Is Global Warming a Theme of 'Interstellar' Movie?

NewsBusters ^ | October 26, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine if astronaut Dave of "2001: A Space Odyssey" returned to Earth as a star child in order to use his superior brain power to build better solar panels. It seems mighty narrow and would have trivialized Stanley Kubrick's classic film. Well, something like that might be happening with another movie, "Interstellar," opening on November 7. A crew is sent via a wormhole to find another planet far across the universe. Why? In order to discover a place to grow corn because the crops on earth have been ruined due to climate change aka global warming.

I sure hope this isn't true but, unfortunately, early reports are that global warming is indeed a theme of "Interstellar." Somehow a crew can't be sent across the universe to another planet just to discover what is out there. No. A global warming agenda is included which can only trivialize the movie. Here are several reports about that global warming theme including this ABC News story:

[seowulf]

If this flick were made in the 1920s, it would have been about a crew intent on discovering a planet where they could open up a saloon unhindered by prohibition agents.

And they still would have needed corn for mash.

[Texan5]

“worm farmers...”

Didn’t they already sort of do that in “Dune”?

[spokeshave]

And from Norway...not known as a big grain producer....

“The official view in Norway is in contrast to what the people experience because of cooling weather:

Late spring gives flooding and avalanches when late snow-melting in the mountains.

Water pipes freeze because of early and deep frost in the winter.

Insect populations down 40% in 5 years because of cool and wet summers. This of cause is bad for pollination of fruit and berries. The grain harvest in Norway this summer is down 18% from average the last 5 years, despite increase in area and better seeds. But officially it is getting warmer.

From here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/05/norways-wheat-production-impacted-by-climate-change/

[Dilbert San Diego]

This actually makes me question the entire premise of global warming and agriculture.

Would global warming necessarily be bad for agriculture?

For example, the midwest is a fertile agricultural region, but that area has severe winters, and a relatively short growing season. Isn’t it possible that the midwest would be incredibly more productive, if the weather were warmer there over the course of the whole year? Couldn’t a little global warming thus be good for agriculture???

We hear disaster scenarios regarding global warming, but, never any talk of any benefit that could come from climate change, even if for sake of argument we want to say that it is happening.

During the last ice age, Chicago was buried under a mile of ice. Thank God we had global warming since that time. Or do liberals want to live on an ice planet anyway????

[mikrofon]

A take from last night’s ep may be that the Sidhe won’t allow humanity to destroy the planet via Global Warming after all ……

[oh8eleven]

So now we will destroy a perfectly good planet on the other side of the universe with an invasive species known as corn.
So now we will destroy a perfectly good planet on the other side of the universe with an invasive species known as corn Liberals.

[molson209]

Yes Global Warming and every planet they go to ,Global Warming is already there ,LOL

[marron]

Would global warming necessarily be bad for agriculture?

A few years ago I read an article about a guy who was buying up land in Greenland and farming it. With the increase in temperature, it was now possible to get a harvest.

The difference in temp, about a degree and a half was what it took to make the difference. A degree and a half lower, you wipe out the Vikings. A degree and a half more, the farms go back into production.

I figure for every square meter of land lost in the Maldives, we gain thousands of square miles and tons of additional harvest in Canada, Russia, and the whole Arctic opens up to become productive and livable. All that on a degree and a half.

[rktman]

That doesn’t look anything like mann’s hockey stick. :>}

[spokeshave]

A few years ago I read an article about a guy who was buying up land in Greenland and farming it. With the increase in temperature, it was now possible to get a harvest.

....and the converse is also true.

Remember...Obama and the dims lie about everything.....including "global warming"

[Vince Ferrer]

This actually makes me question the entire premise of global warming and agriculture. Would global warming necessarily be bad for agriculture? For example, the midwest is a fertile agricultural region, but that area has severe winters, and a relatively short growing season. Isn’t it possible that the midwest would be incredibly more productive, if the weather were warmer there over the course of the whole year? Couldn’t a little global warming thus be good for agriculture???

Carbon Dioxide is plant food, so ask the question this way. Does it help plants to give them more highly concentrated plant food?

Here are a few references:

Another benefit of climate change and increased CO2 – trees continue to grow at a faster rate

Newsbytes: World food production at record levels

[VanDeKoik]

I’m already planning on torrenting it only because I like space travel movies, and it is easier to skip past the eco crap.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

It already has been slipped in dozens of them previously. It made them insufferable.

[Rodamala]

I would suggest they avoid Tatooine. A few minor settlements and moisture farmers.

[Fresh Wind]

I recall that there have been quite a few sci-fi movies (not necessarily good ones, though), that have as their theme an invasion of Earth by space aliens who need to find a new planet because their home planet has become uninhabitable or has run out of resources.

So in this new one, Man has become the space alien invader.

Ho, hum.

[Thorliveshere]

The film was looking promising to me, but yeah, I was figuring there was a climate change aspect to it. *Sigh*

And Nolan showed promise with this near-conservative messages in his Batman movies.

[driftless2]

"inject liberalism...everything"

I've lost count of the nature documentaries I've seen where at some point they go into the "global warming is killing these creatures or plants" rant. I wish I could throw a brick through the screen and hit the documentarians squarely in their blockheads.

[Thorliveshere]

Are you sure. I sure got a “tree-hugger” vibe off it. I mean, especially having a child to deliver the message of “don’t hurt the trees?”

I like Capaldi, but I’ve been disappointed in some the episodes this season so far. The “moon is an egg” story was about the dumbest. Though, there was some interesting “pro-life” message with it.

[Rodamala]

Go to any hydroponics store and you can buy a CO₂ rigs for growing your favorite crops.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A crew is sent across the vastness of the universe via a wormhole in order to become...corn farmers.

"Is this Heaven?"
"No, it's Planet Iowa."

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