February 22, 2011: “Global warming: The United Nations courts Tinseltown“, Los Angeles Times, California, U.S.A.
“Now the beleaguered multi-national agency, fresh from a disappointing round of climate negotiations in Cancun, wants something more concrete: actual story lines in movies, television and social media drawing attention to the dangers of global warming.
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The day-long gathering will feature panels titled … “Making Global Warming a HOT Issue” …
“The science is clear,” he [Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon] said in an interview. “Climate change will continue unless drastic measures are taken to stop it …. I am sure Hollywood can make good stories from this,” he said, adding that the outreach effort “may be a small start. We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information.”
Editor’s note: Ironically, even while Mr. Ban (who still fails to address the concerns of climate realists – see here) pushes Hollywood to promote climate alarmist “education”, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just published a useful educational piece “Forensic Meteorology Solves the Mystery of Record Snows” in which they conclude:
“They found no evidence — no human “fingerprints” — to implicate our involvement in the snowstorms. If global warming was the culprit, the team would have expected to find a gradual increase in heavy snowstorms in the mid-Atlantic region as temperatures rose during the past century. But historical analysis revealed no such increase in snowfall. Nor did the CSI team find any indication of an upward trend in winter precipitation along the eastern seaboard.”
Read whole education piece from NOAA here:
NOAA’s CSI explains record snows: global warming not involved
…but get ready for more excited alarmism from Hollywood.”
h/t to Tom Harris at ICSC
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When no one buys a ticket, that will be the end of that. There’s no more mercenary a town than Hollywood.
AGW = Lysenkoism
pretend stories about a pretend problem.
i’ve seen those sorts of movies before, they were notoriously “B” and very difficult to watch end to end.
“……We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information.”
–Ban Ki-moon
???? This coming from someone with a degree in public administration and a background as a diplomat?????
He’s the one in need of the education.
Call and email your congressman. The UN is misusing funds that it gets from the US. More needs to be taken from the UN budget. It appears that Ban Ki Moon might prove to be as useful as Pachauri. Let us hope so.
Herr Göbbels, prepare some fresh and exciting new propaganda! Ve must implement the ideas of total war and mobilization
“We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information.” says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
This is presumably because people who do have the expertise and the information already recognise the BS for what it is. Thus only people who do not have the expertise and the information would fall for it and it is to them the UN now turn.
I thought they already did this …….. “The Day After Tomorrow” ……
– or was it the day before yesterday …. can’t remember 🙂
With the suspect stations and data they have a hard time even showing the temperature has gone up. Well, they seem to think they have good evidence of this, even if I don’t.
Even if it has gone up some, isn’t all the hype about what is supposed to happen after mid-century? Isn’t now supposed to be too soon?
Except for a few of its sub-parts, the UN should be de-funded and disbanded. It is a sign of the disconnection of the UN from the real world that its leader thinks Hollywood honchos have to be encouraged to do things that ooze from their DNA.
You need to change the date in the first sentence to February 22, 2011. [Thanx, fixed.
~dbs]
Apparently the Secretary General does not know that the climate always changes. Stopping that from happening would be as difficult as stopping the earth from turning.
When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the crevice.
No one, not ever, is going to stop climate change.
Methinks Ban Ki Moon has left his run a bit late. Congress defunding (yeah I know it’s got the Senate and Obama to go) the IPCC and NASA’s climate agency (they should include RealClimate as well) is the writing on the wall for the great lie. Besides James Cameron has already done Avatar and it appears most who see it don’t really connect it with climate. It was after all just a movie. I don’t think another “Inconvenient Truth” will cut it either. Too many people now either know or suspect the first one was predominately bulls..t.
Then again people lining up in the snow to watch a film on AGW has a certain perverse logic.
“Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon….. I am sure Hollywood can make good stories from this”
Stories, hmmm……The little boy that cried “wolf” comes to mind.
Ban: “…. I am sure Hollywood can make good stories from this, …..”
Many Oscar-worthy fantasy tales already can be found on certain warmist sites.
Maybe the Ban Ki-moon United Nations Hollywood CAGWC movies can be spiced up with Vampires, Zombies and mutants?
As Johnny Thunder wrote:
What is the science that demonstrates that humankind is capable of stopping climate change?
The UN is an organization that believes a strongly-worded letter can get dictators to stop dictating. What would “drastic measures” mean to these clowns?
What they do now isn’t over the top enough? I fail to see how that is possible.
John
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – “The science is clear,”
Really, SG Ki-moon? Because it sure don’t look like science and it sure looks like obfuscation by IPCC and all the pro-pundits of the GW Scam.
The joke continues. They have already had disaster movies and Avatar if you want to spend some time watching blue people. James Cameron , the maker of Avatar, is already a proven hypocrite green. Looneywood has already given Gore an Academy Award for his fictional story. So clearly, Ban Ki moon can see the failure of AGW, especially the defunding of the IPCC, very close ahead.
So whats the producers cut? Does the UN get a credit at the end? I.e Propaganda section financing $xxxx,xxx from UN truthyness section?
The more education schick is old already and I have been re educated by far too many tax sucking experts (of the drip under pressure type) to tolerate another, I feel a re education moment coming worldwide, and the UN is one perfect candidate . Hey UN we are out of suckers with money, so get a job.Our human history goes in cyles and the greedy and cluless have reached their peak and are in decline, hence the desperation and attempts to, renew the message, after all it sold so well last year.
Ban is one of my favorite people to staff the all star human hamster wheel ,of course with the UN work ethic, the output will be mircoWatts/hr without a sever stimulus plan.
“We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information.”
Yep. The ignorant are the only ones they will have any chance of making headway with, so targetting them is the obvious route. Those who do have the expertise or the information won’t be fooled.
While it is nasty and frivilous to mock a mans name, Ban Ki Moon sounds a lot like a pseudenoum and a promise, make me secretary general and we banki moon. Based on results maybe not.
What I would like to see Hollywood make is a movie showing what it would truly take to achieve the CO2 reductions required to avoid the purported AGW. Sort of a combination of Soylent Green and Schindler List.
People might start to realize how important it is to get the models right.
All he has done given huge support for the recent vote in Congress — for the US to stop their funding of the IPCC. Next to stop funding the UN as a whole.