Even The King of the World couldn’t make us care about Mother Earth
Al Gore did more than win an Oscar for 2006’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
The former Vice President unleashed a wave of Climate Change movies that have yet to let up. Documentaries. Sci-Fi fables. Action flicks.
Here’s but a partial list:
- “Chasing Coral”
- “Snowpiercer”
- “Merchants of Doubt”
- “Don’t Look Up”
- “The 11th Hour”
- “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”
- “Geostorm”
Hollywood went all in on scaring us into a greener, oil-free future. Even the “King of the World,” director James Cameron, got into the act. His three “Avatar” movies pushed a green agenda, earning billions at the global box office.
Other films mentioned Climate Change in more subtle ways, either with dialogue that name-checked the subject or similar second-hand methods.
And it didn’t do the trick, apparently.
A new poll shared by CNN says that only 3 percent of respondents said Climate Change is their top issue heading into the 2026 midterms.
You can’t blame Hollywood for not trying.
Actors have done more than commit their time and energy to Climate Change projects. They’ve used their bully pulpits to push the green movement and support progressive politicians to further the cause.
Leonardo DiCaprio, whose carbon footprint makes him vulnerable to hypocrite charges, used his Oscar speech to promote the Climate Change agenda.
The actor also produced multiple documentaries on the subject and starred in Adam McKay’s Climate Change satire “Don’t Look Up.” That film earned multiple Oscar nominations, another way the industry promoted the green cause.
All that messaging. All that money. All those films. Speech after speech after speech.
The issue appears to either be shrinking the minds of the public or, perhaps, only holding steady.
Environmental author Bjorn Lomborg has a theory as to why this is happening.
Or consider Breitbart News’ John Nolte’s more pugnacious take on the matter.
Yes, ManBearPig says it’s super-cereal.
That episode of South Park scared the hell out of me when I was a kid! I had no idea who Al Gore was back then, and when I started taking an interest in the climate issue a while ago, I rediscovered ManBearPig and the way Al Gore was caricatured in that episode.
Well, the simplest solution to address climate change would probably be to drown the entire planet in molten lead…
I agree with, Bjorn: You can only cry wolf so many times before people become skeptical.
I love the pose of the pollster in the picture!
But, but, but the sky is falling! 😉
Hollywood, Big Al, the Weather Channel, and various media are peddling the same, tiresome, endless loop — all doomsday, all the time. Refrain from sin, or else!
It’s only one of many doomsday fads. The crying wolf is getting hoarse. The public’s eyes are glazing over.
We need a master list of climate fraud co-conspiators. Don’t forget National Geographic, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, ABC, and all the newspapers that took money for running climate crisis ‘news’ stories in the massive buildup to Obama’s Paris Climate Agreement (coronation).
Don’t forget to include Canada’s taxpayer-funded CBC on the list. Trying to find any balance in its climate reporting would be like trying to find another LeBron James in a Sunday evening church league. The network gives the impression it has to seek clearance from outfits like Greenpeace, Environmental Defense, the Suzuki Foundation, etc. before it airs anything about climate and if the information isn’t alarmist, it doesn’t bother even to air it.
“CBC funding by $192 million for the 2026–27 fiscal year, setting the public broadcaster’s annual budget at approximately $1.38 billion.”
“Day After Tomorrow”?
That’s one of the better know flicks.
As a conservationist, it ended with a reasonable message.
“For years, we operated under the belief that we could continue consuming our planet’s natural resources without consequence. We were wrong. I was wrong.”
That was about the only thing of value in the movie.
It was entertaining. Questionable “science”.
Quite questionable.
Yes, it was entertaining if one could ignore the fakeness.
The day after tomorrow, will be the day before the following day….
King of the Climate Dufuses, maybe, or is that Dufusi? Stupid Latin. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.
Doofa
I’ve been watching those movies for the first time (many of them) and they are insanely hysterical in how bad they are.
