Movie sequels almost never do as well as the original, and given the sort of public opinion we are seeing about global warming/climate change/climate disruption, this idea for a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth will likely go over like a lead balloon.
(h/t to WUWT Jason) They write:
Al Gore might need to dust off his projector. The creative forces behind the Oscar-winning environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth are hatching plans for a sequel to the film that raised global awareness of climate change. “We have had conversations,” producer Lawrence Bender tells THR. “We’ve met; we’ve discussed. If we are going to make a movie, we want it to have an impact.”
Heh, like Gore’s Reality Drop…
(Lower number is better, ex: Google is traffic rank #1)
…I look forward to watching his sequel….bomb.
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A sequel?
“Return of Global Warming”
“Son of Inconvenient Truth”
“It Came From Beneath the Sea”
We really are doomed.
but hes not a climate scientist so can be ignored………
hollywoodisation works.
“A study has found that pupils retain the dodgy history in films shown in class as the truth, even if they have been taught the real version of events.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204884/Hollywood-hokum-Fake-history-films-wipes-facts-learnt-class.html#ixzz2xoOxD7Kz
@ur momisugly u.k. (US), boy did you ever spoil my dinner! That is hard on key boards.
Bloomberg tv is now running this 14.33 minute interview featuring, Penn State professor Michael Mann, director of the Earth Institute Jeffrey Sachs and Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/global-warming-effects-charlie-rose-04-01-8yMvdUaoT6Kt9Zd4WWiz7Q.html
I cannot believe these guys are serious, still hanging on to the disappearing arctic ice the 15% drop in crops, the ” extraordinary rain event” etc etc . The scaremongering is really unbelievable. Once this gets settled there should be another Nuremberg type reckoning for these people. It is really saddening the human race has dipped this low! But thanks for the link (I think).
In all seriousness, in order to better sell their product alarmism, they need to play even more on people’s ignorance and emotion, via stunning graphic imagery. Lots of “smokestacks” billowing what appears to be smoke, but which is actually condensed steam, or condensate, and lots of images of smog conditions, such as the recent one in Paris. This helps cement the idea of the “carbon pollution” we are “killing our planet” with. Then, show lots of images of drought conditions – caked and cracked mud is always good, because it shows what was once wet and is now dry. Then, for the piece de resistance, show lots of violent storms and tornadoes, both during and after. Even the recent mudslide in Washinton would be good. Forest fires are also good to show, being very dramatic, and playing on people’s fear of those. Show people sweltering in heat wave conditions, with shots of bank thermometers showing 100+ degree temperatures. Then, show people living in misery, especially the poor, and especially the very young. Hunger, malnutrition, and disease really tug at the heartstrings. Throw in a polar bear or two, appearing to be “stranded” on an iceberg, and then lots of calving glaciers, which are always dramatic. Show whales and dolphins, because people like those, and the implication would be that they are being threatened, somehow, by our use of fossil fuels. Show an evil drilling rig and oil pipeline being built, and mining operations. Even deforested areas are good subjects, even if there isn’t an obvious connection to our fossil fuels, since it is being done by man. The connection has now been made, purely through visual imagery and the use of emotion, between man’s use of fossil fuels and everything bad that happens. Once they have thoroughly depressed everyone about how evil we humans, especially in the west are, they need to show how “scientists” and activists are working feverishly and heroically to save the planet. Show windfarms and solar installations and show tree planting (because people who like fossil fuels hate trees). Show the valiant IPCC hard at work, “solving” the planetary crisis. This is the big hallelujah moment, so really play this up, with lots of dramatic, uplifting music. Show kids recycling, and picking up litter. I’m sure there’s lots more, but you get the idea.
I’m just trying to help them.
Looks like someone had a hidden camera in the marketing meeting for Al’s new movie:
@Jason Calley – that video must be really going viral. I got it yesterday with the caption of someone secretly taping our planning meetings. 😉
Heartland, Koch and big oil should be queuing up to fund this. The money would be peanuts. The embarrassment would be priceless.
The original already had an impact, it made the world aware Al Gore is an idiot.
$50 M worldwide? According to BoxOfficeMojo, that wouldn’t even make their list of top 500 box office (which starts at over $215 M). Anythingless than $50 M will likely not cover the electric bill for his Tennessee mansion.
This time the should call it what the first one should have been called ” A Convenient Lie”
Just more evidence of desperation setting in for the cult. They know if they can’t get their agenda pushed through the legal system in the next few years they never will.
