From the Department of amalgamated dumbasses who own mansions, comes this trailer via Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard:
Showtime announced last year that it had commissioned Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron to produce an eight-part series for the network designed to scare the public into thinking the world is doomed as a result of global warming.
Coincidentally on Halloween, the cable network released a trailer for the April 2014 series entitled Years of Living Dangerously and credits that identify key Hollywood contributors such as Jessica Alba, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (video follows with commentary):
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The website describes the series thusly:
YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY is global warming like you’ve never seen it before. Coming to SHOWTIME in April, this multi-part television event tells the biggest story of our time: climate change and the impact it’s having on people right now in the US and all over the world. Over the course of eight episodes, we’ll report on the crippling effects of climate change-related weather events and the ways individuals, communities, companies and governments are struggling to find solutions to the biggest threat our world has ever faced. An all-star cast of correspondents goes into the field—to Texas, Kansas, California, Colorado, New York, Maine, Montana, Washington, the Carolinas, Florida, the Middle East, Africa, the Andes, the North Pole, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the South Pacific—to meet the people and see the places affected by climate change.
Boo! Scary!
Now check out the stars involved in this nightmare:
Jessica Alba, Mark Bittman, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, America Ferrera, Harrison Ford, Thomas L. Friedman, Michael C. Hall, Chris Hayes, Olivia Munn, M. Sanjaya, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ian Somerhalder, and Lesley Stahl
Anything for fading stars to get some illumination.
99 out of 100 scientists say climate change is real, why isn’t that 100 out of 100? No one’s disputing that the climate changes. Why don’t these people ever define their beliefs, anthropogenic warming, or in the case of this film, catastrophic anthropogenic warming.
I pity you poor bastards, in the USA. Stuck with Obama and the luvvie-liberal media and arts crowd until 2016, at least. At last we have dumped our Green-Left government in Australia and are rapidly set about dismantling all the bullshit policies based on the myth of CAGW. Feels good, I have to say. No, it feels f&%king great!
I was thinking that it may be time we imported some Aussie political hackers from your conservative party. The greatest danger we face in 2016 is Ms. Clinton.
TBear, I agree add UK to the list of unfortunates and believers. Although Tory Aardvaak runs a good anti-green site.
Dear Cameron:
The climate’s drastically changing here right now. The chill air has me frozen up like that blonde kid from the sinking ship. Please send coal for Christmas.
Yours Truly,
AGW-hopeful
Great role-models…..not.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Comes right in time for this revelation: Psychologists find that scary doomsday scenarios don’t turn people into fanatic eco fighters but into seriously depressed persons. Found out by the taz, Germany’s leading hard left green Berlin daily.
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/lol-another-thing-skeptics-were-right-about-climate-alarmism-tied-to-mental-illness/
The cast reads like Warmism is the new jungle camp. (Sorry, Jessica.)
The AGW social movement is religion for secularists. Religion in many ways is all about story telling. Actors and artists are all about story telling, but most reject theism these days. AGW belief supplies all the tenets of religion without pesky things like sin or accountability and going to church. It is sort of like scientology without the E meter.
Face palms.
I don’t subscribe to Showtime, so I’ll miss this. Another reason, I suppose, to be glad I don’t subscribe. Please keep me posted on this so I can be properly terrified. I’d be most interested in reports of any technology they may have to maintain a static-unchanging climate.
Ah, yes. Cameron. He’s a climate athlete. One of the multitude of profiteers of doom who have said they will debate anyone on the climate issue and have then snivelingly chickened out. A couple of years back Cameron’s people contacted Morano’s people and proposed a public debate (at Aspen, CO, if I remember rightly). We said, “Bring it on, Jim, baby.”
Then they said they wanted to dictate the terms of the debate. We agreed. Then they said they didn’t want the Press there. We agreed. Then they put on their track shoes and ran and ran and ran. There was no debate.
For as long as lies remain profitable and truth does not, these climate athletes will run and run and run from true debate – or any debate. Like Gore, another climate athlete, they will only talk about the climate if no one who knows anything about the subject is anywhere within camera shot. They will just keep on running. However, as fossil fuels rapidly convert the world’s oxygen to CO2 [credit: G. Monbiot] they will soon eventually out of puff.
