Guest essay by David Archibald –
They used to be against us, but now Hollywood is on the side of the angels in mocking global warming
The science of climate has had intense scrutiny for the last ten years and more with the result that we now know why the planet warmed in the second half of the 20th century and why it is going to cool instead from here. Yet the meme of global warming continues, seemingly unstoppable and immune to facts.
Politically, global warming peaked out at COP 15 in Copenhagen in December 2009 when heads of state of countries accounting for the bulk of the world’s GDP were in attendance. They don’t bother to attend now – it is mainly time-servers who turn up. But global warming’s momentum is still resulting in destructive and pointless legislation and regulation in the English-speaking parts of the planet.
Commercial storytelling in the form of movies has reinforced the global warming meme. As a plot device, global warming itself isn’t scary enough as the result of global warming would simply be warmer rain. So, for the movie world, global warming was somehow the cause of intense cooling. This was the plot device of the film The Day After Tomorrow in which the protagonist battles wolves in a frozen New York.
A movie just out, Kingsmen: The Secret Service, indicates that the cultural tipping point has been reached. It is now safe and commercially profitable for moviemakers
to mock belief in global warming. The plot is that an evil billionaire by the name of Richard Valentine believes that humans, who cause global warming, are a virus killing the planet. To stop global warming, he sets out to kill a large proportion of humanity. His evil plan, which is much the same as the dreams of the green movement, is thwarted by people who dress well and have impeccable manners.
Instead of working against truth and beauty, Hollywood is now on the side of the justly righteous. The next stage will be when, to indicate a character’s gullibility, insanity or mental instability, it is mentioned that he once believed in global warming. Of course Hollywood does not have any moral scruples and mocking global warming is only a business decision. But mocking something is the first stage of destroying it and we should be duly thankful.
David Archibald is a visiting fellow at the Institute of World Politics in Washington.
His most recent book is Twilight of Abundance (Regnery, 2014).
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Just when you thought the old idiom Pigs can fly never to be proven wrong….
The old idiom “When Pigs Fly” was disproved a long time ago.
Seen in a commenter’s tag line on slashdot.
With sufficient thrust pigs fly just fine. That doesn’t make it a good idea however. The pigs don’t land so well and nobody want’s to be standing underneath when one goes overhead.
Idiom is idiom no matter if the idiom is disproven or not.
If elephants can fly, so can pigs … irrefutable evidence:
http://youtu.be/yPG0OoaFGH8
/sarc.
Kingsman is a great movie especially because it does not follow the spy movie mold. It’s original, funny and surprising.
The bad guys get their heads exploded just like the climate change ad reversed and the audience actually cheered !
And? What’s new? Bad guys and good. Nothing in between? 🙂
I hope your right! Hope its the beginning of the end of the GW scare.
They should be ashamed, mocking settled science. Doesn’t Hollywood understand the basic physics?
Unfortunately, no.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/10-examples-of-horrible-movie-science1.htm#page=0
But that goes either way
They had many gems to choose from in Day After Tomorrow. That was the most stupid movie of all time, in my opinion.
I think, that excepting the Good Graphics and Effects, 2012 has The Day After Tomorrow nearly beat for least intelligent
Competition for the most abusively stupid sci-fi movie is very crowded. Two recent appalling mingers much worse than Day After Tomorrow are Transcendence (where a scientist- killing bimbo is the heroine) and Lucy (a narcotic turns Scarlett Johansson into God). Even true stars like SJ and Morgan Freeman, and great effects, can’t save such rubbish.
It would be better to focus on the tiny minority of sci-fi movies which give the sense that they were written by someone who cares about science. Like Contact, or Blade Runner, AI and a few others.
Hey, Guys, Come on;
Surely the diamond amongst them all is the product-placement-free ‘Lego – the Movie’.
uh – Mods, do excuse the plainly totally unnecessary /Sarc.
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I’m pretty sure that the giant wave that overtakes the Statue of Liberty in The Day After Tomorrow would have had to come from across New Jersey.
