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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wws: “I keep expecting them to say “BRAWNDO! Because it has ELECTROLYTES!!!””
LOL! That’s what the farmers in Texas needs. Brawndo has what plants crave. 😛
This movie would actually be great fodder for a parody. Maybe have Bagdad Bob standing on a glacier with polar bears walking past in the background as he declares, “there are no polar bears in Alaska! Never!” Get Harrison Ford to board a time machine and go back in time 35 years or so to a weepy Sally Struthers wailing about famine in Africa. That must have been caused by CO2 as well. 🙂
a comment made at the Guardian, they are letting a few things through.
“About 9.5 minutes in, the NASA scientist uses the words “the models predict”. You may as well switch off at that point”
AJ says:
April 10, 2014 at 6:23 am
And as a counterpoint, I’m waiting for a documentary entitled “The Years of Living Comfortably”.
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Getting there!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/17/aid-trade-reduce-acute-poverty
“World poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals
UN development report uses nutrition and education as yardsticks as well as income..
…Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University’s poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates”
Ah well, all those poor folk in Texas will be relieved if the El Nino that may currently be brewing brings them above average rainfall, as El Ninos apparently tend to do.
In that sense, it’s a pity the series wasn’t delayed for some problem or other by up to about a year. The irony of its being aired while persistent rains rolled across the southern US would have been delicious.
This will appeal to the Climatists and their earnest Useful Idiots, as it just reiterates their ‘conventional wisdom’. All the ills of the world are caused by mankind’s evil ‘greenhouse gases’.
Time for a counter-movie. Here’s the theme:
CO2 IS GOOD FOR PLANTS, GOOD FOR THE EARTH, AND GOOD FOR YOU!
ralfellis (April 10, 2014 at 6:35 am): Interesting take on the Syrian mess and the Alawites. Link to your article?
/Mr Lynn
I just had breakfast. Am not about to watch this bile.
ralfellis: this is a bit off topic for this blog, but given your expertise, I’m wondering if you read the review of Seymour M. Hersh’s new book in the London Review of Books:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
Now I take no position on the veracity of Mr. Hersh’s claims, although it has always been widely believed that he has confidential sources both in the White House and the CIA, who wish to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. It’s quite a long piece, but to sum up, he makes the case that Erdogan in Turkey, with heavy covert backing from the US, has been the prime actor in the effort to overthrow Assad, to the point that Hersh suggests that the chemical weapons attack was a Turkish false-flag operation; and also, that the Russians are aware of this, which is one of the reasons they are so militant towards the west now.
As I said, I can’t know if this is true or false, but I do know that both the Turkish and American governments were bursting with outrage at his suggestions today. As the saying goes, he’s certainly made the right enemies.
p.s. He has an interesting sideline, almost a footnote to his piece, explaining Benghazi: he writes that Ambassador Stevens primary job was to collect as many of the weapons as could be had which were available after the fall of Qaddafi, in order to ship them to the Syrian insurgency. After several shipments had already been made, a local Libyan militia became upset about some part of this deal and attacked the compound, leading to the Ambassador’s death. This version of the story does provide a rationale for the extreme cover-up that’s been imposed on this story by all levels of the American Govm’t, and the unwillingness of anyone to talk about it. The answer, in this version, is *not* simple incompetence, but rather a fear that the biggest covert international gun running operation since Iran-Contra would be uncovered, to the embarrassment and discredit of everyone currently in power.
That may just have the Ring of Truth to it.
and of course, the response to all these very serious life and death real world issues is the standard magicians trick of misdirection – “Hey Look, over there! I see the climate changing!!!!”
A youtube video — featuring Susan Rice?
Boy, there better not be any spontaneous protests.
The Day After Obtuse
“After the war, some of the leading cast members were brought to trial as part of the denazification process. They generally defended their participation in the film on the grounds that they had only done so under duress. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jud_S%C3%BC%C3%9F_%281940_film%29
I used to like Harrison Ford, but for some reason I resent having my taxpayer money shelled out to give him a thrill ride on a military jet.
