Hollywood is notorious for political propaganda disguised as entertainment, and nothing makes for a disaster movie like an environmental catastrophe, whether real or imaginary.  Unfortunately, many of today's poorly educated young people don't know propaganda when they see it, and no matter what comes up on the screen, they leave the movie theater thinking they've just seen a documentary.

The Cold Truth of the Warming Climate.  I remember sitting at the jury of one of North Europe's nature film festivals some 15 years ago and discussing stories of endangered species, different habitats, nature preservation and human's role in it all.  I recall only few films directly about climate back then and those didn't generally rise to the heightened attention of the jury members who felt there were deeper and more immediate issues to be concerned with, like the effect of high shipping traffic on the unique marine ecology of the Baltic Sea or the refuse float threatening the sea turtles.  I have lost touch with nature film circuit in later years and do not know how much has its content or preferences changed, but the approach to its subject matter has certainly changed in the wider society around us.

Disney's Big Gay, Green 'Strange World' Crashes at Box Office.  Disney's latest animated feature, the gay, green Strange World, just tanked at the box office. [...] You mean no one wants to waste their Thanksgiving weekend having their children prematurely sexualized by groomers with a side order of enviro-guilt?  This should do wonders for Disney's already cratered stock price.  Strange World cost anywhere from $150 million to $180 million to produce.

BBC polar bear propaganda melts under analysis.  A recently released BBC documentary, Frozen Planet II, renews claims that polar bears are destined to doom due to melting Arctic sea ice and calls for "immediate action."  "David Attenborough returns with another epic exploration of the world's frozen regions... you're weirdly sad that a polar bear can't hunt seals because of the melting ice — and this image nails the urgent message in this incredible six-episode series," reads The Guardian's intro to the documentary series.  "The frozen wilderness is disappearing at a faster rate than ever before, with the Arctic predicted to see ice-free summers by 2035.  Each closeup shot of these amazing animals is a reminder of what the world will lose without taking immediate action."

Don't Look Up!  A real rock from outer space (not manmade climate change) is causing perceived rising seas.  In the Netflix movie, Washington politicians "Don't Look Up" because they prefer to remain oblivious to a special effects meteor that's about to obliterate Planet Earth.  Not surprisingly, the film is really about our refusal to recognize the "existential threat" of "manmade climate change."  Director Adam McKay recently tweeted, "We've got 6-8 years before the climate is so chaotic we [will] live in a permanent state of biblical catastrophe."  Not to be outdone, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the latest UN climate report "a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world."  Drilling for more oil and gas is "moral and economic madness," he insisted.  If humanity doesn't stop using fossil fuels, we will be overwhelmed by devastating floods, heat waves, droughts, fires and crop failures. [...] Back on the non-parallel-universe Planet Earth, a truly unlivable world would be one without fossil fuels.

Honestly, is climate change really humanity's greatest threat?  Exactly 10 years after "Inconvenient Truth," I decided I needed to be more discerning about what was "coming down the pike."  After seeing the film and doing my research, I found most of Gore's previous "expert" predictions proved false needing to be debunked as myths.
  •   Rising Sea Levels:  inaccurate and misleading.  I also noticed Al had purchased a beautiful beachfront mansion!  [So has Barack H. Obama.  So has Nancy Pelosi.]
  •   Increased Tornadoes:  Declining for decades.
  •   New Ice Age in Europe:  they've been spared; it never happened.
  •   South Sahara Drying Up:  completely untrue.
  •   Massive Flooding in China and India:  did not happen.
  •   Melting Arctic: false — the largest refreezing in years occurred years ago.
  •   Polar Bear Extinction: actually they are increasing!
  •   Temperature Increases Due to CO2:  no significant rising for almost 25 years.
  •   Earth in a True Planetary Emergency in a Decade Unless Drastic Action Taken to Reduce Greenhouse Gases:  never happened.
  •   Note: Mt. Kilimanjaro has continued to have abundance of snow; Glacier National Park had to remove a sign predicting the ice would be gone by 2020; this year Antarctica recorded its coldest winter on record.

Fifteen years on, Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' has proved to be largely inaccurate tripe.  Al Gore's climate change movie was hailed as revolutionary a decade and a half ago when it was released to much fanfare but, in the intervening years, the truths have, inconveniently, turned out to not be truths at all.  Fifteen years ago today, failed US presidential candidate, Al Gore, released what can be best described as a scare movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth:  The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It'.  The movie was a global hit and Gore won an Oscar; he also received the Nobel Peace Prize.  Gore had succeeded in making global warming sexy.  Everyone wanted to get in on the act to show how eco-friendly they were, particularly celebrities.  And everyone else had to sign up to the agenda because, as we still hear so often today, "the science is settled." [...] But the movie wasn't just aimed at adults, or gullible MEPs, it was designed to scare our children.  Schools around the world showed the movie and the complimentary book appeared in their libraries.  As a result, children became terrified of the impending climate doom, which led to 'climate anxiety' and even now is giving our little ones sleepless nights.  However, the wheels quickly started to come off 'An Inconvenient Truth'.  In 2007, the High Court of England and Wales ruled that the film contained nine scientific inaccuracies relating to "the context of alarmism and exaggeration."

