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
Still waiting for CAGW to throw in the towel?
There was a special on PBS [check gag reflex] about the War of the Worlds broadcast… how CBS knew there was a problem 11 minutes into the program and asked for a station break. Orson Welles waited another half an hour or so before letting everyone in on the “secret”.
Funny how they discussed the power of the MSM to deploy propaganda at the time, relating the program to the events in Germany [many thought it was a German invasion], thinking propaganda isn’t a problem today?
Orson Welles (and Al Gore and other CAGW proponents) laughed all the way to the bank. As long as the mass hysteria can be maintained, why stop until a tipping point is met. Later, like Welles, wring your hnads and claim total ignorance.
What a shame we lost Crighton so early. A much smarter and better storyteller. And not just because he was on our side.
I suppose the horse at 2:04 is a climate victim, right ?
Guess Goebbels is enlisting the film industry now.
I want to se a reality TV series following the “Science Advisors” to the series:
Robert Corell, Heidi Cullen, Charles H. Greene, James Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe, Radley Horton, Michael Mann, Michael Oppenheimer, Joseph Romm (great scientist, he).
Now that would be hilarious.
And the inevitable disasters would be cheaper to film.
Environmentalism from the guy who coined the term ‘unobtainium,’ that magical stuff that makes whole islands float in the sky, and so named because it’s so difficult to ‘obtain.’ In fact, one must destroy the most primo tree in the universe to er, well, obtain it. Get it? Difficult to obtain… unobtainium? Subtle, no?
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Scene: The university cafeteria.
Raj: Okay in Avatar when they have sex in Pandora they hook up their ponytails, so we know their ponytails are like their junk.
Howard: Yeah, so?
Raj: So, when they ride horses and fly on the birds, they also use their ponytails.
Howard: What’s your point?
Raj: My point is, if I were a horse or a bird, I’d be very nervous around James Cameron.
from The Big Bang Theory – Season 3 Episode 18, The Pants Alternative
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And finally, there’s this sad scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1IcgJ83TKg
So, does anyone think we will ever see the documentary called ” The Warming Planet” , how a slightly warmer planet fed 7,000,000,000 people,?
I bet we would see the mini-series called “Vikings in Short Pants” first 😉
Showtime is furthering the CAGW “agenda”.
Who owns Showtime? Who calls the shots? Who are these cabal members?
These people are a threat to my personal liberty
Who are they?
I’d like to know.
James Cameron has history in scaring people. There was Aliens, then Terminator and now this, so what’s new? There’s been plenty of other scary documentaries on. A few investigated the impact on humanity of an alien invasion. One showed how humans could fight back using asymmetric warfare. Nothing new here.
I notice that the chart has two keys. One says that the circles are the average of two baloons. The other says the circles are the average of four baloons. Careless mistakes like this, if discovered, can be damaging to the cause.
It is the most important thing in the history of the world to convince others of what they have convinced themselves of is what passes for humility in their world. As others have noted, they live in, of and by fantastic self-importance.
Leo Norekens says:
November 1, 2013 at 4:38 am
I suppose the horse at 2:04 is a climate victim, right ?
Yep, his wisperer buddy told him CO2 had reached 400ppm and he bolted and tried to ‘end it all’ on the fence!
I really really doubt that Harrison Ford actually believes any this nonsense, it’s “go along to get along” when it comes to Hollywood.
Mickey Reno says:
November 1, 2013 at 5:19 am
“Environmentalism from the guy who coined the term ‘unobtainium,’ that magical stuff that makes whole islands float in the sky, and so named because it’s so difficult to ‘obtain.’ ”
He didn’t coin it, he stole it. Everyone including every nerd on slashdot used the term all the time long before Dancing With Smurfs came out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
As for the floating islands, he didn’t invent them, he stole them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Dean_%28artist%29
(cover artist for UK prog rockers Yes in the 70ies)
RobRoy says: “Showtime is furthering the CAGW “agenda”. Who owns Showtime? Who calls the shots? Who are these cabal members?”
1% CEO Matthew C Blank = democrat http://watchdog.net/contrib/10028/matthew_c_blank
1% Pres. David Nevins = democrat http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2013/01/30/12292/eric-garcetti-campaign-announces-endorsements-ente/
Plus, Showtime is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation. Think, 1% Dan Rather, 1% Mary Mapes et al fabricating a fake TX Air Guard memo against George Bush.
DirkH says:
October 31, 2013 at 7:18 pm
Anyone for Koolaid?
A back-of-the-envelope estimate of the total floor area of the homes owned by these contributors is around 5 acres.
This will be a Chris Farley work-out video.
“The time we live in now is significant, unprecedented, meaningful, and anything that happens today is more severe than in the past” — Every sensationalist throughout the history of mankind.
Hey Cameron, I’ve got a better idea: film Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear”.
TBear says:
October 31, 2013 at 7:04 pm
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!
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+1.
Didn’t Cameron’s ex-wife reckon he was a jerk.?!
And Mat Damon – stick with movie making buddy your pretty good at it.
Why movie stars are put up as having credibility on scientific subjects always amazes me.
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.
James Cameron is just another shill prostituting his profession to the bottom line. Of course, they can’t state plainly “man-made global warming,” there are lots of deniers. But who’s going to challenge that climate changes? So, they conclude, if climate changes, that’s global warming. 99% of the people he calls scientists are not or don’t deserve the badge.
Actually, the movie ‘2012’ is a refreshingly ridiculous fantasy in that the sun is totally responsible for the Earth’s demise and humanity had no influence or control whatsoever. While the science in the movie is generally ‘off’, the overriding theme that we humans are ‘small potatoes’ compared to the power of nature, is far more accurate than most of the junk coming out of Hollywood, including this upcoming Showtime series.
I have trouble blaming actors for taking part in this. It takes a fair amount of work and a certain amount of curiosity and scientific background to see through the propaganda of the AGW movement. These are hardly the traits that we find in good actors. Actors have to be somewhat malleable individuals to be good at their craft.
Imagine that the truth of the AGW movement suddenly became common knowledge, along with the complete stories of the puppet-masters and their evil schemes. They would likely make movies about it. These same actors would gladly appear in the movies that revealed the evil of the AGW conspiracy. Isn’t that what actors do?
i am hiding under my bed so I will not see this crap
@ur momisuglyNW Libertarian @ur momisugly 9.50 pm. Thankfully the gov in BC only send a rep from the ministry of environment rather then making our Premier look like a fool, like the Governors from Cal, Or and Washington state did to themselves.
Trailers like this one reveal the oft-repeated lie told by CAGW zealots that climate sceptics are ‘funded to the tune of $millions’… When was the last time we sceptics managed to rope in a list of Hollywood A-listers (multimillionaires, all) to propagandise on our behalf? Oh, that’s right: it was never – because sadly ‘Big Oil’ never did show up with the money our critics promised us.
Cameron’s clueless hypocrisy is staggering. Yet again, this fatuous multimillionaire sees fit to lecture and harangue us mere mortals on the subject of his favourite science fiction fantasy: CAGW. To Cameron and his doting acolytes the ‘doomed planet’ scenario is just too sexy to ignore, so he keeps going back to the well to drink some more.
His assembled cast are the usual misinformed, gullible Hollywood rich-list – all very eager, all the time, to jump aboard the CAGW scare wagon and join Cameron in his fictional rants, accusations and claims. It might even be funny if it wasn’t so damn dangerous.
I know I shouldn’t get so cross about things like this, but I can’t help it. Impressionable young minds will swallow this doctrinal nonsense entirely – and I think that’s a grave disservice to the cause of the truth in science.