They just heard the head of the IPCC describe global warming as his “religion”. They can’t possible NOT mock anything having to do with religion.
I was much amused to see in an episode of NCIS Either Abby or McGeek pointing to the ‘senders IP address’ that featured a dotted quartet of numbers one of which was over 300…
Actually, they do that intentionally. It guarantees that they’re not putting out someone’s real IP address.
Perhaps someone should tell Clooney, Di Caprio and a number of other loopy numbskulls?
It won’t matter if they are told, they only know how to “act” smart.
Indeed! – watch them back-track smartish when the credibility of GW is destroyed.
Like “smart” as in flying around the family Gulfstream(s) or Travolta placing “Green” flags on his 707!! when he taxis in. ?
Di Caprio is in my hometown of Canmore, Alberta (just outside of Banff) shooting a movie but friends working on the set tell my he flies home every weekend.
“Do as I say, not as I do!”
Leo is renting a mansion from an OIL TYCOON in Calgary and getting an hour ride to the set and back in a black Escalady every day…and flying home. (we have people in the neighbourhood)
And he wants to be able to continue doing it, so can you please walk to the grocery store from now on?!?! Those reusable grocery bags make great ear muffs!
No, I think their AGW advocacy is actually harmful to the AGW cause — they both seem to me to be highly likely to say something that is so egregiously stupid that it will make even the dimmest of their “fans” cringe.
They must think that by siding with the communist green movement that when they (the greenies) take over they will be among the last to be shot.
You’d think the fact that there’s unusually high levels of snow falling all over the planet, would make them think about what is actually going on. Don’t these guys realise that we are in a cooling phase now? Numbskulls is the right word to use for them.
You’re confusing weather with climate. And we don’t know whether we’re in a cooling phase, and won’t know for a few years. Same holds for warming.
Jeff Mitchell,
Record cold may be taken as a valid refutation of the AGW hypothesis, which puts that we should be experiencing milder winters, just so, as likewise the lack of warming constitutes a reputation of AGW.
Climate is weather and weather trends are climate. No trend of milder winters yet.
Check out the temperatures in Europe. Moscow has been warmer than Baltimore all winter.
Because climate.
mpainter:
In global warming climatology, arguments can neither be refuted nor validated. I provide a proof of this contention in my comment of March 1 at 9:17 am.
@joel,irrelevant, you haven’t told us that Moscow is at seasonal normal. BTW joel AGW theory says global warming is to be accelerating not stopped and/or cooling !!
Sorry, Clooney the climate looney and Di Caprio The climate Pinochio, are currently Incommunicado on their gas guzzling, sea poluting, CO2 emitting, Ocean liners, spreading the green word.
Don’t forget the film Interstellar had a Dr Mann who fakes data.
From Wikipedia:
“Mann (Matt Damon), who always knew Plan B was the mission’s true goal, faked data about his planet’s viability so Endurance would rescue him. Mann breaks Cooper’s spacesuit visor and leaves him to die, and flees to Endurance on a shuttle; Romilly is killed by a bomb Mann set to protect his secret. Amelia rescues Cooper using the other cargo shuttle, and they arrive at Endurance in time to witness Mann docking improperly. The airlock explodes, killing Mann and causing serious damage, but Cooper uses the cargo shuttle to get Endurance under control.”
Where have I heard that name before? Is there a hockey stick of fun emerging?
It’s just become too much material for scriptwriters to ignore. They’ve delivered real life farce in spades.
Cooper talking to the team: “Dr. Mann faked the data!”
I couldn’t hold back the laugh
I was too shocked to laugh. It was ultra-liberal Obamaist Hollywood openly ridiculing Mann. I was sitting there with my mouth hanging open.
Honestly, a lot of folks did not “get” it–I laughed out loud. First shock, then laughter. I am glad at least some movie mogals have the courage to put in these zingers. Haven’t seen Kingsman yet–but look forward to it.
