Scientists stirred to ridicule ice age claims

The New Scientist ^ | 19:00 15 April 04 | Fred Pearce

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The answer is in there?

I listened to him a bit the other night, seemed like a reasonable fellow.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The recurring cycle seems to me.

[null and void]

Sometimes. I look at CoastToCoastAM as a gold mine.

Tons of ore, ounces of gold...

[Redcloak]

Note to climate scientist...... It's a movie

Which is also why the hero will save the day and have it all done in under 2 hours. Not many people will rush to see a film where nothing detectable happens in the story for hundreds of years.

[lelio]

Perhaps the salaries to the actors? Remedy: Use new actors and pay them less.

I think that was the case of the Punisher film: take an unknown and put them in the role.

I think the problem with doing that is that there's so much money riding on one single film that its safer to make a sure bet with a known star. Its like a $10M insurance policy to get a big name.

It seems like once you make a film that isn't a box office smash you're blacklisted for a couple of years. No one wants to take a chance in making a flop so everyone goes for the same known quanities. For example, the new film "Troy" has about 4 big names in it. All of them are good actors (I think Brad Pitt's a good actor, but in this role its a stretch).

I think the solution to this is for studios to start pumping out a lot more films to spread the risk around. By definition one can make 8 $12M films for the cost of a $100M one, and its not like there's a shortage of workers out there.

We'll probably see something like this with Mark Cuban's purchase of Landmark Theaters to show his own lower budget films.

[Mathlete]

One sometimes hears the comparison between the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere (not in real greenhouses) and the interior of a parked car which has been left in the summer Sun with its windows rolled up. This comparison is as phony as is the comparison to real greenhouses. -- Bad Meteorology

Sounds as if the Saganists were right on their positive-feedback system dynamics, that the Medieval Warm Period would have stayed warm and never returned to the coolness we experience now.

Nevertheless, the "Super Power" (namely us) is the country with the most "life force", and "life force" is equivalent to entropy. Burning fossil fuels is the USA's way of producing this vigor. It's not surprising that other envious lesser countries would love to attenuate our vitality by forcing us to slow down.

[piasa]

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