Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Global Warming Protest in front of UN building in New York: bloodbath for the human species when climate chaos turns world into Mad Max vs The Road
of WHAT MIGHT LIE AHEAD in 500 years IF we do NOTHING NOW....
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/
'An Inconvenient Truth' gores climate falsehoods overseas
'An Inconvenient Truth' gores falsehoods overseas -- "Una Verdad Incomoda' anyone?
by Emmet Matridah...
Since its release in 2006, Al Gore's documentary cum lecture "An Inconvenient Truth" (AIT) has gone gliral -- globally viral --
and reached more eyeballs than producer Laurie David ever imagined. Well-received by climate cassandras and widely-criticized
by climate denialists, the Davis Guggenheim-helmed documentary perhaps did more to rally the troops around the
dual themes of climate change and global warming than any other film before it.
Okay, not everyone liked it. Marc Morano and Andrew Watts in the climate denialist camp hated the movie and never stop
saying so, even six years later. They will always hate that movie, most likely until hell freezes over -- or warms over even more,
as the case may be. Rush Limbaugh hated the movie so much he once wished on air for the death of New York Times
science reporter Andrew C. Revkin. (He later apologized for that tasteless and vulgar remark.)
Those who loved "An Inconvenient Truth" could not get enough of it. I, myself, saw it ten times, and with Chinese subtitles, here in
Taiwan. The film probably hit more eyeballs, and tugged at more heartstrings, than any environmental movie ever made. And
it screened worldwide, don't forget, from Sweden to Slovenia, from Poland to Peru.
And as AIT has travelled to distant climes across an ever-so-slowly warming world, its title morphed via translations into
a smorgasbord of convenient terms.
For example, in Mexico and Spain, it was titled "Una Verdad Incomoda." Even if you don't speak Spanish, you can guess that
"verdad' has something to do with "truth" (as in "cinema verite", from Spain's French cousins) and "incomoda" probably has something do with something being "non-commodius." Therefore, we might call it "A Non-commodious Truth" in the Spanish-to-English translation room.
In Israel, the film was titled "Emet Matridah," meaning "The Truth That Terrifies" or "The Disturbing Truth." Not having taken
Hebrew School lessons since grade school in the 1950s in western Massachusetts, my Hebrew is a bit rusty, but I can still
read the letters 50 years on.
According to Staffan Fenander in Sweden, a global friend I first met in the subways of Rome in the 1970s when he was busking
for cash singing Bob Dylan songs in the subways, the title of Gore's movie in Sweden was titled "En Obekvam Sanning." You don't need
to sit in a sauna to understand the meaning of those words, even if you don't speak Swedish, Staffan told me in a recent email. It's got
"inconvenient truth" written all over it, he said.
In China and Taiwan, the film title was given Mandarin characters that stood for "The Truth That Cannot Be Told."
For Portugal and Brazil, AIT was titled "Uma Verdade Inconveniente" -- and I think you get the message, even if you
don't speak Portuguese. Denmark called it "En Ubekvem Sanhed" and you can see the close relationship between Danish
and Swedish. Truth is universal, as is concern over climate change and global warming.
The naysayers. Pay them no mind. They are harmless, rightwing zealots for the most part, stuck in their ideological ruts
and afraid to see the world as she is. They mean well, but they do so much harm now. If they have their way, they'll
derail President Obama's climate concerns before they even become law. Lemmings? That might be a good word for our
friends on the right side of the aisles.
Hungary titled AIT as "Kellemetien Igazsag" and Greece called it "Mia Enohhitiki Alithea." Poland screened the Gore
docu as "Niewygodna Prawda", with Italy dubbing it as "Una Scomoda Verita."
France? France and Quebec did it the French way: "Une Verite Qui Derange" -- as in "the truth that could derange you if you
really understood what is happening to this third rock from the sun."
Germany and Austria went for "Eine Unbequeme Wahrheit" and on and on the foreign titles went, crisscrossing the four
corners of the globe, a globe that might be in for some heavy-duty climate chaos in the distant future if we don't get our
CO2 emissions under control soon. In 1988, Dr. Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University in New York made a prophetic
statement in an academic paper he published in some obscure journal that nobody read: "We must tighten the noose around coal."
He said that in 1988, and looked where we are now! Our use of coal -- and oil -- has only increased and we are in big trouble
as a species, the human species.
That's the inconvenient truth.
In related news, MSNBC recently pulled the wool over the entire media's eyes -- and the entire blogosphere as well -- with
its "faux interview" with climate doomsayer James Lovelock. I say faux because the interview was not a real interview, but
a mere PR gimmick by Lovelock's publisher's sales team to get the buzz rolling for his 2013 book on climate. Yes, at 93,
Lovelock still knows how to play the media for a good quote or two, and this time, he took MSNBC's Ian Johnston for a ride.
