The clear, near zero, lack of interest in this show should be a clear signal to the Obama administration regarding their global warming agenda – nobody is buying it.
We wrote about this before, how reruns of the animated show Bob’s Burgers beat this multi-million dollar budget climate disaster epic.
It isn’t getting any better, like global warming for the last 17 years, the ratings of ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ is flat.
ShowBuzz writes about the Sunday, April 27th TV ratings:
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY remained at a tiny 0.04 with 1 more episode to air.
Source: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/the-sked-sunday-ratings-29.html
And the final episode, which aired Sunday May 4th:
On Showtime, NURSE JACKIE and CALIFORNICATION were again at 0.2, but that’s somewhat misleading, since JACKIE was at 0.24 and CALIFORNICATION at 0.16. Both towered over the last episode of YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, which wound up its run at a steady 0.04.
Source: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/the-sked-sunday-ratings-30.html
After the Obama Administration released their National Climate Assessment report this week, ‘Years of Living Dangerously’, which like the report was designed to scare the bejeezus out of people and spur action, it seems fitting that this TV show tanked. Nobody except the climate faithful are listening or watching. The show is now off the air on Sundays and will switch to Mondays. The last five episodes are scheduled to air on Monday nights, May 12, 19 and 26, and June 2 and 9 at 8:00pm ET/PT. on Showtime.
Now with all the hype, gloom and doom from the National Climate Assessment report this week, it will be interesting to see if it gains any viewership.
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You should be careful about showing these type of programs. Bet you any money most of the viewers are just like me. We see it here and look at it out of morbidity…
Some lies are obvious – especially from Washinkton.
There is no amount of morbidity cravings that could make me watch more than 3 minutes. That’s how long it took me to realize it was 100% pure propaganda and change the channel.
Epic fail. Is the 0.04 the ratings ot the change in temperature? What, no hocky stick in the ratings for The End episode? The biblical apocalypse did not include beating a dead horse.
OK, now this is not fair….
…they were up against reruns of the Golden Girls
Maybe it will become a cult classic and run at midnight movies around the nation.
Should be called “The Year of Rating Dangerously” .
Note that this show did not happen without some organizational assistance. Frankly, the amorphous nature of the skeptical (I prefer climate realist) community cannot compete with message or visibility. We have no organization of effort to rebut in such a manner. Just sayin,,,,,,,
I like Bob’s Burgers… so I do not question the ratings results.
On a more important note – any idea when the new series of Bobs Burgers starts?
They’d have more success pushing climate change in Game of Thrones (winter is coming ….)
I guess the Australian ABC will pick it up and show it to the Chardonnay drinking lefties.
I have Showtime, and I have intentionally NOT watched it, even with the temptation.
To be sure, I don’t want to add to potential ratings, but the main reason is I just cannot stand the hypocrisy.
Tanya Aardman says:
May 8, 2014 at 6:19 pm
They’d have more success pushing climate change in Game of Thrones (winter is coming ….)
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Holy smokes! Keep burning, we’ve got to keep the Others at bay! This is the battle for the dawn we’re talking about here!
You guys should be ashamed, someone spent a lot of time and money to make this crap, and you refuse to even watch. What’s wrong with you all, have you no respect for carbon pollution..hmmm?
I only watched it to observe how they would misrepresent the truth and avoid the contradictory evidence. I had to record it because I kept falling asleep. From a skeptical point of view, the best episode ironically revealed how a preacher, Pastor Rick Joyner exhibited better scientific decorum than any of the alarmists the documentary highlighted to push global warming.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/06/years-of-living-dangerously-pastor-rick-joyner-models-feynmans-ideal-scientist/
The worst episode was Arnold trying to connect forest fires to rising CO2 despite the abundance of contrary evidence.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/25/years-of-living-dangerously-shouts-climate-fire-but-data-says-their-shouting-is-simply-noise/
Years of Living Dangerously. Sounds exactly like the times when Liberals are in office!
It’s worse than we thought.
No really, that show is worse than anyone could possibly have thought.
another blow to the CAGW PR campaign this week. AP attempts to frame ithis as strictly left/right & manages to insert the word “evolution” twice :
8 May: St Louis Post-Dispatch: Bob Moen: Wyoming is 1st state to reject science standards
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming, the nation’s top coal-producing state, is the first to reject new K-12 science standards proposed by national education groups mainly because of global warming components…
“The science standards are acknowledged to be the best to prepare our kids for the future, and they are evidence based, peer reviewed, etc. Why would we want anything less for Wyoming?” Marguerite Herman, a proponent of the standards, said.
Twelve states have adopted the standards since they were released in April 2013 with the goal of improving science education, and Wyoming is the first to reject them, Chad Colby, spokesman for Achieve, one of the organizations that helped write the standards…
Burning coal to generate electricity produces large amounts of CO2, which is considered a heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. Most scientists recognize that man-made CO2 emissions contribute to global warming. However, the degree to which it can be blamed for global warming is in dispute among some scientists.
