Once upon a time, we were constantly lectured that “weather is not climate”.
Now that climate change just isn’t scary enough (and not panning out) we are told daily by such luminary activists such as Brad Johnson of “Forecast the Facts” (a paid political group that harrasses TV weathercasters, and pickets Google to make them cry uncle on climate) that all weather is in fact climate, because the weather is now “poisoned” with CO2.
This is what happens when the weather gets poisoned. It jumps the shark. You’ve been warned.
Supposedly there were cameo appearances by Supermandia and the Mann of Steel who swoop in to save the day, but that was left on the cutting room floor because screening audiences didn’t find that subplot credible.
You can watch it tonight at 9PM/8Central on the SyFy channel
Personally, I blame Trenberth’s missing heat going into the ocean.
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I saw Pacific Rim yesterday. Even when the ‘aliens’ come through a tube that links universes, this is only possible due to Man’s effect on the oceans.
Hollywood cannot help themselves, it seems. When you are on a winner, keep backing it.
This is a repeat but …
“If the idea for your research grant was originally rejected by the SyFy Channel as being “to bizarre”, you might be a Green-neck.”
Anthony,
you should check out this book by Stephen R.J. Sheppard. “Professor in Landscape Architecture and Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Director of the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP). He is an internationally recognized expert in visualization, and has over 30 years’ experience in research and practice in landscape planning, public involvement, environmental perception, and, since 2003, in planning for climate change. He is a Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability Solutions Research, University of Plymouth, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the Nanjing Forestry University, China.”
http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Climate-Change-Communication-Developing/dp/1844078205#reader_1844078205
This stuff is basically promoting the creation and diffusion of photoshopped images meant to illustrate the green agenda. The fact this is approved by Bill McKibben says it all.
This is no worse than Super Mandia…
Anthony, your attempt to link Brad Johnson, Scott Mandia, Michael Mann, and Kevin Trenberth to bad SF (okay, bad SciFi too) will make them disrespect you.
Perhaps we can get SyFy to do Sharkmino, Month of the Perlsharkwitz, and Sharksen Death Train.
I believe that is the dumbest premise for a disaster movie of all time.
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I’ve heard of the other movies but not this one.
Did the movie explain what chupacabras have against rental cars?
I see this as good news. Were I still a believer (I started out as one a few years ago) this definitely would have given me pause. Let them hang themselves with their ridiculous, increasingly desperate antics.
Elaborating on the total nonserious of this, here’s an interview with the writer:
http://io9.com/736131336
How did you come up with such a blisteringly awesome concept?
Well, the Asylum (the company that produced the movie for Syfy) came to me just after I’d completed writing/directing duties on last year’s American Battleship (sorry, “American Warships”) and asked me to pitch them ideas for a movie called “Shark Storm”. I asked if this would be a straight up movie about sharks attacking during a storm or a crazy storm made up of sharks. They said it would be straight, so I declined, feeling like we’d seen enough shark movies and enough storm movies. A month later they came back to me and said they really wanted me to write a movie called “Sharknato” (at least that’s what I thought they said), and I asked what sharks had to do with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? I was suddenly seeing the army battling sharks invading Europe… But they said “No, Sharknado!” They gave me about half a page of notes which I read and replied “This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read… I’M IN!”
You’d better watch out for
The eggplant that ate Chicago
Iff’n he’s still hungry
the whole country’s doomed
I think that the movie trailer is an accurate metaphor of the state of climate science … UNBELIEVABLE !
From decades of scuba diving, I came to understand that sharks don’t like to venture close to rocky shores in unsettled currents, due to lack of bone structure. Strikes me that they would be equally shy of tornadoes for the same reason.
That’s right up there with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Post-normal “science” has morphed into post-normal humor–with Bollywood overtones.
I think I’ll skip the film when it comes out.
Having Superandia and Mann of Steel
I’m reminded of how the original Godzilla hired Raymond Burr to give it an appeal to American audiences. Is it the same idea?
Later in the Godzilla 1998 remake we learned that we’d been mispronouncing Godzilla all along.
It’s actually “Gore”Zilla (who knew?)
It’s an old joke, but it would make a dandy movie of this genre. A group of geneticists manage to combine the DNA of an abilone and a crocodile. They were hoping to produce an abidile, but all they got was a crocabalone.
Gotta love those Syfy made for TV movies. They’ve created some of the most awesome horrible movies, ever, and I have a strange fascination for awful movies. I think my favorite scene so far still have to be out of Swamp Volcano. The blurt of lava that erupts out of the tennis court and engulfs the tennis ball without interrupting its trajectory so that it becomes a fiery projectile that then proceeds to burn straight through the tennis instructor in a clean hole was especially laugh-worthy, and the tennis ball survived long enough (parts were still bright green) for the tennis student to approach and stare at it and the dead instructor in poorly acted shocked horror. That scene is one of my favorites because it has so much wrong with it. I’m not sure if I’ll watch this one though. Sometimes, they’re just too bad.
Bleurgh! Whoever thinks up such unutterable junk? It’s just reminded me why I don’t bother with Hollywood movies.
Meanwhile Elmer over at Minnesotans 4 Global Warming is thinking:
“I’ve got to up my game.”
Mac the Knife says July 11, 2013 at 12:03 pm
This is a joke, right?!
REPLY: no, it is an actual TV show – Anthony
So, the jumping sharks have jumped the shark!
Brewster at July 11, 2013 at 12:41 pm
I like piranaconda.
But, then, I might settle for a Pirancolada.
pokerguy at July 11, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Were I still a believer (I started out as one a few years ago)
I myself, although never a believer but credulous as I didn’t have the facts, 30 years ago, came to my senses when I read the historical record. Not that written by crimatologists, but that written by people who were there 1000 and more years ago.
Excellent. AGW is finding its true niche in cheesy SciFi. How many ways can you find to use The Blob and Climate Change together in the same sentence? E.g. Climate change was going to destroy the world but in 1997, The Blob neutralized it, similar to the way Mothra’s babies saved Japan from Godzilla.
I really love libs and their propensity to use absolute gibberish when naming something, case in point Forecast the Facts. ?????
So, what exactly is my weather babe supposed to say? “High today 87 under mostly clear skies, because global warming/climate change has reduced cloud cover, hence less rain as well. I’d give you tonights low, but instead I’ll let you know that 15 years from now tomorrow will be 90, or 2 degrees more than the real tomorrow, because that’s what Mann/Trenberth etc.etc.etc. computer modeling is warning us, and all that trapped heat in the ocean will be spilling out in great waves (giggle), get it….wave, ocean? Now turn off that television, go buy that electric car, and we’ll see you tomorrow night here on Forecasting the Truth Weather, brought to you by Tesla.”
Oh yeah, hey Gavin. Yeah, you over there apparently wasting our tax dollars at NASA. Define “reasonable degree”. I have this feeling your definition will be quite different than most here at WUWT? Could you be a bit more vague next time?
Poisoned weather comes from sick, diseased minds.
Yes indeed. I can’t remember the number of times I pointed to snow in Brasil and the Mediterranean and was told, quite rightly, that the weather is not the same as climate. George Monbiot, the zoo keeper, told us in January 2010 that trends, and not events, matter more.
But today we have:
Bad weather =
global warmingclimate changeGood weather =
global warmingclimate changeAverage weather =
global warmingclimate changeMore snow = climate disruptivity
Less snow = global warming climatic change disrupt
Average snow = It should be more if it was not for climate disruption
Global surface temperature standstill = It should be cooler if it was not for global warming
and so on……………………
This is definitely not science, it’s a tragedy of unparalleled proportions.