[Vision2020] Think About it. . Was: Climate Change Film "Age of Stupid" Vimeo Video Channel Populated: 124 Videos

[Donovan Arnold]

Think about it. . . 
 
Maybe fossil fuels were what really wiped out the dinosaurs. I mean, after all, they were fossil fuel. Right? Coincidence? You be the judge! ; P
 
Donovan Arnold

--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Climate Change Film "Age of Stupid" Vimeo Video Channel Populated: 124 Videos
To: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 10:47 PM



Rather than taking pot shots at the film, offer your comments regarding this educational presentation "Contract and Converge," that is in "The Age of Stupid," that outlines one plan for the international community of nations to implement a fair global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.  Is this reasonable, or not?:
 
http://www.vimeo.com/6589960
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Do you think the endorsement of some of the central scientific claims made in the film by Dr R K Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, who spoke in person at the New York premiere of "The Age of Stupid," on Sept. 21, 2009, to be an indication of his intention to manipulate your emotions, or to motivate action to mitigate climate change based on the well established science demonstrating it is a very real and serious threat? 
 
http://www.ipcc.ch/graphics/speeches/rajendra-pachauri-october-2002.pdf
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Do you think emotional manipulation was the prime aim of the science advisor for the film, Mark Lynas, who received the prestigious Royal Society science book award for science writing, for "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet," besting such luminaries in the scientific world as Steve Jones for "Coral," J Craig Venter for "A Life Decoded" and Ian Stewart for "Why Beauty is Truth."
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/17/news.science
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Of course the film intends to have an emotional impact, to motivate people to take action.  And it is not intended to be a scientific course on climate science, which would be difficult for many viewers to understand. 
 
Do you think the dangers of anthropogenic climate change are nothing but an objective scientific issue, that does not require emotional motivation to inspire changes in private behavior, government policy, and new technology implementation?  These changes will only occur when citizens, governments and businesses place the long term interests of the biosphere ahead of short term gain.  I think that only by a mass movement of citizens who demand changes will the problem of climate change be addressed quickly enough; and this requires activism and emotion.  Nothing wrong with that, to my mind.
 
The science that humans are altering climate is more and more becoming a well established scientific fact.  The risks of insisting the science is too doubtful to take dramatic and rapid action to mitigate climate change are akin to playing Russian Roulette with the future of the biosphere, and the well being of billions of humans.  Indeed, very "stupid."  Except the odds are much less favorable than the one in six of fatality from one round being loaded into a six round revolver and then fired at the head, after a spin or two. The IPCC placed the scientific probability of anthropogenic climate change at over 90% likely.  And since the last IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment report the latest climate science findings have increased the likely hood of severe impacts, according to the UNEP Climate Science Compendium 2009, which I have been studying:
 
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/unep-climate-change-science-compendium/
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

With a name like "The Age of Stupid", you just know it's going to be an objective look at the science from different perspectives and not be too much hype or manipulative of your emotions.

Paul

Ted Moffett wrote:


http://www.vimeo.com/ageofstupid/videos
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