Sadly, the media fell for it, and headlines rang out with the news that "James Lovelock recants his doomsday predictions
on climate change."
In fact, and I say this as "James Lovelock's Accidental Student," Dr Lovelock merely told Johnston that his timeframe
for when the proverbial you know what will hit the fan will not be the end of this century, as he had earlier predicted, in
order to boost book sales six years ago, but rather in 300 to 500 years. So not now, but someday. Not now, but soon.
He did not recant. He did not backtrack. And yet that is what MSNBC mis-reported. Lovelock is a crafty old man,
with a great sense of humor, and he was just having fun with Johnston.
So the entire "interview" was a PR ploy, a planted story, a complete non-news story that had nothing to do with anything,
other than to boost pre-orders for Lovelock's 2013 book about climate, to be released by the Allen Lane imprint at Penguin
Books. And don't tell me Penguin doesn't have one of the savviest PR teams in New York because they do. Penguin just
set up Lovelock's 2013 tome for bestseller status, a good nine months before pub date. That's PR, that's marketing!
by Emmet Matridah...
Since its release in 2006, Al Gore's documentary cum lecture "An Inconvenient Truth" (AIT) has gone gliral -- globally viral --
and reached more eyeballs than producer Laurie David ever imagined. Well-received by climate cassandras and widely-criticized
by climate denialists, the Davis Guggenheim-helmed documentary perhaps did more to rally the troops around the
dual themes of climate change and global warming than any other film before it.
Okay, not everyone liked it. Marc Morano and Andrew Watts in the climate denialist camp hated the movie and never stop
saying so, even six years later. They will always hate that movie, most likely until hell freezes over -- or warms over even more,
as the case may be. Rush Limbaugh hated the movie so much he once wished on air for the death of New York Times
science reporter Andrew C. Revkin. (He later apologized for that tasteless and vulgar remark.)
Those who loved "An Inconvenient Truth" could not get enough of it. I, myself, saw it ten times, and with Chinese subtitles, here in
Taiwan. The film probably hit more eyeballs, and tugged at more heartstrings, than any environmental movie ever made. And
it screened worldwide, don't forget, from Sweden to Slovenia, from Poland to Peru.
And as AIT has travelled to distant climes across an ever-so-slowly warming world, its title morphed via translations into
a smorgasbord of convenient terms.
For example, in Mexico and Spain, it was titled "Una Verdad Incomoda." Even if you don't speak Spanish, you can guess that
"verdad' has something to do with "truth" (as in "cinema verite", from Spain's French cousins) and "incomoda" probably has something do with something being "non-commodius." Therefore, we might call it "A Non-commodious Truth" in the Spanish-to-English translation room.
In Israel, the film was titled "Emet Matridah," meaning "The Truth That Terrifies" or "The Disturbing Truth." Not having taken
Hebrew School lessons since grade school in the 1950s in western Massachusetts, my Hebrew is a bit rusty, but I can still
read the letters 50 years on.
According to Staffan Fenander in Sweden, a global friend I first met in the subways of Rome in the 1970s when he was busking
for cash singing Bob Dylan songs in the subways, the title of Gore's movie in Sweden was titled "En Obekvam Sanning." You don't need
to sit in a sauna to understand the meaning of those words, even if you don't speak Swedish, Staffan told me in a recent email. It's got
"inconvenient truth" written all over it, he said.
In China and Taiwan, the film title was given Mandarin characters that stood for "The Truth That Cannot Be Told."
For Portugal and Brazil, AIT was titled "Uma Verdade Inconveniente" -- and I think you get the message, even if you
don't speak Portuguese. Denmark called it "En Ubekvem Sanhed" and you can see the close relationship between Danish
and Swedish. Truth is universal, as is concern over climate change and global warming.
The naysayers. Pay them no mind. They are harmless, rightwing zealots for the most part, stuck in their ideological ruts
and afraid to see the world as she is. They mean well, but they do so much harm now. If they have their way, they'll
derail President Obama's climate concerns before they even become law. Lemmings? That might be a good word for our
friends on the right side of the aisles.
Hungary titled AIT as "Kellemetien Igazsag" and Greece called it "Mia Enohhitiki Alithea." Poland screened the Gore
docu as "Niewygodna Prawda", with Italy dubbing it as "Una Scomoda Verita."
France? France and Quebec did it the French way: "Une Verite Qui Derange" -- as in "the truth that could derange you if you
really understood what is happening to this third rock from the sun."
Germany and Austria went for "Eine Unbequeme Wahrheit" and on and on the foreign titles went, crisscrossing the four
corners of the globe, a globe that might be in for some heavy-duty climate chaos in the distant future if we don't get our
CO2 emissions under control soon. In 1988, Dr. Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University in New York made a prophetic
statement in an academic paper he published in some obscure journal that nobody read: "We must tighten the noose around coal."