P.S. Why does NASA need a military jet to collect to collect air samples in the first place? Ah, but ‘war is the health of the state’ so a military jet for scientific … er, government, purposes seems appropriate.
Nuccitelli’s column mate sold it like they were Hollywood press agents:
John Abraham: This new Showtime climate change documentary is a nonfiction thriller you won’t want to miss The only thing missing was a series of exclamation points (!!!!!)
I commented that they were flaking for it like a Hollywood press agents and called it an “indoctrimentary.” I was censored of course. What’s with all these censors among the warmists? What are they afraid of?
You have to read the column to believe it. Shameless.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/09/years-of-living-dangerously-global-warming-blockbuster
Sadly, much like the “Mermaids” fakeumentary, many people will buy into this silly video.
The first thing that should be considered is why did the filmmakers and stars use so much fossil fuel to complain about fossil fuels?
Based on a early press release, back in December, I wrote an open letter to the producers of the “Years of Living Dangerously”:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/open-letter-to-the-executive-producers-of-years-of-living-dangerously/
“Sadly, much like the “Mermaids” fakeumentary” – sigh. I almost felt bad having to explain to my wife that it wasn’t really true, she enjoyed it so much.
wws says:
April 10, 2014 at 7:32 am
” to the point that Hersh suggests that the chemical weapons attack was a Turkish false-flag operation”
In May 2013, “rebels” were caught in Istanbul with 2 kg of Sarin. One Turkish report from that time:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aksam.com.tr%2Fguncel%2Fadanada-el-nusra-operasyonuda-buyuk-sok%2Fhaber-211025&edit-text=
More from that time exist.
Is there a scene where describing how hot the atmosphere is they show it being dialed up to volume 11?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/10/alarmist-movie-preview-the-years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-1609820
Bob: thank you for that. I missed it the first time around. I highly recommend it to all other readers.
The presentation by Harrison Ford in this piece of artistic bowel movement has inspired me to conduct a test. Now, we’ve all heard that ‘97% of all climate scientists agree, global warming is a threat, and humans are responsible.’ I don’t wish to quibble with that statement, but instead, I’d like to propose a 2 part quiz which replaces ‘climate scientists’ with an empty space, and ‘humans’ with an empty space, and a selection of answers; a, b, or c; to replace each of those 2 empty spaces. Be assured, a 100% grade awaits everyone who takes this test. So, here goes:
97% of all ________ __________ agree, global warming is a threat…
Select one of the following answers to fill in the blanks:
a) mansion owners
b) mansion owners
c) mansion owners
…and ______ are responsible.
Select one of the following answers to fill in the blank:
a) little people
b) little people
c) little people
Congratulations! You scored 100%!
WWS says: April 10, 2014 at 7:32 am
… He makes the case that Erdogan in Turkey, with heavy covert backing from the US, has been the prime actor in the effort to overthrow Assad, to the point that Hersh suggests that the chemical weapons attack was a Turkish false-flag operation; and also, that the Russians are aware of this, which is one of the reasons they are so militant towards the west now.
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Which is perfectly true. Although how much American backing Erdogan is getting from Barak Hussain Obama is a moot point, because most Turks hate America with a passion. Every single problem in Turkey is caused by America or Israel – apparently 😉
So the reasons for the Syrian crisis are religio-sectarian, and not due to climate. And this is why this topic is very pertinent to this thread. If we are to simplistically palm off the Syrian crisis onto ‘climate’, as the Greens want to do, then we will fail to understand the politics that really underlie this bitter civil and increasingly international conflict. And if we fail to understand the politics of Syria, and if Barak Hussain Obama had therefore backed the Sunni terrorists, this would have resulted in:
Four million Alawite Shias being eliminated and exiled from Syria.
Four million Armenian and Syriac Christians being eliminated and exiled from Syria.