Being a bit more specific, Dr Mann in the movie fakes data to show that his frozen world is much warmer than it actually is. He also claims to have been to the surface. He is also a coward. He also only thinks of himself. He is also willing to eliminate people who would expose his perfidy. He is finally the architect of his own end. What could art be imitating??
The still from the cult fantasy film ‘Manned Mission to Armageddon’ explains it all.
http://i.imgur.com/otX3zcb.jpg
Andrew, Chris Nolan has great form in putting a mirror to the liberal beliefs. As well as the Interstellar example, his barbs aimed at socialist ideas through the final Batman movie, when Bane allows the ‘poor’ to steal from the ‘rich’, was brutal.
The thing that shocked me was the Matt Damon, a noted fan of Howard Zinn and about as far left as you can get, played the part. Is he following the usual trajectory of tending toward conservatism as he gets older, or does he just accept whatever role comes his way?
It would be nice if the leftoids were finally reverting to their supposed support of the working class, and were realizing that the tracks for the AGW express are laid across their backs.
I was going to mention Interstellar.
Another film with a British director who has a large amount of creative freedom because of the past commerciality of their work.
Excuse my obvious repetitive agenda here but please note:
In the UK the AGW thing is not split left-right politically so our branch of Hollywood is more capable of being sceptical without losing the arts liberal bias..
True, both sides in the UK have gargled the KookAid. Two cheeks, and all that.
Curious that Mann hasn’t sued the writers, producers, director, actors, etc. I do not think it a coincidence the narcissistic self serving scientist faking data to show a planet warmer than it was, was called Dr Mann.
Dr Mann pointing out what a dishonest ass dr Mann is probably was not going to go well.
There is no grounds for a suit or a complaint. Dr Mann does not own the name “Dr Mann ” .
So the only way Dr Mann would recognize himself being mimicked in the Movie would be if he attributed the actions of “Dr Mann” in the movie to be referring to himself . Then surely such recognition could then be construed as recognition by Dr Mann of guilt of such things.
If I was the defense Lawyer that would be part of my Defense case.
It would bring attention to himself. If the judge ruled that the “fictional’ Dr Mann was very close to the real Dr Mann, and thus not derrogotary, what would be the compensation? It would be like mentioning someone famous in some movie, eg the president, and having law suits going on. If such a ruling were to occur, Mann would be finished.
Perhaps Mann is aware of what happened to Joan Baez when she threatened to sue Al Capp?
Joanie Phonie was a character in the heyday of Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner,” believed to have been loosely modeled on folk singer Joan Baez, who, like Hillary, was bereft of the common touch. When Joanie ran across a child who had fallen, lying helpless and bruised in the street, she imagined that the way to help was to step on him. That gave the kid an incentive to get up and give her a smack.
Then Joanie heard that the orphanage had run out of heat, light and groceries, and the children were starving. So she, with the heart as big as all outdoors, donated $10,000 to the orphanage — not in mere cash, but in Vietnam War protest songs.
Miss Baez, with the liberal’s usual disdain for somebody else’s free speech, demanded that Mr. Capp eliminate the character, threatening to sue and to do all manner of ugly things to make him stop. Mr. Capp was puzzled. “Joanie Phoanie is a repulsive, egomaniacal, un-American, nontaxpaying horror,” said he. “I see no resemblance to Joan Baez whatsoever, but if Miss Baez wants to prove there is, let her.” Miss Baez shut up, and Miss Phonie lived out her days in Dogpatch.
Has Mann filed a complaint already ?
Did someone slip aboard a cube and inject a neurovirus into the collective?
Good article.
Unfortunately, Obama’s War [Democratic Party’s War; EPA’s War] on inexpensive energy is continuing. Coal is evil; Oil is evil; Trees produce smog/evil; Natural Gas is sort of evil [Fracking is the devils opening of hell on earth]; Nuclear is spooky evil. Only when California gets cold enough to need heat will the Country finally turn on this attack. Only when the Delaware freezes over Washington, will sanity return.
