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.
…
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
Tony says:
February 23, 2011 at 11:07 am
“Just wondering, though – isn’t there anyone out there who would like to make a movie portraying a contrary viewpoint?”
Michael Crichton’s novel ‘State of Fear’ would make a great movie! But so far, not surprisingly, the Hollywood gang has ignored that one. Other than all the inconvenient themes and information incorporated into it, maybe that is also because the Hollywood airhead eco-celebrity in that story was eaten by cannibals in the end and they don’t want to give the little people any ideas.
Yup! “Terminator 4: The Heat” starring an ex-Gov from somewhere on the Left Coast. The Machines, seeing as they cannot directly kill the Humans, John Conner being so tough and all, decide to destroy the Earth Climate and cook all living things. They create mega-CO2 producing machines (giant SUV’s and air conditioners and massive incandescent light bulbs), but the John Conner of the future sends back to the new present another modified Terminator (who looks just like a certain ex-VP) to join one of the other Terminators he already sent back (the ex-gov one). The Terminators and John Conner rally the humans, destroy all the Giant SUV’s, air conditioners, and light bulbs and the world is saved, for now.
And if Hollywood doesn’t work out there’s the porn industry just over the Hollywood hills for the UN to consider. Bang Mi Moon Presents ‘Hot Women Hot World’
Great idea. I’m thinking a car chase with a Prius pursuing an evil Dodge Viper. Commandos with bows and arrows vanquish the machine gun wielding baddies. A plucky little windmill could power the good guys’ computers and command centre until … oh drat, back to the drawing board.
Hollywood – a beacon of integrity and education for CAGW believers. Says it all, really.
I say do another “The Day the Earth Stood Still Version 3”. Alien comes to earth (Al Gore) to warn earthlings that unless they act now to stop climate change which is affecting the whole Galaxy they’ll send Bruce (Gort) Willis to vapourise all of us. Yeah great stuff.
Nicto Barada……………..
Now I fully understand why it seems most leading politician, and, apparently, business people as well, thinks he is a complete moron.
On the one hand, if he succeed to get the Hollywood propaganda machinery to sport UN’s interests before US interest only means UN’s gonna have to rub a lot of greasy hairy backs to get the real US greens. On the other hand to willingly hire a bunch of blue smurf who’s a bunch of self made cowards who run in fear from their own PR gigs . . . how brilliant is that. o_O
Well the reverend Moon, better think twice about going to the Church of Hollywood, to try and convince scientific skeptics.
Who else do you know; other than Hollywood; say Gene Roddenberry for example (rest his sole) who would actually program an interstellar space ship to actually bank, while making a turn. Where the hell did the Universal Gravitational field come from that requires you to bank to make a comfortable well co-ordinated turn.
Bah ! Humbug !!
This is a hoot. The UN seeking out Hollywood. The blind leading the blind.
The agw issue is surely reaching its inevitable conclusion: the dumpster.
sounds like a good idea of sorts, especially if its on Frasier.
will be branded as a form of popular entertainment.
“OMG its warm in here.”
“Yes honey, I turned the heating up. Its freezing snow outside, and the meteorologist said it was caused by glabal warming. I just thought I’d try and get my head around the idea by turning the heat on full”
Banki’s favourite hamster has died but the wheel is still turning…..shall we tell him?
…………or leave it to Hollywood ?
JB Williamson says:
February 22, 2011 at 10:25 pm
“Who was is said:
‘You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.'”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an interview: “Climate change will continue unless drastic measures are taken to stop it.”
Now, Mr. Ki-moon, just what might stop nature from operating in it is usual way? That’s got to be the inane “quote of the week.”
Oh Heck! Cue Ed Begley Jr! Perfect for playing Gavins part!
What I don’t get is, as far as I can tell, isn’t Hollywood about 9000% on-board with this agenda already?
Hmmm. Maybe they should come back in…June. Seems like it’s snowing all over Kaleefornia. “Warming” is, you know, kinda out there.
What’s the fuss? They have a fictional story called CAGW and they want Hollywood to make a movie about it. Isn’t that what Hollywood does? Fiction movies?
The day-long gathering will feature panels titled … “Making Global Warming a HOT Issue” …>>>
Well that ought to be an easy script. Scarlet Johannsen bundled up from head to toe in winter clothes, standing on a beach next to a frozen lake. She says into the microphone…
This is the way I’m dressed now, but if the world warms up just ONE degree, I will have to take THIS off…
And if it warms TWO degrees, I’ll also have to take THIS and THIS off.
And if it warms THREE degrees, I’ll have to take everything except this strong bikini off.
You see what a HOT problem this is? Do you want to live in a world this HOT? Am I making this movie HOT enough for you? Do you not see the dangers of a HOT world?
I think if well produced it could be hottest selling video the year!
“George E. Smith says:
February 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm”
Remarkable isn’t it. Banking, during a turn, in space. Remember the public don’t like surprises (Futurama).
Then again, perhaps Moon has a “hidden” agenda here: in his spare time, he’s written a movie script for Pachauri’s potboiler of purple prose and he’s trying to find a producer for the flick version!
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on.” Bush following advice given to him by Democrat Robert Strauss
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1241240.stm
we can always stimulate the economy by building huge mental facilities to house the global warming nuts in after we revoke their credentials because they are a danger to them selves and a danger to society!