The Syrian terrorists acquiring 2,000 tonnes of nerve gas.
The New York metro being unusable for the next 50 years.
Seriously. These terrorists hate America with a passion, and will bite the hand that feeds them with great pleasure. Aid from America and Europe is viewed by these groups as being Jizya – the institutional tax on non-Mus!ims.
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Regards, Turkey – Erdogan is a Sunni Musl!m, and there has been a long history of Turkey ‘eliminating’ minority groups who are not Sunni. The 3.5 million Christians in the early 1900s being one such group. Do remember that Turkey was a Christian nation until 1453, and many cities were still majority Christian until the early 1900s. Read up on the destruction and burning of Greek Smyrna.
And do remember than many of the 4 million Christians in Syria, are refugees from Turkey, who fled the Armenian genocide in the early 20th century. Not surprisingly, they do not exactly like Turkey….
Another of the sects that has been persecuted for generations in Turkey is the Alevi, and yet the Alevi are related to the Alawi in Syria – Bashar Assad’s clan. Again, the Alevi are the more liberal, and artistic side of Is!am, and so they are viewed as being kuffer heretics. So when 36 poets and musicians gathered in Sivas to honour a famous Alevi poet, they were all burned to death by a rabid mob – in 1993.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMgmr6UuLe4&feature=fvwrel (f.f. to 2:30 mins)
Thus Turkey has long been anti-Assad, and tried to destabilize the Assad regime, and vice versa. Syria hated Turkey for stealing Hatay province, and for stealing their water; and Turkey hated Syria for backing the PKK. This is why Assad built up such a large chemical weapons store, to counter the threat from Turkey. (It is often claimed that this was a defence against Israel’s nuclear weapons, but the threat from Turkey was probably uppermost).
But Turkey has to tread carefully, for much of eastern Turkey does not want to be Turkish. Most of ‘Kurdistan’ wants to cede from Turkey, and a large proportion of the population in the southeast (Hatay, Mardin, Sirnak and Hakkari etc:) say they are Arab, not Turkish (and they speak Kurdish or Arabic too). The borderlands with Syria have long been a multicultural powder-keg, as most multicultural regions tend to be, and it would not take much to inflame the region. And this is Assad’s goal, of course. If he can agitate alongside the Kurds and Arabs, and cause strife in Turkey’s east, it takes the pressure away from Erdogan’s Imperial goals. (Erdogan wants to resurrect the Ottoman Empire, which ruled all of Syria in the 19th century….)
Interesting times, and all that.
Ralph
Tom J says:
April 10, 2014 at 7:49 am
I used to like Harrison Ford, but for some reason I resent having my taxpayer money shelled out to give him a thrill ride on a military jet.
P.S. Why does NASA need a military jet to collect to collect air samples in the first place?
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You sort of answered your own question. NASA has a jet because it is too lame to take a celebrity up in their DC-8 to collect air samples. It is much more thrilling and photogenic to zoom around in a fighter jet.
I notice that Ford begins the film with the bald-faced assertion that greenhouse gases are the PRIMARY drivers of climate change. The script never looks back to reality from that point on.
Mr Lynn says: April 10, 2014 at 7:28 am
ralfellis (April 10, 2014 at 6:35 am): Interesting take on the Syrian mess and the Alawites. Link to your article?
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The newspapers were small and not web-based, but this is a copy of the article. This article went out on 19 Apl 2012, based upon emails to the UK parliament sent on 27 Apl 2011:
http://oi62.tinypic.com/30vkhsh.jpg
A similar barrage of emails went to the UK parliament in August 2013 (organised to come from a few hundred concerned activists). Some 15 MPs replied with their thanks, and Cameron lost the vote by 13 votes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-23892783
Sorry, Cameron, but you did ask for it….
R
The low altitude, high speed, 80-degree-bank shots are cool! Watched the opening sequence 3 times!
Could be improved with some inverted maneuvers though. Maybe Mr. Ford’s stomach wasn’t up to it?