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Tango0126 Oct 2018 9:01 p.m. PST

"Death lurks around every corner in Alex Garland's Annihilation, but its most terrifying harbinger is a ghoulish bear with saber-tooth fangs, reams of rotting flesh, and a half-exposed skull that looks part-human. The creature is a microcosm of phenomena from which it emerged, a mysterious air-ooze called the Shimmer where time is warped and life is mutated in impossible ways.

What is the Shimmer? It could be an extraterrestrial invader. But to me, its uncanny creatures feel like a parable for a more familiar monster. A monster that transcends time and space; that can only be measured through its effects on others. That kills indiscriminately, molding strange new ecologies from the carnage. A monster humanity created; a monster called climate change.

Fictional monsters have long given shape to our worst fears, including fears about how we're impacting the environment. In the 1950s, the perils of nuclear waste were brought to us on the big screen by enormous, radiation-juiced insects. As environmentalists raised concerns about pollution in ‘70s and ‘80s, new monsters emerged from smog and sludge, along with a host of heroes to defend the planet. Now, we face a future of rising seas, worsening storms, and deadly heat waves—all brought about by gases we cannot see or touch, whose effects ripple widely through space and slowly through time. As the realities of our ecological destruction grow clearer by the day, monsters symbolizing climate change are emerging in fiction and film with increasing urgency…."
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Thresher0126 Oct 2018 10:30 p.m. PST

ROFLMAO……….

"Climate change" has been going on for hundreds of millions of years, and if you don't cherry-pick the data points to try to prove your false hypothesis, in order to garner tens of millions/billions for "research" and higher taxes, you'll find there is no real "global warming" to speak of, AKA "climate change", under its new moniker, since the previous one was disproved.

Even the EU had to admit that the data was falsified, and it was all a scam to tax America and Americans.

On the plus side, with the minor changes currently occurring now, the growing season has lengthened in some areas, so that is a plus for people growing crops in some regions.

Change happens, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually……..ad nauseum, but that doesn't mean the sky is really falling, despite what people want you to think.

ZULUPAUL Supporting Member of TMP27 Oct 2018 2:08 a.m. PST

+1 Thresher01

Twilight Samurai27 Oct 2018 2:44 a.m. PST

Glup!

pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP27 Oct 2018 3:39 a.m. PST

You tell 'em, Thresher!

mrwigglesworth27 Oct 2018 4:19 a.m. PST

Hahaha get em Thresher01

WarWizard27 Oct 2018 5:04 a.m. PST

Where I live in SouthEastern PA, they can't accurately predicate the weather for a 24 to 48 hour period within a 100 mile radius. And they expect me to believe they can predict weather patterns for the entire globe for decades to come. Right.

Wackmole927 Oct 2018 6:49 a.m. PST

In the past we have been A

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Snowball

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Water Earth

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But it will End someday.

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Zephyr127 Oct 2018 3:17 p.m. PST

"but its most terrifying harbinger is a ghoulish bear with saber-tooth fangs, reams of rotting flesh, and a half-exposed skull that looks part-human."

Man-Bear-Pig!
Now pay South Park their deserved royalties, Alex, you IP thief, you… ;-)

craigjwoodfield27 Oct 2018 4:47 p.m. PST

As you should know, Tango, nothing from Holllywood will ever be as scary as human ignorance and prejudice!

23rdFusilier28 Oct 2018 3:31 a.m. PST

"Even the EU had to admit that the data was falsified, and it was all a scam to tax America and Americans."

Can you please share a source for this?

Thresher0129 Oct 2018 8:51 p.m. PST

Sure, 23rdF.

"The UN Admits That The Paris Climate Deal Was A Fraud"

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"Shortly after becoming environment minister last year, Mr Dimov told a television interviewer "climate change is a scientific debate; there is no consensus, and every part has arguments."

This statement followed an online video released in 2015 in which Mr Dimov described global warming as a "fraud … used to scare the people".

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"As Tony Heller at the Real Climate Science web site notes, "Pre-2000 temperatures are progressively cooled, and post-2000 temperatures are warmed. This year has been a particularly spectacular episode of data tampering by NOAA, as they introduce nearly 2.5 degrees of fake warming since 1895."

So the global warming scare is basically a hoax.

