Posted on 03/19/2010 1:46:08 PM PDT by buildaroo_news
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was intended to put the climate change debate to rest. After all, it was supposed to provide irrefutable evidence of global warming. Instead, some errors in methodology and data have reinvigorated the opposition. What’s a beleaguered global warming scientist to do? How about a new approach, such as one with a ‘Hollywood touch’?
Some in the general scientific community see the erosion of public confidence in global warming science spilling over to other branches of science as well. Because of this, many scientists recognize that there needs to be a new approach to disseminating scientific information. One solution is re-packaging of scientific information into a more consumer-palatable medium, such as film. Who better than Hollywood to help scientists get an enthusiastic audience?
At least two science organizations agree. The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced plans to 'go Hollywood' at their convention last month. And the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) wants to partner with the University of Southern California film schools.
If the Hollywood touch can do for global warming science what Jurassic Park did for cloning and DNA, these beleaguered scientists will be happy campers indeed.
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This is ridiculous. You only have to watch the cable science channels to know the “hollywoodization” of science happened long ago. Not all to the bad, but Global Warming gets pumped quite often on the science channels.
What’s next? The AGW 24/7 channel?
Goreophiles want another ice age.
If you need hollyweird... it is all a lie... which it is anyway.
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I have seen a number of movies where the “villian” has been global warming. All of them stupid.
They can come up with a new movie and call it REVENGE OF THE KILLER TOMATOES. Because of global warming the tomatoes go on a rampage and chase down Al Gore as he runs around in circles yelling the tomatoes are coming the tomatoes are coming.
DECEMBER 19, 2008 : (OBAMA TO NAME JOHN P HOLDREN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE AAAS, AS HIS SCIENCE ADVISOR) It looks like president-elect Obama will name John P. Holdren as his science advisor. Holdren is a professor of environmental policy at Harvard and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As Ron Bailey points out, he has been an activist on the ecological left and no friend of free markets. Perhaps more striking is his activism well beyond his own academic specialty, arguing, for instance, that scientists have a responsibility to advance the cause of the elimination of all nuclear weapons and seeking controls on population growth. And he didn’t say all this in the 1970s either—have a good look at the speech he delivered when he assumed the leadership of the AAAS in 2006. It describes a fundamentally activist liberal mentality about the very purpose of science and its place in our kind of society. My favorite part of that speech is his call for ending population growth which, in the published text of the speech, is accompanied by this footnote:
This was the key insight in Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (Ballantine, New York, 1968), as well as one of those in Harrison Brown's prescient earlier book, The Challenge of Man's Future (Viking, New York, 1954). The elementary but discomfiting truth of it may account for the vast amount of ink, paper, and angry energy that has been expended trying in vain to refute it.The Population Bomb was the book in which Ehrlich predicted that “in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death,” because all the world’s resources were running out while population was growing out of control, and there was simply no way we could sustain our civilization at modern levels of consumption and growth. Just about every one of the book’s predictions has proven wrong, and its empirical claims and methods have not held up well under later scholarly scrutiny. It certainly made a useful political point for the left, though.
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