Creepy Children's Climate Video:  What if Humans Disappeared?  Be very careful what your kids watch.  The first few minutes of the following educational children's video seems harmless enough.  But then it slowly morphs into radical green propaganda for children, inferring climate entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Elon Musk are as important as superheroes, the benefits of green communism, and how wonderful it would be for all the cute animals if humans disappeared (though they would miss the free food).  If you want to skip forward after watching the first few seconds, Bill Gates appears at 3.29, Elon Musk at 4:49.  "What if humans disappeared?" 8:49.  Solar panels 9:55, 11:07 Psychic powers, 14:27 Green Communism.  Barf bag recommended.  [Video clip]

The Disney company adds to the list of reasons for boycotting it.  [Scroll down]  But while nobody was looking, Disney became increasingly politically correct.  It's massive hit, Frozen, was a feminist tract.  Frozen II was a Gaia-worshipping, reparations supporting, feminist tract.  Moana, which is lovely, is also an earth-worship movie.  On Disney+, you can find preachy fare about climate change, coming out as gay, racial issues, and all sorts of other woke material.

'Apocalypse Never' Review:  False Gods for Lost Souls.  There is a recurring puzzle in the history of the environmental movement:  Why do green activists keep promoting policies that are harmful not only to humans but also to the environment?  Michael Shellenberger is determined to solve this problem, and he is singularly well qualified.  He understands activists because he has been one himself since high school, when he raised money for the Rainforest Action Network.  Early in his adult career, he campaigned to protect redwood trees, promote renewable energy, stop global warming, and improve the lives of farmers and factory workers in the Third World.  But the more he traveled, the more he questioned what Westerners' activism was accomplishing for people or for nature.  He became a different kind of activist by helping start a movement called ecomodernism, the subject of "Apocalypse Never:  Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All."  He still wants to help the poor and preserve ecosystems, but through industrialization instead of "sustainable development."

A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality.  First there was Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans, then came Bjorn Lomborg's False Alarm, and now Michael Schellenberger's Apocalypse Never. All three authors sound the common theme that the hyper-green environmental activists who have captured, politicized, and monetized the concern for the environment have, as Lomborg explains, created a false climate alarm which has "costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet."  To varying degrees, all three authors come from a strong environmental activist background, which observation makes their public revelations even more noteworthy.

The Radical Politics of Frozen II.  Every so often someone tells me, "Cool it, man, you're reading waaaay too much into this kiddie cartoon."  Or superhero movie.  Or whatever.  Frozen II pretty obviously is breathtakingly radical.  (And also a bad movie; the two don't necessarily go together.)  I didn't include any spoilers in my review, but I see Slate has published a spoiler-laden essay in contemplation of the cartoon's (utterly bizarre) storyline and how it brings in themes of colonialism and reparations.

Frozen 2's Bizarre Storyline About Reparations, Explained.  Frozen takes place in a universe where a proto-X-woman shoots icicles out of her fingertips, so the film isn't exactly a documentary. [...] Frozen 2 is an American movie written and directed by Americans for a largely American audience, so it's probably inevitable that some portion of the audience will see the Northuldra as stand-ins for Native Americans and Elsa and Anna's multiracial Arendelle as present-day America.  It doesn't help that Elsa and Anna's Northuldra mother shielding their would-be-doomed Arendellian father somewhat recalls the (highly romanticized and extremely false) story of Pocahontas.

Frozen 2 is about 'bizarre storyline' about reparations.  Frozen 2 opens this weekend and it sounds as if Disney is going for broke with the wokeness this time around.  You may recall that the big twist in the first Frozen movie was that the damsel in distress was rescued by true love from her sister instead of from a handsome prince.  I guess the creators wanted to really top that on the second outing and it sounds like they did.  Slate described the storyline as a 'bizarre' tale about reparations.

Angry Birds Movie 2 — Global-warming Propaganda for Tots.  Can't kids just be kids anymore?  Of course not; they must be drafted into service as climate-change agents and social-justice warriors for the United Nations.  That's the message of The Angry Birds Movie 2, released in mid-August by Sony Pictures Entertainment.  John Rego, vice president of sustainability, corporate responsibility and environmental affairs at Sony, took to the stage on August 27, the second day of the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City, to introduce a UN-themed trailer for the movie and to extol the company's partnership with the global body.  The movie sequel, which hopes to build on the phenomenal success of the original Angry Birds movie (2016), is shameless political propaganda aimed at activating children and youth for "climate action."  It is also a sick form of child abuse, as surveys have shown an alarming number of children are terrified that the world is about to end, to the point that they are having nightmares and anxiety attacks.

Open Your Eyes.  The Planet's Not Dying.  I watched the animated children's movie, The Lorax, with my grandchildren years ago.  One of the villains is the Mayor, Aloysius O'Hare, who sells air to the gullible residents of the polluted town which has no trees.  The subtle message here is that corrupt humans have destroyed all the oxygen producing trees and this has led to the town's disastrous environmental crisis.

Climate Junk Science and the Utter Nonsense of Twelve Years to Destruction.  In the ultimate synergy between Climate Change and Left Hollywood pop culture, Al Gore made a 2006 Hollywood hit movie about global warming and impending doom.  Gore's movie stated as fact, for example, that Global Warming would doom Mount Kilimanjaro's peaks to be snow-free within ten years.  Better not tell that to Mount Kilimanjaro Snow Peak Resort.  On the day of this writing, more heavy snow is predicted there.  The passage of more than a decade has allowed time for so many of his movie's dire definitive predictions to be proven false.

