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
This could turn out to be fun. I appreciate a good weather related fantasy disaster movie like Twister or Day After.
We could have a tornado chaser-like adventure series where some carbonistas get word of winter storm warnings and immediately high five and shout “Climate Conference!”. The would then quickly dash to the storm chasing van to road trip in search of the global warming protest, Al Gore appearance, or climate conference that could break out.
We could have the giant worms from “Tremors” repeatedly pop up out of the earth and munch the CRU members just as they find the un-homogenized data.
We could even have a comedy show where carbonistas have 2 minutes to convince three ‘Deadliest Catch’ guys/contestants that the Arctic is catastrophically melting. The first DC guy to break a straight face is eliminated from the round.
This could be fun.
The TV drama “24” already did this. They started having the actors in a ad spot at the end of each show give a stern lecture on global warming.
I quit watching the show.
Climate change will continue
unlessregardless of drastic measuresaretaken to stop it…”Fixed that for ya, Mister Moon.
He heads up the United Nations – and is advocating baseless propoganda..? Doesn’t that constitute some sort of international crime..??
Mr Moon should be careful what he wishes for. The scope for a film about govt trying to scam the people would seem to be endless.
The media is already saturated w/this flup. Watch any government-channel like the weather channel, cnbc, cbs, abc, nbc, cnn, discovery, nasa channel, green channel, history, animal planet, etc, etc, etc. Much of the content and commercials are bought & paid for by the green-mafia-government-propaganda industry — your & my tax dollars. The hippies that decried the “establishment” in the ’60s have become the establishment.
Time to defund the propaganda machine.
“……I am sure Hollywood can make good stories from this,” he said,
Ya, because they just haven’t done any yet.
/sarc
Ban Ki goes to Hollywood!
I wouldn’t be too glib about this idea. I have had many a discussion with people who quote movies such as “The Day After Tomorrow” as their source of scientific information.
There are no shortages of Sci-Fi disaster flicks coming out of Hollywood, and most of them are light-years ahead of AGW (which is so last decade).
Check out SuperNova on DVD. Guaranteed hoky ending with a smattering of SOHO pics. Your friends will be in stitches.
Advertisements almost always have a second message. Climate change and green technology are appearing in advertisements as a message in the background. The movies are famous for one liners that promote a message not related to the plot. Often a character is injected into the movie, with humor, that has the sole purpose of promoting or demeaning a person, idea or group of people. The movie plot is not destroyed as the scene moves on.
Whether in an advertisement or movie it amounts to cheap shots put on a paying and often offended public with no avenue to counter. The cheap shot has wide distribution and is displayed as many times as the advertisement or movie are shown to an audience. Browbeating also comes to mind for this tactic.
Fortunately, Moon is a complete idiot, and doesn’t realise that audiences associate Hollywood movies with fiction. It makes no difference to the audience whether it is a film about melting ice caps innundating the world, or attacks by Martian’s with a fatal aversion to yodelling. It’s all fiction. And the more they see Hollywood films with climate change themes, the more they will associate it with fiction.
Perhaps Moon expects the films to close with a banner stating ‘Scientists say this WILL happen unless we mend our ways.’ Howls of laughter.
Anyone remember the movie, “Wag the Dog”?
Whenever someone talks about Hollywood “educating” the public, I think of that movie.
Amazing. They still think that “what we have here is a failure to communicate” climate change. After decades, not only have they failed, miserably but public opinion is actually increasingly going against them! They still seem to think that if only they try harder, and/or can come up with the “right” formula, the mercury-filled twisty “green” light bulb will go on, and presto, they Believe. But, I guess it’s all they know. It’s either that, or simply let the “Green” dream die of people living in cold, dark huts scrabbling for an existence, with huge, ugly mostly-useless bird-blenders everywhere and solar panels providing a few hours of heat/hot water, but mostly just draining their already-battered wallets. There’s your hollywood film, Moonie.
See here’s the problem I have with the whole AGW thing …
Currently human society is probably at it’s worst point since the second world war. An ongoing war in Afghanistan. Virtual civil war in Pakistan. Another one likely to break out in Libya, and maybe in some other Arab states too. The distinct possibility of a ‘real’ (dead measured in the hundreds of thousands) war on the Korean peninsula.
Hezbollah have seized effective control of Lebanon and Gaza counters to fester. Iran is closer to a nuke every day and as soon as the US pulls out of Iraq the Iranian-backed Shia majority takes over.
China’s little economic miracle appears to the be result of the near total suspension of human rights and any sort of regulation. The main point of which appears to be building the military capability to invade Taiwan.
Africa is almost a complete mess, though at least Somalia seems to have a steady source of foreign cash.
Meanwhile the primary concern of the honourable secretary of the UN is an extra few inches in the sea level that even if it *were* going to happen wouldn’t actually impact anyone for another 50+ years.
Oh, and save the whales!
If tinseltown picks this up, it’ll be a case for “INSULTINGLY STUPID MOVIE PHYSICS”.
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
Oh, and maybe Mike Roddy’s finally getting to sell his script.
http://www.rushprnews.com/2008/09/26/california-dreamin-changing-the-world-in-2112/
Anthony,
If you’re still reading these comments, this disagreement as to what was implied and what wasn’t is a small point in the scheme of things. I’m sure, since you’ve given every indication of being a fair-minded fellow, that you agree one could at least reasonably argue a potential lawsuit is implied here absent certain corrective measures from the other side…In general terms, “At the moment” clearly communicates that whatever follows those three little words is subject to change. I don’t see how that can be honestly debated…
But maybe the larger, more important point goes to the inherent biases we bring to the table as human beings. Well meaning people very often simply see things differently. Imagine how that becomes magnified when folks have their careers and reputations on the line. As bad as I’ve come to see that much of the AGW science is, I still believe that for the most part we’re dealing with well-meaning people, or at the least people who have convinced themselves they mean well.
This isn’t always that easy. One need only take a gander at G.S.’s defensive and angry performance on J. C.’s current thread on hiding the decline to see how that’s so. Still, it makes life easer for me to believe this. The anger I already feel about some of the antics on the alarmists’ side simply isn’t healthy.
*cough*
I would like to audition for the role of “The Cause of Global Warming.”
I think I’m a pretty good fit.
“Anyone remember the movie, “Wag the Dog”?
Whenever someone talks about Hollywood “educating” the public, I think of that movie.”
YES! That is precisely what we need! A Global Warming “Pageant!”
Yeah, that the problem with global warming, not enough movies!
It’s not that the science is corrupt, the predictions didn’t come true and and the scheme has been exposed….its….eureka.. not enough movies!!!!!
Will it be a Smutty Movie? Smutty Climategater meets nutty Scientologist?
art johnson says:
February 23, 2011 at 9:11 am
“The anger I already feel about some of the antics on the alarmists’ side simply isn’t healthy.”
Think you have this posted in the wrong place, but on this point I agree. My reaction is replace anger with laughter and simply ridicule the whole corrupt project.
kwik says:
February 23, 2011 at 10:48 am
“Will it be a Smutty Movie?”
Yes, yes, so many possibilities. Is that a hockey stick or are you just glad to see me?
“I am sure Hollywood can make good stories from this.”
They did – Soylent Green and Silent Running are classics, IMO. But it’s been quite some time since Hollywood has made any GOOD stories.
Just wondering, though – isn’t there anyone out there who would like to make a movie portraying a contrary viewpoint?
The UN is encouraging Hollywood to make more SciFi — you just can’t make this stuff up.
Is the UN doing anything of merit these days? Why aren’t they delivering heat and drought resistant strains of common crops to Africa … ?