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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No, you tried that, and the more people found out and the more expertise they acquired, the less they believed this unscientific nonsense.
Better adopt the Gaddhafi solution and just blow them up.
Appealing to Hollywood dilettantes for support is the last refuge of a lost cause. The Goracle just pulled the same stunt in Aspen in an obviously choreographed effort. Although Hollywood will probably go for it, standing in line for Hollywood’s latest offering with chattering teeth will probably not make for a receptive audience.
Hollywood did a fine job on the “evil oil companies and electric power generators”, but Mother Nature has a voice of her own that does not require access to “the media”.
My2¢:
You forgot Blade Runner.☺
Hmmm…maybe Steve Mosher can sell the movies rights to “Climate Gate: the Crutape Letters”.
Anthony Hopkins can play Jones. Homer Simpson as Jim Hansen. Hmmmm…
I am sure Hollywood can make good stories from this,” he said, adding that the outreach effort “may be a small start.
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No, but they can make very poor movies about this. Seems like any B disaster movie made today has the climate change meme automatically written into it.
“We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information.”
What about trying to convince those who have the expertise and the information?
They are not buying the tale, see “Slaying the Sky Dragon, Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory”.
Now, now. It was (or will be) done quite routinely on Star Trek: global weather control, doncha know?
Here is a great plan that will blow up the entire UN Globalist scheme:
http://dailypaul.com/157406/new-money-system-to-replace-fed-backed-by-silver
Since the English word pronounced most closely to Ban is “pun”, this may be one of his jokes.
Yeah, make a movie and then issue them an Oscar and Nobel Prize.
Then everyone will believe us.
Has it gotten to this?
I think a silver screen version of “Heretic” might just be a good idea.
Trying to affect popular culture about warming is very difficult when the masses are freezing. The UN will be laughed out of existence if the angry mobs don’t get them first.
“The science is clear,” he [Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon] said…
No! Your motives are now perfectly clear Ki-moon.
Cult cultivating again?
Can’t wait for the Hockey Team members guest hosting Saturday Night Live…
Is it just me or does the last name “Moon” bring up other memories of idiots? And when did Hollywood STOP making mega-disaster movies? I believe the original script was written with a grease pencil so you could just change the names of things and make it again.
Ban Ki-Moon is an AGW puppet of the left: click
The sooner the UN is completely de-funded, the better for humanity.
Word up, bro. The truth will set you free.
There’s no need for more scare movies to “educate” people about AGW. There’s plenty of material available. Come to Australia, its spat across the TV screens, news outlets, schools, Universities etc etc every day, sometimes serveral times. Its sickening!
Earth hour started in Australia. Earth hour approaches.
Title: “The Vengeful Return Of The Warming After The Day After Tomorrow”.
We also had to suffer through the horrible “Day the Earth Stood Still” last year…the only time I have ever loudly declared to an entire theater that a movie was a bunch of propaganda as the closing credits were finally, mercifully rolling. I did not see “Avatar” because I am really not the kind of person who likes to make loud comments about propaganda at the end of movies, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to restrain myself.
Will there be plenty of car chases and stuff blowing up in these climate change movies? Gotta have ‘splody things happening.
“We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information”
Poor little sheeples. You just can’t think for yourselves can you? No worries, we the elites in the UN have all the answers. We’ll show you a movie which will explain everything. Then you’ll be happy to give up your lifestyle, pay more taxes and go back to the dark ages. Goodie! Can’t wait to get my hands on one of those new fangled houses shown at Cancun. My mother used a washboard way back I’m sure my wife would be happy to learn the skill. It’ll be a much better life for our already brainwashed children than Facebook, Twitter, iPhones, TVs, computers, parties, etc. Who needs all that stuff anyway? ….etc ….
This is tantamount to propaganda. If Hollywood had any integrity left they wouldnt let themselves be used like a dirty piece of toilet tissue
Well, Mr. Moon, our sun turns 700,000,000 tons of hydrogen into helium every second–do you think that might have an impact on our climate? (Compare that with the Nagasaki atomic bomb, which converted approximately 1 gram of matter into energy, all in about the same time frame).
Sure, I can see Hollywood getting involved–I mean, everybody takes them SO seriously, you can anticipate all that influence in the decline of movies and television. People would rather play interactive games than watch spoiled, over-paid, uneducated, line-parroting “stars” strut their stuff. May the UN and Hollywood suffer similar fates.
Unbelievable.
So the UN-Head is now openly treating the rest of the world as complete idiots.
Pamela Gray,
I much preferred you as the heroine in the mythical screenplay I posted a few months ago that went something like this:
Rain is all like super secret seal commando, aka Agent “Syng”man, an’ this Journalist hottie Pamela is his Seoul “sista”.. Super cool Admiral Sean P. Kobe Diddy Bama, (Wesley Snipes?) tells Rain he can rescue the sista…but “no comlpications…dig me?..This ain’t never happened”
…An’ Rain is all like “Aye Aye Admiral Kobe DiddyBama”…respectful-’cuz like we all like know an’ accept how Africans have taught Koreans (like Anglo Saxons) everything there is to know about bein’ cool an’ pumped hard nacho..I mean macho…an’ how they invented e’rythin an’ won all the wars….So Rain gets all geared up in his super cool Michael Jackson stealth ninja threads an’ parachute torpedos into the DMZ…`An he’s all like ..bird of prey ‘..then snap, snap outta the harness buckles……tuck…. rolls…then….WHAT? There’s like a tiger eye to eye with him…Cr*p!..Rain gets all hard an’ tense an’ freezin’up inta his “death stare”…starin the tiger down… an’ then like the tiger snarls an’ gets the hell outta there.. ‘cuz it’s all like “nuh-uh..not messin’ with this bad dude”….An’ Rain gives like the super cool sexy smirk that the chicks get all hot for… (an’ the dudes too!) …Then like BAM! ..15 minute montage of Rain gettin’ locked an’ loaded… cockin’ knives outta his socks, flickin’ knives outta knives..bustin clips inta super cool ninja sniper blade guns…Tearin stuff open with his teeth… a bandana somewheres… Then Agent Syngman is off inta the misty forest… Maybe a wolf howls…CUT TO: Seoul sista in the labor camp bustin’ stones, with like a pick axe…fer some reason… lookin’ fine, an’ all slutty… toned an’ buffed in flimsy tattered rags… She’s showin’ serious clevage while the NK guards are all sneerin’ an’ droolin’ all ready ta rape her… but she’s all like fiesty in yer face American Margaret Cho girl ya know…. all like “Don’t you touch me, scum man!”… An’ they’re all like evil an’ toothless an’ like hehehehehe…
I still see you like that, oldie pervert that I yam…☺