Worst Liberal Movies: 
  •   The 11th Hour (2007, Rated PG):  This environmental schlockumentary produced and narrated by actor Leonardo DiCaprio endorses the theory of Anthropogenic global warming.
  •   Arctic Tale (2007, Rated G):  A documentary film geared towards children that pushes the false narrative of global warming and polar bears going extinct from melting ice caps.
  •   Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014, Rated TV-PG):  Darwinism and global warming alarmism are disguised as science.
  •   Hoot (2006, Rated PG):  A movie about a bunch of kids who stand up to a CEO company that is trying to put one of its restaurants on a burrowing owl habitat.
  •   Years of Living Dangerously (2014):  Environmental schlockumentary spearheaded by ultra-liberal, James Cameron, and featuring several proponents of Hollywood Values trying to preach the false idea of climate change.

Matt Damon's 'Downsizing' Movie Is More Tired Overpopulation Nonsense From The Usual Suspects.  The movie "Downsizing" opened in December of 2017, eventually grossing about $40 million worldwide.  The movie's main characters are shrunk to five inches tall, part of an effort to reduce the size of people, reduce their environmental footprint and save the planet.  It's a fun fantasy, but "Downsizing" repeats tired fears of overpopulation that have wrongly plagued us for decades.  News outlets gushed over the "Downsizing" concept. [...] The movie builds on fears of overpopulation, a foundation of the ideology of environmental sustainable development, which has been broadly accepted.  Today, colleges and universities teach students that modern society is unsustainable.  They claim we're using too much energy, emitting too much carbon dioxide, and exhausting our resources, in large part because of an uncontrolled rise in world population.

Global Warming Is Poison at the Box Office.  It seems more and more that the movie-going audience simply doesn't want to be preached to on any subject. [...] Today's filmmakers believe the message is the story.  Nothing could be more boring than being preached to by arrogant know-it-alls who believe the rest of us need to be taught the proper way to think.

Hollywood tries to save the Earth, but moviegoers aren't buying eco-messages anymore.  Climate change got its close-up in 2017.  A gaggle of films either name-checked Al Gore's biggest fear or built their narratives around it.  The timing, in theory, couldn't be better for Hollywood bean counters:  Three major hurricanes.  Massive fires in the West.  Record-setting chills.  Media reports routinely connected the disasters with a warming planet.  Yet audiences stayed away from films influenced by eco-concerns.  Far, far away.  Think "Blade Runner 2049," "Geostorm," "Downsizing," "An Inconvenient Sequel:  Truth to Power" and "mother!"  They all flopped, some in spectacular fashion.

'Darkest Hour' Warns Viewers About Dangers Of Churchill's Secondhand Cigar Smoke.  He warned Britain and the United States about the rise of Adolf Hitler.  He fought the Nazi war machine alone until Russia and the United States joined him.  And he is a public health menace.  Winston Churchill, it seems, is rarely pictured without a cigar in tow.  And the new Churchill biographical film, "Darkest Hour," wants you to know that "there are serious health risks associated with smoking and with secondhand smoke."  That line is included in the film's credits, which also say that "the depictions of tobacco smoking contained in this film are based solely on artistic consideration and are not intended to promote tobacco consumption."  Not surprisingly, the warning did not distinguish between cigarette smoke, which is inhaled, and cigar smoke, which is not.

A Viewer's Guide to National Geographic's From The Ashes.  This Policy Brief, titled "A Viewer's Guide to NatGeo's From The Ashes," separates fact from fiction and concludes:  From The Ashes offers an out-of-context and inaccurate perspective that will mislead rather than enlighten minds about the history and future of one of the country's most abundant energy resources.  In a succinct 14 pages, the authors make seven key points about the film:
  1. The provenance of Ashes suggests it is highly biased.
  2. Carbon dioxide is not "pollution."
  3. The international war on coal is a war on prosperity.
  4. Using clean coal is not creating an ozone problem.
  5. Using clean coal is not a major cause of asthma.
  6. Renewable energy cannot economically replace coal.
  7. Renewables are not so clean.

'Mother!' Review:  Stylish But Tedious Lecture Against Christianity In Defense of Mother Earth.  Many will interpret mother! (the lowercase is intentional for some obnoxious reason) in their own way.  The following is my interpretation, which I am confident is the only interpretation.  I may have missed a few small things, but this is what mother! is really about...  No one is called by name.  It is only through the credits that we learn that Jennifer Lawrence is "Mother" and Javier Bardem is "Him."  The truth, however, is that Lawrence is Mother Earth (or Gaia) and Bardem is the Christian God.

An Emetic for Gore.  I just haven't got it in me to suffer through Gore's new sequel (and apparently not many other moviegoers can either), and so I'm not going to produce another rebuttal video.  Fortunately, we have Dr. Roy Spencer on the job.  Dr. Spencer, a long-time senior climate scientist at NASA and the co-inventor of the NASA satellite system that tracks earth temperatures, has written a fabulous ebook rebutting Gore's climate gore, An Inconvenient Deception:  How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy.  It's currently ranked as the #1 seller on Amazon in three science book categories:  Climatology; Environmental science, and Science & math.  At just $3.99 I suggest Power Line readers snap up a copy and boost his sales rank further.  Moreover, it is likely that more people will read this book than see Gore's movie.

Top climate scientist rebuts Al Gore film as 'bad science' while ticket sales plummet.  Climatologist Roy W. Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, released Saturday an 81-page e-book on Amazon titled "An Inconvenient Deception:  How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy."  "After viewing Gore's most recent movie, 'An Inconvenient Sequel:  Truth to Power,' and after reading the book version of the movie, I was more than a little astounded," Mr. Spencer said on his blog, Global Warming.  "The new movie and book are chock-full of bad science, bad policy, and factual errors."

