Calling in Hollywood to burnish the “settled science” of global warming:
Keeping the public looped in on what scientists are discovering has never been easy. For one thing, the traditional explainers – journalists – can distort, hype, or oversimplify the latest breakthroughs. But the need to communicate science broadly and clearly has never been more urgent…
…One effort, announced at the meeting, will recruit Hollywood to help scientists tell their stories. NAS and the University of Southern California will team up to draw on USC’s expertise in film, TV, websites, and video games. The partnership will be the first between a federal agency and a film school.
“Entertainment media has been pretty much untapped as far as science literacy goes,” Dr. Fink says. A huge portion of the public doesn’t go to science museums or watch science programming on TV, she says. “Those are the eyeballs we’re trying to capture.”…
Are they kidding? No, I’m afraid they’re not. Either they are stupid, or they think we are. While Hollywood is a lot of things, “truth factory” has never been among them. Even when Hollywood tells a “true” story, its still modified for dramatic effect. Remember, you have to make war exciting – so you don’t concentrate on the logistical build up, the endless training and the long periods of inactivity…such things, which are vital in war (and, indeed, are often decisive), don’t make for good movies. And so when a war picture is made, its all about the action.
If you’re going to try to present climate science in movies, then what are you going to do with your one to two hours? Concentrate on the data, mathematical calculations and comparisons with past events? No – you’re going to show huge storms, polar bears on ice flows…all with dramatic, threatening music and thirty second sound bites of alarmist predictions. Because you want people glued to the idiot box or theater seat.
In short, what we’ll get might rate as excellent entertainment, but not something worth while for decision purposes. But that, of course, is what is wanted. They want people entertained – propagandized; primed to believe certain things…convinced that the smart and good looking people are all on board for anthropogenic global warming. That will make it easier for Gore to sell carbon credits and grant-mongering scientists to keep the money flowing in.
It won’t work. The people are wise to this sort of thing. This is the last, desperate effort of a con artists to save the scam.
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