[Vision2020] Spokesman-Review on Economist Lomborg's Cllimate Change Film "Cool It"

Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 09:27:47 PST 2010


Thanks for the info...

I suspect the box office returns were slim, so they pulled the film.

It will probably come out on DVD and/or Blu-ray...

Maybe the Kenworthy will show it...
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On 11/29/10, Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> According to Teh Google, it opened at AMC River Park Square, but it's gone
> already.
>
>  Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
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> From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 8:27:19 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Spokesman-Review on Economist Lomborg's Cllimate
> Change
> Film "Cool It"
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> The following source indicates the film "Cool It" had a release date
> in Spokane of November 19, 2010, but I have yet to find in what
> theater in Spokane.  The fact the Spokesman-Review online ran a review
> of this film on November 19, suggests the film is showing in the
> Spokane area, yet unless I missed it, this review does not indicate
> where it is showing.  The Moscow/Pullman area is too far into the
> commercial cinema weeds for this film to be now showing in this area,
> just as the second expanded release of "Avatar" did not show (though
> it might later) in Moscow/Pullman:
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> http://jabcatmovies.com/2010/11/cool-it-theatrical-release-schedule/
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> A short review of the film "Cool It" is pasted in below, from the
> Spokesman-Review, that indicates  "...Lomborg repeatedly notes that
> climate change is “real, it’s man-made and it is a problem.”
>
> http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/nov/19/cool-it-leaves-big-questions-of-credibility/
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> November 19, 2010 in Features
> ‘Cool It’ leaves big questions of credibility
> Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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> There’s plenty of room for debate within the broad scientific
> discussion of global climate change. The question raised by the new
> documentary “Cool It” is whether censured Danish economist Bjorn
> Lomborg deserves a place at the table.
>
> The author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” doesn’t deny global
> warming, which may disappoint some of those who embrace his “discredit
> Al Gore” mission.
>
> But Lomborg’s attack on the orthodoxy of climate change policy has won
> him friends in the conservative and business communities and enemies
> in both science and environmental circles.
>
> The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty found him ill-qualified
> to be making the arguments on a subject that lies outside his areas of
> expertise.
>
> “Cool It” does little to remove that taint. It’s a “What Me Worry?”
> spin on the science that suggests we stop letting ourselves be
> paralyzed into inaction by the scale and cost of the “worst case
> scenario” that “An Inconvenient Truth” hurled at us.
>
> The film by director Ondi Timoner (”Dig!,” “We Live in Public”) opens
> with the voices of children blurting out what they know about climate
> change. When you hear the fear and doomsday prophecies they parrot,
> you’re inclined to hear Lomborg out.
>
> He talks about allocating resources toward attacking real human
> problems (malaria, poverty) instead of the tiny changes he expects
> from all our efforts to lower the planet’s temperature over the next
> 100 years.
>
> But he bends numbers, something you notice in a movie built on a
> point-by-point attack on Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary.
>
> No, sea levels won’t turn Earth into Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld.” But
> you can’t help but notice Lomborg talks to experts who agree with him,
> to a point, about Antarctica, and yet somehow leave out the rapidly
> shrinking Arctic ice pack.
>
> There are few dissenting voices in “Cool It.” With people like NASA’s
> sober-minded James Hansen and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich there to give
> Lomborg a bit of cover (they don’t address him or his ideas directly),
> the film avoids being shrill or overly political.
>
> And Lomborg repeatedly notes that climate change is “real, it’s
> man-made and it is a problem.”
>
> But as useful as it is to chew on ideas that don’t hew to climate
> change dogma, “Cool It’ leaves big questions about Lomborg unanswered:
> Is he qualified? Is he honest? And who is funding him?
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