Al Gore's movie Bombs big-time.  The move ranked just 15th at the box office in its first weekend of wide release and earning icy reviews from critics.  The movie has earned a meager $1 million since its release, prompting one critic to complain that parent company Paramount Pictures "effectively sabotaged" the premier.

Gore's sequel comes in dismal 15th at box office.  Former Vice President Al Gore's new film, "An Inconvenient Sequel", came in a dismal 15th this weekend at U.S. theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.  Gore's defenders have been quick to blame Paramount Pictures for the dismal performance of Gore's sequel.

Al Gore's sequel to An Inconvenient Truth flounders in 15th place at the box office.  Al Gore's sequel to An Inconvenient Truth is struggling to heat up the box office, clocking in at just 15th place — six spots under where the original was at this point in 2006.  An Inconvenient Sequel:  Truth to Power, which follows the ex-VP's continuing attempts to raise awareness of global warming, made $900,000 across 180 screens on the weekend of August 4-6, according to Box Office Mojo.

The Editor says...
There is no reason to "raise awareness of global warming," because the amount of global warming one experiences in a lifetime is imperceptible, unavoidable and harmless.

Not so hot:  Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Sequel' meets with skepticism even from left.  Nobody is more excited about Friday's [7/28/2017] release of Al Gore's sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth" than climate skeptic Marc Morano, which comes as an ill wind for the movement to stop global warming, not to mention Mr. Gore.  For months, Mr. Morano and his team have tracked the Democrat at advance screenings of "An Inconvenient Sequel:  Truth to Power," ambushing him with stunts such as asking him about his prediction that without drastic measures, the planet would reach a "point of no return" in a decade.  The former vice president made that claim 11 years ago in "An Inconvenient Truth," the Oscar-winning documentary whose warnings of climate doom propelled Mr. Gore to the forefront of the movement against global warming — while turning him into something of a punchline.

Al Gore Can't Save the Global Warming Cult.  Following Donald Trump's withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, Al Gore is releasing an update of his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth.  It's called An Inconvenient Sequel:  Truth to Power, in which no doubt we will hear the same apocalyptic hysteria of its predecessor, and the same lurid predictions that will never come true.

Climate Hustle:  The Movie That Scares Warming Hoaxers.  See the film that former comedy writer Bill Nye warned is 'Not in Our National Interest' — Climate Hustle' is 'the most dangerous documentary of year' — 'Wickedly effective use of slapstick humor' — 'Lays waste to Gore' — 'Brutal & Extremely Funny' Regular readers of this site (and listeners to the Lid Radio show) may have heard of the movie Climate Hustle, hosted my my friend and Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano.

Leo DiCaprio's parents brainwashed him into becoming an environmentalist freak.  It's a tough time to be making an Apocalypse Soonish documentary.  Americans fear credit-card fraud more than global warming.  Given that nearly twice as many Americans say they're more afraid of government corruption than global warming, DiCaprio might have had more success with a film about Hillary Clinton's favor-selling business.  Still, as he did in "J. Edgar," Leo tries.  He films himself flitting around the globe meeting with experts such as the commissars of the Hamburger Police ("Beef is one of the most inefficient use of resources on the planet") and John Kerry, who blames jihad on global warming.  ("Any extremist philosophy could appeal to people who have nowhere to live, no way to live.")  Unwisely, he occasionally makes interjections himself:  "I feel like I'm in some kind of weird, surreal movie," he says, which is a strange comment to make when you're literally filming a movie.

After 10 Years, an Inconvenient Truth is Alarmingly Inaccurate.  It's been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film "An Inconvenient Truth."  It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses.  Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe out cities and cause ecological collapse.  To stop global warming, humans needed to ditch fossil fuels and basically change every aspect of their lives.

Let's ditch the doom and gloom and celebrate our improving environment.  The Emmy Award winning series, "Years of Living Dangerously," hosted by Hollywood's greenest actors, produced enough apocalyptic storytelling to leave viewers with feelings of guilt, despair, frustration, and helplessness.  Is it any surprise, therefore, that the International Journal of Mental Health Systems reported that a survey of Australian children found that a quarter were "so troubled about the [environmental] state of the world that they honestly believe tit [sic] will come to an end before they get older.  The result is the feeling that we are locked in a war to save the planet, a war that only can be won with an arsenal of government regulations.  The Emmy Award for "Years of Living Dangerously" was in the category of non-fiction, but fiction might have been a more appropriate category because the facts simply do not bear out many of the gloom and doom predictions.

'This Changes Everything' Proves Conservative Critics of Environmentalism Are Right.  This Changes Everything, the movie version of Naomi Klein's bestselling book by that title, is a moment of astonishing candor on the environmentalist left.  For decades, conservatives have argued that environmentalism is a cover for centrally managed economies, wealth redistribution, and intrusive government regulations.  Klein comes out and says that indeed, environmentalism is exactly that.  Conservative critics, she says in so many words, "are right."  Climate change is an opportunity to write "a new story."

