In the March 5-11 edition of Variety, film critic Scott Foundas hailed "Everything's Cool," a new documentary from the Sundance Film Festival featuring Heidi Cullen of the Weather Channel and former Boston Globe-nik Ross Gelbspan (the man who believes global warming will soon ruin professional baseball.) Foundas asked: "Can a movie about global warming be called lighthearted? If so, Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand's "Everything's Cool" comes as close as one imagines possible, essaying yet more inconvenient truths about the future of our planet in the same buoyant, irreverent style the filmmakers brought to their last activist docu, 'Blue Vinyl.'"
Foundas reported "colorful personalities abound, from global warming 'poet laureate' Bill McKibben to Weather Channel on-air climatologist Heidi Cullen and, most intriguingly, authors Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, whose essay 'The Death of Environmentalism' levied harsh criticism on the traditional environmental movement and advocated a new progressivism."
The critic, also with the alternative paper L.A. Weekly, especially liked how the film "can be downright euphoric in its sense of ordinary people doing their part for the planet, capped by the remarkable image of some 1,000 Inuit villagers (together with special guest stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Salma Hayek) arranging their bodies into a massive human art project that spells out the words 'Arctic Warning' when seen from above."
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heidi cullen
March 5, 2007 - 17:53 ET by DontabYea Heidi you keep digging that hole a little deeper.Your credibility is at the bottom of it.
Gorbal warming a sickness, not a science.
Heidi and Al
March 5, 2007 - 18:09 ET by Dave RSo, the Weather NAZI (Heidi Cullen) is teaming up with the Godfather of the GW Mafia (Al Gorleone).
I bet that is a HUGE thrill to the four viewers The Weather Channel has left. I'm guessing the fifth viewer was that poor old mummified guy they found sitting in front of his TV in that apartment up in New York a while back.
No, I'm not High. :-)
No soup for her!
March 6, 2007 - 12:50 ET by Tim the EnchanterNo soup for her!
Global Warming... can't bri
March 5, 2007 - 18:18 ET by Tim the EnchanterGlobal Warming... can't bring it on fast enough for me- we're expecting near-record lows tonight!
Yep, some of that Inconvenien
March 5, 2007 - 18:19 ET by bigtimerYep, some of that Inconvenient Truth is coming to the east coast....
Brrrr!
Geesh...some temperatures all over the country are breaking or nearing records this winter....for coldness Heidi...coldness.
Brrrrr....
Al Gore's $176000 White House Airlift in May 2001
March 5, 2007 - 18:46 ET by blackrain4xmasWith every story about Al Gore and global warming, I get that warm fuzzy feeling inside, just wondering if anyone ever looks at Federal Election Commission records? I wonder if the global warming ranter or ravenet knows that 4 months after the Bush Administration moved into the White House, the DNC gave Al Gore $176,000+ for a "White House Airlift". Forget the cost, I mean, we all make $176000 a day, right? Ok, then how about the need for a full on airlift from the White House? And was the guy even there 4 months into the Bush Administration (doubt it)?
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Sometimes I dunno what bothers me more: that he and other politicians get away with this kind of theft, or that they feel so comfortable and arrogant about it that they even do the paperwork for the public to see...knowing damn well no one is looking. No one cares. Just give us our Day After Tomorrow movies, some soundbites, and that's it.
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That film should never have w
March 5, 2007 - 19:07 ET by ucThat film should never have won an Oscar with Al Gore in it. Film completely fails to provide wise political worldly leadership (Is this why Al Gore was cast?). Can anyone imagine how China might feel if say President Bush started immediately sounding like Al Gore in the film and in the Oscars? Would they see such an undeveloped display of economics of the subject as portrayed as a slap in their face? Would they just maybe see it as a sign that America lost its mind and economic adjustments should immediately be made? Would there market reflect this obviously or coyly? (did I spell coy-ly correctly?)
The world isn't flat it is "Flattening." Expecting Al Gore to have provided a universally exceptable plan was never expected but getting an Oscar for such is unfathomable. President Bush please stay your course. Though China needs coal plant and needs even more they are finishing the largest hydroelectric damn in the world that may already be providing the 10 percent of their total energy needs.
Glad Hillary's economic plans were not also rewarded that Sunday. >> you know the take their profits and then spend these funds to fundamentally cut into their profits.
I cannot believe Hillary spoke as she did this past weekend what with her living and driving around with her level of government protection and her wealth. A truely miscast and unbelievable performance.
The Weather Channel's fascist bimbo jumped on the wrong career t
March 5, 2007 - 21:22 ET by RJOops! Looks like the Weather Channel's fascist bimbo has jumped on the wrong career train.
Prominent French scientist reverses belief in anthropogenic Global Warming...now a skeptic...Climate models and studies have failed dismally in establishing a man-made cause of catastrophic global warming....increasing evidence indicates that most of the warming comes of natural phenomena...Global Warming is over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank....the arguments of those who see catastrophe in climate change are simplistic. -Claude Allegre (one of Frances leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists)
"Momentum is shifting away from scientific theories bolstering anthropocentric models of global warming and toward skeptics who do not see a link between human activity and rising temperatures..." -Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
Heidi Cullen
March 6, 2007 - 00:11 ET by pbthinkerI wonder, after reading the Imhofe article on CNS, if Heidi will lose her AMS certification if the "science" continues to fall apart? Will Gore have to give back his Oscar if the science falls apart? Will the Europeans get back the billions they've already spent trying to conform to Kyoto, only to find out they're saving a possible temperature increase of less than .1 deg. C?
and THEN to find out .1 C
March 6, 2007 - 00:25 ET by upcountrywaterand THEN to find out .1 C is caused by the sun LMAO
Hey guys/gals! Hope everyon
March 6, 2007 - 12:59 ET by tgibbsjrHey guys/gals! Hope everyone is well today! I hope that this is still on topic. If not, please forgive me. I hear, and read, where pro GW "climatologists" criticize meteorologist (please forgive if spelling is incorrect) for their stance against GW. My question is what is the difference (educational, professional, etc.) between a "climatologist" and a "meteorologist"? Please forgive my ignorance. Thank you all, in advance!
Differences
March 6, 2007 - 16:27 ET by MichiganManI think the difference is that a meteorologist forecasts the weather, mostly for the short term (1 - 7 days) while climatologists study weather patterns over many years and try to come to conclusions about what the weather will be like and what is driving the weather many years in the future There is probably a bit more to it than that, but that should cover the basics.