Uh, Matt Damon is hardly a fading star… though he is quite the raving liberal, not unlike Ahnold.
Mark
I honestly don’t really know much about James Cameron, and really don’t care to, but isn’t he the guy who made a movie about a planet inhabited by a bunch of blue people? Why should anyone believe what a guy with such a weird imagination has to say, especially after he takes the world famous “97% of scientists” and magically turns it into 99%?
If Showtime was dumb enough to pay for Global Warming garbage you don’t need James Cameron to produce Global Warming idiocy – with deadbeat Hollywood maggots to act the part of another one of Cameron’s fantasies. They all live in Obama’s America – another fantasy playing a president and so poorly you can’t make this stuff up. Like TBear says – I feel sorry for Americans these days. These are your spokesmen and women representing the United States of America to the rest of the world – who could have dreamed America could fall so quickly?
Now maybe if Showtime made a movie from the people who brought us The Obamacare Website, that warned us of the danger lurking in the Y2K bug, we might have a believable film, but so far I don’t see that anyone involved in this has that much credibility.
Harrison Ford………………..
Would this be the same Mr Ford who likes flying in his private plane to buy a hamburger?
I ‘m only asking.
“An all-star cast of correspondents goes into the field…” …via limo and private jet. Actually, it might only be an SUV. The use of ‘all-star’ is quite gratutious, after all. Poor, poor unappreciated actors. *single tear* :'(
I can speak for one state. Having lived in Montana for two years (and having an ex-wife who lived there 80% of her life), I have come to find that A) the winters are generally milder and B) no one there seems to mind at all. There is still plenty of cold, miserable weather.
Of course, these are esteemed actors and actresses who are gracious enough to bestow their presence upon a state they probably thought was part of Canada and is still reliant on horse-travel and bartering. That reminds me of how people in Montana view Hollywood blowhards who visit with their millions of dollars, buy up swaths the land and visit their behemoth lodge on the off-chance. (I’ll give you a hint: not too kindly.)
In fact, I believe AGW-partisan Ted Turner is the largest private landowner in Montana. Hmmm…should he then be blamed for a majority of the ‘warming’ there? Oh my no, it’s the common people who have driven the world to the boiling point.
Apologies, mum. Apologies…
Isn’t Harrison Ford the one who likes to fly his plane up the coast to get a hamburger?
Ski season starts this weekend in Alberta (and never ends on the Glaciers at Whistler). Didn’t someone say that CAGW was going to be the end of ski resorts? Seems that with all the scare tactics and installation of snow making, the start of the season just gets earlier and earlier. Meanwhile on the farm, I almost didn’t get my shallow waterlines blown out in time as it snowed and froze hard last weekend. My fish pond was completely iced over last night. If we get any more of this CAGW, the ski season will last all summer. Send Cameron north in his Bermuda shorts. (http://www.skinakiska.com/conditions/snow-report.aspx) /sarc off.
The dumb and the dishonest fooling the naive.
History is chock full of scoundrels and fools.
Today’s episode forms a hockey stick displaying a surge of both.
Bush fires, floods, hotter than average, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, flu, mental illness and depression is blamed on climate change????LOL. No one mentions colder than average! However, they haven’t as yet mentioned the moon? That is believed to affect us too, mostly good especially a full moon.
Ah well people have to make money, look at that film 2012, but then people are generally lazy and don’t seem to care about what is the truth really. Has anyone cared to think, it is the weather that kills us. Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. I have a young son who believes there will be a holocaust soon, generated from the Japan reactor damaged by the tsunami? I told him the Japanese are no fools handling nuclear reactors having been bombed twice? He also was told drilling for gas involved weapons grade uranium. I said plutonium? Yes. “Plutonium is restricted and very very expensive” (I’m not expert but I would say that mixing gas and plutonium would be a toxic mix) And 18,000 troops were being withdrawn from Russia. But I admit he did ask “Arn’t they enemies?’ “Yap, or rather were! See how the young and worried about the future can be influenced by AGW nut cases and prophets of doom.
Avatar- the prequel.
James Cameron/Jean Jouzel: the eye of the storm!
How did Friedman get into that bunch?