[Vision2020] Climate Change Film "Age of Stupid" Vimeo Video Channel Populated: 124 Videos

[Ted Moffett]

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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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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.
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> Paul
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> Ted Moffett wrote:
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