Tagged: Al Gore

Hollywood loses what’s left of its mind

Variety.com is reporting that Hollywood is crediting global warming with creating this summer’s box office boom, forgetting that the same cause was cited the past few years for drooping box office results.

Credit at least one studio exec for common sense. According to Variety, Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said, “Box office was up this summer because the movies were good. All the people I talk to say it’s really all about the product.”

But whether news is good or bad, never let it be said that Hollywood missed an opportunity to politicize things. Here’s this, straight from Variety.com:

Is global warming good for Hollywood? Extreme heat and heavy rain across large swaths of the U.S. sent more people to theaters, looking for relief. The onset of the extreme weather — record-breaking temperatures in the western U.S., rain up and down the Eastern seaboard, the Midwest and Texas — started at the end of June, just as the box office was starting to see a bump. “You went from dreadful heat to downpours,” Snyder says. “Historically, we’ve seen a bounce in grosses when the weather is bad. Also, when kids can’t go outside, and make their parents nuts, they send them to the movies.”

Umm… right. Or, more appropriately… left. Before you know it, Algore and John Edwards will be starring in an NBC drama as truck accident lawyers.

Randy Stonehill was right: “It’s a great, big, stupid world.”

Live Aid … So Madonna is now a scientist?

Name the last meteorological genius known as much for her open tip bras as for her scientific acumen. Go ahead, think. I’ll wait.

The answer is, apparently, Madonna. Not only has the former Detroit pop princess dropped her Midwestern nasal voice for a fake British accent, but the vocalist who could be Gwen Stefani’s mom now wants us to believe that she knows more about future climate change than, say, our beloved Twin Cities meteorologist, Dave Dahl.

That’s about all I got out of the few minutes of Al Gore’s global warming Kool-Aid concert that I could stomach. (Of course, the Jonestown massacre reference is probably lost on anyone under 40.)

So, while the sexbot-mom, Madonna, plots new ways to offend the Vatican during her next concert tour, remember, you don’t need a scientific Ph.D. to predict climate change impacts. In fact, it’s better if you have no scientific background at all, just like Algore and Madonna.

One final pitch: Instead of Algore Convenient Falsehood, try watching – at least once, if for no other purpose than for pennance after watching Live Aid – try watching the BBC documentary, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.”

You’ll never look at Algore (or any other invertabrit) the same way again!

Gore poised to win for "Truth" SciFi flick

While the “useful idiots” in Hollywood seem poised to honor former VP Al Gore with a Best Documentary Oscar for his science fiction film, An Inconvenient Truth, Cato Institute environmentalist Patrick J. Michaels has posted a column which eviscerates the film’s plethora of fictional “scientific facts.” Not that lying is a barrier to winning a documentary, these days, as Michael Moore proved a few years ago with Bowling for Columbine.

Among the highlights of falsehoods, Gore’s film claims that global warming could melt most of the ice in Greenland, raising the ocean’s water level by “20 feet” by the year 2100. That’s dramatically at odds, even with the panic-stricken U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who estimate the ocean’s water-levels to rise only by eight to 17 inches, not 20 feet.

Michaels’ column is full of other facts that completely render Gore’s film irrelevant in a discussion of facts – even facts touted by the most virulent global warming fanatics. Yet Hollywood is prepared tonight to embrace it and honor it more dearly than a Catholic Bible.

Guess it just goes to prove the old truism: there’s no fixing stupid.

Antarctic temps slap Hollywood saps!

Even as Al Gore plans his little “global warming WeFest,” dragging plenty of “useful idiot” celebrities along with him, a new report by real climate scientists report results from a 50-year study of Antarctica, the world’s southern-most continent, indicate it’s all bull.

According to a report on EurekAlert.org, “A new report on climate over the world’s southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models … a similar finding from last summer by the same research group showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.”

The lead scientist behind the report is David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.

Prof. Bromwich goes to great lengths in trying to justify that global warming still works, even though all evidence in Antarctica denies such a “reality.” Yet in this case, facts speak louder than a conference in Paris… the factual basis for a global warming hypothesis is looking like a person taking too many diet supplements… it’s getting smaller every day.