It goes without saying that climate realists around the world believe Nobel Laureate Al Gore used false information throughout his schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in order to generate global warming hysteria.
On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow." [audio available here]
Adding delicious insult to injury, this was presented by one of ABC's foremost global warming alarmists Sam Champion during Friday's "20/20":
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Al Gore's 2006 documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth," makes the same point with actual video of ice shelves calving. Which shots have more impact?
AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)
And if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you'd see it's 700 feet tall. They are so majestic.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of "The Day After Tomorrow."
KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR)
Yeah, that's, that's our shot. That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Audiences expect Hollywood to twist fact into fiction. But Gore's documentary does the opposite, using a fake shot to make a real point, that ice shelves are disappearing, and vanishing ice means global warming.
Apparently, ABC tried to get a comment from Gore concerning the matter, but none was forthcoming:
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(Off-camera) And it raises another question for you to consider. Is it wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated Hollywood shot to make a point, even if there's science behind it? Well, we tried to ask Al Gore and the movie studio, but neither responded to our calls.
I wonder why.
Yet, another mystery here is that ABC posted a video of this segment at its website. However, for some reason, the clip ends BEFORE the discussion of Gore's film.
I wonder why.
What follows is a full transcript of this segment.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) It seems like there's nothing like a natural disaster to get Hollywood's imagination going. But do movies like the 'Poseidon Adventure" reflect real life or distort it?
GRAPHICS: "CATEGORY 6"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Nothing matches Mother Nature gone wild in those weather disaster movies. The special effects can blow an audience right out of their seats, and you'll definitely think twice about going on a cruise after seeing 'Poseidon..."
GRAPHICS: "POSEIDON"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) ...An enormous ocean wave bigger than anything ever recorded capsizes a cruise ship, and only a few passengers survive.
CLIP FROM "WATERWORLD"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) In another maritime movie, global warming causes water to cover the Earth. The science is so shaky in 'Waterworld" that Kevin Costner even grows webbed feet, and take a look behind his ears.
ACTOR (MALE)
Gills.
CLIP FROM VARIOUS MOVIES
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Is good science a myth in these movies? It's hard to tell when convincing visuals give light to fictitious weather catastrophes, from inland hurricanes to an imaginary icing.
DAVID KIRBY (AUTHOR)
I mean, cinema makes good science and bad science equally realistic.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Author David Kirby attended a recent National Science Foundation meeting of scientists and entertainment producers.
DAVID KIRBY (AUTHOR)
You should worry about the small details.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Their topic, legitimate science in TV and film. Kirby says audiences can be naive, some worrying about lava in there own backyards, for example, after seeing 'Volcano."
CLIP FROM "VOLCANO"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) In that movie, Tommy Lee Jones has good instincts when he first discovers a problem beneath Los Angeles.
TOMMY LEE JONES (ACTOR)
Find me a scientist, somebody tell me what the hell is going on.
JAKE LOWENSTERN (GEOLOGIST
You have to have the right scientist.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) That would be Jake Lowenstern, the geologist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. So how realistic is a lava flow down Wilshire Boulevard?
JAKE LOWENSTERN (GEOLOGIST
Los Angeles is not one of the more likely places to have a volcanic eruption anytime soon. That one was a little bit outrageous.
CLIP FROM "DANTE'S PEAK"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Lowenstern says movies need a scientific base, case in point, another volcano movie, 'Dante's Peak."
PIERCE BROSNAN (ACTOR)
This mountain's a ticking bomb.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Pierce Brosnan, the scientist, predicts the eruption. It's an explosion of ash and gases of obliterating buildings, toppling trees, and spreading destruction for miles.
KEVIN FURLONG (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
That's one of the scenes that probably is the most scientifically accurate. We know from when Mountain Saint Helens erupted, it blow outwards and it, it laid all the trees down in one direction.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Kevin Furlong and Chuck Ammon used clips from a dozen movies to supplement a course at Penn State University on natural disasters.
DOCTOR CHUCK AMMON (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Every clip is another exercise in critical thinking. Was that real? It was not fake. Is that realistic or is that completely unrealistic?
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) The professors find the worse the movie, the better the teaching tool. One of their favorites, 'Twister."
CLIP FROM "TWISTER"
HELEN HUNT (ACTRESS)
Cow.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) Cows are flying through the air. You can hear them moo.
DOCTOR CHUCK AMMON (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
It's like the 'Wizard of Oz."
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) I mean, am I right? When these thing's gonna go by you so quickly, you don't even know it's a cow.
