Posts Tagged ‘ An Inconvenient Truth ’

Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmism a ‘New Kind of Morality’?

August 13, 2010
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Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmism a ‘New Kind of Morality’?

by Mike Gray Here’s a documentary now available on Retrovision mostly featuring “heretics” (the term used by former climate scare monger Nigel Calder, who has evidently seen the light) about AGW. The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007) exculpates carbon dioxide (also known as “plant food”) as any kind of cause of global warming (the mega-minds at the Environmental Protection Agency notwithstanding), inculpates the sun as the prime suspect of observed climate change, points the finger at politicos of both the Right and the Left as prime movers of the scare, and traces the development of a distortion of one area of science into a political movement (and even a global industry) driven by politics, money, and the credulous media which has absolutely nothing to do with real science. (And let’s not forget this was before the revelations of ClimateGate.) The saddest aspect of the Great Swindle, as the film notes, is how enviro-nuts control Third World development, since they’re dedicated to an anti-development, anti-capitalist, romanticized medieval mindset and have wormed their way into positions of power and influence. Because the enviros push so hard for “green energy” (i.e., solar and wind power) and against proven Western methods of generating electricity,

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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

July 27, 2010
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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

A public policy focused nonprofit is getting into the movie business. It wants Hollywood to produce more social and politically themed products selling the George Soros worldview. From the New York Times: The Harmony Institute wants to change your mind — at the movies. In the last few weeks, a little-noticed nonprofit with big ideas about the persuasive power of movies and television shows quietly began an initiative aimed at getting filmmakers and others to use the insights and techniques of behavioral psychology in delivering social and political messages through their work. John S. Johnson III, a descendant of Robert Wood Johnson – founder of Johnson & Johnson, doesn’t want more movies like An Inconvenient Truth, Bowling for Columbine, or Capitalism: A Love Story. He wants more movies like The Day After Tomorrow or The Day the Earth Stood Still remake: Mr. Johnson made a study of what his group calls “the science of influence,” with the help of friends like Kenneth Broad, a director of Columbia’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and Eric Johnson, a professor of business and marketing at Columbia, both of whom are now on the institute’s advisory committee. Michael Douglas, the actor, who according

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A Convenient Deceit

April 22, 2010
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A Convenient Deceit

In commemoration of Earth Day, here is my analysis of the Academy Award-winning Al Gore movie that galvanized the global warming movement and ultimately led to its demise by exposing the arguments for global warming alarmism to serious public, scientific scrutiny. An Inconvenient Truth is a platform from which Gore assumes the Cassandra role of predicting the demise of the world as we know it. As a work intended to frighten audiences into compelling government to “do something, anything” about global warming, the film fails on both scientific and rhetorical levels. An Inconvenient Truth attempts to link personal events in Gore’s life with subsequent political causes. For example, the film includes scenes detailing such personal tragedies as the death of Gore’s sister from lung cancer, the traffic injuries incurred by his son as a young child and his painfully drawn-out defeat for the presidency in 2000. Such emotionally charged cinematic manipulation serves to humanize the notoriously stiff former vice president by granting him unearned moral authority. No one but a heartless cynic would deny another human his or her personal tragedies for taking up a cause, but Gore’s assertion that his sister’s death caused him to rethink his family’s history

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