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 other 1961 movie that had the earth heating up was Irwin Allen’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which had the Van Allen Belts catching fire and needing to be nuked to snuff out the fire. Cheers –
Frankly I’ve been looking forward to some global warming. I never did understand what all the whinging and gnashing of teeth was all about over things getting more comfortable in some places that aren’t. (yes I understand the implications of temperature upon agriculture but even so most of that will be mostly in places that are already marginal)
When you get to a certain age, winter becomes a trial in the northern climes else Florida would still be a big swamp.
2 days before the day after tońorrow
http://www.watchcartoononline.com/south-park-season-9-episode-8-two-days-before-the-day-after-tomorrow
The Movie ” Knowing” with Nicolas Cage. The movie ends with everyone dying in a huge global warming event. Although it isn’t exactly caused by man. Instead it’s a super flare from the sun.
In reality that is exactly how life will be destroyed on Earth. The Earth will be roasted by an ever brightening Sun, in another billion years or so.
So the Global Warming alarmists are in fact correct, their timing is just a little off.
Also from 1961 comes the Twilight Zone episode: The Midnight Sun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Sun
“And now we see it again in Snowpiercer, a much-praised new film that tries to be a parable for both favorite leftist causes of the day: economic inequality and global warming.”
I saw the movie and this is a stretch. If it really “tries” to be a parable of global warming it fails. Other than providing part of the explanation for the cold it is barely discussed as least as far as I remember.
Then there is the recent movie “The Colony”. In this movie we build weather machines to temper global warming but they eventually break down and a new ice age starts – this doesn’t even make any sense!
“Tom in Denver says:
July 1, 2014 at 10:44 am
In reality that is exactly how life will be destroyed on Earth. The Earth will be roasted by an ever brightening Sun, in another billion years or so.”
The actual mechanism of this is the increased luminosity increases weathering which traps CO2 in the ground until photosynthesis is no longer possible. So in the end we die from a lack of CO2.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2482
Actually, Hollywood would love to go to a warm spot to make a film depicting the horrors global warming. Trouble is that every time they’ve tried they end up interrupting an IPCC meeting.
Or wrecking the view from Al Gore’s mansion.
Soylent Green
Quoting Jimmy : “During the last ice age atmospheric CO2 bottomed out somewhere around 180 ppm, yet failed to kill off all the plants. ”
Are we sure CO2 was that low all over the Earth. In the tropics seawater would still get warm enough to outgas CO2. We know the tropical forest survived the 90K year cold period.
Isn’t Avatar about a warm planet where they all live in harmony ?
slp says:
July 1, 2014 at 9:36 am
“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.”
Just watched the trailer. They do it by making everything very bright and overexposed. People protect themselves by wearing hoodies. Sunglasses seem to be scarse. Clouds are non-existent – wait a moment, atmosphere gets drier when sun gets more intense? Nevermind.
If you go to watch it, take shades with you. Or alternatively look at a blank piece of paper.
If you’re a prepper, stack shades; they’ll be good for barter.
Book of Eli. Didn’t see any snow in that one.
“Jim G says:
July 1, 2014 at 9:12 am
It will get colder, it is only a matter of when. That has been the natural state of our world, most of the time. ”
It would appear that would be the case for the last few millions of years, yet the scientific record, if it is one, has a hot and tropical world existing for several hundred million years – assuming the dinosaur record is reasonably accurate. So what caused the world to go from a tropical world, suitable for growing 100+ foot long lizards into a “mostly cold world” of today?
And didn’t I read where CO2 was over 2000 ppm in the past? Is that what caused the “tipping point” into a colder world – too much CO2? Something happened, that’s for sure, but what was it? Maybe the global warming ploy to reduce CO2 is working against them since it appears that as CO2 climbed, the “warming” slowed and ceased, and appears to be poised to go down. Maybe there is a CO2 tipping point for climate, but which way does it tip?
Of course there’s 2012, which has some really spectacular special effects – But that’s a hypothetical change in solar output with magically altered subatomic particles that interact with the Earth’s interior, causing heating and then the Yellowstone Caldera to blow as a precursor to “crustal displacement” across the entire world along with a pole shift too…. no snow involved – well, I take that back, they did crash land on a glacier, but that had been there and was about to be wiped out of existence by massive tidal waves.
With a hefty dose of “suspension of disbelief” it’s actually a fun movie to watch.
Well, the problem is more about the visibility of a searing hot day. I could take a picture of a 100F+ day and a pleasant 70F summer day, and they would look the same. Hot, humid conditions are not pleasant – otherwise people wouldn’t use AC.
Jimmyy says: July 1, 2014 at 11:10 am “Soylent Green”
Beat me. It amazes me that this 1973 movie is set in the CAGW narrative. The reason “soylent green is people” is that global warming has severely hampered agricultural activity. The political elite (as in real life) get what little is available while the unwashed proles get the green. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is where Hansen’s “research” originated.
The 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun” had a similar therme, but with a Rod Serling twist at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0G-Ke0FG5s
Not so fast!
re: post by: Janice says: July 1, 2014 at 11:37 am
But no global warming either – The Book of Eli had nothing to do with climate – it was supposedly a nuclear apocalypse. There’ve been plenty of those over the years. The Road. A Boy and His Dog. On the Beach. The Day After. The Postman, etc., etc.
“…we will reach a tipping point with super-cereal consequences,…”
My Cheerio will be as big as a doughnut?
Because nothing frightens Warmists more than the prospect of global cooling, which would mean the death of their cherished belief system.
“Isn’t Avatar about a warm planet where they all live in harmony ?”
Ah, but they’re super-superior to humans and live in harmony because they don’t have any evil CO2-spewing SUVs.
Besides which, anyone who’s worked on a movie could tell you it’s one of the most wasteful industries on Earth, and you should laugh any time the Hollywoodistas whine about ‘The Environmment’. The only good thing is that we used to be able to reduce the budget of our indie movies by going through studio dumpsters to collect the perfectly usable–if not unused–stuff the big budgeters dumped at the end of a shoot.
If it was hot, everybody could wear really skimpy, revealing costumes. While I may seem obsessed with this theme, nothing sells a bad movie better than gratuitous sex and nudity.
Otherwise, they have to make better global warming films.
Here’s an idea for an HBO documentary: How global warming will destroy our sex lives.
The cool weather in Texas drug on so long this year most peoples gardens failed miserably, cold weather is not associated with prosperity, even in Hollywood.