California imports tankers of oil and great long rail cars full if oil. They may have loads if activists blocking pipelines and “fracking” by the pump jacks still pump, the ships still dock, and the trains still roll.
California is the third largest refiner of petroleum in the United States. Where are the protestors? Where are the folks standing in the rail lines blocking the trains if death blocking all the dirty oil coming from the Canadian oil sands on Warren Buffet’s (and others) trains???
/sarc off
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-26/rail-projects-boosting-oil-flow-to-california-refineries
http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/petroleum/index.html
This paper is 9 years old, but the story hasn’t changed.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2006publications/CEC-600-2006-006/CEC-600-2006-006.PDF
Within the last decade, I watched an “expose” on some cable channel of the fact that you could shop and eat in places in Los Angeles within walking distance of an oil well. The thirty something skate boarders were shocked and all expressed suitable anger that someone in Sacramento hadn’t done something to stop the outrage. I thought of the Belmont learning center, (Built on an old field.) The Farmers Market,(Built on an old field.) Beverly Hills High,(Built on an old field.) Signal Hill, Lomg Beach Harbor, Santa Barbra and the La Brea Tar Pits. I considered how few ways there were to get from LAX to L.A without going through a field of pump jacks, and in an Ozymandias moment, I despaired.
You can walk across the grounds of the natural history museum at La Brea and find yourself accidentally stepping in a seep of tar. The ground is soaked with it.
Sorry the river is freezing over and still no signs of sanity.
So is the Hudson.
Yes, quite. It would considered rude to dis-invite 5 billion people to the party. Not the behavior of a gentleman. Any civilized man knows than in such circumstances, a good host must simply accommodate.
And what does the Guardian see in Kingsman?
The end result of the solution of the villain is the same as the Greens. ;-p
When did the Guardian care about the working classes? About their energy bills, for instance?
But if the Guardian doesn’t like the movie, I’m halfways to the theatre already.
In general if the Guardian is for it, then I’m against it. And if they’re against it, then I’m all for it.
+1
Struck a nerve?
Such a report from the Grauniad is reason enough for me to see the film. And a hell of a lot of people feel the same.
If the Guardian says that, then I will definitely go and see it!
Jimbo:
Shame on you for making me want to watch that movie (in addition to American Sniper)!
Well, it can’t possibly be better than How the West was won and Birth of a Nation… or can it?
In the television series “The Walking Dead”, life for the remaining survivors has greatly improved because the reduced carbon emissions have made the climate as pleasant as it was prior to the intolerably hot year of 1988 when Hanson warned the world about the coming sizzle apocalypse.
I haven’t caught up with the latest season of the show as I had to re-record the shows after my TV provider swapped my PVR for an updated version during a switch to fiber optic service. I am sure things will probably get quite rosy for Rick, Bob, Tyreese and the rest of the gang especially once they realize that wood can be used as a source of energy. Have I mentioned how warm it is out in western Canada? Well, I’m going to go look at the flowers.
Oh. Well I won’t spoil anything for you, but they recently went through a drought. I thought that would be a thing of the past with no human CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere, heh.
Mild yes, but not breaking any historical records. We will be seeing temps over night going below 0 C so , time to cover those plants that may be vulnerable. Nothing that my hardy palms cant handle though. I am a bit worried about my climbing roses though, they thought the worst of winter was over and have started climbing. My apple trees were not fooled and are still dormant, they have seen it before.
You must be in Van or Vic, not so mild in YYC…..flowers? May 28…
About the movie ‘Kingsmen: The Secret Service’ … it’s a brilliant movie. And Samuel L Jackson’s take on the global warming myth is superb!
Samuel L. Jackson also recently did a great job in the remake of Robocop He played an over- the- top media mouthpiece, manipulating public opinion at the behest of an eeevil corporate/government power structure. It was quite obvious that his character was designed to promote the idea that the public mindset is indeed manipulated by by the media, to fulfill hidden agendas of greed and power.