KEVIN FURLONG (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Oh, sure, because you know that it's going at, what, 200 miles per hour or faster?
DOCTOR CHUCK AMMON (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
It's moving at bullet speeds.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) Some people got very angry about this in the weather profession because it makes it look like you don't need to get out of the way of a tornado.
KEVIN FURLONG (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Well, I think there's always that risk with any of these natural disaster movies that you are making it appear that people can survive them.
DOCTOR CHUCK AMMON (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Here's a, a shot of Hurricane Katrina. There's the eye of the storm.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) The class arms these students with the knowledge of real weather catastrophes.
DOCTOR CHUCK AMMON (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Katrina's storm surges were on the order of 15 feet and - in a couple of places up to 30 feet.
CLIP FROM "THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) But the storm surge in "The Day After Tomorrow" nearly covers the Statue of Liberty, a whopping 300 feet. That's 10 times the size of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge.
DENNIS QUAID (ACTOR)
I think we're on the verge of a major climate shift.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) In this 2004 blockbuster, global warming triggers a change in ocean patterns, setting off hailstorms in Tokyo, tornadoes in Los Angeles...
ACTOR (MALE)
This tornado just came and erased the Hollywood sign.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) ...and the enormous tidal surge engulfs Manhattan. The movie's visual effects supervisor was Karen Goulekas.
KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR
You started all of these and you say, okay, it's a 30-foot storm tide, a wall of water. But then you look in the shot and in some shots, 30 feet looks too wimpy. And so you just scale it up. What are you gonna do, show the water going up to the ankles of the Statue of Liberty? I mean, you know, it's obviously, if the Statue of Liberty's getting covered over, it's like, uh-oh, we're in big trouble.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL (ACTOR)
Let's go.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) The biggest trouble, an ice age that flash freezes most of the world. These clearly made up weather events in "The Day After Tomorrow" still resonated with the audience. In one study, a Yale professor found that after watching the movie, viewers were encouraged 'to engage in personal, political and social action to address climate change."
GRAPHICS: EXCERPT FROM ENVIRONMENT ARTICLE
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) "The Day After Tomorrow" dramatizes global warming with scenes like this.
ACTOR (MALE)
The whole damn shelf is breaking off.
AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)
These glaciers are so beautiful.
CLIP FROM "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Al Gore's 2006 documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth," makes the same point with actual video of ice shelves calving. Which shots have more impact?
AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)
And if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you'd see it's 700 feet tall. They are so majestic.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of 'The Day After Tomorrow."
KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR
Yeah, that's, that's our shot. That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) Audiences expect Hollywood to twist fact into fiction. But Gore's documentary does the opposite, using a fake shot to make a real point, that ice shelves are disappearing, and vanishing ice means global warming.
KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR)
That was one hell of a shot. I think it's great that he used it.
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Voiceover) It seems the decision for now is left to the audience. Can the same created image educate and entertain us about our planet in change?
SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) And it raises another question for you to consider. Is it wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated Hollywood shot to make a point, even if there's science behind it? Well, we tried to ask Al Gore and the movie studio, but neither responded to our calls. John Stossel will back right after this.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
JOHN STOSSEL (ABC NEWS)
And that's our program for tonight. Our thanks to Sam Champion for clearing up those myths about weather. And if you have myths you'd like to share about weather or anything, log on to my webpage at ABCNEWS.com. If you give us some original and surprising ones, we'll put them on '20/20" and in our next myth book. I'm John Stossel. For Elizabeth Vargas and all of us at ABC News and '20/20," we're in touch, so you be in touch.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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"Well, we tried to ask Al Gore and the movie studio, but
April 22, 2008 - 09:10 ET by fonzie2178neither responded to our calls."
Imagine that. Algore, once again called on the carpet, nowhere to be found. I heard they're also using video from GI Joe to illustrate Clinton/Gore's retaliation to all the terrorist attacks that happened while they were in charge.
That wasn't G.I. Joe........
April 22, 2008 - 09:35 ET by OldSailor88It was "Team America"
(cue the music)
Noli habere bovis, vir!
AMERICA _____
April 22, 2008 - 11:03 ET by red_dragon311AMERICA _____ YEA!!!!!!!!!!
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
But we already know what Al
April 22, 2008 - 10:08 ET by DJEddleBut we already know what Al Gore's response would be...
"In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis." - Al Gore, May 9, 2006
Here's the link.
So, as you can see, it is perfectly acceptable to greatly exaggerate the alleged human-induced climate changes so that people will listen to the solutions for the exaggerated problems. What's so hard to understand about that?
