POLIWOOD – Climategate Hits Hollywood: Should the Academy Rescind Gore’s Oscar?
In the new POLIWOOD – Climategate Hits Hollywood: Should the Academy Rescind Gore’s Oscar? – Lionel and I – two Academy members ourselves – ask and answer the question du jour. Of course, you know what our answer will be (well, they’re slightly different, but actually come to the same thing – a difference of methodology). And of course you know the chance of the Academy actually doing it – somewhere between none and none (slim not even applicable in this case). Alas, Al Gore will go to his grave a VERY wealthy man for his highly unscientific endeavors. And he probably sleeps well too. Whoever said life was just? But please enjoy the POLIWOOD. Your comments, as always, welcome. Unlike Al, Lionel and I will debate the subject with anyone. (One at a time, please.)
UPDATE: According to the Washington Times, someone may have been listening to us.
PJM is doing an excellent job covering the climate change controversy. You’re leading the way.
“Alas, Al Gore will go to his grave a VERY wealthy man for his highly unscientific endeavors.”—–WHEN?
His Snuggy Huggy Baby Girl married him into the Bilderberg Rothschild Crime Syndicate House of Schiff (I wonder what it’s like to sacrifice one’s daughter to loins filled with dragon lotion? Al Gore has been bunz up and kneeling, POV style, with the devil for quite some time! With a little funding it is hoped he can set up a PONZI lab of his own. I heard a spoon of cooked PONZI in the vein takes away all the pain. Let’s hope not – the times are a changing.
Which Oscar – the one for the documentary or the song? Both are travesties.
Let’s never forget that Gore permitted zinc moning on the family farm before he and Kleiner Perkins figured out how to milk the government for billions in energy subsidies.
AL GORE NEVER WON AN OSCAR!!
THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF THE FILM HE WAS IN WON THE AWARDS.
IF HE HAS ONE IT WAS A GIFT AND NOT AWARDED TO HIM BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT A CATEGORY TO GIVE ACTORS IN A DOCUMENTARY THIS HONOR.
LAST TIME I CHECKED HE WASN’T IN THE CREDITS AS BEING ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OR THE DIRECTOR.
IF HE DOES HAVE ONE, THE ACADEMY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD.
AL GORE NEVER WON AN OSCAR!!
IT’S A MYTH THAT THE LIBERAL MEDIA HAS BEEN SPREADING FOR YEARS.
THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF THE FILM HE WAS IN WON THE AWARDS.
IF HE HAS ONE IT WAS A GIFT AND NOT AWARDED TO HIM BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT A CATEGORY TO GIVE ACTORS IN A DOCUMENTARY THIS HONOR.
LAST TIME I CHECKED HE WASN’T IN THE CREDITS AS BEING ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OR THE DIRECTOR.
IF HE DOES HAVE ONE, THE ACADEMY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD.
LOOK UNDER AWARDS FOR AL GORE ON WIKIPEDIA IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore
The trouble with the Academy Awards and other awards like the Nobel Peace Prize is that they have been hijacked by the left. The purpose and prestige of the awards have thus been debased. This has been evolving over time but the Academy Award to Michael Moore for Bowling for Columbine and to Yasser Arafat for the Peace Prize is simply a manifestation of how corrupt these prizes have become. Moore begat Gore. Arafat begat Carter who begat Gore who begat Obama who won the Peace Prize for uh, um, er….what did he win it for again? And lately, it appears anyone who is a vociferous critic of George W. Bush has an outside chance to take home a prize of some sort. I understand there is a pharmacist in Plano who hates Bush and was subsequently nominated for the Noble Prize for Chemistry.
So *some* doubt has been cast on *some* of the data that *some* scientists have published, and you think the entirety of global warming is a fraud?!? Wake up people!! If you don’t like the scientific data, simply look at the world around you! Look how much of the ice caps has melted. In Alaska they’re now having to make fake permafrost to support the oil piplelines because the natural permafrost is melting. The oceans are warming causing more hurricanes and typhoons. Take your heads out of the sand, STOP trying to score cheap political points, and start doing something to make sure the world is inhabitable for your descendants.
So,Roger, yesterday the SF Chron actually ran a story about AGW and I commented that the whole data thrown away thing was a coverup and that the data never existed. I wrote in jest but then I thought;
It’s a screenplay.
Title could be something like “Sting of the Weatherman” Might have a little trouble getting financing given the climate in Hollywood. But you never know.
Never happen. Nice gesture on the part of Roger and Lionel, though – a little fuel to keep the issue burning.
Joe,
A fair debate on AGW is welcomed. However, citing anecdotal “evidence” is no substitute for real Science. Whether there is genuine anthropogenic global warming I cannot state for I am not a scientist. However, we laymen seek (nay demand) unbiased analysis of which Climategate has exposed the current “prevailing” scientific community to be in short supply. All of this would be as harmless as a debate whether Otto Graham was a better quarterback than Brett Favre, however, advocates of AGW want to take this specious science and apply it to draconian measures that will impoverish the Western world. Are you willing to roll the dice? I am not and it appears a growing number of our citizens are not as well.
Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
His princes and his peers to servitude,
His subjects to oppression and contempt
And his whole kingdom into desolation.
Henry V
Today – right now – it’s snowing in Houston TX. For the first time in 11 years I won’t have to my lawn more than twice in December.
Al Gore is setting up a Global CO2 PONZI scheme. THAT’s ALL HE’S DOING. And those low iodine correlation Mr. Wizards for Pay, if they word their research favorably – WILL GET A BIG F*CKING TASTE OF GORES et al SCAM YOU F*CKING DWEEB HEADS! The opening shot of glaciers used for the tinsel town double dumb down and ordained Father Gore with eager mobs of sweet mouthed alter boy accolades was ripped off, eg; included in Full Bore Gore’s celluloid diatribe, from a Fox News produced piece of cinematic pulp, “The Day after Tomorrow” that was pushing Global Freezing.
