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National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com)
dryriver writes: National Geographic's Climate Change movie "Before The Flood," featuring actor-activist Leonardo DiCaprio, can now be viewed freely on Youtube. One of the most interesting points in the movie comes at around the 23 minute mark. At 23 minutes, scientist Michael E. Mann, famous for co-discovering the "hockey stick graph" via eigenvector based climate field reconstruction (CFR), recounts how media like the Wall Street Journal demonized him for his research, how he received death threats from unknown sources, how Congress grilled him about whether his scientific methods are credible, and how he even received an envelope in the mail with strange white powder in it. The movie is worth watching because it shows very clearly that a) man-made climate change is happening and that b) the negative effects of climate change are already impacting many areas of the world.
You will probably get envelopes with strange white powder in them for posting this to the happy go lucky, science denying Slashdot crowd.
Of course there will never be a punishment when decades from now absolutely fucking nothing the AGW religious freaks predict will happen does not happen.
We still have polar bears.
NYC is not under water.
Bangladesh is not under water.
Tuvalu is not under water.
Hurricane activity has decreased not increased.
Plants still grow. People are not starving en masse around the world.
The Arctic is covered by ice.
There is no northwest passage.
The Antarctic is covered in ice.
Greenland is covered in ice.
We still have as many glaciers as ever. They didn't melt.
But, we still have actor activists like Leo and Michael Mann running around making money telling us the sky is falling. Mean while these same people fly around the world on private jets to climate change boondoggle conferences.
Oh yeah, I'm obviously a clime change denier and a nazi and a racist and several other ists because I have been listening to their nonsense for decades now and not a single prediction has come true, so I must be stupid, uneduca6 and anti-science.
Oh! The irony!
Only fools are cowed by a large number of sources when it is clear those have been selected for their agreement with a thesis.
Alternative Right.
AND - Stop using the phrase "Climate Change" as if it is not a Natural Occurrence.
We are mid IntraGlacial period. Of course the climate changes.
What you mean is Anthropogenic Climate Change if you are being honest, or Man Made Climate Change , if the prior to too difficult to understand.
The root of most argument, I Believe, is there, in that people keep saying we have to stop Climate Change, and almost everyone knows intuitively trying to change a control mother nature successfully globally is a wast of time and energy.
Be Specific and your argument will carry much more weight and be credible.
For example, to rephrase for you, - Man Made Climate Change is leading to negative effects. We need to control our impact on the natural cycle.