State Dept. to Disney: Use “Frozen” to teach kids about climate change

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 23, 2015 | By Marcus Gilmer

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2014 was, according to NOAA and NASA, the warmest year on record for the entire world. Locally, it was also the hottest year in California’s history. The world’s climate is changing, at least according to science and data.

2014 was also the year of Frozen, Disney’s animated musical blockbuster about two sisters and a snowman (more or less), amassing over $1.2 billion in worldwide box office receipts and billions more from countless sing-a-long showings, DVD sales, and merchandise since its November 2013 release.

And now, in 2015, we’re learning where these two seemingly disparate facts intersect: the State Department’s Admiral Robert Papp, who heads up everything about the Arctic, recently spoke at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Norway where he unveiled the fact that he had approached Disney about creating a spin-off cartoon with the characters from Frozen to teach kids about climate change.

Papp added that Disney wasn’t on board with the idea given that everything about climate change is kind of a downer, but insisted, “We’re regrouping on our storyline and we still have Disney engaged.”

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truth doesn’t matter........ all that matters is the propaganda

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Disney is America’s Ministry of Culture