George Clooney's 'Tomorrowland' bombs at box office as Hollywood pushes climate fiction.  Disney's "Tomorrowland" may be bombing at the box office, but on the plus side, it could win a Cliffie.  The Cliffie awards go to films that exemplify "cli-fi," or climate fiction, an emerging genre heating up this year as climate change themes seep from documentaries into big-budget Hollywood features.  That means cli-fi films such as "Tomorrowland," which has tanked despite an A-list director in Brad Bird and huge star in George Clooney, could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Green Lies.  It's romantic to fantasize about freeing whales so that they can frolic in the ocean.  That probably wouldn't work out very well.  After the movie "Free Willy" ran, the whale depicted in the film was set free.  But wild whales wouldn't accept him in their pods.  Willy kept returning to shore to be near people.  He let children ride on his back.  Willy died not long after he was set free.  It's hard to think rationally when animals tug at our heartstrings.  Lori Marino says it's cruel to imprison whales in tanks where they "have to do stupid pet tricks."  I see her point, but marine parks and zoos are often the only way people learn about nature, and ticket sales pay for education and conservation efforts.  SeaWorld alone has helped rescue 25,000 animals.

Vanishing evidence for climate change.  In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the "climate crisis."  The first is "Carbon," which tells us the world is threatened by a "carbon monster."  Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of energy are causing dangerous climate change and must be turned off as soon as possible, DiCaprio says.  But he has identified the wrong monster.  It is the climate scare itself that is the real threat to civilization.  DiCaprio is an actor, not a scientist; it's no real surprise that his film is sensationalistic and error-riddled.  Other climate-change fantasists, who do have a scientific background, have far less excuse.

"Global Warming, the Movie" Starring: Freezing.  A funny thing happens when Hollywood tries to portray the horrific negative consequences of global warming:  they tend to end up showing an Earth that has frozen over.  I noticed this the first time in 2004?s The Day After Tomorrow, where global warming supposedly leads to a global atmospheric inversion that buries New York City under a mountain of snow.  It was a striking image:  a global warming movie whose poster features the hand of the Statue of Liberty poking out of the top of a glacier.

Obama and Showtime Admit to Exploiting Extreme Weather Events to 'Shift' Public Opinion.  The finale of Showtime's "Years of Living Dangerously" wrapped up a long effort to push climate alarmism with an interview between New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and President Barack Obama.  Friedman and Obama agreed on the need to connect extreme weather events to climate change in order to sway public opinion, showcasing the partisan political goal of the Showtime series.

9 Problems with Aronofsky's 'Noah'.  Noah doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous).  It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.

'Gasland' scandal ignited at EPA.  HBO viewers thought they saw Steve Lipsky, a Parker County, Texas, home-owner, holding his garden hose belching fire from his methane-contaminated water well.  The flaming water was terrifying and "Gasland Part II" blamed it on fracking done by Range Resources, a Fort Worth-based shale gas driller.  What viewers actually witnessed was Lipsky holding a hose secretly connected to a gas vent, not a water line.  This fraud came out in a lawsuit filed by Steven and Shyla Lipsky against Range for $6.5 million in the 43rd State District Court of Texas.

Science Council Debunks More Environment Scares from 2013.  In 2010 filmmaker Josh Fox released the "documentary" Gasland, igniting anti-fracking hysteria as an "environmentalist" mass movement.  The key moment in that movie, shown over and over again on screens large and small, was a homeowner in protective goggles turning on his tap water and setting it on fire with a match.  The scene resulted in the widespread mythology that the "new" technology, fracking, involved dangerous procedures leading to leakage of toxic chemically treated water at high pressure into aquifers, well water, and tap water. [...] In conclusion it should be noted the tap-water flame so famously highlighted in Gasland was confirmed to be a result of naturally occurring methane in the nearby Colorado water table, and not related to any fracking activity.

Anti-fracking film littered with inaccurate and misleading claims.  Gasland Part II, the new documentary by environmental activist Josh Fox, premiered on HBO Monday night.  The film, a sequel to Fox's Oscar-nominated 2010 film Gasland, has drawn significant attention to the supposed dangers of the oil and gas extraction technique hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.  Many of its claims rely on faulty data, mischaracterizations, or outright falsehoods.  Four of those claims, made in his new film and repeated elsewhere, stand out.

The Top 5 Lies About Fracking.  Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox's earlier anti-fracking docudrama Gasland, will run on HBO next Monday.  It appears to have rounded up the usual corporate villains and appealing victims of profit-hungry capitalist skullduggery, rather than telling the more substantial story:  that fracking combined with horizontal drilling has unleashed a bonanza of cheap natural gas.

Frack to the Future.  There's gas in the earth.  That's why it's called "natural gas."  Some gets into well water.  Environmental officials investigated the flames shown in "Gasland" and concluded that the pollution had nothing to do with fracking.

FrackNation Debunks Fantasyland.  In a jammed-packed 70 minutes of video, [Phelim] McAleer interviews a wide range of experts and cites data that debunk virtually everything put forth in the 2010 pseudo-documentary Gasland.  As for Gasland producer Josh Fox, McAleer leaves no doubt that he is a pretense of a journalist who favors theater over facts about a technology that frees gas from tightly bound shale formations thousands of feet underground.

Eco-terror advocate bashes climate 'deniers' on film.  Last Friday [3/8/2013], Big Green's entertainment division churned out yet another attempt to turn that around with a panicky new global-warming documentary.  It opened on 51 screens with a weekend gross of $45,000 (that's $882.25 per screen, according to the Internet Movie Database).  It was produced at an estimated cost of $1.5 million and comes with a screaming title:  "Greedy Lying Bastards."

Greenie lying bastards.  Pathetic and desperate.  There's no other way to describe the new "we hate-industry" movie, Greedy Lying Bastards.  Producers spent nearly $2 million to complain about climate skeptic money, in yet another Big Green attack on anyone who disagrees with the climate fanatic industry, which is itself a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise that seeks to impose anti-energy policies in the name of preventing climate change.

