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Last updated on May 20th, 2017 at 07:21 am
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth alerted the world to the dangers of global foaming:
ABC News reports one of the most famous shots in the movie — of Antarctic ice shelves — is a fake. The film’s visual effects supervisor says the film took the shot from the fictional movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which created it from Styrofoam and scanned it into a computer.
“Yeah, that’s our shot,” she says. “That’s a fully computer-generated shot. There’s nothing real in there.”
ABC wanted to ask Gore whether it was wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated shot to make a point, but says he did not return their calls.
He was probably out trying to rescue endangered plastic turkeys.
FAKENESS UPDATE, via Mike M. in Montreal:
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a primary target of the Kyoto accord, was a central theme in An Inconvenient Truth, produced by former U.S. president Al Gore.
Can you grill a plastic turkey?
Posted by RogerBournival on 2008 04 22 at 09:12 PM • permalink
Couldn’t we use the ice left over from the caviar to save those poor roasting plastic turkeys?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 22 at 09:28 PM • permalink
#8 You can submit Qs and commetns inpreparation.
I asked: “So who pays you?”.
I suggest everyone write in some toughies.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 22 at 09:32 PM • permalink
What, real ice wasn’t good enough?
Posted by SwampWoman on 2008 04 22 at 09:50 PM • permalink
- Recently news that for seven to ten years there may bot have been warming and may have been cooling, I must say that at least for my area I would prefer a half-foot of water to a half-mile of ice.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html
It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850.There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.Posted by John Anderson on 2008 04 22 at 09:56 PM • permalink
Next we’ll discover he’s wearing a fat suit.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 22 at 09:58 PM • permalink
Currently listening to prof. Bob Carter in Queensland in a discussion on a local news-talk-radio program. Cool
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 22 at 10:12 PM • permalink
- #8- I’ve submitted my 2 bobs worth, but doubt it’ll get an airing:-
Why did you use fictional footage of ice shelf disintegration? Did you have permission to use this footage, and was it acknowledged in the credits, and if not why not? Why wasn’t a disclaimer included in the introduction advising that CGI footage had been used in the following “documentary”? Or is your premise thinner than the alleged state of the artic ice shelfs?
A fake using fake footage. Who would have thunk it?
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 04 22 at 10:41 PM • permalink
What, real ice wasn’t good enough?
They didn’t have enough vermouth.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 22 at 10:46 PM • permalink
Using CGI or other effects in documentaries is nothing new (not too many real dinosaurs running around – not counting Shillary of course), but clearly the intention of the goreacle was to mislead (no surprises there) people into thinking it was 100% true.
Good to see some attention being focused on this issue, the bastard gets away with too much as it is.
My only concern about ice melting is if it dilutes my martini.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2008 04 22 at 11:08 PM • permalink
I’m mildly shocked by this fraud, but I’ll keel over if I find out Mikey Moore bends the truth.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 22 at 11:17 PM • permalink
It’s good to see that it was the ABC (US variant) that took ibn Al down on this. Perhaps people are beginning to feel able to voice some incredulity at the hysteria.
If so, then there will be a global change in climate change, a tsunami of weather changelings, the climate change landscape will suffer an earthquake of climactic proportions, even unto the splitting of the Earth and the second coming.
OK Getting a little carried away there.
Sorry.
Really.
I didn’t enjoy writing that one little bit.
OK. I did.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 22 at 11:21 PM • permalink
Suddenly I’m buoyed by a wave of
Jamesonoptimism. If the mesmerism of ibn Al breaks before the US presidential election, then so maybe the other great messiah, ibn Hussein, will be taken down with the tsunami of disillusion.OK Sorry. Apologies for the hyperbole. Just… couldn’t … resist.
Tsunamis. Crashing waves. Earthquakes. Fireworks. Hot toddies. Hot teddies. hmmm.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 22 at 11:24 PM • permalink
#31 NEVER, EVER, put water or ice in a martini.
You keep the alcohol in the freezer. It doesn’t need cooling. My god, you people, are you even able to walk upright?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 22 at 11:29 PM • permalink
Discovered on the cutting room floor….
