Posted on 02/06/2008 7:28:49 AM PST by Entrepreneur
The National Geographic Channel (NGC) will begin airing on February 10 a new environmental show titled Six Degrees. NGC in a statement on the man who inspired the show says, "In possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming yet published, noted science writer and 2006 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mark Lynas explains in his latest book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, how Earth’s climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in temperature—and what we need to do about it, now, to avert disaster." If Katrina bothered you not just because of the environmental issues but also the failed government response, then Six Degrees is a show you should watch.
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This is likely to be one of the worst pieces of fictious global warming propoganda ever. It may even be worse than Gore's movie.
Lynas is an extreme kook. He's the guy who threw a pie at Bjorn Lomborg, stating afterwards, "I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life."
Lynas isn't too concerned with truth either. When a UK judge ruled that Gore's movie had too much propoganda, lies, and errors to be shown to children, Lynas said it didn't matter. He said, "All these points, however, are trivial in the context of the film's main argument, which is unambiguously correct in its portrayal of mainstream scientific understanding of climate change."
Lynas continued, "Hence the need to move the debate from science and towards precaution. It is now very likely that global warming this century will present major challenges to the survival of human civilisation - and to our children's and grandchildren's lives. If we listen to the deniers, we are taking a very dangerous gamble - a bit like playing Russian roulette with five bullets and only one empty chamber."
So what about his documentary? In one of the preview clips, he made the ludicrous claim that automobiles generate 20% of greenhouse gases.
Ironically, the entire premise of his book and movie are based on the most extreme temperature projection from the 2001 IPCC report, which fall outside of the best estimates from the latest IPCC report. The 2007 IPCC report's best estimate for temperature between now and 2100 is 1.8 deg C to 4.0 deg C. The IPCC ignored the most recent findings showing the mistakes Hansen made and the embarrasing GISS revisions. It also doesn't account for the Urban Heat Island Effect properly because it relies on the allegedly fraudulent research of Wei-Chyung Wang.
What are his solutions? Try carbon rationing.
"Only a top-down carbon rationing scheme can deliver a predetermined outcome with any certainty," claims Lynas
"Top-down" sounds involuntary because that's what Lynas means. "Imposed it must be, as participation could not be voluntary."
What do you bet the documentary skips Lynas' prescription for rationing personal energy use?
Australian geologist Bob Carter (How to lie with statistics about global warming)
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/01/27/best-statistical-scientific-talk-on-global-warming/
Toss my cookies, must I. Mmm! Yes!
I really believe that these people can’t separate real life from movies and fiction.
Everyone loves a disaster movie and everyone loves to imagine what life would be like after extreme catastrophes and such, but these supposed smart people are having trouble differentiating.
Six Degrees of Prevarication...............
“ronically, the entire premise of his book and movie are based on the most extreme temperature projection from the 2001 IPCC report, which fall outside of the best estimates from the latest IPCC report. The 2007 IPCC report’s best estimate for temperature between now and 2100 is 1.8 deg C to 4.0 deg C. The IPCC ignored the most recent findings showing the mistakes Hansen made and the embarrasing GISS revisions. It also doesn’t account for the Urban Heat Island Effect properly because it relies on the allegedly fraudulent research of Wei-Chyung Wang.”
WELL STATED.
This is fiction, not fact.
The mushheads in the media have been using the term “Global change” in the last few months since winter started up again. And in the 70s it was global cooling.
The socialist pinheads are bound and determined to put a stop to the free market whatever lies it takes to get it done.
“Imposed it must be, as participation could not be voluntary.”
U.S.S.A. here we come!
The socialist pinheads are bound and determined to put a stop to the free market whatever lies it takes to get it done.
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My name is Al Gore, and I approved this message....
“Imposed it must be, as participation could not be voluntary.”
U.S.S.A. here we come!
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It is almost here already, and a Marxist President in the White House will be the final nail in the coffin of a Constitutional America.
I generally like NatGeo TV, but their global warming programming keeps me from watching. Write them and express your opinion about this.
The most OVERRATED disaster in world history.
What there was of it should read “failed preparation by
New Orleans and Louisiana government.”
The good people of Mississippi never complained and went on with their lives. Nagin and his chocolates are still whining and sucking the public teat.
