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This is a spinoff page which uses material that was once found on either the Global Warming Page or the page about Cultural and political bias in motion pictures. Hollywood is notorious for political propaganda disguised as entertainment, and nothing makes for a disaster movie like an environmental catastrophe, whether real or imaginary. Unfortunately, many of today's poorly educated young people don't know propaganda when they see it, and no matter what comes up on the screen, they leave the movie theaters thinking they've just seen a documentary. Leonardo DiCaprio's Eco Movie Bombs. I hesitated to say before "11th Hour" actually opened how mind-numbingly dull it was for fear that I would ruin it for those interested in the subject of global warming. But at Cannes, when the film by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen was shown to journalists, nearly the entire room fell asleep. … "The 11th Hour" is grindingly boring. Basically, a series of scientists, one after another, warn the audience that the world is coming to an end. These talking heads are interspersed with stock footage of melting glaciers. Animal planet: Evan Almighty suggests that God is unhappy with how we have treated the environment. In Evan God is sending a flood because we cut down too many trees — an idea that's tired not because it's a lie but because it is a Hollywood cliché. Bait and switch: Previews for Happy Feet give moviegoers no idea what they are in for. … There is nothing happy about the dark final 40 minutes as George Miller unleashes a political screed aimed at overfishing and human littering, among other things. [A character named] Mumble goes after the humans, now "aliens," lands himself — predictably — in a zoo and summons a montage of fast-paced talking points on environmentalism. 'Happy Feet' Cartoon Is More Al Gore Sky-Is-Falling Propaganda. Media commentator Michael Medved has recently exposed the Al Gore propaganda message of the new theatrical release, "Happy Feet," featuring lovable dancing penguins. According to Medved, "Recent controversies involving environmental and gay-marriage messages in Hollywood cartoons and storybooks for young children show that in our current climate, even the youngest kids and the most endearing denizens of Antarctica can become targets and instruments of powerful propaganda." Michael Medved reviews 'Happy Feet'. This politically correct pastiche is visually dazzling but painfully unpleasant to watch with its penguin protagonist experiencing pain and danger through nearly all of its running time. The messages about evil humans ruining everything and pointlessly thwarted love contribute to a decidedly downbeat experience. 'Happy Feet' Stumbles. For the first half of the movie I enjoyed the slightly offbeat, familiar romp about themes such as being different, intolerance, and the need to loosen up and embrace diversity. Even though I am a Christian pastor, I could overcome the negative stereotypes of all things spiritual or religious (all such figures were intolerant of diversity, frauds, liars, sticks-in-the-mud or outright debauches). In any case, to mid-point the movie was entertaining and amusing. The second half of the movie seemed to have been written by a very dull member of Greenpeace. "Hoot" falls short. Few children's films are as nakedly indoctrinating as this one. … Setting aside for a moment the borderline eco-terrorism the film supports, its secondary message that police aren't to be trusted, parents are to be ignored, and teachers are only cool if they overlook a little truancy is hardly one most moms and dads will support. Hoot's greatest weakness is its willingness to use end-justifies-the-means reasoning for the teens' actions. Mullet Fingers is a runaway who defies the police. He vandalizes a work site, a bulldozer and a police car. He, Beatrice and Roy lie on multiple occasions to hospital workers, police, the mayor and just about anyone else who gets in their way. "Too Hot" Not So Hot. The latest triumph of the global warming crusade is a one hour HBO special entitled "Too Hot Not Too Handle" that is premiering in several cities this month. … If we adopted every suggestion in the film, concentration of carbon dioxide will still double this century. The reality avoided in the film is that China is currently building over 500 coal-fired power plants; they intend to build one new coal fired plant every week for decades to come, and no matter what we do in the US, emissions from throughout the world will drive atmospheric carbon dioxide levels steadily upward. The Day After Tomorrow is just a cheesy disaster movie whose overlay of politically-motivated environmental concern is meant to supply a veneer of sophistication. Transparent as as this is, it is even less successful at concealing the fact that, like so much of environmentalism, it is really anti-Americanism in disguise. Hypocrisy on the Environment: The Day After Tomorrow came across as the largest piece of environmental propaganda in history. Throughout the movie, conservatives are portrayed as evil, greedy, anti-environment myrmidons. The Day After Rupert Murdoch Takes Over America: The Day After Tomorrow, a flick that purports to warn about destruction wrought by global warming, crashes into multiplexes across the land on May 28. Already, Al Gore and the lefty Internet clearing house MoveOn.org are planning to exploit the movie's New York premiere with a rally the same day. MoveOn.org is calling it "the movie the White House doesn't want you to see." Global Warming Propaganda Coming