liked most was your ability to humourously crystallise the scientific issues around the story of the day. You reminded me of ‘speedy’ who often posts in a similar style on Jo Nova’s excellent blog.
As an ex-advertising strategist, I believe such an approach is highly effective for ‘climate waverers’ (as 10:10 like to call them).
More please!
I wrote my congressman last night to ask him to challenge this bit of fluff.
I wonder if any of the climate disruption skeptic authors have ever been legitimately approached by anyone offering to buy other media reproduction rights to their works. I cannot imagine any broadcaster, Fox included, that would even contemplate broadcasting a fictional or semi-fictional TV series critical of the current CO2-driven climate catastrophe consensus.