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Climate Change science seems to need a bit more fairy dust and now prominent scientists are hiring hollywood bigwigs to help them more convincingly get their message across... is this really necessary, or appropriate?
1 posted on 03/19/2010 1:46:08 PM PDT by buildaroo_news
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Please post materials from your site into the bloggers forum.


2 posted on 03/19/2010 1:46:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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This is ridiculous. You only have to watch the cable science channels to know the “hollywoodization” of science happened long ago. Not all to the bad, but Global Warming gets pumped quite often on the science channels.

What’s next? The AGW 24/7 channel?


3 posted on 03/19/2010 1:50:02 PM PDT by sinanju
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Goreophiles want another ice age.


4 posted on 03/19/2010 1:54:34 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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If you need hollyweird... it is all a lie... which it is anyway.

LLS


5 posted on 03/19/2010 2:10:32 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Wolverine)
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I have seen a number of movies where the “villian” has been global warming. All of them stupid.


6 posted on 03/19/2010 2:15:37 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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They can come up with a new movie and call it REVENGE OF THE KILLER TOMATOES. Because of global warming the tomatoes go on a rampage and chase down Al Gore as he runs around in circles yelling the tomatoes are coming the tomatoes are coming.


7 posted on 03/20/2010 2:26:48 AM PDT by seawolf101
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At least two science organizations agree. The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced plans to 'go Hollywood' at their convention last month.

DECEMBER 19, 2008 : (OBAMA TO NAME JOHN P HOLDREN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE AAAS, AS HIS SCIENCE ADVISOR) It looks like president-elect Obama will name John P. Holdren as his science advisor. Holdren is a professor of environmental policy at Harvard and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As Ron Bailey points out, he has been an activist on the ecological left and no friend of free markets. Perhaps more striking is his activism well beyond his own academic specialty, arguing, for instance, that scientists have a responsibility to advance the cause of the elimination of all nuclear weapons and seeking controls on population growth. And he didn’t say all this in the 1970s either—have a good look at the speech he delivered when he assumed the leadership of the AAAS in 2006. It describes a fundamentally activist liberal mentality about the very purpose of science and its place in our kind of society. My favorite part of that speech is his call for ending population growth which, in the published text of the speech, is accompanied by this footnote:

This was the key insight in Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (Ballantine, New York, 1968), as well as one of those in Harrison Brown's prescient earlier book, The Challenge of Man's Future (Viking, New York, 1954). The elementary but discomfiting truth of it may account for the vast amount of ink, paper, and angry energy that has been expended trying in vain to refute it.
The Population Bomb was the book in which Ehrlich predicted that “in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death,” because all the world’s resources were running out while population was growing out of control, and there was simply no way we could sustain our civilization at modern levels of consumption and growth. Just about every one of the book’s predictions has proven wrong, and its empirical claims and methods have not held up well under later scholarly scrutiny. It certainly made a useful political point for the left, though.
I wonder if all those who complained about the supposed “politicization of science” by the Bush administration will raise worries about Holdren…don’t you?
----Obama’s Science Advisor, nationalreview.com ^ | December 19, 2008 | Yuval Levin Posted on 12/19/2008 7:22:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
8 posted on 03/20/2010 2:49:37 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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