Posted by Rachel Corrie’s Flatmate on 2008 04 22 at 11:43 PM • permalink
Tsunamis. Crashing waves. Earthquakes. Fireworks. Hot toddies. Hot teddies. hmmm.
Hmm. Too much Mills and Boone I fear.
- #38
Can help it if I’m a traditionalist Whimpy?:-PMartini
2 1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 green olive
PREPARATION:
Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes.
Stir for 30 seconds.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with the olive or lemon twist.—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2008 04 22 at 11:59 PM • permalink
- hey, on another note, did homegrown lefty terrorist Bill Ayers originate the liberal “tilted head” trope?
bill ayers headtilt mugshot
he’s tilting with concern for the working class cops who tools of the establishment, arresting and booking Ayres just for exercising his right to [removed]by blowing shit up)
- A very Gorey ending.
What did http://howardout.blogspot.com have to say?
#43 Stir for 30 seconds. Not shaken.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 23 at 12:04 AM • permalink
- #45
I take my cue from Nicky:Nick Charles: The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2008 04 23 at 12:10 AM • permalink
For all of your American devotees, Tim, there is a petition decrying global warming alarmism on grassfire.org. 74,000 so far have enterred their vote against the Goreacle and his plans – here.
Posted by bobzorunkle on 2008 04 23 at 12:34 AM • permalink
- #26
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Moving Image Archive Courtesy of
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Footage from ‘The Day After Tomorrow’
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox All Rights Reserved.(among others)i.e. the minimum of (legal) credits …
Can we deport him to Sweden… and make him stay?
/claims he’s not from there…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 23 at 01:22 AM • permalink
Oh come on people, have a heart. Al wanted to get actual footage of the Antartic ice sheet breaking up. He really did. And he tried, yes he tried. Days, weeks he waited there, patiently waiting for the ice to break. But it never did. And it was cold. So very cold.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 23 at 06:19 AM • permalink
The article about the coming global ice-age in the Australian today, as already linked by John Anderson (#19 above), so panicked the ABC warmenistas on PM that they had to recall none other than Snow Cone Tone’s favourite smirkologist Karoly from his obscurity to swing the wrecking ball again, as he did for them re the “Great Global Warming Swindle”.
- #60
bare back Al? Too sick. I would prefer Sara Miles bare back.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 23 at 07:17 AM • permalink
The word “prolly” sets my teeth on edge.
Me too, Kaboom. Here’s another: people who type “purt near” when they mean “pretty near,” because it’s cute to write things in a fake “Southern” accent. Whenever I see that I have a hard time controlling my Fist of Death.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 04 23 at 07:19 AM • permalink
One memory that upset my teenage years was of Sarah Miles, the British actress who turns 67 this December. In the movie ‘the sailor who fell from grace’ with Kris Kristofferson; he’s lying in bed and Sarah, cultured British acting Queen that she was…insisted on rubbing her crutch against his lower nose.
Is that appropriate as blog 69 approaches?
Kae, I don’t (currently) possess a Fist of Death.
However, an engineer once proved to me that:
“If yu rmve evry vwl whch is nt at the strt or fnsh of a wrd, it mks absltly no dffrnce to the ablty of the hmn mnd to cmprhnd the intntn of the sttmnt.”
My solution, of course, was that we should kill all the engineers……..
#19 You might end up with that half-mile of ice, if geophysicist Phil Chapman, as reported in The Australian is right about the lack of sunspot activity leading to an Ice Age. My favourite paragraph:
Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective.
Go long in Caterpillar stock if you believe him.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 04 23 at 07:58 AM • permalink
The word “prolly” sets my teeth on edge.
Actually, I’ve come to notice that Aussies have a tendency to truncate words, changing the last one or two syllables to “ly”. I consider it an Antipolean custom and, therefore, endearing. Unless some arsehole like Sears or Dunlop does it.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 23 at 08:18 AM • permalink
#73 wronwright: you’re quite correct about the truncation. It even occurs in government organisations: myRego is one of my favourites.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 04 23 at 08:36 AM • permalink
Andrea. Can you please sort this lot out, they’ve both lost their two front teeth, and the nerves that control the tongue are missing.
