Posted on 06/17/2007 6:42:45 PM PDT by melt
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."
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In other words, it's a total fabrication. Fiction.
"Global Warmarxists" are working overtime with their sinister agenda... trying to get it in before the 2008 election.
Above is a polar bear attempting to evolve into a dolphin--- because evil, man-owned, capitalist cows are trying to drown him with greenhouse gases.
The temp hit 97 degrees here today, must be global warming for sure.
Either that or it’s .........summer time.
“....gathered during the two or three days a month that were suitable for filming....”
No doubt the other days were too d-— COLD!
(The seals need to get better press agents!)
Queen Latifah is a walrus, a walrus with a foul mouth.
Queen Latifah is a walrus, a walrus with a foul mouth.
Isn’t it incredible how much mileage can be got out of one half degree of temperature increase?
Yeah. That was another dead giveaway.
Good one
Global Summertime?
Well, I had my doubts about Global Warming but with an atmospheric scientist with the reputation of Queen Latifah coming down on the issue I guess I’m convinced. I should have listened to Professor Algore. I’m (sob!)...so...ashamed...
The eskimo "Nanook of the Arctic" perished from global cooling soon after his movie was made in the early 1920's. Too few carbon credits, I suspect.
Is the temperature in the Arctic 32 degrees now? If not,how is it melting?
Is the temperature in the Arctic 32 degrees now? If not,how is it melting?
Wow! A resounding chorus! Won't that be fun?
Check out this word: SUBLIMATION. Also, ice dissolves in water ~ it’s constantly dissolving and freezing in the zone between water and ice. The rate of freeze/thaw can change depending on exogenous factors ~ e.g. air temperature, warmer or cooler sea currents, etc.
Is this the same thing as freezer burn?
I am familiar with the word SUBLIMATION, which has probably been occuring there for as long as there has been an arctic.
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