"Promised Land": Anti-fracking Propaganda.  The story line in the new theatrical release Promised Land is obviously intended to leave audiences with a very dim and scary view of fracking and the companies that use this new method of drilling to tap vast amounts of oil and natural gas that otherwise would be inaccessible.  But the depiction in Promised Land is so fantastic that the intent could backfire.  Indeed, by the end of the film, moviegoers may be left annoyed and offended by the blatant attack on fracking.

Target of global warming agitprop unconcerned, amused.  [Greedy Lying] Bastards is premised on an ambitious conspiracy theory that has been spun so often it's become a cliché:  Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries, which Rosebraugh absurdly calls "the biggest company you've never heard of," are deploying paid shills including think tankers and politicians to obstruct solutions to and deceive the public about climate change.  But, after laying the groundwork, the film has trouble delivering.

Meet the "1%" Funding Anti-Fracking Hysteria.  It's the classic David vs. Goliath story.  According to a new report, the anti-fracking movement is just as well-funded by highly organized environmental groups backed by deep-pocketed liberal philanthropists and even Middle East oil money.  According to a new report titled "The Environmental Movement vs. the Marcellus Shale," the anti-fracking movement, using its friends in media and in Hollywood, has carefully crafted a "little guy" image when the reality is something quite different.

The unkindest movie review of all:
Matt Damon Anti-Fracking Movie Flops at Box Office.  Matt Damon's much hyped anti-fracking film "Promised Land" has failed to make the impact that its producers and environmental groups had hoped for.  As of January 20, "Promised Land" has raked in a whopping total of $7,542,000 since it opened on December 28, according to Box Office Mojo.  According to The Hill, the movie cost $15 million to make.

'Promised Land' fares poorly at theaters.  Fracking gets natural gas out of the ground, but it isn't bringing people into movie theaters.  Big stars and political controversy didn't translate into a significant box-office haul as "Promised Land," a new movie exploring environmental concerns about the gas-production method known more formally as "hydraulic fracturing," fared poorly in its nationwide opening.

Can UAE-Backed Film Shut Down U.S. Fracking Boom?  As the U.S. changes the balance of power by exporting some of its abundant natural gas resources, a Hollywood propaganda film debuts claiming the technology making it possible will poison America's small towns.

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2013 by Andrew K. Dart

Bait and switch:  Previews for Happy Feet give moviegoers no idea what they are in for. … There is nothing happy about the dark final 40 minutes as George Miller unleashes a political screed aimed at overfishing and human littering, among other things.  [A character named] Mumble goes after the humans, now "aliens," lands himself — predictably — in a zoo and summons a montage of fast-paced talking points on environmentalism.

'Happy Feet' Cartoon Is More Al Gore Sky-Is-Falling Propaganda.  Media commentator Michael Medved has recently exposed the Al Gore propaganda message of the new theatrical release, "Happy Feet," featuring lovable dancing penguins.  According to Medved, "Recent controversies involving environmental and gay-marriage messages in Hollywood cartoons and storybooks for young children show that in our current climate, even the youngest kids and the most endearing denizens of Antarctica can become targets and instruments of powerful propaganda."

Michael Medved reviews 'Happy Feet'.  This politically correct pastiche is visually dazzling but painfully unpleasant to watch with its penguin protagonist experiencing pain and danger through nearly all of its running time.  The messages about evil humans ruining everything and pointlessly thwarted love contribute to a decidedly downbeat experience.

'Happy Feet' Stumbles.  For the first half of the movie I enjoyed the slightly offbeat, familiar romp about themes such as being different, intolerance, and the need to loosen up and embrace diversity.  Even though I am a Christian pastor, I could overcome the negative stereotypes of all things spiritual or religious (all such figures were intolerant of diversity, frauds, liars, sticks-in-the-mud or outright debauches).  In any case, to mid-point the movie was entertaining and amusing.  The second half of the movie seemed to have been written by a very dull member of Greenpeace.

"Hoot" falls short.  Few children's films are as nakedly indoctrinating as this one. … Setting aside for a moment the borderline eco-terrorism the film supports, its secondary message that police aren't to be trusted, parents are to be ignored, and teachers are only cool if they overlook a little truancy is hardly one most moms and dads will support.

Hoot's greatest weakness  is its willingness to use end-justifies-the-means reasoning for the teens' actions.  Mullet Fingers is a runaway who defies the police.  He vandalizes a work site, a bulldozer and a police car.  He, Beatrice and Roy lie on multiple occasions to hospital workers, police, the mayor and just about anyone else who gets in their way.

"Too Hot" Not So Hot.  The latest triumph of the global warming crusade is a one hour HBO special entitled "Too Hot Not Too Handle" that is premiering in several cities this month. … If we adopted every suggestion in the film, concentration of carbon dioxide will still double this century.  The reality avoided in the film is that China is currently building over 500 coal-fired power plants; they intend to build one new coal fired plant every week for decades to come, and no matter what we do in the US, emissions from throughout the world will drive atmospheric carbon dioxide levels steadily upward.

The Day After Tomorrow  is just a cheesy disaster movie whose overlay of politically-motivated environmental concern is meant to supply a veneer of sophistication.  Transparent as as this is, it is even less successful at concealing the fact that, like so much of environmentalism, it is really anti-Americanism in disguise.