The ocean at 100 feet chills to -55 C in minutes but when the Atlantic current blockage is cleared (torpedo) the temp rises +2 C / minute. It just goes on and on and on.
The memorable scene in The Day After Tomorrow was the visit to the Museum of Natural History that had a display of a mammoth quick frozen with food still in its mouth from 10000 years ago.
It does give the Trans-Reality Activists ideas on how to corrupt science, tough.
All this climate hysteria was initially able to be ignited was because as George Carlin noted –
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Under John Nolte’s tag it claims Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-41.
That was on Aug 13th, 13 days ago.
Likely the numbers now are 0-47, or 0-53, or …
41 is a major underestimaton.
The hypocrisy of it all was so obvious, how could anyone take it seriously? The ultra rich telling the peasants to live more frugally – HA! I knew the whole scheme was transparent.
“You will have nothing and you will be happy.”
Not merely transparent. It was announced.
The crusade over the past five decades regarding climate change has had one likely irreversible effect. It has destroyed the credibility of ‘experts’. It has done so specifically for scientific experts. Dozens of predictions over this time, thousands of published papers, millions of articles all proclaiming some catastrophic outcome.
And all of them wrong.
Climatologists proclaimed the revealed truth, and they were not denounced by other parts of the scientific community. I suspect as a result the credibility of all scientific ‘expert’ opinion has been damaged to some degree as a result of the malfeasance of Stephen Schneider. “So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”
Any reputation for honesty is destroyed by a single lie. This is particularly so when that lie has been proclaimed repeatedly for half a century.
Hollywood is in fact [woke] Follywood
Tanking big time on celluloid.
Wasn’t CNN famous for describing a lefty protest as “mostly peaceful” while a fire raged in the background?
Baghdad Bob has got to eat!
Part of the reason that modern movies are so bad is that they preach and lecture their audience. When you pay to see a movie, you just want to be entertained. A quote attributed to American playwright Moss Hart in 1953 (and possibly later repeated by Samuel Goldwyn (unconfirmed)) was “If you’ve got a message, call Western Union.”
Nowadays, Western Union pretty much only wires money to Mexico.
Yes and yes and unfortunately we are not instructed to watch movies with social justice plots.
So I turn the channel to once again watch Harry Potter.
Don’t forget Perry Mason and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Not sown on my cable service. 🙁
At least the useful idiots in Moscow were rounded up and disappeared by Lenin. Everywhere else the useful idiots only went into remission but never expressed remorse.
When people examine the lifestyles of these film and TV stars it’s obvious they’re among the last ones to be preaching about taking climate action. They’re much like the phonies who are quick to line up for taxpayer -funded climate conferences that entail long plane flights and generous meals and accommodations without having to accomplish anything in the process. And when the media is busy cranking out climate catastrophe stories that never materialize in reality, it’s no wonder average citizens give the climate crisis narrative little or no credibility.
Just remember Hollywood movie producers use illusion to create a sense of reality. Kind of like the Michael Mann’s and Al Gore’s of the world.
Ya, like I’m going to look to Hollywood for science advice. I wouldn’t look to Hollywood for advice on anything.
Perhaps as a source of examples
How much did Hollywood make off smoking, booze, and sex then climate scams? They got a ton of tax credits all along the way also.
Hollywood, is there to make money and influence people’s thinking, no tell the truth.
Even the military have an office there for resources and to ensure the right message is portrayed.
Can only lie to people so many times before they ignore you.
Not per Goebbels.
Tell the lie enough times and it becomes the truth.
Hollywood has failed where “social media” is succeeding.
To pick a nit, the premise of “Snowpiercer” is that scientists were so afraid of global warming that they did something to the cool the atmosphere and it got away from them and froze the planet. So it wasn’t climate change that brought about disaster but the irrational fear of it.
Would that not be anthropogenic climate apocalypse?
Human caused climate change?
Of course unintended consequences of an ill-conceived plan.
Go watch Geostorm for another take on this theme.