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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Topic: A Drastic Measure…. (humor)
“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 ….
If we speed up the rotation of the earth, the peak daytime temperatures will read lower, showing “cooling” on all the charts….
I propose that everyday, all jets at all airports, point the nose of the plane to the EAST, rev the engines to full thrust, and lock the brakes for one hour. After that brief hour, then proceed with takeoff. This will push the earth east, spinning it faster.
If this works well, it will “cool” the earth by shortening the day by reducing sunlight hours. However, 1 hour of jet blast blowing on those airport thermometers might negate any recorded effect. You’ll need an algorithm fudge model for that one. This plan could go straight to “the moon”. I think the UN would really go for it… really.
They sound just like prince charles and his overwhelming supporting for homeopathy and talking to plants.
Ban said “The science is clear”, it’s just a shame about the statistics, models and data manipulation used to obscure it.
Paul R says:
February 22, 2011 at 10:04 pm
“Sorta like Scientology meets Climatology. : >”
Another form. The current scientology is settled.
Hollywood should do a cop show with the good green cops in electric cars or a war movie with planet saving armies using wind-powered tanks with the bad guys still using evil fossil fuel powered vehicles… no, wait.
It’s as clear as mud, Ban.
Hollywood can call on the massive computing power of the UK Met Office and employ some smart computer animators at NASA.
It’s been done:
South Park, Series 9, Ep. 8:
“Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Days_Before_the_Day_After_Tomorrow
“Education” = propaganda
Do any of you wonder if there is a “fund” somewhere that is in place for actors and “personalities” to be paid to act as if they support the AGW story?
These guys are actors after all and they act for money. A good brand image can carry the “message” to many people who wouldn’t ordinarily be aware of it. Hell I always thought this about Tom Cruise and that intriguing cult he purports to be a believer in.
All the hugely useless Ban is doing is to formalize the situation .
“The Day After Tomorrow” was as scary as it get and yet the public took global warming for what it is Hollywood fiction. ;O)
I can’t think that the disaster genre has anywhere else to go. I mean after “The Day after Tomorrow” came disaster movies like “2012” which, amongst other things, dumped California into the ocean.
We’ve had “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” (the latter wasn’t a bad film, worth seeing) so where is the angle for a new film? Blow the Earth to smithereens?
Hollywood is very poor at preaching and is basically a fashion business, which means at the moment its monsters, vampires and zombies. When that fashion gets pound into the ground it will look elsewhere.
Greenhouse effect global warming was done in the early 1970s in “Soylent Green” (which is one of my favourite movies), so unless there’s an angle to make lots of money doing something that hasn’t been done before, AGW won’t been featuring very much.
Hollywood already tried and failed several times. I’d like them to keep trying. That will actually help people see the lie. As with the public reaction against the bloated union strikers in WI, the message people will get is the opposite of the one that was intended.
Ban Ki-moon: “I have traveled around the world and seen it for myself from Antarctica to the Brazilian rain forest to Lake Chad, once a huge sea that has now dried up and become a small pond.”
“Climate change will continue unless drastic measures are taken to stop it”
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Stop flying then, stop adding to the “problem”
The problem with people like this is that they are given too much respect. Which is any at all in scientific terms……
It’s time someone asked him if he would lodge his genitals as collateral against global warming being a hoax.
That’s a fair test, isn’t it?
He can spout crap all he likes as long as there is no come back.
But put his balls on the line, then we’ll see what he really thinks eh?
Why is society so appeasing that it won’t confront him in a meaningful way, eh?
In other words they have resorted to ramping up
the propaganda. But most media and Hollywood ate already in the AGW back pocket. So how is this any different?
ROFL.
People watch movies to escape from reality so I think Hollywood is definitely the right place to portray AGW. Not going to do much for the credibility of the AGW movement though.
Ian W says:
February 22, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Now that’s a movie I would like to see.
kbray in california says:
February 22, 2011 at 11:53 pm
I love your plot! (speed up the Earth). And I have a suggestion:
Reverse the electrical flow to the windmills, thereby turning them into propellers. These, together with your jets, will make the Earth spin even faster, and, and………
We just need more money to develop the plot a bit (for alcohol, mind-altering drugs, etc). Do you think we could get a grant from the UN? This could be “a nice little earner” !!
James Fosser says:
February 22, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Mr. Fosser,
I haven’t met your window cleaner (or Mr. Moon, for that matter) but I do have a high level of confidence that your window cleaner (merely by virtue of being closer to the elements and to reality – not to mention experiencing the vagaries of natural variability) probably knows far more about climate change than Moon.
Shame on you, sir, for tarnishing the reputation of your window cleaner with such an odious comparison!
But, that aside … I wonder what Moon has done about getting the UN’s own “environmental house” in order. The UN’s internal “Joint Inspection Unit” (JIU)’s report (circa May 2010) indicated that:
http://hro001.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/un-agencies-fail-to-practice-what-they-preach/
Let them have their movie
How about
‘Total Insult’ starring Arnie and Pachuri – Future quarry worker Quaid and his sidekicks battle the evil sceptics in this blockbuster. No atmosphere, little sense and not a decent beer within half a million miles
/joke
It’s fascinating watching the unravelling of the entire CAGW mess; each day, a new twist in the plot. Two new twists today, an angry and wildly intemperate Gavin being roasted for his dishonesty by Dr Curry on her blog and the seriously creepy Ban Ki Moon going to Hollywood with his ridiculous plea. I would love to see a movie of the new and popular Brit play, ‘The Heretic’, which in itself is a new twist in the unfolding/unravelling drama.
I can hardly wait for the next plot thread to begin unravelling in public – the MSM have no idea just how much real-life dram they are missing.
kbray in california says:
February 22, 2011 at 11:53 pm
“I propose that everyday, all jets at all airports, point the … jet blast blowing on those airport thermometers …”
I’m afraid this second part of your proposal is a little late, kbray. The progressive implementation of exclusive UHI thermometrics is already set to give us:
2012 – warmest year on record.
2013 – warmest year on record.
2014 – warmest year on record.
“We have to educate people who may not have the expertise and the information.”
It’s so wonderfully Orwellian, don’t you think? The sinister way words are manipulated, Joseph G would be so proud & jealous too! It’s like those creepy psychos in Exeter a couple of years ago claiming that “climate denial” was a sickness! How charming these fellows really are, NOT! How many times has a sci-fi movie about a state or world which appeared benign at first glance, but revealed sinister undertones later, & had characters in it who were removed from public gaze for…………….”re-education”? Moon is either stupid, or more likely he thinks we are he’s that arrogant.
I find myself wishing that Hollywood wrote more global warming stories. Look at the impact it had on the Iraq war: zero. They lose more money on ridiculous pictures and the rest of us laugh.
Where would we be without the moral leadership of Hollywood?