Sorry, whenever I hear Samuel L. Jackson all I can hear is Officer Tenpenny (+1 to anyone who gets that reference without having to Google it).
“Richard Valentine” is likely to become a label or a verb like that of Gruber in connection with the healthcare policy guru who advised they could put the plan over because ‘people’ are stupid (or some such). To be grubered is to be easily fooled by deceptive wording. Here’s the money quote:
” “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage and, basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever. But basically that was really critical to getting the thing to pass.”” Jonathan Gruber, Ec professor at MIT.
This is the reason that Democrats don’t like Gruber to be referred to as the architect of Obamacare. I recommend for the evil plan of the movie the verb “valentinoing”
The Gruber quotation sounds a bit like Churchill’s: “All I ever wanted was compliance with my wishes…..after reasonable discussion.”
Warmists are like snakes. Never fly with them, despite their great love of flying by plane. They really love fossil fuels,, despite their ‘protests’ – see their Twitters, iPods, iPhones, laptops, ‘carbon reduction’ investments, WARM HOMES IN WINTER, ‘important climate conferences’ and other bits of bulls’ shit. It’s much worse than I thought and we must act now.
The Earth is the plane, get these mother fxcking snakes off this mother fxcking plane.
PS if any Warmist thins I am silly then please post a comment to me.
CORRECTION
PS if any Warmist thinks I am silly then please post a comment to me.
From the article:
“A movie just out, Kingsmen: The Secret Service, indicates that the cultural tipping point has been reached. It is now safe and commercially profitable for moviemakers to mock belief in global warming.”
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That’s the key, right there. Look at the comment section of any internet news item which tries to promote the CAGW premise. The comments are overwhelmingly derisive of the whole meme. The public isn’t buying the propaganda. That fact is not lost on those whose livelihood depends on keeping a finger on the pulse of the current cultural belief structure.
Even in the Guardian’s comments there is a large number of skeptics these days. Sooner or later, the editors will take note. Most likely too late to save any semblance of integrity in that paper.
Over the past few years I have sent emails to Scientific American, National Geographic, etc., with non-strident comments against CAGW, appealing to reason, etc.
I believe such non-orchestrated, one-on-one campaigns have a long-term corrosive effect on the meme-controllers.
True. It’s worse than it appears though, for the weather-alarmed, as that is despite the Guardian banning commenters who try to be politely sceptical and so aren’t very easily mocked.
And they’ve banned me as well.
integrity? did it ever have ANY?
not that Ive ever noticed
MCourtney,
You should sign up again. Send them your comment and quote some skeptical AGW science from Russia and sign it,
From Russia with love,
Edward Snowden
I bet they’d post it then!
In the UK we are getting promoted tweets asking us to invest in solar and wind. Pretty well every reply points out that a business founded on subsidy and preferential tariffs is in no way sustainable.
Needless to say I am blocked by most of them. The tide is turning.
I wonder if they might consider a making more intellectual drama out of Michael Crichton’s State of fear. There is also a lot of potential for historical dramas. I think Andrew Montford’s Hockey Stick Illusion would make a great movie. I think I would cast Tom Selleck as Steve McIntire and Gary Sinise as Ross McKitrick. Perhaps Mann could be played by a hapless John Hodgeman. Matt Ridley could do a cameo where he explains how the hockey stick has convinced him that the current warming is unpresidented and it has been published in Nature magazine. I would have to include Tamino’s reveiw at Real Climate with Judith Curry (Julie Ann Moore) arguing in the comments with Gavin Schmidt (Joe Panteliano).
Climategate also offers a lot of potential. I picture Russel Crowe as Steve Mosher typing cryptic typo laden text when the phone rings. He asks the caller if he looked at those emails and a desperate voice replies, “Where did you get these?” The camera focuses in on a smirky grin. I also picture Sam Nel as Anthony getting off an airplane with a worried look on his face and then hearing a siren. He looks around and sees some paramedics attending to someone who has collapsed.