He said that in 1988, and looked where we are now! Our use of coal -- and oil -- has only increased and we are in big trouble
as a species, the human species.
That's the inconvenient truth.
In related news, MSNBC recently pulled the wool over the entire media's eyes -- and the entire blogosphere as well -- with
its "faux interview" with climate doomsayer James Lovelock. I say faux because the interview was not a real interview, but
a mere PR gimmick by Lovelock's publisher's sales team to get the buzz rolling for his 2013 book on climate. Yes, at 93,
Lovelock still knows how to play the media for a good quote or two, and this time, he took MSNBC's Ian Johnston for a ride.
Sadly, the media fell for it, and headlines rang out with the news that "James Lovelock recants his doomsday predictions
on climate change."
In fact, and I say this as "James Lovelock's Accidental Student," Dr Lovelock merely told Johnston that his timeframe
for when the proverbial you know what will hit the fan will not be the end of this century, as he had earlier predicted, in
order to boost book sales six years ago, but rather in 300 to 500 years. So not now, but someday. Not now, but soon.
He did not recant. He did not backtrack. And yet that is what MSNBC mis-reported. Lovelock is a crafty old man,
with a great sense of humor, and he was just having fun with Johnston.
So the entire "interview" was a PR ploy, a planted story, a complete non-news story that had nothing to do with anything,
other than to boost pre-orders for Lovelock's 2013 book about climate, to be released by the Allen Lane imprint at Penguin
Books. And don't tell me Penguin doesn't have one of the savviest PR teams in New York because they do. Penguin just
set up Lovelock's 2013 tome for bestseller status, a good nine months before pub date. That's PR, that's marketing!
JAMES LOVELOCK DID NOT DO A U-TURN ON CLIMATE CHAOS, HE MERELY CHANGED TIMEFRAME: BILLIONS WILL DIE IN 2500 IS MORE LIKE IT
Few except denialists like Andrew Watt and Marc Morano challenge the notion that the planet is getting warmer. The debate over climate change is mostly about whether, or to what extent, Earth's warming is caused by humans, mostly in the form of burning fossil fuels, versus part of a natural warming and cooling cycle.
Christians and Jews and Moslems and Buddhists are also split on the issue. Some advocate stronger policies aimed at reducing atmospheric carbon, others worry such policies would be unadvisable without sufficient scientific evidence to justify them. What would Jesus say?
http://pcofftherails101.blogspot.com/2012/04/webposted-by-emmet-matridah-aka.html
USA President Barack Obama this week, in a Rolling Stone interview, blamed rightwing Christian conservatives for raising doubts about human-caused climate change.
With Americans' concerns focused on the economy, Obama explained, "it's been easy for the other side to pour millions of dollars into a campaign to debunk climate-change science."
The current presidential race will present an opportunity, Obama added, to voice "my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way."
http://pcofftherails101.blogspot.com/2012/04/webposted-by-emmet-matridah-aka.html
Christians and Jews and Moslems and Buddhists are also split on the issue. Some advocate stronger policies aimed at reducing atmospheric carbon, others worry such policies would be unadvisable without sufficient scientific evidence to justify them. What would Jesus say?
http://pcofftherails101.blogspot.com/2012/04/webposted-by-emmet-matridah-aka.html
USA President Barack Obama this week, in a Rolling Stone interview, blamed rightwing Christian conservatives for raising doubts about human-caused climate change.
With Americans' concerns focused on the economy, Obama explained, "it's been easy for the other side to pour millions of dollars into a campaign to debunk climate-change science."
The current presidential race will present an opportunity, Obama added, to voice "my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way."
http://pcofftherails101.blogspot.com/2012/04/webposted-by-emmet-matridah-aka.html
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: My new book in 2013 will explain why I still believe in climate change and man-made global warming
As a result, both denialists and activists picked up on the story and used to further than own agendas. But Earth has her own agenda, and it aint a pretty picture: http://pcillu101.blogspot.com/James Lovelock, 92 going on 93 and bravo for that, he is in good health, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, and the book is due out in 2013. In a PR gimmick that worked, Lovelock recently gave an exclusive interview to an editor at MSNBC who fell for the PR gambit hook line and sinker and wrote a "news" story that went gliral.
In 2006, in an article in the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, he wrote that “before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.” However, the good professor admitted in a recent telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been “extrapolating too far" and that nobody knows exactly how many people will migrate north to polar cities in the future, nor how many billions will die or how many millions might survive.