to Movie Screens. Global warming propagandists have been using bogus "science" and frightening scenarios for years in an ongoing campaign aimed at empowering the United Nations to deal with this ginned-up "crisis." Many, no doubt, are hoping that The Day After Tomorrow will help unfreeze the UN's Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. Senate has, so far, refused to ratify. Cool Summer Throws Ice on Global Warming Alarmists. It's been a disappointing summer for global warming alarmists. The summer began with so much promise for the climate control crowd, with the release of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow." Although the movie made plenty of money, global warming activists wanted much more than that. They hoped it would foment global warming hysteria in the same way that "The China Syndrome" and "Silkwood" contributed to public sentiment against nuclear power plants. Instead, the movie was so over-the-top in its portrayal of implausible weather phenomena that no one — not even the usually global warming-sympathetic media — took it seriously. Don't Trust Hollywood Science: Global Warming Won't Cause a New Ice Age. "The Day After Tomorrow," is the subject of a multi-million dollar PR campaign touting it as if it were not fiction, but cinema verite - a realistic warning of what could happen if we don't dismantle our modern economy to stave off global warming. Yet the extreme scenarios promoted by global warming theory advocates are supported more by political ideology than by science. "Behind the Mask" PETA & The ALF, Coming To A Theater Near You. The radical animal rights group [PETA] is actively promoting a new film that glorifies the domestic-terrorist Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Along with several leaders of the violent animal rights fringe — including ALF arsonist Rodney Coronado, maritime saboteur Paul Watson, and the murder-endorsing Jerry Vlasak — the movie includes an interview with PETA president Ingrid Newkirk. In her close-up moment, Newkirk praises masked criminals for being "smart enough to know that they need to fight another day. They don't want to be recognized by law enforcement." Apocalypse Soon? Environmental fear creates political pressure. The release of a global warming propaganda film is being timed to influence the outcome of the US presidential election and help to pass legislation in Congress. In June [2004], a week or two after the release of "The Day After Tomorrow", Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman will reintroduce a bill (S 139) to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in a fashion similar to the U.N.'s infamous Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Inconvenient Truths Indeed. Near the end of [Al Gore's] film, we learn of ways the United States could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases back to the levels of 1970. OK. Assume the United States accomplishes this lofty goal, would we see any impact on climate? The well-known answer is no. China, India and many other countries are significantly increasing their emission levels, and global concentrations of CO2 may double this century no matter what we decide to do in the United States. Inconvenient Gore: "An Inconvenient Truth", will debut at a movie theatre near you soon, starring a man who introduces himself these days as the man "who used to be the next President of the United States." That man is Al Gore who, since losing his bid in 2000 to lead this country, has given us all cause to thank a merciful God for sparing us his unflagging lunacy. Warmed Over. Mr. Gore's next movie should be about the urge to propitiate the gods with sacrifices, a ritual whose appeal did not go out with the Aztecs. Yes, Al, let us give billions to alternative energy bureaucrats and emissions regulators. This we do as a tribute to your shamanism, although it will make little appreciable difference to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists. Here's an inconvenient truth for "An Inconvenient Truth": Remember what they used to call "climate change"? "Global warming." And what did they call it before that? "Global cooling." That was the big worry in the '70s: the forthcoming ice age. Back then, Lowell Ponte had a huge best seller called The Cooling: Has the new ice age already begun? Can we survive? Nature Magazine Provides the Latest "Inconvenient Truth" for Globetrotter Al Gore. Al Gore continues to be the comedic gift that keeps on giving. First, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) revealed on May 24, 2006, that Gore has used enough hydrocarbons to circle the globe to present over 1,000 Power Point presentations on climate change. CEI also revealed that he recently used five large SUVs to haul his movie entourage a mere 500 yards at the Cannes Film Festival in France, all the while admonishing others to curtail their own energy use. Poor Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth: It Isn't Science. Activist cinema has no place in science and scientific discussions. [Al Gore's] supporters go on to say that Gore wrote "An Inconvenient Truth" from a "passionate conviction" that the future of our environment is in grave danger. Sorry again, but passionate convictions won't get you a "C" in freshman physics, let alone a responsible position in the climate change discussions. Does Gore overheat global warming? Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," continues to trigger heated discussions about global warming, as well as Mr. Gore's political ambitions, real or imagined. … In the film, Gore points to Mt. Kilimanjaro as an example of global warming's impact on alpine glaciers. Robert Balling, a climatologist at Arizona State University writes, however, that the shrinking glaciers atop Africa's famed volcano have been disappearing for more than a century. Two studies published in 2004 suggest the retreat was triggered by declining rainfall since the end of the 1800s. Al Gore's convenient fiction. Let me be clear: The problem with Gore is not that he is a hypocrite. The problem with Gore is that he has no idea he is not Lancelot. He has this scary ability to block out any facts that make him less than a perfect selfless eco-hero, and in his need to present himself as the world's savior, he'll say anything — no matter how hysterical. Al Gore's film may win an Oscar, but it won't gain many converts. In making the case for immediate action to stop global warming, the former vice president is articulate, concise, and even winsome, at times. But Mr. Gore's radical political agenda and tendency for half-truth have undergone no such makeover. In what amounts to a filmed slideshow, interspersed with indulgent autobiographical footage and voiceovers, Mr. Gore employs stage tricks, straw men, and well-rehearsed rhetoric to contend that opposition views on climate change are rooted in callous profiteering. The gods are laughing. Albert Einstein once said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." While the gods must consider An Inconvenient Truth the ultimate comedy, real climate scientists are crying over Al Gore's new film. This is not just because the ex-vice-president commits numerous basic science mistakes. They are also concerned that many in the media and public will fail to realize that this film amounts to little more than science fiction. PowerPoint Politics: Before "Inconvenient Truth" enjoys its inevitable rendezvous with Oscar next spring, let me say a little bit about its message. … In the movie, Gore compares the threat of CO2 to the threat posed by Hitler, and so it's clear that he wants us to drop just about everything else in order to focus on the global-warming threat. But for my part, I don't agree, and I am not so sure that many others do, either. That's what's inconveniently missing from this film: a sense of scale, a sense of tradeoffs. If we choose to get more action against global warming, what will we get less of? "Too much Gore". Reviews by Democratic activists of "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warning: raves on content, not so favorable on the principal actor. Democratic politicians who have seen the movie … contend there is "too much Gore," including aspects of his personal life that have nothing to do with the environment. Inconvenient truth about global warming. A panel of eminent scientists testified yesterday [6/22/2006] at a congressional hearing on global warming … Their presentation was studded with "likely," "maybe," "could be," and "very close to being right" … The timing of the hearings, just when Al Gore's fading horror movie about global warming needs a little mojo at the box office, is no doubt mere coincidence. Al's Big Adventure: Gore — earth tones, orange face and all — tried every trick in the book to prove his alpha maleness in the 2000 presidential election, but alas, to no avail. Since then, he has dedicated himself to his true calling — picking up where he left off after leaving seminary, and building a cathedral of worship for his cadre of eco-nuts. … "An Inconvenient Truth" is a documentary knockoff of last years pop film, "The Day After Tomorrow," only less credible. Gore's Global Warming Snow Job: Gore's indulgent exercise in doomsaying has morphed from a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation into the feature film, An Inconvenient Truth. While the man who would be President deftly handles his self-portrayal of a con-artist and the Main Stream Media eagerly accept the role of his shills, we, the crowd, get to pay our silver to be mystified and astounded. Questions for Al Gore: There seems to be a lot of recent concern that more polar bears are drowning these days because of disappearing sea ice. I assume you know that polar bears have always migrated to land in late summer when sea ice naturally melts back, and then return to the ice when it re-freezes. Also, if this was really happening, why did the movie ["An Inconvenient Truth"] have to use a computer generated animation of the poor polar bear swimming around looking for ice? The Pseudoscientific Gospel According to Al Gore: Those who still believe that Al invented the internet, still bow at his feet. But as a fellow Tennessean who lives only miles from his alleged Tennessee home, (where he never lives), I see him as most Tennesseans do. An idiot prepared to say anything to win political power. … His global warming gospel, "An Inconvenient Truth", which seems to be an outright lie, is intended to drive uneducated federal dependents to the democratic side of the ballot at election time. 25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore: Iain Murray, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes a devastating critique of the new movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," featuring Al Gore, and its companion book. Murray says Gore "leaves out many truths that are inconvenient for his argument," and goes on to list and document 25 facts that contradict Gore's alarmist depiction of future climate change. It's the end as he knows it. The "inconvenient truth" that Gore has selflessly dedicated his life to warn us about is that "humanity is sitting on a time bomb". … Humans