"Arctic Tale" puts faces to global-warming threat [ "Marx of the Penguins" Alert! ]

YahooNews!.com ^ | 6/17/07 | Randall Mikkelsen

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SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A new movie showing young polar bears and walruses struggling toward adulthood in a melting Arctic puts a pair of charismatic faces on the global warming threat.

"Arctic Tale," produced by the company behind "March of the Penguins" and narrated by singer-actress Queen Latifah, depicts the lives of female polar bear cub "Nanu" and female walrus calf "Seela" from birth to parenthood. The characters are composites of animals filmed in the Arctic over 10 years.

Nanu and Seela are shown facing life-and-death challenges made greater by an Arctic climate which changed dramatically during the filming and inspired the movie's theme, said Adam Ravetch, who directed the film with his wife, Sarah Robertson.

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The success of "March of the Penguins" and of former vice president Al Gore's global-warming movie "An Inconvenient Truth" have shown that films with a strong nature or environmental theme can have a big box-office and political impact.

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Robertson said it would have been impossible to tell the story without using composite characters because of the difficulty of trying to follow an individual animal in the Arctic for the eight-year cycle shown in the film. She said of Nanu and Seela, "To us they represent the very best of their species."

The scenes were genuine -- gathered during the two or three days a month that were suitable for filming, Ravetch said. "Everything you see in the film, we observed. It is also backed up by scientific facts."

[ChildOfThe60s]

an Arctic climate which changed dramatically during the filming

Huh? If it is happening that fast, we need to be doing some serious partying. There is no time for anything else.

These people are slaves to their obsession with the use of gross hyperbole. This is way past absurd.

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We've had 30 yrs of radical environmentalism, and we now have the cleanest air & water in recorded history. So, why are we now in a "Climate Crisis"?

There is only one conclusion--- the "Green Revolution" is destroying the Earth.

[Our man in washington]

Too bad. If they just kept the politics out, they might have had a very nice little movie.

I’m among the minority of freepers who thinks the evidence as a whole suggests that man-made global warming is probably occurring. I don’t think I compromise my conservative credientials one bit by saying that. After all, we can’t take the principles given to us by Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Smith, Kirk, and Friedman and deduce that man-made environmental damage is impossible.

That said, I don’t like the way the global warming doomsdayers want to lecture us to death on the issue. It doesn’t help matters much.