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.
Tom J,
“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.”
Hilarious. Worth repeating.
Stormpiercer – Honestly, when I saw the picture at the Federalist I thought it was a spoof.
People know that extended extreme cold is scarier than extended heat. If water gets hot it goes into the atmosphere where it will likely reduce the heat. If the water gets cold it turns into ice and there are no water based feedbacks to mitigate the cold.
Curiously, the population of Tatooine appeared to be significantly higher than the population of Hoth. I’m sure this can’t be right.
Eric W;
Yes, 100 is 1.4°F above body temp, and 110 is 11.4°. 11.4/1.4 = 8.14 times the difference!
Snowpiercer is based on a French comic book Le Transperceneige (1982). It could not have had the premise that an “ice age” was caused by geoengineering to prevent AGW.
That leaves the question what was the reason for the “ice age” in the book? I could not find a plot summary online. The plot summary for the movie on Wikipedia is so absurd to seem like a parody.
At the highest level among the big policy- and decision-makers who are promoting the CO2-caused warming hoax, many of them must surely know that they are peddling snake oil. Their hypocrisy is obvious, because in their personal lifestyles and in their public policy choices they demonstrate little real concern for the climate issues that they claim to be so concerned about. They jet-set around the world when they could be teleconferencing instead, and the US/NATO cabal continues to make aggressive war for oil in the Middle East. These ruling hypocrites are obviously not sincere about their CO2-caused Climate Change theory and their doomsday warnings. “Do as we say, not as we do” appears to be their unstated motto.
It seems to me that many of our leaders, at the highest levels, who profess the dogma of CO2-caused Climate Change must also know that global cooling is the more probable scenario, and that global cooling is also the more dangerous scenario. This may be why they have shifted their emphasis from global warming to global cooling; not only are they ‘hedging their bets’ about which direction the climate will go, they have also realized that cooling is the more likely scenario, and they don’t want to exposed one day with egg on their faces. Their goal is to demonize CO2 and fossil fuels in pursuit of their agenda of social engineering, and their paradoxical claim that CO2 may cause both warming and cooling suits that agenda. The ruling Oligarchy knows that they have most of the public fooled with their propaganda, which they disseminate through the government, the Mainstream Media, Academia, the public schools, and the NGOs, all of which are controlled by the Oligarchy. They have historically fooled nearly of the people nearly all of the time, and it is reasonable to expect that they can continue to fool most of the people in the future.
They have historically fooled nearly ALL of the people nearly all of the time, and it is reasonable to expect that they can continue to fool most of the people in the future.