It’s like the mafioso and their pulp pink kapos, like Al Full Bore Gore, see the headlights heading their way are are doing everything they can to keep their place on the pavement. Their time is gone – they just won’t accept it – and Global Warming is just a last ditch desperate clutch to time that is slipping away from them.
We’re being ripped off. Oceania’s Winston Smith finally accepted the party line after a few moments of face time with rats in a cage that 1) love is hate 2) war is peace 3) and 2 + 2 = 3!
Obama got the peace prize! Obams’s a bigger war addict than Bush – there is no republican or democrat party – there is only the Oligarchy Fascist Mafia!
I mean whatz next – they’ll tell us that AL KADA attacked the USS Liberty?
I watched a “How It’s Made” segment on the Discovery Channel demonstrating how the tool maker, Channel Lock, manufactured wire cutters. The tempering process bakes finished stock in a blown blue flame gas blast furnace for 4 hours at 2000 oF. Boy was I surprised when the oven doors were opened and none of the wire cutters had melted and collapsed at free fall speed to the furnace floor due to structural failure!
Have they finally replaced all the melted building boilers in NYC? It’s not about global warming, folks, it’s about the nano-thermate. While we endlessly argue whether the Zebra is White with Black Stripes, or Black with White Stripes – the f*cking Zebra is sh*tting on us dumb f*cks!
Every thing is a lie – the only good thing is that we – the ratz in the cage – live in, invent and maintain all this infrastructure delivering smack into the membrane of the FEAR PONZI dealers. Despite your fear to admit – you know – deep down inside that it is you, and not the Zebra – whose really in control. You have the power – you can change this in an instant.
The surge in Afghanistan means that the US Military, Black Water (Xe), the CIA and Obama are the biggest heroine dealers in the world. And that’s all it means. Oil = 70$ barrel. Heroine = 1,000,000$ a barrel – you do the math – EVERYTHING IS A LIE!
Take it back before you loose everything you ever imagined important.
Cinabar – I don’t think the undeniable evidence of shrinking ice caps, vanishing glaciers, melting permafrost, early springs, etc. is “anecdotal.” Much more anecdotal is the taking out of context a few words in a small number of emails discussing certain data. Let the inquiries do their jobs – if they find that massive fraud has been conducted – then fair enough. You were right and I will be wrong. If not, then the “scandal” will be the mischief caused by a few vocal skeptics. But for now, even with this so-called climate-gate scandal, the vast majority of the scientific evidence supports the position that global warming is happening, and is contributed to by humans. All climate-gate is doing is putting a question mark against some scientists’ work. It casts no aspersions on the vast majority of the scientific work out there.
You mention taking risks – and I for one am NOT prepared to close my eyes to what I see around me – which is climate change. Whether it is part natural or all man-made is irrelevant – it is happening, and it will change the world dramatically. As for the argument that “going green” or changing our habits to lessen our effect on climate change is somehow going to “impoverish the western world?” That has been so comprehensively de-bunked. The opposite is true – the opportunities for new technologies are stupendous. Doing nothing and letting other countries (China?) take the lead in this massive and growing area is what is likely to impoverish the west – and harm the world we are going to leave to our children and their children. That is the real risk here. And my basic point remains – no-one should be trying to score cheap political points on the back of this huge threat to mankind. Suggesting the rescission of an Oscar based on out of context words in a few emails is just a cheap trick not worthy of any professional. And it’s certainly not scientific.
Yes, folks Al Gore’s minions photo-shopped global weather chaos –and people like Joe Smoh (Bloggs?) still want to believe in the fairy tales of shrinking poles, mushy tundra, and the sinking polar bears who forgot how to swim, so sad.
I live in Montana where reality is a frigging snowstorm on June 1, 2009, and a record breaking bone chilling 10 degrees on Columubus day of this year (normal for end of December here, not early October)
However, I was not home for that event. I was in Europe, and got a chance to fly over Greenland& the Arctic on my return flight with Icelandic….
Seeing for myself a vast expanse of ice, three kilometers thick for hours on end was absolutely amazing! I heartily recommend the journey for any climate change/global warming believer…maybe you will be able to spot Santa’s home from the air, eh?
Most climate change believers seldom read about weather taking place in other parts of the world, let alone the US–other than believing the gup on the Weather Channel. Now that Al Roker is at the helm of that entertainment channel in the morning, there is less info about weather, and much more about propaganda. They even show movies on Saturday nites like the March of the Penquins –popcorn anyone?
I am thinking about nominating Roger for sainthood, an Oscar being a very lowly reward for the excellent job educating the unwashed masses–and we need a lot more Rogers on the planet!
Gore started running in retreat here in the US when his book signings were interrupted by members of We are Change–who had the nerve to ask pressing question about global warming in the presence of the press! Unscripted events like that are verbotten!
Another speech he gave to some wealthy ticket holders was marred by sheep booing him outside of the event–and in true fashion –a real coward runs for cover.
By the way, I read the weather predictions of Piers Corbyn (WeatherAction.com) for Copenhagen week of the event–the attendees will enjoy snow, bitter cold and other examples of extreme global warming. Maybe big Al decided to go south to avoid winter.
Cheers!
You made the L.A. Daily News!
p.s. How come you don’t put a “PRESS” card in your hatband?
Game over. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/05/climate.data.met.office/index.html
I’m guessing that farmerewness’ comments are an attempt at humor – it doesn’t quite come off, but no-one could really be that ignorant or blind to reality. Could they???
Don’t take it away. I’d say we really give him the Oscar by putting it up his wazoo. Although, Tipper probably has already beaten us to it. Same result different intention.