The Day After Tomorrow  is Hollyweird's latest propaganda project rushed into release just in time to pitch a "George Bush is ruining the planet" speech before the November election (I guess Botox is considered environmentally non-toxic these days).  The problem is that the film totally backfires, drenching itself in nonsensical pseudo-science, cartoonish political characatures and the dumbest "smart people" you'll ever see.

The Day After Rupert Murdoch Takes Over America:  The Day After Tomorrow, a flick that purports to warn about destruction wrought by global warming, crashes into multiplexes across the land on May 28.  Already, Al Gore and the lefty Internet clearing house MoveOn.org are planning to exploit the movie's New York premiere with a rally the same day.  MoveOn.org is calling it "the movie the White House doesn't want you to see."

Global Warming Propaganda Coming to Movie Screens.  Global warming propagandists have been using bogus "science" and frightening scenarios for years in an ongoing campaign aimed at empowering the United Nations to deal with this ginned-up "crisis."  Many, no doubt, are hoping that The Day After Tomorrow will help unfreeze the UN's Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. Senate has, so far, refused to ratify.

The Day After Tomorrow.  The film's Vice President of the United States intentionally looks like then-Vice President Cheney, the unsure President who helplessly asks his VP 'What do we do?", intentionally looks like Bush, and both are eventually taught a Hollywood-fantasy-lesson about getting what you deserve when you don't listen to the modern-day environmental movement.  To wit, Bush's counterpart is killed in the whirlwind he enabled and Cheney's is humbled after everyone above the Mason-Dixon line is wiped out and everyone below gets a taste of poetic justice when they're forced to illegally cross into Mexico and ask for sanctuary.

Cool Summer Throws Ice on Global Warming Alarmists.  It's been a disappointing summer for global warming alarmists.  The summer began with so much promise for the climate control crowd, with the release of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow."  Although the movie made plenty of money, global warming activists wanted much more than that.  They hoped it would foment global warming hysteria in the same way that "The China Syndrome" and "Silkwood" contributed to public sentiment against nuclear power plants.  Instead, the movie was so over-the-top in its portrayal of implausible weather phenomena that no one — not even the usually global warming-sympathetic media — took it seriously.

Don't Trust Hollywood Science:  Global Warming Won't Cause a New Ice Age.  "The Day After Tomorrow," is the subject of a multi-million dollar PR campaign touting it as if it were not fiction, but cinema verite - a realistic warning of what could happen if we don't dismantle our modern economy to stave off global warming.  Yet the extreme scenarios promoted by global warming theory advocates are supported more by political ideology than by science.

"Behind the Mask"
PETA & The ALF, Coming To A Theater Near You.  The radical animal rights group [PETA] is actively promoting a new film that glorifies the domestic-terrorist Animal Liberation Front (ALF).  Along with several leaders of the violent animal rights fringe — including ALF arsonist Rodney Coronado, maritime saboteur Paul Watson, and the murder-endorsing Jerry Vlasak — the movie includes an interview with PETA president Ingrid Newkirk.  In her close-up moment, Newkirk praises masked criminals for being "smart enough to know that they need to fight another day.  They don't want to be recognized by law enforcement."

Apocalypse Soon?  Environmental fear creates political pressure.  The release of a global warming propaganda film is being timed to influence the outcome of the US presidential election and help to pass legislation in Congress.  In June [2004], a week or two after the release of "The Day After Tomorrow", Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman will reintroduce a bill (S 139) to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in a fashion similar to the U.N.'s infamous Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

Inconvenient Truths Indeed.  Near the end of [Al Gore's] film, we learn of ways the United States could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases back to the levels of 1970.  OK.  Assume the United States accomplishes this lofty goal, would we see any impact on climate?  The well-known answer is no.  China, India and many other countries are significantly increasing their emission levels, and global concentrations of CO2 may double this century no matter what we decide to do in the United States.

Warmed Over.  Mr. Gore's next movie should be about the urge to propitiate the gods with sacrifices, a ritual whose appeal did not go out with the Aztecs.  Yes, Al, let us give billions to alternative energy bureaucrats and emissions regulators.  This we do as a tribute to your shamanism, although it will make little appreciable difference to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists.  Here's an inconvenient truth for "An Inconvenient Truth":  Remember what they used to call "climate change"?  "Global warming."  And what did they call it before that?  "Global cooling."  That was the big worry in the '70s:  the forthcoming ice age.  Back then, Lowell Ponte had a huge best seller called The Cooling:  Has the new ice age already begun?  Can we survive?

Nature Magazine Provides the Latest "Inconvenient Truth" for Globetrotter Al Gore.  Al Gore continues to be the comedic gift that keeps on giving.  First, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) revealed on May 24, 2006, that Gore has used enough hydrocarbons to circle the globe to present over 1,000 Power Point presentations on climate change.  CEI also revealed that he recently used five large SUVs to haul his movie entourage a mere 500 yards at the Cannes Film Festival in France, all the while admonishing others to curtail their own energy use.

Poor Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth:  It Isn't Science.  Activist cinema has no place in science and scientific discussions.  [Al Gore's] supporters go on to say that Gore wrote "An Inconvenient Truth" from a "passionate conviction" that the future of our environment is in grave danger.  Sorry again, but passionate convictions won't get you a "C" in freshman physics, let alone a responsible position in the climate change discussions.

Does Gore overheat global warming?  Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," continues to trigger heated discussions about global warming, as well as Mr. Gore's political ambitions, real or imagined. … In the film, Gore points to Mt. Kilimanjaro as an example of global warming's impact on alpine glaciers.  Robert Balling, a climatologist at Arizona State University writes, however, that the shrinking glaciers atop Africa's famed volcano have been disappearing for more than a century.  Two studies published in 2004 suggest the retreat was triggered by declining rainfall since the end of the 1800s.