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That's not all; it was also
April 22, 2008 - 09:11 ET by Hero SquadThat's not all; it was also revealed that the Al Gore in the documentary was actually the robot from the film "Short Circuit."
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
You know,
April 22, 2008 - 09:43 ET by fonzie2178I thought he looked familiar, just couldn't place him. Thanks Hero!
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii83/fonzie2178/albore.jpg
LOL, well Johnny 5 did say
April 22, 2008 - 09:48 ET by taterLOL, well Johnny 5 did say he was alive. Bet he built the Al Gore suit with parts from Radio Shack.
By justice a king gives stability to a land; but he who imposes heavy taxes ruins it. -Proverbs 29:4
ET: Phone Home
April 22, 2008 - 09:34 ET by GothampcRumor has it he wanted to use E.T. and Tipper had to talk him into using the "Short Circuit" robot.
That was because
April 22, 2008 - 09:48 ET by fonzie2178she wanted Dot Matrix from Spaceballs to play her. Then they would look like a more believable couple.
LOL
September 22, 2008 - 17:02 ET by tshellExcept that this film lacked the gut wrenching plot twister of a broken battery line that looks like blood...and the notion that this very robot, could do a 180 and kill us all.
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Oops. Gore busted again.
April 22, 2008 - 09:19 ET by Wolfrem"And your sins shall be shouted from the mountaintops."
You are right, Noel, this is delicious. Pass the A1 steak sauce please.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
This Is A Proud Moment
April 22, 2008 - 09:31 ET by GothampcFirst ABC asks tough questions regarding the character of a Democrat in a POTUS candidate debate. Now they are questioning Al Gore.
Walk toward the light ABC. Fair and balanced is the way to go. You can do it. Come out of the darkness and into the marvelous light.
An Inconvenient Fabrication
April 22, 2008 - 09:34 ET by DJEddleReally? Al Gore was lying in his "documentary"? Say it ain't so! I thought he was the bringer of truth. He opened the eyes of the world to the greatest threat to mankind.
I'm serial.
What would we have done without this Oscar-winning, Nobel Prize-recipient educating all of us about our dangerous carbon polluting and catastrophic climate changing?
What an utter tool. It only took ABC News a few years to finally figure out that they've been getting duped. But somehow I doubt that won't stop them from calling us "deniers" anytime soon. Perhaps they should read this series:
Climate Change Stupidity
But I won't hold my breath.
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Recalls
April 23, 2008 - 10:35 ET by LionKingI wonder if the Academy can do a recall on his Oscar.
If the Nobel committee based any of their decision based on this lie, I wonder if they can do a recall on his Prize.
[ I wonder if people of integrity are glad the Gore lost in 2000. ]
Lemme guess, "Fake, but
April 22, 2008 - 09:42 ET by CortillaenLemme guess, "Fake, but Accurate"? *sigh* How many more pieces of that crook's propagandumentary have to be shown false before people wake up and smell the scam? Even in showing this clip to be falsified these nitwits defended it as the gospel truth. I'm beginning to want a mallet in that Doc-ish way.
www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi
Imagine that something else wrong with Al Gore's Movie...
April 22, 2008 - 09:55 ET by PopularTechAl's propaganda flick just gets better everyday...
Al Gore's climate change film 'is propaganda' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
UK Court finds 9 Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (The New Party, UK)
- Al Gore's Convenient Untruths (FOXNews)
- Al Gore's 'nine Inconvenient Untruths' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
- Al Gore told there are nine inconvenient truths in his film (The Times, UK)
- An Inconvenient Lie (WorldNetDaily)
- Gore caught lying (WorldNetDaily)
- Gore’s Nine Lies (FrontPage Magazine)
- Judge attacks nine errors in Al Gore's 'alarmist' climate change film (Daily Mail, UK)
- Judge says Al Gore film has serious scientific inaccuracies (The Earth Times)
Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias (Daily Mail, UK)
- British Schools Ordered to Offer 'Balance' When Showing Al Gore's Global Warming Film (FOXNews)
- So how did An Inconvenient Truth become required classroom viewing? (National Post, Canada)
35 Inconvenient Truths (Science & Public Policy Institute)
25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore (The National Review Online)
20 More inaccuracies (PDF) (UKPRwire)
16 Errors in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (Science & Public Policy Institute)
8 Questions for Al Gore (Roy Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology)
6 Inconvenient Truths Indeed (Robert C. Balling, Ph.D. Geography)
75 Falsehoods in Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (Book) (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Physics)
I wonder why Al has 'no comment' on all his scientific errors too?
