Posted on 07/21/2007 3:00:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
‘24’ Star Sutherland: ‘Global Warming Is A Crime For Which We Are All Guilty!’ By Noel Sheppard | July 21, 2007 - 17:36 ET
Remember all that media chatter in January about the hit TV series "24" being conservative?
Well, the producers have announced the following (emphasis added, h/t NBer amber):
"24," the Emmy Award-winning series from Imagine and Twentieth Century Fox Television, will strive to become the first television production ever to save enough energy and reduce enough carbon emissions over the course of a season to render its entire season finale "carbon neutral."
Star Kiefer Sutherland has already filmed a public service annoucement which begins: "Global warming is a crime for which we are all guilty!"
Think that will put to rest all the "24" is conservative nonsense? No, I don't either. Regardless, here's their plan:
Introducing the use of biodiesel fuels to power generators and production vehicles;
Previously, the show powered its electric generators and large transportation vehicles with diesel fuel. This season, the show intends to use a combination of petroleum diesel and biodiesel (a clean-burning alternative fuel produced from renewable resources), which should result in emission reductions ranging from 5% on the vehicles to as much as 100% on the generators.
Running all on-stage production activities on "green power";
Through the L.A. Department of Water and Power, the show will purchase all of its energy from renewable power sources (such as wind, water and solar). As a result, this "green energy" will be brought into the Los Angeles power grid from outlying areas, thereby reducing overall emissions and pollution in greater Los Angeles.
Rewiring an entire stage to use electric, rather than diesel-generated, power;
Previously, one of the two stages housing "24"' had insufficient power capacity necessary to light the sets and run the equipment, necessitating the use of supplemental diesel-gas-fueled generators. Twentieth Century Fox Television is investing in rewiring this building, which it leases, so that no diesel generators will be needed this season.
Integrating fuel-saving and low-emission hybrid vehicles into the production fleet;
This season, the show intends to incorporate as many lower-emission vehicles as possible into departments that require considerable road trave,l such as Locations, Transportation and Production Assistance.
Creating a series of PSAs about the issue starring Kiefer Sutherland and key cast members;
Kiefer Sutherland has already shot a public service announcement describing "24"'s commitment to this issue. This season, the series intends to participate in a series of PSAs educating viewers about climate change and offering information about how they can be part of the solution.
When appropriate, incorporating the issue of global warming and the importance of carbon emission reduction into storylines;
Posting information, resources and do-it-yourself techniques for viewers to reduce their own carbon footprints on the "24" page at Fox.com;
Accruing enough carbon reduction savings through these and other innovations to render production of the entire final episode officially "carbon neutral."
Carbon neutrality refers to a product having a balance of zero between the amount of carbon absorbed and the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere during the production of the product. Carbon neutrality is achieved through energy reduction, green power use, and purchasing "offsets" which represent investment in alternative energy and carbon reduction.
Great. Now one of my favorite shows has become part of Al Gore's scam.
And I was having such a great Saturday.
ditto
I wonder that they wont find their ratings plummet with this cr*p. The vast majority of their audience was NOT libRats.
note to self: delete 24 from TIVO. buy more books to read. Winter is long.
LOLOLOLOLOL
Sorry, I’m done with 24. Whenever liberal actors (who make a good living playing fictional characters - ie faking being someone else) start preaching their liberal crap, I don’t watch them anymore.
Buh-bye. At least I won’t have to sit through so many friggin commercials anymore.
I think I will boycott next season of 24 unless he issues an apology.
Does anyone make you apologize for your views?
sutherland really gets to the point—
environmentalism is a religion.
and to pollute is original sin.
other than believing in the global warming hoax... What’s wrong with the show conserving energy...in general? It really pisses me off that we’ve allowed the left to hijack conservationism.
Contact the “What a Load Foundation”.
Never watched it.
No wonder I never got the urge to watch 24. Now I know. Another lost-cause liberal expouses another lost cause. Whodathunk?
Oh well.
bingo. jump the shark.
So Jack, you going to stop using cars and helicopters in your show?? Why do they have to open their pieholes.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Nothing. And I bet these people posting nasty stuff aren't thinking of the awful smog in LA either.
And you really think any of this will make one iota of difference. A guy working for a green energy company accosted me in the parking lot the other day, and got furious when I said I wasn’t interested in switching. As if my switching would cause the power company I am currently with to scale back production to any degree. “We lost a customer! Turn off generator number 6.”
I’ve been thinking of buying 24 season sets for years, never having seen the show, but now I can save some money. But, to tell the truth, if I really wanted to see it, I would. I watch plenty of shows that can’t be accused of being conservative in any way.
I’ve been thinking of buying 24 season sets for years, never having seen the show,
Bunk.
I don’t know why you say bunk.
I kinda stopped watching “24” in the middle of the last season. They have jumped the shark so many times there really isn’t anything left for the script writers.
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