The exact details are up in the air, you might say, and only the Earth knows, only God knows, only the Cosmos knows, only the Universe knows. But climate change is set to kill off billions of human beings within the next 500 years, or 30 generations, make no mistake about it. Even Lovelock still agrees with this assessment. He just cannot say when now nor how many. But get ready, and be prepared!The new book, due to be published next year in 2013, will be the third in a trilogy, following his earlier works, “Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity,” and “The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can.” The PR gimmick with MSNBC playing along with the savvy marketing team that set the "interview" up worked perfectly. Just what the good doctor ordered. Or his PR team.
The book will now be a bestseller, given the tremendous pre-publication publicity that occurred in April and May of 2012. PR rocks. The new book will discuss how humanity can change the way it acts in order to help regulate the Earth’s natural systems, performing a role similar to the harmonious one played by plants when they absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. It will also reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected. But it will also reflect that global warming IS happening and IS real, unlike the claims of the denialits like Marc Morano who want to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
Lovelock pointed to Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” as other examples of useful forecasts of the future. While he did not mention Emmet Matridah's POLAR CITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE website nor Jim Laughter's new cli fi novel titled POLAR CITY RED, Lovelock is aware of both books and has been in touch with Matridah about the issues.
In 2007, Time magazine named Lovelock as one of 13 leaders and visionaries in an article on “Heroes of the Environment,” which also included Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev and Robert Redford. “Jim Lovelock has no university, no research institute, no students. His almost unparalleled influence in environmental science is based instead on a particular way of seeing things,” Oliver Morton, of the journal Nature wrote in Time. “Humble, stubborn, charming, visionary, proud and generous, his ideas about Gaia have started a change in the conception of biology that may serve as a vital complement to the revolution that brought us the structures of DNA and proteins and the genetic code.”
Lovelock also won the U.K.’s Geological Society’s Wollaston Medal in 2006. In a posting on its website, the society said it was “rare to be able to say that the recipient has opened up a whole new field of Earth science study” – referring to the Gaia theory of the planet as single complex system. Lovelock, who works alone at his home in Cornwall, England. Asked if he was a climate skeptic, Lovelock told msnbc.com: “It depends what you mean by a skeptic. I’m not a denier.”
He said human-caused carbon dioxide emissions were driving an increase in the global temperature, but added that the effect of the oceans was not well enough understood and could have a key role. “It (the sea) could make all the difference between a hot age and an ice age,” he said. He said he still thought that climate change was happening, but that its effects would be felt farther in the future than he previously thought. “We will have global warming, but it’s been deferred a bit,” Lovelock said. "
He said: ''As Danny Bloom told me in 2008, it might not happen until 2500 A.D. and I am beginning to agree with Bloom now. But we must be prepared. IT WILL HAPPEN!"
Lovelock -- who has previously worked with NASA and discovered the presence of harmful chemicals (CFCs) in the atmosphere but not their effect on the ozone layer -- stressed that humanity should still “do our best to cut back on fossil fuel burning” and try to adapt to the coming changes.
In the interview, Lovelock said he would not take back a word of his seminal work “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth,” published in 1979. But of “Revenge of Gaia,” published in 2006, he said he had gone too far in describing what the warming Earth would see over the next century.
“I would be a little more cautious -- but then that would have spoilt the book,” he quipped in his humorous giggly British way, signaling that he understood how important humor and stretching the truth a bit is for marketing difficult to market books such as his.
MORE:
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'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change
'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change (Original post) bananas Yesterday OP
He may be changing his opinion... relayerbob Yesterday #1
Chances are panopeagenerosa Yesterday #2
I am a climate change alarmist, and I have no problem admitting it. joshcryer Yesterday #3
This is unfortunate. DCBob Yesterday #4
He's wrong though. Climate change is not defined simply by temperature. joshcryer Yesterday #5
yes, I think you are right. DCBob Yesterday #6
Lovelock was wrong in 2004 sulphurdunn Yesterday #7
A picture is worth a thousand words PSPS Yesterday #8
You should see the then and now pictures of Yosemite before the the Cordilleran Ice Sheet melted. HotRodTuna 9 hrs ago #12
As Kuhn argued in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", Lovelock won't change his science saras Yesterday #9
Joe Romm has responded to the article bananas 12 hrs ago #10
Thanks for those links. nt redqueen 10 hrs ago #11
Considered individually, none of the problems we face look catastrophic
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GLIRAL
(n.) -- A combination of the words global and viral as a portmanteau word to mean a news story or a photograph that goes global and viral.
sample real life quote
"Wow, that Lady Gaga video went gliral today, after news leaked out about who was really in it!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan on April 7, 2012
(n.) -- A combination of the words global and viral as a portmanteau word to mean a news story or a photograph that goes global and viral.
sample real life quote
"Wow, that Lady Gaga video went gliral today, after news leaked out about who was really in it!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan on April 7, 2012
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