Sandi says in Tips and Notes:
You Tube has the Show Time full Premiere episode of “Years of Living Dangerously” documentary.
(about an hour 59:08)
Also see the Years of Living Dangerously website:
http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/
The first 10 minutes was about all I could watch for now, but really, I think all this will do is polarize the public more.
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Let’s hope it has as much ‘ success’ as the 10:10 splatter fest video , which in case we forget had big money and big names behind it too.
It is not a documentary it is a docudrama. Total propaganda from a bunch
Of loons.
Where is the sick bucket?
Anticipating yet another Crockumentary, with ever more escalating Climateering, I reserved the hashtag #CameronLies back in December when I heard about the movie “Years of Living Dangerously”. Suggested usage on Twitter is something like Claim: xxxx Data Says: yyyyy #CameronLies
hashtag #CameronLies: http://www.hashtags.org/definition/cameronlies/#answer-245219
Only tangentially related by alarmist propaganda, I am travelling and took the opportunity to walk the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Some time was saved by my intolerance of its agit-prop exhibitions.
I took my family to Chicago and visited the Museum of Science and Industry. I was amazed at how much less intellectually challenging the presentations had become since I last visited in the early 90’s. Too much hype and entertainment, too little science.
1.35 minutes in to the scarementary, flying fossil fuel consuming peace jets are collecting air samples. What ever happened to balloons? Sorry, it’s too obvious of what’s coming up next.
All those fossil fuels squandered on telling us how bad squandering fossil fuels has been.
… I’m sure the producers bought some “carbon credits” to offset their “footprint”… just like they did with An Inconvenient Truth.
Years of Living Dangerously, with Michael C. Hall????? There’s a certain Dexteresque humor to that…..
Seriously, if the general public had any idea whatsoever on how much gas and diesel it takes to make an epic like this, they’d be outraged at the hypocrisy. I mean, just the craft service generator alone.
Syrian war and islamic terrorism are all traceable back to climate change. Surprise. I think that a couple of dead civilians were specifically traced back to the emissions from a Nissan I used to drive in the early 80’s in fact…
Years of Giving Languorously (Public Finance edition) coming soon. Hoho.
John Abrahams was waxing lyrical about the programme in the Guardian yesterday, calling it a “Global Warming Blockbuster”!!!
In reality the first episode is a strange melange of three themes.
Firstly, an Evangelical Christian climate scientist (Kathrene Hayhoe) attempting to persuade Texan Baptists that the drought in Texas is not the hand of God, but the result of God giving mankind the freedom to make mistakes which have lead to global warming and the drought. (Hmmm.)
Secondly, the corporate corruption and Government incompetance in Indonesia that is leading to deforestation, that will increase in atmospheric CO2. (Job for the UN if ever there was one)
Thirdly, the horrific bloodbath in Syria and the revelation that it was mainly triggered by Climate Change causing a prolonged drought. ( Wow, not sectarianism, ruthless authoritarian Government, appalling mismanagement of water resources, but CLIMATE CHANGE! ) For a better balanced analysis see http://www.filmon.com/tv/api/channel/14?session_key=2a2ba08523247d5151e3f2daa4c8aefb&quality=low
Not really on the subject. But I remember an excellent movie with a similar name (The Year of Living Dangerously) starring a young Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver. I think I would rather watch this movie again than Years of Living Dangerously
Wow. It is like they don’t realize that Texas and Syria are a part of the Northern Hemisphere’s Desert Belt. http://weathersavvy.com/Q-Climate_DesertsFormed.html — John M Reynolds
I’ve been trying to watch it, but the level of stupid is so strong that I can feel my brain shrinking by the second. The target audience would have to have the cranial capacity approaching that of an imbecile to believe any of it. Lots of appeals to emotion, and attempts at tying weather disasters of all kinds to manmade climate change. They seem particularly fond of using droughts, and then claiming how much worse they’ll get. The use of Hollywood actors to promote this garbage is both sickening and outrageous.
I’ve gotten as far as the part about deforestation due to demand for palm oil. Funny how they skip the part that a big reason for the increased demand was for biofuels, which are only in demand due to climate alarmism. Anyway, their “concern” stems solely from the CO2 being released in the process, which is mind-bogglingly stupid. It’s as if they view CO2 as some sort of poisonous gas poisoning our atmosphere.
I watched the whole 60 minutes. Basically its a series of current affairs stories that try and make out that the arch reason behind everything is a changing climate. The links they make are weak and tenuous and undone by some of their own commentary “droughts have always happened”. But the case for the link to these climatic events being human induced is almost completely absent. If that was the first episode I think they are in trouble. Overall very far from convincing re. any link to human induced warming. I don’t think I can be bothered to watch any more … too boring.
Should be the years of living safely,
deaths from extreme weather down 95% since the 1920’s.
Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters is really plugging it:
Among the gushing platitudes are gems like:
“The science is excellent, provided by climate science experts like Heidi Cullen, Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe, James Hansen, and Joe Romm.”
I haven’t watched it but i heard Harrison Ford was at NASA headquarters with tears in his eyes.
Harrison Ford to Director ” What is my motivation”
Director- ” Harrison, the Death star has wiped out the planet Leia, we need some tears”
Brewster says:
April 10, 2014 at 6:05 am
Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters is really plugging it:
Among the gushing platitudes are gems like:
“The science is excellent, provided by climate science experts like Heidi Cullen, Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe, James Hansen, and Joe Romm.”
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Did he REALLY list these people — as experts?? [sigh]
Yet another reason to DUMP Weather Underground as a weather
informationpropaganda site…This is a downbeat movie which attaches blame for just about everything bad you can think of to “global warming” or “climate change” (they use both terms equally) which is caused by man-made carbon dioxide (or “carbon” as they still can’t manage the whole phrase “carbon dioxide”).
Harrison Ford and Don Cheadle go jumping all over the world from Texas to Syria and anywhere they can find “victims” of global warming. There are lots of q&a sessions along the lines of “How long have you lived here?…. How bad is this drought/water supply/lack of some necessity of life or other” and being told “We/I have lived here (X) years and this is the worst drought anyone can remember…etc”) the clear implication being that somehow man-made “carbon” is responsible for all their misfortunes.
A great deal of time is spent interviewing fighters in Syria, as if the Western lifestyle is somehow causing these ancient grievances to flare up and start getting people killed, and in Texas where they pray for rain every day because the drought has destroyed the cattle ranching and meat packing industry in Plainview. There is extensive coverage of the burning of forests and the planting of palm-oil plantations (that’s all our fault too).
The movie keeps repeating that these droughts and by implication every other unwanted weather event is caused by “our choices” as if droughts (for example) had never occurred before the industrialization of the West. This point of view is pounded into all the puzzled people affected by the Texas drought who turn up to hear an explanation from climate scientists as to why the rains won’t come.
What you won’t get from this movie is any sort of proof that man-made carbon dioxide is causing the climate to change, and always for the worse. There is no linkage or method or anything associated with the scientific method to demonstrate that man-made “carbon” is causing any weather event anywhere on Earth. The whole approach of the movie makers is to show (or just talk about) the “cause” and then to show the “effect” of man-made CO2, leaving the viewer to make a sort of pagan/magical link in their own mind between the two events.
By the way, since this is on Showtime, nobody will watch it (at least on cable). Everyone will be tuned to “Game of Thrones” (heh, heh).
And as a counterpoint, I’m waiting for a documentary entitled “The Years of Living Comfortably”.
Growth in wealth and health has been impressive over the last 200yrs and fossil fuels have been a key component in that growth.
I keep expecting them to say “BRAWNDO! Because it has ELECTROLYTES!!!”
Jeez, these greens know nothing. The Syrian conflict was actually generated through a real fear by Assad, and his Alawite clan, that his people would be extinguished in a mass ‘elimination’.
You have to realise that the Alawites are not real Musl!ms (they celebrate Christmas and refuse to go to mosque). Thus they were grievously persecuted and lived in the gutters of Syrian society for more than a thousand years. But then came the French in the early 20th century, who were looking for allies in their governance of Syria. They chose the Alawites, because they were persecuted and half Christian, and put them in control of the army. And from there, to government.
Thus Assad and his Alawites knew that if they ever lost control in Syria, they would all be ‘eliminated’ and exiled. This is not Western politics, where loss of power results in a few years in opposition. This is Eastern politics, where a loss of power results in something far more serious. (Recall the ‘elimination’ of 3.5 million Armenian and Greek Christians from Turkey between 1900 and 1922.)
Thus it was obvious to anyone with knowledge of history that Assad would hang onto power at whatever cost, which is what i wrote in an article back in April 2011. And everyone said ‘rubbish’. But the future and the politics of Syria were obvious – Assad had no other option other than to face down all opposition. It was either that, or have 4 million Alawites and 4 million Christians ‘eliminated’ and exiled from Syria. (You will note that the Christians are allies of Assad, because they know he will protect them.)
In addition, it was not so surprising that someone like Obama would seek to back the Syrian terrorists, and thus potentially seek the ‘elimination’ and exile of 4 million Christians. You have to wonder which side this guy is on.
And the bottom line in this polemic, is that Climate Change has sweet FA to do with anything that is going on in Syria. Unlike climate ‘scientists’, I was able to predict everything that would happen in Syria three years in advance; and that makes Syrian politics more of a science than climate is.
Ralph
Wow, this is more full of holes than Swiss cheese.
If you didn’t know better, some of it is quite persuasive.
Classic ‘climate science’ at its best, full of deliberately misleading stuff that would easily persuade, or confuse, the gullible and uninformed.
Just another attempt to try and keep the Global Warming Industry’s gravy train on the tracks.