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):
Video follows:
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
Yup, that is why I now live half the year in the Bahamas and half the year in Canada instead of living all 12 months in Canada. Costs the Canadian federal and provincial governments too. It is worth every penny.
Eve I lived in Bermuda in 1969 and I experienced one of the coldest temps since leaving England or Oz. 39F but the warmer months we so humid, mould would appear on leather unless we used a closed fire in the walk in and had air conditioners on in the bedrooms. But if the part of Canada you lived in was within the Arctic circle and reduced sunlight during winter, I can’t blame you. Mind you the sea temp was tepid, beautiful, like swimming in a tropical aquarium. With all the tropical fish around too. Although my hubby got a fright when a huge parrot fish came up to him asking for food (with goggles on it looked like a small shark?) Never saw him swim so fast back to shore. The locals fed them with bread so they didn’t eat the catch? LOL
We don’t have a carbon footprint. Only the little people have a carbon footprint.
– James Helmsley Cameron
“YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY is global warming like you’ve never seen it before.”
I suspect this much is true.
bushbunny says:
October 31, 2013 at 8:06 pm
Remind your son (politely) that the enviro’s (please replace with any term you feel most effective and relevant to you and your family!) have expressed and deliberately asked for the death of millions during their speeches and campaigns and books and lectures to “solve” the world’s problems.
Also, remind him that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were habitable days after both open air, massive atomic blasts, and that the recent accident in Japan is confined to limited areas of very limited amounts of radioactive material. Not “no radiative material” but very limited amounts. If he chooses to live on a high mountain like Denver or in the Swiss cities, he will get more natural gamma radiation due to that elevation than if he lived within kilometers of the Japanese power plant itself.
Also, remind him that Bush and Clinton (both US governments) bought thousands of live Russian and Ukrainian nuclear weapons, took out the plutonium from the warheads, and burned that as fuel in the US reactors for many years.
Ask him how ANY drilling for gas (probably including other lies about fracking ?) could “use” nuclear grade material such as plutonium during drilling? 1950’s era Russian experiments about underground nuclear blasts maybe?
@TBear
I’m with you – but let’s not celebrate until the whole disaster is put to bed once and for all, eh? Until it’s actually repealed (is that what they do to legislation in Oz) my champagne corks will be staying in place.
Probably worth watching just to see the lengths to which mega-rich hypocrites will go to pretend they are left wing in public.
“Now check out the stars involved in this nightmare” — Imagine the guilt they feel, being leftist and being stinking rich. The guilt must be killing them, so they have to redeem themselves by saving the world.
Well, there’s only one thing that can be said to do justice to, and accurately reflect on this:
“Trick or treat!”
RAcook, etc., I’ve tried but there is no one so blind than those who will not see. Actually my ex was a captain on RAF vulcans carrying hydrogen bombs, and as a teenager working in the Bank of England we were given regular instruction of how to survive a nuclear blast. If anyone was neurotic about this I was as a teenager, working in the city of London. But when I married my first husband, my fear of nuclear war was lessened. However, that’s what scaremongers do, they add to the fear some have of not being able to control their future. Actually we live 3500 ft absl, on the Northern Tablelands of NSW. But it is a temperate climate in comparison to the rest of Australia and NSW.
…I’m waiting for the heat hiding in the deep ocean to suddenly spring out, like Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction”! /sarc
I’m going to take my mind of these mindless hypocrites by going SKIING tomorrow, November 1 at Banff!
http://banffnorquay.com/early-season-opening/
Globalwhatnow?
CRS, DrPH, yeah and so will the Titanic sail again. (sarc) Maybe Al G is financing the pic. Can’t see any worth while film company backing it. I am surprised about Matt as he was the one who spoke up against Sarah Palin’s idea that humans walked with dinosaurs.
Ok, this is going to be a rant but it’s really starting to bug me. What is it with these wimpy-assed, stubble goatees? If someone wants facial hair, well, why can’t they just quit screwing around and just grow the damn hair? To be honest, I think a wimpy goatee is a window into a man’s soul, and it’s not a pretty picture. Cameron desperately needs a lesson from ZZ Top. Or, I’m pleased to say, from me.
Hey my Glacial Geology Professor (Western Wash. U) is shown in this, and that great genius State Sen. Ranker (a deeply devout Alarmist who won’t let facts get in his way) is shown reacting. They even found some screen time for our ridiculous Gov Inslee who just signed on to the Western Climate Initiative (or anti-coal or something). Gee, I just don’t have Showtime, guess I’ll miss it.
Crap, My Glacial Geology Prof was Dr. Easterbrook, he’s who I was referring to.
Right. Let me get this straight here.
A brain dead moron (Cameron) has got a bunch of brain dead morons (Alba, Damon, Ford, Schwarzenegger et al) to pontificate about what another bunch of brain dead morons (Gore, Mann, Jones et al) are claiming, in an effort to find any other brain dead morons (insert who you most wish to nominate here) who may be gullible enough to believe.
Or am I missing something?
PS Is that enough morons?
As long as people realize that Mr. Cameron is an expert at taking bits of truth to fabricate a fantastic fictional story (Titanic) in order to entertain the public and make him rich. It’s that simple. Same principle applies to this series.
These people are just a bunch of very nice fools. They don’t really know enough science to ask the right questions or be skeptical, and just like anyone without enough knowledge or experience, they are capable of being fooled by so-called experts selling their version of snake oil. It’s just too bad that most people give credibility to celebrities, as though those celebrities have more education or knowledge. Confusing celebrity/fame for expertise, knowledge, wisdom and/or experience is a big mistake. James Cameron has made some great films–Aliens, Terminator, Terminator II, and True Lies, and he clearly loves the ocean. It’s unfortunate he, his skills and his love of the ocean are being used to convince the average citizen that global climate change is man-made and not natural variability, when the evidence is so poor.
As for Harrison Ford appearing in this, I wonder if this is his penance for his love of cheese burgers.
“I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger…” in one of his private planes….
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w0001347.html
Awsome. I hope it includes some Aliens.
Ad Hom of the Day: Cameron is a narcissistic buffoon.
TimTheToolMan said on:
October 31, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Awsome. I hope it includes some Aliens.
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That move was already done. Remember “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Keanu Reeves”?
That had an enviro-nutjob theme of man destroying the earth.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/?ref_=nv_sr_1
MikeH writes “That had an enviro-nutjob theme of man destroying the earth.”
I’m hoping for the “James Cameron” kind. Maybe the plot could be Ripley and her crew are out gathering tree rings when they come across an old abandoned space ship…
James Cameron has now bought a lot of land in New Zealand, perhaps the country least worried by climate change. Three quarters of NZ’s power is from Hydro, geothermal and wind. NZ has more coal that can be burned in thousands of years. Even if the sea rises hundreds of metres there’s still plenty of land. However the sea where I live has not risen in 100 years, as photos show. I’d like a few more degrees of temperature if possible, and the trees and grass in NZ will grow even faster with a lot more CO2. Bring it on!