Gov. Matt Mead has called federal efforts to curtail greenhouse emissions a “war on coal” and has said that he’s skeptical about man-made climate change…
Friedrich (John Friedrich, a member of the national organization Climate Parents, which supports the standards) and Colby noted that oil and gas industry giants Exxon Mobile and Chevron support the standards…
http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/wyoming-is-st-state-to-reject-science-standards/article_c2a215ef-0f47-5406-a918-301cf10c0a90.html
Nov 2012: Institute for Energy Research: Countries Worldwide Propose to Build 1,200 New Coal Plants
According to the World Resources Institute, almost 1,200 coal-fired power plants are in the planning stages (a capacity of 1.4 million megawatts) and over three-quarters of them are to be built in China and India, where over 500,000 megawatts each are currently planned for construction…
In the United Kingdom, for example, coal consumption increased by nearly a quarter between the second quarter of 2011 and the second quarter of 2012. Germany is encouraging the construction of 10 gigawatts of coal-fired generation to replace its nuclear plants and provide back-up power for its wind and solar units, which require backup when the wind isn’t blowing or when the sun does not shine.
Europe overall burned more coal in the past year than any time since it pledged cuts to greenhouse gas emissions…
The Energy Information Administration estimates that 175 coal-fired units are scheduled to be shut down between 2012 and 2016—a total of 27 gigawatts of electrical capacity that powers 27 million homes…
The closing of these coal-fired power plants threatens thousands of the 555,270 direct and indirect coal-related jobs that pay $36 billion in wages. Coal employees are already entering the ranks of the unemployed in the United States…
Conclusion
According to Milton Catelin, chief executive of the World Coal Association, global coal use is likely to continue to increase, and could help to lift people out of poverty. China and India are planning to use coal to do just that. According to the International Energy Agency, coal consumption has increased by 8.4 percent in the developing countries. Other countries see coal as an economic choice with both Germany and the United Kingdom increasing its use…
***Other countries are using coal to lift their citizens out of poverty, while the United States is impoverishing its people by criminalizing the use of coal.
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/11/29/countries-worldwide-propose-to-build-1200-new-coal-plants/
message to politicians in all States: please justify***:
Propaganda has a short shelf life.
as Twain remarked”A lie will be halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on”.
So the longer a campaign of lies is waged the less the return on investment.
The Copenhagen failure was the death stroke, these last 5 years are just the corpse still twitching and the crooked relatives trying to prolong the welfare checks.
The smart money has cashed in and sold out the faithful.
Nothing but fools and bandits left.
To take the fall for the most egregious rape of public treasure ever committed so far in human history.
Small wonder governments all over want gun control.
Too bad they are too thick to realize everything is a weapon in the hands of a robbed and enraged populace.
We prefer to use the truth and civic methods to depose fools and bandits, but when civilization lies in the balance, civility will be an early causality.
Pointing out that no one is buying the climate obsessed kookiness that the President is pushing misses the point.
The President and his advisers do not care that no one buys what they are selling.
He only cares that he can impose his kooky faux science garbage on us.
He does not care if Congress goes along.
He only wants to impose his will on us.
He does not care that he is hurting Americans.
He only wants to impose his will on us.
He does not really care if it works out as promised.
He only cares about getting his way.
The president has demonstrated this on nearly every issue:
His way or no way.
That is all he cares about.
Merciful release?
Probably too “dangerous” for them to mention April’s record Antarctic sea ice levels….
after 3 decades at NYT, Frank Rich spews his CAGW venom at NY Mag, wishing catastrophe on Republican States:
8 May: New York Magazine: Frank Rich: Frank Rich on the National Circus: Why the GOP Still Denies Climate Change
RICH: Of all the crazy things in our politics, few are more self-immolating than the persistence of climate change as a partisan issue. A founding father of modern environmental activism was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, but his legacy is no more honored in today’s GOP than Lincoln’s. You’d think that the speed and perils of global warming would be settled fact, given all the catastrophic signs that Americans can see with their own eyes. But on the right, climate-change denial has become a proxy for a whole smorgasbord of powerful ideological imperatives: opposition to governmental regulation; resistance to taxation (especially of such Republican sugar daddies as the coal, oil, and gas industries); class resentment of intellectual elites in academia and Prius-driving Hollywood; and, in some quarters, rejection of any kind of science that dares undermine the supremacy of God as the primary actor in all Earthly activity…
This week there has been a lot of talk about how the establishment candidate in the GOP senatorial primary in North Carolina beat back more radical tea party opponents — but all four candidates in that race, including the more “moderate” victor, were climate-change deniers…
Even the high end of conservative thought leaders are in denial. George Will thinks global warming is merely “weather” and that any alarms have been manufactured by conformist tenure-track professors and writers in The New Yorker. His own personal scientific research, based on observations from the home he owns on an island in South Carolina, tells him that hurricane activity is down post-Katrina, so what’s the problem? Charles Krauthammer has declared that “any scientific theory that explains everything explains nothing” — just the kind of argument that was made to resist the theories of Galileo, Newton, and Darwin. So what will change their thinking? A realization that the younger voters the GOP needs for survival feel as strongly about climate change as they do about gay marriage. Or perhaps further environmental catastrophe that hits red states across the southern half of the country…
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/frank-rich-why-the-gop-denies-climate-change.html
Frank & the rest of the CAGW-pushing MSM – including the “Living Dangerously” mob – still believe they can ignore non-Republican sceptics like myself & others i know. just pretend we don’t exist, hey? that meme is sooooooooooooo tired & counter-productive, Frank.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww did Jimmy Cameron hit a wall and film something that no one wants to watch? Poor baby….I’m sure it has him puzzled and dismayed, along with all of the “big name actors” they brought in to attract viewership. BWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ahem.
Save the recordings. The entire set could be ‘disappeared’ to protect the guilty.