Speaking of Mann’s colleague from Princeton (they also gave us Bernanke and Woodrow Wilson)
Oppenheimer, he made the WUWT list of 107 most idiotic past predictions :
88. Michael Oppenheimer, 1990, The Environmental Defense Fund: “By 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…”(By 1996) The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers…The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.”
Princeton apparently is unaware of the brainless spoutings of their professor.
Mann’s most famous recent faux pas was he statement that “warming hasn’t stopped. It’s only slowed down.” [As in stopped]
Add Lewandowsky and we have the Collegiate Three Stooges, right here, folks!!!
The sequel should make it for sure, but more in documentary style with Leonard Nimoy as narrator:
If they incorporate a “Sharknado”-like theme, they could have a smash it on their hands. Maybe combine that with a secret anti-climate cabal run by alien overlords and a parasitic giant worm the aliens use for mind-control of the Koch brothers.
Napoleon said to not interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Shhhh…… be vewy vewy quiet….
When they made the first movie, no one was fact checking them very closely. As with the “science” behind it, people were naive and willing to take their word for it. Besides it was “science” wasn’t it?
The difference this time is that (1) alarmists are exceedingly desperate and bound to come out with the craziest shit yet, (2) we, the sceptics are primed and ready to fact check them to the Nth degree. and (3) No one, or at least very few people, actually believes a word they say now. Our job is already 80% done.
I say, let them make a sequel. Pull out the popcorn. They might as well put a big bullseye on the cover. This time it will not take a year or two to demolish it like the last time. It likely will be publicly demolished before it even is released. And if not, it will be demolished very quickly. Another exceedingly public demolition will be another high profile nail in the coffin for AGW. Bring it on.
Well…. to go along with the new and updated movie which promises to show that EVERYTHING (according to environmentalist Laurie David) they claimed in the original movie has come to pass, there appears to be a real move in the UK to outlaw skeptics from talking about climate. No need to specially mention what type of tactics these developments are following.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4051905.ece
A great sequel. Al Gore applying all his B.S. to himself leading by example. In fact I’d like to see a documentary depicting how the loudest alarmist mouths are living their personal lives with respect to their alarmism. Called an inconvenient but obvious and predictable hypocrisy.
Well, Golden Raspberry for a Worst Picture of the Century is yet to be awarded.
The late Stephen Snieder was in that film, he advised Al with Hansen. So, batten down the hatches, it would also make it a bit difficult for planes too. Getting iced up causes accidents. I think we will all move to the Southern Hemisphere.
Didn’t they lose enough money the first time around?
Aren’t they concerned about the additional methane a sequel would produce?
Gunga Din, Oh, Ross Gaunaut said farm kangaroos instead of beef and cattle as kangaroos don’t burb or fart methane. We do too by the way and many Africans have goats, sheep and cattle. I laughed, if they were that easy to farm then the Aborigines would have done it. Their gestational cycles and they are marsupials of course, would not take well to captivity. Besides the fact they can attack you protecting their babies, and a mother will take out her baby from her pouch if she is hunted and hide it, some are too small to survive on their own. They will also withhold fertilized embryoes should the climate not be considered to favor her bringing an embryo into her pouch. Gud one Ross, but you got the raspberry when you visited New England and went to one sustainable farm and the farmer said ‘I am not doing this to protect the environment and climate I am doing it to get more healthy stock and production.”
Did not Partcharie suggest that becoming vegan or vegetarian would help stop climate change. He’s a Hindu, I suspect. Mind you I don’t eat meat as much as I used too, and favor free range eggs, chickens and pork. When I can get them is now up to $31 a kilo for some cuts of lamb and beef. But mainly the price! Fish now is almost as expensive as meat, and the dieticians tell us to eat lots of fish. Even kangaroo is now for sale, I don’t like it, a bit like venison (game) you need to add lots of herbs and garlic etc., but my dogs like it.
I am preparing paella tonight, anyone like some?
No sequel…just the reply film: An Inconsistent Truth by Phil Valentine. http://youtu.be/z0mxL-BekLE
Atlas Educational says:
April 6, 2014 at 9:14 pm
No sequel…just the reply film: An Inconsistent Truth by Phil Valentine. http://youtu.be/z0mxL-BekLE
You can see how much traction that received. If someone with enough credibility to attract a wide audience were to do a REAL investigative report on CAGW there would be a chance of revealing the truth of the “science”. And as some have already mentioned they would probably gain instant fame if successful.