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I am celebrating earth day
April 22, 2008 - 10:25 ET by USA4freedomI am celebrating earth day by driving my F250 diesel all day..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Romney / Jendil 2012 (if,we survive)
I am celebrating by becoming a Vegan-by-proxie
April 22, 2008 - 12:09 ET by Ruths husband BenI am only going to each herbevores. Except for fish. Oh, and chicken and turkeys too. But really mainly herbevores. Maybe an occasional omnivore (if I ever get the chance to kill a bear). Does a racoon count as an omnivore?
Okay, I guess I won't be a vegan-by-proxie. I'll have to think of some other way to celebrate earth day. Maybe I'll dye my beer green.
"The Day After
April 22, 2008 - 10:31 ET by QueenMum"The Day After Tomorrow"
"The movie was inspired by The Coming Global Superstorm, a book co-authored by Coast to Coast AM talk radio host Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. Strieber also wrote the film's novelization."
Ha! Ha! ROFL This revelation should be a sound blow to Globaloney. It seems that Gore and friends are having a hard time determining the difference between fantasy and reality - a clear sign of serious cognitive impairment.
Look for Gore to take on the problem of deciphering crop circles next. Since he's someone who's spent time in the highest levels of our government, I'm sure he's holding back what he really knows about alien abductions as well. At least until he figures out a way to establish UFO credits. LOL
I am the exotic Queen Mum, and I approved this message.
The Day After Tomorrow is Pure Science Fiction
April 22, 2008 - 10:34 ET by PopularTechYet I run into many people who still believe it to be possible when nothing could be further from the truth...
'Day After Tomorrow': A lot of hot air (Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology, USA Today)
Disaster Flick Exaggerates Speed Of Ice Age (Science Daily)
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I wind up watching this
April 22, 2008 - 10:36 ET by balboaI wind up watching this movie whenever it comes on. I just like a good disaster movie, cool special effects.
Once is more then enough
April 22, 2008 - 10:46 ET by PopularTechI dislike movies where people act idiotic throughout. Since this movie I found myself saying "that's stupid" FAR too many times I avoid it at all costs. But the idiotic end where every square inch of the US was apparently covered in ice that conveniently stopped at the Mexican border sealed the deal as one of the worst movies of all time. Um, if we wanted to get into Mexico our army would just roll right across the border. Now that I think of it I don't believe I own any disaster movies. I wonder why?
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Lack of imagination?
April 22, 2008 - 10:55 ET by balboaLack of imagination? :-)
I know the movie is far-fetched, but that's what a good disaster movie is.
The Poseidon Adventure! The Towering Inferno! Great stuff.
No, I just hate stupidity
April 22, 2008 - 10:58 ET by PopularTechI can't watch movies where various characters act stupid over and over and slowly get killed off. The remake of the Poseidon Adventure was garbage and I was never thrilled about the original, the same with the Towering Inferno. I like science fiction just not most disaster movies since they have many people acting dumb then dying.
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B
April 22, 2008 - 11:34 ET by Noel SheppardB,
This film is worth watching just to see NYC getting drowned in a tidal wave. Poetic justice in my view!!! :-) ns
I see the tidal wave as
April 22, 2008 - 14:23 ET by Chris NormanI see the tidal wave as symbolic of red ink... :)
Stellar acting,
April 22, 2008 - 11:32 ET by Roger the ShrubberStellar acting, too!
Quaid's best performance since "Inner Space"!
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So, now it's official: An
April 22, 2008 - 10:52 ET by Matthew VadumSo, now it's official: An Inconvenient Truth is fiction. Way to go, Al!
—Matthew Vadum is Editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch, two monthly newsletters published by Capital Research Center
Calving
April 22, 2008 - 10:55 ET by scamoramaOne point that never seems to be made is that a glacier calves because it's moving, and it's moving because it's growing.
The ice shelf on Greenland is growing, so it makes perfect sense that there wll be calving taking place on the coast.
And it raises another
April 22, 2008 - 11:23 ET by seaniepAnd it raises another question for you to consider. Is it wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated Hollywood shot to make a point, even if there's science behind it?
this questions illustrates a whole lot about our "News", is it okay to lie when you think its a good idea?
I hear rumor that, in Al
April 22, 2008 - 11:34 ET by Roger the ShrubberI hear rumor that, in Al Gore's upcoming sequal, the movie ends with a him foretelling our future, standing in front of this.