Nothing to do with vowels.
OT. Lateline is busy interviewing Swannie and other ‘experts’ laying the blame for inflation at the door of Howard and Costello.
Ho hum. More post summit propaganda.
#82 Kaboom: I took the “LY” to be pronounced as “lee”, so in the case of rain, an example could be “Don’t go out before you put on your wellys” (using wronwright’s implied spelling).
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 04 23 at 08:49 AM • permalink
The Bank of Ireland is raising a glass to Northern Ireland’s most famous whiskey with its new bank notes.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 23 at 09:06 AM • permalink
- O/T
From Bolta’s column blog today:This is a bit off topic, but what has happened to Philip Adams?
The Australian On-Line cut off comments(after 11)on his Saturday column, and his Tuesday column failed to appear.
Something’s up.David Black of Rockhampton (Reply)
Wed 23 Apr 08 (07:24am)anyone else notice this?
- #71
Prlly** aftr tht, it wld go fr egg……
Jeebus, you poor sweet young thing?
Guess you weren’t around in the days of teletype* (even if you’re using its descendant).
How about an answer to the dialogue vs prose question, Ms(?) Unabbreviated?
*
TKS CU THEN ++
RGR CUL +++
I’m sure the military know a lot of the jargon?**Best to check the originator of that one before you put your fist*** in your mouth (‘twasn’t me).
***What is it with the internet and metaphorical violence from wimps?
I’m not a Nazi, but … genteel handle of Kaboom??
#87—He’s probably wedged in the doorway again and can’t reach the keyboard.
And I don’t mind artificially enhanced representations of nature. Just don’t tell me Baywatch isn’t authentic.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 23 at 10:37 AM • permalink
“LY” is Welsh texting, it stands for “look you.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 23 at 10:38 AM • permalink
Well, right off just probably = prolly. But I have noticed them everytime one of you Aussies do it. You see, I’m trying to incorporate stryne in my daily speech, so lately it’s been prolly this and prolly that. And of course: “Hey mate. Stick a slab of bitter in the eskey in the back of my ute”. I always get stares at that one.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 23 at 01:53 PM • permalink
“LY” is Welsh texting, it stands for “look you.”
Richie bach, there is funny you are!
MaryMairi
12.5% genuine Welsh personPosted by Mary in LA on 2008 04 23 at 05:32 PM • permalink
- #93
From way back (among other posters):I’ll bet if ol’ Ward heard of a white professor who stole an Ethnic Studies set-aside from a Native American, he’d take action, prolly tomahawk the deviant white thievin’ bastard.
Posted by lyle on 2005 03 05 at 05:52 PM • permalink
Supplementary, question, Your Honour:
Are those who aren’t multilingual the most language intolerant, a form of language parochialism, if you will?
‘ly’
You’re likely (versus ‘prolly’) thinking of Australians’ propensity for a suffix of ‘ie’, i.e. (ahem) Prime Minister, The Right Honourable R.J. Hawke was widely known as Hawkie.Is it not the difference between (UK, i.e. global English, terms:) a solicitor and a barrister that, as barristers work in court with an independent umpire where evidence, i.e. technical work to support mere argument, is crucial, solicitors go to court with much apprehension?
Largely due to computer technology, the world has had to endure American English and its oddities such as ‘different than’*; whilst Australians can differentiate slang from formal English, there seems to be a corruption of ‘English’ in the US?
*The rest of the world says ‘better than x’, but ‘different from x’; Americans seem to use ‘different than’ or is this yet more illiteracy creeping into the mainstream that we alleged antipodeans receive, and unrepresentative?
I’m unconvinced that it is only illiterate Americans who use the tautology ‘one and one-half’ as opposed to ‘one and a half’.
Vive la différence?
#19 “It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850.”
The solution is to get the US to sign Kyoto its the only way to lift their CO2 output, its worked for everyone els that signed it. Of Course if AGW isn’t true then we are completely fcuked.
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Damn, that IS and incovienient truth.
Unleash the minion-blaming were-monkeys!