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Posted on 09/18/2014 10:13:15 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Final curtain.
I don’t know how to break this one to you. There was a chance, my friends - a fleeting chance - for the creative community to capture the hearts of the nation concerning the true greatest threat to humanity. A theater company was on board. Taxpayer money was committed. The inevitable nationwide enthusiasm for the production would surely turn us all into activists for whatever action Democrats deem necessary to deal with global warming.
New taxes. New federal controls on industry. A treaty empowering the United Nations to shut down our factories on the hint of carbon levels not to Thomas Friedman’s liking. Whatever it takes. Once Americans saw this play, we’d all get behind it.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Gone with the wind......................
Climate change is very real. For example, the average climate of the northern hemisphere is so cold as to cause the ground to be buried under a thousand feet of ice. The cycle of glacier on/glacier off takes place every several hundred thousand years and can be clearly seen in many ways. Even as the science is settled that glaciation has taken place, the causes are still undergoing vigorous debate.
With respect to the idea that humans are causing harmful changes to the climate at this very moment, I am waiting for some peer-reviewed papers that propose what the optimum climate is for our biosphere. The first question that would naturally flow would be where is our current climate and trend in relation to this finding.
Strangely, nobody seems interested in this vital comparison. Not so strangely, the solutions that are frequently demanded in the most urgent voice, all converge on a socialist worldview: statism, bigger government, higher taxes, less personal liberty. That bigger picture tells me all that I need to know about “climate science”.
Tears By Me Out The Heart!
Yes, it is a well known scientific, peer reviewed, 90% probable, consensus "fact" that those things make the earth cooler. Oh, and destroying the coal industry too.
Just more evidence that not a penny could possibly be cut from the federal government budget. We need taxpayer-funded propaganda.
Nobody wanted to see Algore in tights releasing his 2nd chakra on stage any way.
De-pimped - here’s the entire article:
I don’t know how to break this one to you. There was a chance, my friends - a fleeting chance - for the creative community to capture the hearts of the nation concerning the true greatest threat to humanity. A theater company was on board. Taxpayer money was committed. The inevitable nationwide enthusiasm for the production would surely turn us all into activists for whatever action Democrats deem necessary to deal with global warming.
New taxes. New federal controls on industry. A treaty empowering the United Nations to shut down our factories on the hint of carbon levels not to Thomas Friedman’s liking. Whatever it takes. Once Americans saw this play, we’d all get behind it.
Heartbreakingly, it was not to be, as the world’s first taxpayer-funded global warming musical met with its demise before it even had a chance:
The play, which is actually entitled “The Great Immensity,” and was produced by Brooklyn-based theater company The Civilians, Inc. with a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, ended its run early amid a storm of criticism from reviewers and lawmakers alike. It opened a year late, reached just five percent of its anticipated audience and likely fell short of its ambitious goal of informing a new generation about the perceived dangers of man-caused climate change.
Plus, it apparently wasn’t very good.
“Despite fine performances, the musical mystery tour is an uneasy mix of fact and credulity-stretching fiction. It’s neither flora nor fauna,” New York Daily News reviewer Joe Dziemianowicz wrote in a review at the time. “[The] songs — whether about a doomed passenger pigeon or storm-wrecked towns — feel shoehorned in and not, pardon the pun, organic.”
The play, which featured songs and video exploring Americans’ relationships to the environment, opened in New York in April with a three-week run before going on a national tour that was supposed to attract 75,000 patrons. But it stalled after a single production in Kansas City, falling short of the lofty goals outlined in a grant proposal. It was envisioned as a chance to create “an experience that would be part investigative journalism and part inventive theater,” help the public “better appreciate how science studies the Earth’s biosphere” and increase “public awareness, knowledge and engagement with science-related societal issues.”
Well that does it. If you can’t battle the scorching of the earth with show tunes, I just don’t know what to do anymore.
You do realize, of course, that one of the reasons liberals insist on keeping the “climate change” nonsense alive is that it’s a way for a lots of them to get money. Science grants. Consulting contracts. Even theater grants! If there’s a way to get cash through global warming, they’ll think of it. Money is no object when we must act now. And what exactly does it mean to act? That’s not important. Just do something, and make sure it expands the size, scope and authority of the federal government.
That said, if you’re going to produce a musical to combat global warming, at least try to not to make it a disaster. Apparently it’s fine to exploit the cause for your own financial gain - that’s why the cause exists, after all - but it’s not OK to embarrass the cause by being horrendously awful.
Then again, how does Thomas Friedman get away with it?
Yes. Gone with the cold wind......................
If you can cut then it might be thought by some that politicians were frivolous with our tax dollars. Since that line of thought cannot be allowed we ipso facto can never cut.
“You do realize, of course, that one of the reasons liberals insist on keeping the “climate change” nonsense alive is that it’s a way for a lots of them to get money. Science grants. Consulting contracts. Even theater grants! If there’s a way to get cash through global warming, they’ll think of it.”
What passes for ‘work’ to a liberal is figuring out how to get other peoples money.
I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, so have to ask anybody know if this is the theater group Harry Reid’s relative is involved with?
I wouldn’t doubt it. All in the family.
0.03% carbon trace gas in the atmosphere. That keeps running thru my mind when I hear about this bull.
We are killing ourselves to try to curb 0.03%. It’s a criminal hoax perpetrated on the mostly western world. Politicians, businessmen, scientists, researchers; all making money off this government endorsed SCAM!
I imagine the play would just be Al Gore onstage farting out of his mouth....
....like he always does.
Time to “pivot” to another crisis whose “only solution” is for the average American to curb his lifestyle and stop using the elites’ resources.
EPA grants extension on power plant regulation plan
Global Warming on Free Republic
Global. Warming. Musical. Hard to imagine what could go wrong with THAT concept. It’s amazing it closed. [eyeroll]
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