have polluted the atmosphere so much in the past 50 years that diseases and parasites are spreading, from lice and ebola to malaria. He provides no evidence, and doesn't mention that the rise of malaria coincided with the banning of the pesticide DDT, the most effective weapon against mosquitoes. The Importance Of Being Ernesto: One of the tenets of the global warmers is that global warming and the Bush administration's indifference to it are causing an escalation in hurricane frequency and intensity. Al Gore made that claim a central feature of his full-length cartoon, "An Inconvenient Truth." "An Inconvenient Truth" is a bit hysterical. Consider the first paragraph of the first section on the movie's website: I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that even most believers in the global warming theory would call this misleading at best. "The vast majority of the world's scientists" don't even work on climate. Among those scientists who do, "the vast majority" DO NOT claim "we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe."Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. A Skeptic's Guide to 'An Inconvenient Truth': An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Vice President Al Gore's book on "The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be done about it," is not the non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common-sense that it purports to be. Rather, AIT is a colorfully illustrated lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing. Scientists: Gore Goes Too Far in 'An Inconvenient Truth'. Several experts on climate change, including both proponents and skeptics of the man-made global warming theory, question former Vice President Al Gore's assertions in his Academy Award-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth." Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth": One-sided, Misleading, Exaggerated, Speculative, Wrong. An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore's book on "The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be done about it," purports to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common sense. In reality, An Inconvenient Truth is a colorfully illustrated lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing. It is a J'Accuse hurled at fossil fuel energy-based civilization, especially the United States, and above all the Bush Administration and its purported allies in the U.S. oil and auto industries. Inconvenient truths: The largest single factor driving the debate on global warming is the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. The movie has been marketed as a scientific documentary, but in fact it is an artful and deceptive propaganda film. The claims made in An Inconvenient Truth are either wrong, disingenuous, or misleading. Global Warming Skepticism: In all honesty, though, there was artistic merit to the Gore film. It was, for instance, remarkably effective at humanizing Gore. As a politician he was long seen as wooden and almost sterile, unable to relate to the average person. This was reinforced by his two terms as Bill Clinton's vice president, a role that relegated him to the position of sidekick to the more affable — and important — president. But An Inconvenient Truth challenged that perception. Will Al Gore Melt? If not, why did he chicken out on an interview? Mr. Gore's is a convenient story, but isn't it against the facts? He considers Antarctica the canary in the mine, but again doesn't tell the full story. He presents pictures from the 2% of Antarctica that is dramatically warming and ignores the 98% that has largely cooled over the past 35 years. The U.N. panel estimates that Antarctica will actually increase its snow mass this century. Similarly, Mr. Gore points to shrinking sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere, but don't mention that sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere is increasing. Shouldn't we hear those facts? An Inaccurate Depiction of the State of Global Warming Science. Throughout the film Gore displays his passion for the global warming issue, and it is obvious that he has dedicated a substantial amount of time to learning about climate change and the greenhouse effect. This leads to an obvious question. The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in December of 1997 giving the Clinton-Gore administration more than three years to present the Protocol to the United States Senate for ratification. Given Gore's position in the senate and his knowledge and passion for global warming, one must wonder why then Vice President Gore did not seize on what appears to have been an opportunity of a lifetime? Skeptics Call Gore's Movie Science Fiction. "Al Gore put global warming on the map," said Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, at a Capitol Hill press conference on Friday. He called "An Inconvenient Truth" the "most politically influencing documentary." But Lewis added: "Nearly every significant statement that Vice President Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one-sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative or wrong." Propagandists shouldn't throw stones. Scientists have shown that nearly every assertion in Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" is false, and yet Gore has the nerve to call opposing facts "propaganda." Inconvenient Truths: Novel science fiction on global warming. Al Gore will probably win an Academy Award for his global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, a riveting work of science fiction. The main point of the movie is that, unless we do something very serious, very soon about carbon dioxide emissions, much of Greenland's 630,000 cubic miles of ice is going to fall into the ocean, raising sea levels over twenty feet by the year 2100. Where's the scientific support for this claim? Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006. Al Gore whipped the world into a global warming frenzy with his doomsday documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." [Steve] Milloy personally asked Mr. Gore to help arrange a debate between scientists about the purported climate catastrophe. He declined (twice) without explanation — leaving me to wonder why global warming alarmists are unwilling to explain why they believe in non-validated and always-wrong computer guess-timations of future climate change rather than actual temperature measurements and greenhouse-effect physics that indicate manmade emissions of greenhouse gases are not a problem. Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame. [Al Gore,] the doughy darling of Leftcoast glitterati has received two Oscar nominations for a junk-science production called "An Inconvenient Truth," a pseudo-documentary born of the wildly improbable pop film "The Day After Tomorrow." Gore's "Truth," however, is even stranger than the Hollywood fiction that inspired it. The celebration of Gore's film coincides, not coincidentally, with the much-ballyhooed release of a media summary of a report on global warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These two events will serve as a fine backdrop for the coming cavalcade of dire ecological predictions by Gore and his ilk. Their goal will be to saturate the all-too-sympathetic media outlets with apocalyptic hysterics about a man-made global disaster. It's good sense to avoid consensus on global warming. As it came to be watched by qualified persons, devastating critiques of the looseness of the film's science began to appear on the internet. More than 20 basic errors, some of them schoolboy howlers, were identified. From his film, Gore seemed to have lived his life on an imaginary planet where natural change didn't exist, and all change was anyway morally bad. Save the Environment -- from school dunce Al Gore. If Al Gore were in Professor Tim Ball's classroom, he wouldn't be bringing his Report Card home. Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth will return to class when youngsters return to school next month. "They are showing his film in schools when I would give it an F even as a Grade X assignment," says climatologist Ball. The Virtues of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," includes some very remarkable revelations including: 1. A "computer calculated" temperature prediction curve with predictions beginning in 1938 — when neither Al Gore nor the computer had yet been invented. 2. Photos of South Sea islanders being washed from their islands by rising seas — sea level having risen 3 inches during the past 50 years. 3. Drawings of species driven to extinction by human use of hydrocarbons — including the Wooly Mammoth, which has been gone from the Earth for thousands of years. 4. A little girl's ice cream cone melting before she can eat it — as a result of the current 0.5° centigrade per century increase in temperature. CNN Meteorologist: 'Definitely Some Inaccuracies' in Gore Film. CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to "American Morning," "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies." Which Came First: Global Warming or Al Gore? A British court, with the help of government experts, recently found that Gore's "acclaimed" documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" contained a number of inconvenient inaccuracies, including: • The film's misleading suggestion that ice core evidence "proves" that rising CO2 levels caused temperature increases over 650,000 years. (CO2 levels actually lag temperature increases by 800-2,000 years.) • The implication that Hurricane Katrina is attributable to global warming. (It's not possible to attribute one-time events to global warming.) • The claim that global warming was the cause of a great number of polar bears drowning. (Apparently Gore misread the study: four polar bears drowned due to a particularly violent storm.) Gorgeous Propaganda, Frightening Truth. All of the events pictured in this movie have been occurring since before human activities could possibly have caused them. Glaciers have calved into seas for millions of years, storms obviously predate modern civilization and our emissions, and real-life polar bears know better than to head out into open water during the Arctic summer. James Bowman Reviews "An Inconvenient Truth": It's true that I am a natural skeptic about prophecies of doom from scientists and other experts. And if the media buy into these prophecies and make them the subject of endless scare stories — as they did about "the population explosion" some years ago, before it became clear that it would be population implosion we had to worry about — I am even more likely to set my face against them. But the real clincher, I don't mind telling you, and the thing that is sure to persuade me there is nothing to worry about, is the presence of Al Gore as the pitchman for the apocalypse. More information about "An Inconvenient Truth" being shown in schools can be found here. Reviews of other leftist propaganda films can be found here. Back to the top of the page Back to the Global Warming Page Jump to the Cultural and political bias in motion pictures Back to the Home page |
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