This winter, for instance, as measured by temperature in city after city and by snow-storm severity, has been one of the coldest on record in the Northeast.

But after the NOAA's wizards finished with the data, it was merely about average".

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"Climate Change – the REAL inconvenient truth: Scientist claims global warming is NATURAL".

"They fed this data into a machine learning neural network which offered prediction patterns of temperatures for the last two millennia if there was not extra CO2.

The computer predicted temperatures which almost exactly match what global temperatures have been, even if there was not an industrial revolution.

They also found the world was warmer during the Medieval times".

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Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data

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"It's not the first time we've exposed dodgy climate data, which is why we've dubbed it: Climate Gate 2

Dr John Bates's disclosures about the manipulation of data behind the 'Pausebuster' paper is the biggest scientific scandal since 'Climategate' in 2009 when, as this paper reported, thousands of leaked emails revealed scientists were trying to block access to data, and using a 'trick' to conceal embarrassing flaws in their claims about global warming.

Both scandals suggest a lack of transparency and, according to Dr Bates, a failure to observe proper ethical standards".

"Former NOAA Scientist Confirms Colleagues Manipulated Climate Records".

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"UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth by Climate Policy"

"If you needed any more evidence that the entire theory of manmade global warming was a scheme to redistribute wealth you got it Sunday when a leading member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told a German news outlet, "[W]e redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy."

Such was originally published by Germany's NZZ Online Sunday, and reprinted in English by the Global Warming Policy Foundation moments ago".

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"Top Scientist Resigns Admitting Global Warming Is A Big Scam".

"It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford's book organizes the facts very well.)".

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"More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC :Panel"

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"Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought' say scientists" – April 2018 (Though this hasn't been mentioned widely in most news media. I've never heard of this prior to today.)

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Here's the real reason for wanting a Carbon Tax on America and Americans, from a number of sources involved with the issue – the desire for "global social justice" and one government:

"Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, addressing the same Rio Climate Summit audience, agreed: "We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." (Wirth now heads the U.N. Foundation which lobbies for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries fight climate change.)

Also speaking at the Rio conference, Deputy Assistant of State Richard Benedick, who then headed the policy divisions of the U.S. State Department said: "A global warming treaty [Kyoto] must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect."

In 1988, former Canadian Minister of the Environment, told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald: "No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."

In 1996, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev emphasized the importance of using climate alarmism to advance socialist Marxist objectives: "The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order."

Speaking at the 2000 U.N. Conference on Climate Change in the Hague, former President Jacques Chirac of France explained why the IPCC's climate initiative supported a key Western European Kyoto Protocol objective: "For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established."

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"The Costs of Ideology Masquerading as Science:

As Greenpeace co-founder Peter Moore observed on Fox Business News in January 2011: "We do not have any scientific proof that we are the cause of the global warming that has occurred in the last 200 years…The alarmism is driving us through scare tactics to adopt energy policies that are going to create a huge amount of energy poverty among the poor people. It's not good for people and it's not good for the environment…In a warmer world we can produce more food."

When Moore was asked who is responsible for promoting unwarranted climate fear and what their motives are, he said: "A powerful convergence of interests. Scientists seeking grant money, media seeking headlines, universities seeking huge grants from major institutions, foundations, environmental groups, politicians wanting to make it look like they are saving future generations. And all of these people have converged on this issue."

"Virtually all of this is based upon unfounded representations that we are experiencing a known human-caused climate crisis, a claim based upon speculative theories, contrived data and totally unproven modeling predictions. And what redemptive solutions are urgently implored? We must give lots of money to the U.N. to redistribute; abandon fossil fuel use in favor of heavily subsidized but assuredly abundant, "free", and "renewable" alternatives; and expand federal government growth, regulatory powers, and crony capitalist-enriched political campaign coffers.

It is way past time to realize that none of this is really about protecting the planet from man-made climate change. It never was".

Craig Woodfield30 Oct 2018 2:49 a.m. PST

Wait, I need my tin foil hat…

Col Durnford30 Oct 2018 6:04 a.m. PST

Tin foil hats are available from the UN for $49.99 USD with profits used to subsidize kit forms of the hats to third world countries.

FoxtrotPapaRomeo30 Oct 2018 4:25 p.m. PST

I know the solution. Buy more guns … it compensates for small …


(wait for it)


… brains.

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