Could Michael Mann be made into the hero of a movie? Perhaps Keanu Reeves could shave the top of his head, grow a van dyke, and deliver the line: “Woo! They’re demanding to see my data. And my code!” Steve Buscemi as Phil Jones could ask him to delete any emails and pass the request along to Gene. Reeves could reply: “I’ll contact Gene ASAP!” Someone could approach him with a graph and ask, “Did you center this right?” Reeves could mischievously reply “This is modern centering.”
Reply: It’s good to see someone remembering the details of those rather exciting few days. I really like your false alarm scene/idea. ~ctm
Great ideas!
And this: “..the current warming is unpresidented..” is a wonderful Obamesque pun 🙂
That wasn’t intended. I’m just a poor speller.
Canman, you may be a poor speller, but it is priceless and, fair warning, I am stealing it!
Canman, your pun was the funniest thing I’ve read since this column on the WSJ.
Writing about Shafer’s (of Vox) interview of Obama’s and his comment about the attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris by jihadis;
“This columnist yields to no man in our contempt for Vox, but Shafer (writing on Monday) missed the big news story to come out of the interview: his description of the victims of an anti-Semitic attack as the Randomly Chosen People.”
By JAMES TARANTO
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hazing-of-scott-walker-1423769164
IMO the only actor capable of conveying the essence of Dr. Michael (Sueu) Mann is Danny DiVito.
LOL
Micky Rooney would have been perfect. Too bad he is gone now. GK
Not as Dr Soon – with Audrey Hepburn as Curry?
It’s about as likely as Hollywood openly admitting they got it wrong.
Laughter is more effective anyway.
Peter Lorre.
Yep that’s who I thought of too, Danny Di Vito!
Canman: “I wonder if they might consider a making more intellectual drama out of Michael Crichton’s State of fear”.
Not being a scientist (nor an intellectual), Crichton’s State Of Fear is what led to my interest into the AGW subject – specifically, the lies related to AGW – and eventually led me to WUWT.
I have been a huge fan of Crichton’s books since The Andromeda Strain (he died far too young – may he rest in peace), and am also a fan of the movies he’s directed.
But as much as I am a fan of his in general, and State Of Fear specifically, this is one book that I just cannot envision being made into a movie. Not because of the subject matter, but because the best parts of the book (IMHO) were where the protagonists “explained” the fallacies of AGW, thus presenting the science behind these explanations.
I would bet my life’s’ savings (a meager amount) that Hollywood would remove all of these portions of the book if it was made into a film. And to be honest, I would probably agree with them because I don’t think they would translate properly on the big screen. I would rather that Hollywood (or any movie maker) came up with their own script and movie, as they did with Kingsman (especially given how Sphere and Timeline were butchered).
Stevan Makarevich
To see how Hollywood destroyed – completely made a parody of a good novel’s basic premise, read Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein. Then see how Hollywood aborted its primary theme of self-reliance and military service and responsibilities vs citizen rights and privileges into the proto-Nazi images and themes of the recent movie.
The movie could start out by showing the air-conditioning thermostats being turned off in congress, and end by showing a hockey game on the frozen Potomac – with real long blades at their ends – making goal, after goal, after goal,…
Awesome! Great theatre, which I hope continues! Humour will win!
Cheers!
Roger
When I win the lottery, producing this movie will be first thing on my saving the world from people trying to save the world list. Canman, you should start working on the script now.
And at the same time, they have loosed Bill Weir on the planet to go find stuff we need to see before (he predicts) it is gone. This foul mouthed idiot will be attempting to build serious concern over global warming by taking us on nature hikes. On the up side, nothing but stupid remarks will be a permanent part of the script and will make the stink of this nature show stay around like a dead carcass.
They took down one of Minnesotans For Global Warming videos on YouTube.
