Because warm weather isn’t deadly enough
Submitted by Eric Worrall
The Federalist has a hilarious article, which discusses Hollywood’s big problem portraying Global Warming; its hard to make a nice day look deadly.
Citing several recent films as examples, they make a really good point. I mean, can anyone think of a Hollywood global warming film which didn’t end in a snowstorm?
From the article:
A funny thing happens when Hollywood tries to portray the horrific negative consequences of global warming: they tend to end up showing an Earth that has frozen over.
I noticed this the first time in 2004′s The Day After Tomorrow, where global warming supposedly leads to a global atmospheric inversion that buries New York City under a mountain of snow. It was a striking image: a global warming movie whose poster features the hand of the Statue of Liberty poking out of the top of a glacier.
Read it here: http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/01/global-warming-the-movie-starring-freezing/
Snow is scary – it is cold and dangerous weather, which turns friendly and familiar environments into death traps. And that polar vortex thing out of “The Day After Tomorrow” – terrifying, as if the ice was a malevolent presence, reaching out to suck the last breath of life from the heroes.
But hot weather – if it’s really hot, it’s uncomfortable, but it’s hard to imagine dying, because today is perfect weather for a trip to the beach.
The antagonist in “Predator” only hunts on earth during “hot” years. Of course, that is an alien causing mayhem in the plot line, not the hot weather.
No kidding about cold versus warm!!! If it continues to warm, we Oregonians just might be able to enjoy that beach trip and flash some ungoosebumped skin while we’re there.
Ever dipped a toe in the waters off our state? The Golf Stream it is not. Ever stand in the wind along our coastline? Goosebump producing. brrrrrrrrr! Hell, Washington and Oregon might as well merge with Alaska and we’ll just be a big ol’state cuz none of our coastlines are bikini beaches.
When it’s hot people head off to the beach or light a BBQ. It’s happy time.
To make a 2C rise in global mean temps look frightening is difficult. Most of that rise would (according to CAGW) be at higher latitudes. But wait, they have changed their minds AGAIN! Is there anything carbon dioxide can’t do??
Waterworld
By extension, their research must be finding that cold is scarier. It could also be called (low) heat without humidity, but that does not sell tickets.
There are many papers and articles detailing some climate disaster from history or geology. They conclude that their writings contain a warning about the dangers of climate change but almost everyone documents a cold spell. Even the droughts and famines are regularly triggered by global cooling.
I recall the last time we had snow covered Britain a few years back. Everyone loved it especially the kids. Then after a week it got rather annoying, after two weeks it got really boring & very inconvenient using ever more fuel to heat our homes & get around in our cars because we had no snow tyres, chains, or gritted roads especially in the countryside! Even the kids got bored with it.
BTW, Duster, Waterworld is a v good point! However, if what I have read in the past is true, Greenland & Antarctica would just be vast inland seas if the ice melted, due to the weight of all that compacted ice on the bedrock below pushing down on it. Something the warmistas forget.
TinyCO2 says at July 1, 2014 at 8:24 am
But the greenhouse…
Everyone knows that things grow worse in a greenhouse.
Warming is a pleasant walk in the park. No one goes for a walk during a full blown blizzard. Not if they value their lives. So to become really alarming… warming must cause severe cold, wind and snow events. It is not a hollywood original as warmist climatologists claim such obvious contradictions frequently. GK
the horror of Waterworld was that it was so booooooooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg.
oh, and sea level rose by 20,000 feet. (that’s why only the Himalayas were left above water)
This is what I have been telling my friends for years: that the greatest achievement we can leave our great-grandchildren is a warmer earth. My only fear is that despite all the emissions of the last 150 years, the earth will get colder anyway. It is a genuinely scary thought. But it is why I do everything I can to increase my carbon footprint. Photosynthetic lifeforms have sucked most of the CO2 from the atmosphere and raised O2 levels to dangerous combustible levels. Something must be done.
But if the Earth reaches 2 degrees warmer than preindustrial times we will reach a tipping point with super-cereal consequences, sayeth the good book, IPCC Second thru 5th assessment reports.
Jimbo,
So they’re looking at records in the South China Sea from 3 to 5 million years ago, yet a slightly earlier WUWT post says that the Pacific changed character 2.6 million years ago because North and South America finally closed the open connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
It could be also, that despite (or because of?) propagandists yelling Global Warming daily for years, that the public thinks that cold is a more believable scenario.
Andrew
And then there was “The Day Before Yesterday,” AKA “Noah.”
Why does it always seem to snow in Hollywood Global Warming Films?
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It’s like their morphing of the term “global warming” into “climate change”; they’re covered no matter what happens.
But no matter what happens, the solution never changes: cure global warming with global taxing.
It will get colder, it is only a matter of when. That has been the natural state of our world, most of the time. Start practicing crawling out from under 5000 feet of ice in the northern latitudes. I wonder how long it will take for the wolves to make a big comeback even without any assistance from the Forrest Service.
The British film “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (1961) did a great job of portraying a rapidly heating world – although that was because the Earth was knocked off-course and rapidly heading for the Sun rather than because of some namby-pamby, barely detectable natural fluctuation in temperature..
The German movie Hell tries to make hot seem scary, but if I recall it was the sun that caused the change in climate rather than man.
The Colony is another post-apocalyptic movie, in it the planet is frozen because the geoengineering to fix global warming went awry.
Speaking as a member of a tropical species, I’d welcome some global warming, but it doesn’t want to come out and play.
Pointman
Do we know CO2 level before and after ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ ? I don’t see how CO2 could drop from 390 ppm to 280 ppm (or lower but that would kill plant life) in just a few days. So that means that we have a colder world with the same ‘high’ CO2 level. This debunks completely the CO2 as a greenhouse gas story
Pamela Gray says: July 1, 2014 at 8:14 am
“Ever dipped a toe in the waters off our state?”
Yeah…last year. Next time SoCal. Crater lake is beautiful!
Haven’t ever heard of the AGWer’s motto?
Warm globally, cool locally!
Quoting Robertvd: “I don’t see how CO2 could drop from 390 ppm to 280 ppm (or lower but that would kill plant life) ”
Although plants are happiest with higher CO2, a concentration lower than 280 ppm would not kill plant life. During the last ice age atmospheric CO2 bottomed out somewhere around 180 ppm, yet failed to kill off all the plants.