It's a small world
April 22, 2008 - 16:56 ET by Mike From CanmoreI had to laugh. Couldn't sleep the other night and sure enough, Planet of the Apes was on. Hadn't watched it since I was a little kid so missed the greater message. It immediately made me think of the whole climate debate. Dr. Zeus (sp?) - the blondish ape who was minister of science and culture/religion or whatever it is. Essentially it is the truth, because we say it's so, no matter what amount of facts you put in front of us.
Anyway, small world.
Dr. Zaius
April 22, 2008 - 18:03 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsI think you mean the famous Dr. Zaius.
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Gore
April 22, 2008 - 11:52 ET by okiehawk44Al Gore was flying over the ice shelf looking for another opportunity to plant CO2 fighting (or is that emitting?) trees -- "There, there!" he shouts as he sees a flat area surrounded by water (albeit saltwater) where his carbon offsets will be planted and watered until they grow as big as him. Now, Tipper gently coaxes him back into his straight jacket so he can take another nap. Such promise she thinks to herself. His parents had such big plans for him. They did everything and took money from communist sympethizers and all, and now look at the giant lump of quivering crap lying there. Tipper sighs again and clicks on her YouTube page. If it weren't for all the money they were making off the suckers with this global warming scam, she would just as soon move back to Tennessee.
Champion challenges Blakemore
April 22, 2008 - 12:13 ET by acumenHow can ABC's Champion expect to be taken seriously while attempting to add balance to climate reporting? Doing so flys in the face of ABC's Bill Blakemore (another warming guy) that has already gone on the record stating "balance" is not necessary; "As such, it (Inconvenient Truth) needs not so much balance...” and that there is no debate; “After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific] debate” on global warming.
Moon Landing on a Backset?
April 22, 2008 - 12:52 ET by danboCorrect me if 'm wrong. Didn't someone recently claim skeptics were those who believed the moon landings were staged on a backset in Arizona?
Not the moon landing. But AGWing?
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
FOUL AL
April 22, 2008 - 13:24 ET by AV1RICKThe sad truth is that it took ABC to point this out to the mass of dopes that believed that fat piece of crap to begin with.
So will he get yet another nobel prise for being able to fool all the DOPES on the knot head bell award committee? Or another oscar because all the HOMO's and hollyweird type DOPES voted for the film.
I'm guessing that the Hollywood Homo's and Dopes won't take back their "award" for Foul Al's movie even though it got the documentary award for a fictional film. Nice.
And people wonder why they don't like Hollyweird?
DrudgeReport pointing to
April 22, 2008 - 14:17 ET by ckc1227DrudgeReport pointing to this story here now. You have now made it to the big time. :)
Science Fiction should pass the smell test
April 22, 2008 - 15:08 ET by Tim the EnchanterI found "The Day After Tomorrrow" to be very weak almost right from the get-go. Remember the scene at the ocean temperature monitoring station (or whatever it was), where the ocean temperatures were dropping like a stone, and alarms were going off all over the place?
For those of you who have decent math or physics chops, try the following. Take the volume of water that was affected by the temperature drop, and calculate the amount of energy that had to be lost to effect that change. Then, determine the power (time-rate use of energy) that had to be expended in order to effect the temperature change in the time period that was shown. Then, determine what the source of power was that had the capacity to generate and expend that energy amount of time shown. Be prepared to see some pretty ridiculously-sized numbers.
Good science fiction should fall within the realm of the possible, and believable. Maybe we are seeing the start of a new genre here... science farce.
The whole movie is a
April 22, 2008 - 15:49 ET by the_red_stateThe whole movie is a fictional video.
Yes it is... But a whole
April 22, 2008 - 15:54 ET by Clear thinkerYes it is...
But a whole lot of people believed the so called science in that movie.
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Internet
April 22, 2008 - 16:55 ET by pgpcolbyAny man who invented the internet can certainly invent global warming.
P.S. Stories usually go at least 24 hours on Drudge. This one was only up briefly and has already been removed. Hmmm...
Seems to me that Mary Mapes,
April 22, 2008 - 18:41 ET by fitzfongSeems to me that Mary Mapes, Dan Rather and Bill Burkett were all denied their producers credits for this film.
Iknow that the big worries,
May 17, 2008 - 09:33 ET by yahIknow that the big worries, ice age, which flash freeze most world. These are clear created events of the weather in day after tomorrow still resounded the auditorium. In one analysis, the professor Yale found that after observe the cinema, spectators could ' to concern with personal, political and public action to address change the climate.
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