"Mark Lynas was born in Fiji in 1973, and grew up in Peru, Spain and the UK. After gaining a first-class honours degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh (where he also edited the university's student newspaper), he joined a web start-up called OneWorld.net - helping turn it into the world's most-accessed internet portal for human rights and sustainable development issues. He was also active in the flourishing environmental direct action scene during the late 1990s, joining road protests and helping mount 'decontamination' exercises against genetically-modified crops, as well as participating in Reclaim the Streets protests in London and Oxford.
Since leaving OneWorld in 2000 to work full-time on climate change, Mark has also been active as a broadcast commentator and journalist, writing for the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman and various other publications, as well as appearing on radio and television news and discussion programmes ranging from Newsnight to the BBC World Service. His book High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis was published by Flamingo/HarperCollins on March 1, 2004. He lives in Oxford, but has given talks and presentations on climate change and his travels for High Tide as far away as the United States and Australia.
Six degrees big deal it would the high today 21.
Unless of course we American Patriots stop it. Won’t be pretty, everyone needs to get their survival gear in order.
You can bet the this will be used to force the McCain-Lieberman Cap and Trade Scheme.
can we assume all government schools will require middle and high school students to watch the shows???
NOBODY in the enviro movement is acknowledging the 15-27% IMPROVEMENT in plant growth and crop yield that we see NOW from higher CO2 levels. The movement wants the death and doom scenarios - and denies any benefit from the 1/2 - 2 degree temp increase that “might” come.
My local school was showing Day after tomorrow and Inconvenient truth in their science classes.
I recently cancelled long-standing subscriptions to the National Geographic, Smithsonian and New Yorker because they have become increasingly left wing in their orientations. It seems like everything I enjoyed so much in the past is succumbing to liberal fascism.
National Geographics is left wing.
Somebody should ask the idjit how many people would be left living on the planet if we had six degrees of COOLING.
Hundreds of millions of acres of cropland frozen solid 9-10 months a year.
BILLIONS of people dead of starvation, and those who are left would be quite familiar with the taste of human body parts...
Katrina didn't bother me but the condition of the levees did and that was the fault of New Orleans. And the only govt. response, or lack of, that pissed me off was again from New Orleans....
So I guess Six Degrees is not a show I should watch......
Great tag!
His name is Mark Lyin’_ss?
How appropriate.
If Buddy had lived the Beatles might not have become such heroes.
If the Beatles had not become such heroes we might have had fewer "flower children" and the US might be in better shape.
"California's students need to understand what's happening," Simitian said in a statement. "A rigorous program of science instruction has to be both current and relevant, and that certainly has to include climate change."
I saw the commercial for this piece of garbage and immediately put a parental block on NGC. I don’t want my children exposed to this anti-intellectual, lefist, alarmist Bravo Sierra.
Global Warming is our FRIEND.
Longer growing seasons, lower heating bills.
I don’t see any drawbacks.
Well said! Farmers talk about record yields from the increased season and the increased CO2, and they want to wreck that?
Thanks for the ping(s)!
The US would look like it did when Al Gore's farm was overrun with mastodons and people were living in caves in Tennesse.
NG had a show on about prisons last night. My wife was watching it, but I could hear it from my office. They were stating that we have more people in prison than ever, but we are no safer. In fact, we are worse off. Absolutely ignoring stats on lower crime rates. Pure propaganda.
This just re-confirms my decision to tell National Geographic where to stick their magazine. I only wish someone from the magazine had called asking why I wasn’t renewing for 2008 so I could have REALLY told them what I thought of their “Glo-bull Warming” stance.
You mean Al moved out of the cave? ;)
In other words, it’s global warming porno.
2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years
The numbers I saw for the year 2007 were:
(remember, this number is an average of ocean temps, land station temps, etc. Thus, not very reliable as an indicator of CLIMATE)...........
Avg 2007:
-0.6 C
A worldwide drop of 3-5 degrees centigrade would be sufficient to trigger another ice age.
After the Toba eruption 75K years ago, worldwide temps fell by 10 degrees F.
The Earth was plunged into an ice age that lasted more than 1,000 years.
Global warming, an additional foot I received. Shovel I must!
Can we put swim suits on these lying, self serving Socialist flim-flam hucksters, and set them adrift on floe ice, when the cooling starts in earnest?
We are having our second big snowstorm, with ice and sleet and stuff thrown in, in two weeks. Our fair city has already run through almost its entire Al-Gore-Inspired winter snow removal budget and it’s the first week in February with three months of winter left to clear away.
We Canadians are miffed that Global Warming has left us off its list. What are we, chopped liver?
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