But any way
Que Elmer
youtube constantly takes everytrhing down; it suffices that someone complains about a copyright violation. Youtubes procedure is to take down your stuff just in case, then ask you to provide your personal details to the complainer; so that matters can be settled in a lawsuit.
Everyone who does not want to be stalked by madmen simply lets matters rest.
Google bought YouTube in 2006.
Eric Schmidt is the Chairman of Google.
Eric Schmidt’s opinion of Climate Change skeptics and warming deniers is quite succinct …they’re liars.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/06/googles_schmidt_climate_skeptics_and_warming_deniers_are_liars/
I somehow doubt the removal of ‘Minnesotans For Global Warming’ was simply another copyright violation dispute.
Jeff,
Free i.e. taxpayer money will do strange things to people, kind of like gold. If Schmidt was against AGW before, he has had a “conversion” and a come to Gaia moment.
Google has already figured out how to stiff tax and ratepayers while they get subsidies and millions for “green”.
Google Kills Birds
The mercenary motives behind Eric Schmidt’s appeal to green virtue.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-kills-birds-1411688771
“..The death toll is disputed by others, but Google has made taxpayers complicit in its avian-cide. The $2.2 billion bird fryer was funded with a $1.6 billion federal loan, which Google and its business partners plan to repay by applying for a federal grant.
“…The do-no-evil company has invested $157 million in a wind farm in California’s Tehachapi Mountains, which has killed thousands of birds including federally protected golden eagles. Google’s renewable portfolio includes a $275 million investment in two wind farms in Texas that are partly responsible for the construction of $7 billion in new transmission lines. The Texas Public Utility Commission estimates the lines will cost ratepayers on average $72 per year. Google has about $60 billion in cash and short-term investments sitting on its balance sheet….”
but this is still up:
http://duckboy.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/540×360/521038d3e98391b49ed35b0dcfe49472/4/8/484_1.jpg
I think there’s a limit to the number of false predictions you can make before you start to damage your credibility. It appears the alarmists have reached that limit.
I have a question, I don’t doubt that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and has probably warmed the planet slightly. I am skeptical of the feedbacks used in the climate models and the dire consequences of climate change. Does that make me a skeptic or a lukewarmist?
It makes you a sane person.
It makes you a denier. Nier, nier, pants on fire. /sarc off
The worst offender to a cult or religion is not the person who totally rejects it, but the one who almost toes the ideological line. Heathens are bad, but dissidents are the devil. Perhaps that is why Mr. Pielke jr. is on the infamous list.
Sort of like: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
Revelation 3:16
I think there’s a limit to the number of false predictions you can make before you start to damage your credibility. It appears the alarmists have reached that limit.
___
Ralph,
The question is, will it matter to the powers that be what we, the people, think? Even if the vast majority of the country understands the entire thing is a scam, (and, yes, we are getting there) is there any reason to believe the Left/Democrat politicians and their bundlers and mega donor crony capitalists will give it up?
I fear we will, to paraphrase Charlton Heston, have to “pry it from their cold, dead hands”.
Plausible deniability.
We all believed it was true and all the scientists (we paid to tell us it was) told us it was, so how could we possibly disagree..
I had the same response when query why a local council lost millions in a failed Icelandic bank, when all the columnists in the Financial Times had been saying for months that Icelandic banks were a very dangerous investment.
The excuses were that:
(a) Icelandic banks were on the top of a preferred list of investments for local councils,
(b) the man in charge of council investment was ‘too busy’ to read the financial times.
sailor2014:
The IPCC models do not make “predictions.” They make “projections.” The difference in meanings of the two terms is crucial to understanding what it is that is wrong with the arguments of the IPCC climatologists. My comment on March 1 at 9:17 am provides details.
Tom Clancy, Hunt for Red October, etc., wrote “Rainbow 6”, in which a billionaire planned to use a weaponised virus to kill most of humanity.
His twist was his company produced vaccines – after the initial staged outbreak, the second step was to follow up with vast batches of live virus disguised as vaccine, and kill people who were trying to protect themselves from the original release.
Holywood writers don’t have much imagination. In Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, starring Bruce Willis, a virologist has created a virus to destroy Mankind.
“Holywood writers don’t have much imagination.”
A generally true statement for these times. Thus so many remakes. There was a time when Hollywood produced a whole line up of popular dramas that were both entertaining and thought provoking while having the vast majority of the scenes played out in a single room setting. No more. They have neither the desire, the ability, nor many actors that could pull it off now days.
Well, what would you have suggested if not a virologist?
While I don’t disagree with the statement, you probably picked about the worst possible example of unimagintive film making.
Giliam is arguably the single most imaginative and daring person in Hollywood. 12 Monkeys is no exception, even if its settings backstory is not overly complex.
Next time maybe you can go for something much more fitting, like say, Indiana Jones – Nazis looking for Ark. Guy escapes their capture, realizes they are looking in the wrong place, and proceeds to lead them right to it. Guy then tries to get it back… The guy responsible for that is similarly held up as a truly imaginative mind, largly because of what others did to make his first two movies what they became (often against his objections)
Hollywood writers have plenty of imagination. Hollywood bosses, however, don’t have much appetite for risk. A Hollywood movie is a fantastic way to loose a crapload of money if it bombs. Hence sequels and derivative movies: the hard work is already done, so the investment is lower (prop reuse, special effect modeling etc). If the cost is less the risk is lowered because the movie can make its costs back sooner. All the better if it’s a sequel; it doesn’t have to be screened for critics, so if it really bombs the fans will see it anyway.
D.S.February 28, 2015 at 10:27 am
You’re right. I actually like 12 Monkeys. Whereas the Indiana Jones movies seem somewhat overhyped.
It’s a good story…
Rainbow Six (1998) plot summary here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Six_(novel)#Plot_summary
its not farfetched
consider some certain natural immunity gained from common childhood diseases(measles) actually does help protect against its far more deadly related ones.
everyone gets the lab version doesnt have that assistance, and what little they do get wears off, while natural is a lifetime thing.
whooping cough is another, the bugs mutated past the vax strains, which is why immunised people are getting it, even after as many as 3 vaccinations. I was vaxed. copped it as a 50+yr old 2 yrs ago, annoying, but I will now have the rest of my life problem free:-) Natural immunity now.
immunised for mumps n caught them too just 10 yrs on as a teen.
That sounds like the Enviro’s dream come true.
David, might there be Hollywood movie-deal for you for a “Twilight of Abundance” – like story, telling the story of the Maunder Minimum, the Dalton Minimum, The Little Ice Age, the Modern Maximum, and our slide towards the impending weak Sun induced cooling?
The world needs to how serious it is getting as big governments are preparing for the wrong “emergency”.
Maybe a movie about the Carrington Event?
“The next stage will be when, to indicate a character’s gullibility, insanity or mental instability, it is mentioned that he once believed in global warming. ”
Dear David Appell,
Your future is bleak.
That is all,
Your pal.
… needs to know how serious…
Bob gets to you warmer air, but winter will return to Europe.
http://199.212.19.52/tmp/fk-4-n-to-e-4886812403tk20150303.gif
Good, I’ve got some wood to cut.
Really surprised to see leftwinger Jimmy Kimmel mock Stana Katic’s Alternative Transport Program of having people walk or take the bus.
Boy, are you an optimist.
I’m waaayyyy ahead of you. I exploit this multiple times a day, every day.
My favorite thing to do is, instead of saying “hello” to everyone I know (and don’t know), I ask them, “How’s your carbon footprint?”
It’s very effective! People are taken aback. The unusual question interferes with the mechanistic greeting and makes people think for a moment. Next they usually chuckle, because they see how stupid the question is. Then I sense they don’t want to be seen as gullible, so they attempt to distance themselves from the whole climate change concept.
Try it. It’s fun and it works!