The Inconvenient Truth about Species Extinction.  [Scroll down]  By my count, there are more than 25 inaccurate or misleading claims in An Inconvenient Truth, yet the Associated Press reports that 19 of our "nation's top climate scientists" gave it "five stars for accuracy."  Moreover, the film is being shown in schools throughout the world, and five nations have made it an official part of their educational curricula.

Al Gore's convenient fiction.  Let me be clear:  The problem with Gore is not that he is a hypocrite.  The problem with Gore is that he has no idea he is not Lancelot.  He has this scary ability to block out any facts that make him less than a perfect selfless eco-hero, and in his need to present himself as the world's savior, he'll say anything — no matter how hysterical.

Inconvenient Truths Indeed.  "An Inconvenient Truth" is billed as the scariest movie you'll ever see.  It may well be, but that's in part because it is not the most accurate depiction of the state of global warming science.  The enormous uncertainties surrounding the global warming issue are conveniently missing in "An Inconvenient Truth."

Editor's note:
The author of the article above is a professor in the climatology program at Arizona State University, specializing in climate change and the greenhouse effect.

Al Gore's film may win an Oscar, but it won't gain many converts.  In making the case for immediate action to stop global warming, the former vice president is articulate, concise, and even winsome, at times.  But Mr. Gore's radical political agenda and tendency for half-truth have undergone no such makeover.  In what amounts to a filmed slideshow, interspersed with indulgent autobiographical footage and voiceovers, Mr. Gore employs stage tricks, straw men, and well-rehearsed rhetoric to contend that opposition views on climate change are rooted in callous profiteering.

The gods are laughing.  Albert Einstein once said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."  While the gods must consider An Inconvenient Truth the ultimate comedy, real climate scientists are crying over Al Gore's new film.  This is not just because the ex-vice-president commits numerous basic science mistakes.  They are also concerned that many in the media and public will fail to realize that this film amounts to little more than science fiction.

PowerPoint Politics:  Before "Inconvenient Truth" enjoys its inevitable rendezvous with Oscar next spring, let me say a little bit about its message. … In the movie, Gore compares the threat of CO2 to the threat posed by Hitler, and so it's clear that he wants us to drop just about everything else in order to focus on the global-warming threat.  But for my part, I don't agree, and I am not so sure that many others do, either.  That's what's inconveniently missing from this film:  a sense of scale, a sense of tradeoffs.  If we choose to get more action against global warming, what will we get less of?

"Too much Gore".  Reviews by Democratic activists of "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warning:  raves on content, not so favorable on the principal actor.  Democratic politicians who have seen the movie … contend there is "too much Gore," including aspects of his personal life that have nothing to do with the environment.

Inconvenient truth about global warming.  A panel of eminent scientists testified yesterday [6/22/2006] at a congressional hearing on global warming … Their presentation was studded with "likely," "maybe," "could be," and "very close to being right" … The timing of the hearings, just when Al Gore's fading horror movie about global warming needs a little mojo at the box office, is no doubt mere coincidence.

Al's Big Adventure:  Gore — earth tones, orange face and all — tried every trick in the book to prove his alpha maleness in the 2000 presidential election, but alas, to no avail.  Since then, he has dedicated himself to his true calling — picking up where he left off after leaving seminary, and building a cathedral of worship for his cadre of eco-nuts. … "An Inconvenient Truth" is a documentary knockoff of last years pop film, "The Day After Tomorrow," only less credible.

Gore's Global Warming Snow Job:  Gore's indulgent exercise in doomsaying has morphed from a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation into the feature film, An Inconvenient Truth.  While the man who would be President deftly handles his self-portrayal of a con-artist and the Main Stream Media eagerly accept the role of his shills, we, the crowd, get to pay our silver to be mystified and astounded.

Questions for Al Gore:  There seems to be a lot of recent concern that more polar bears are drowning these days because of disappearing sea ice.  I assume you know that polar bears have always migrated to land in late summer when sea ice naturally melts back, and then return to the ice when it re-freezes.  Also, if this was really happening, why did the movie ["An Inconvenient Truth"] have to use a computer generated animation of the poor polar bear swimming around looking for ice?

The Pseudoscientific Gospel According to Al Gore:  Those who still believe that Al invented the internet, still bow at his feet.  But as a fellow Tennessean who lives only miles from his alleged Tennessee home, (where he never lives), I see him as most Tennesseans do.  An idiot prepared to say anything to win political power. … His global warming gospel, "An Inconvenient Truth", which seems to be an outright lie, is intended to drive uneducated federal dependents to the democratic side of the ballot at election time.

25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore:  Iain Murray, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes a devastating critique of the new movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," featuring Al Gore, and its companion book.  Murray says Gore "leaves out many truths that are inconvenient for his argument," and goes on to list and document 25 facts that contradict Gore's alarmist depiction of future climate change.

It's the end as he knows it.  The "inconvenient truth" that Gore has selflessly dedicated his life to warn us about is that "humanity is sitting on a time bomb". … Humans have polluted the atmosphere so much in the past 50 years that diseases and parasites are spreading, from lice and ebola to malaria.  He provides no evidence, and doesn't mention that the rise of malaria coincided with the banning of the pesticide DDT, the most effective weapon against mosquitoes.

The Importance Of Being Ernesto:  One of the tenets of the global warmers is that global warming and the Bush administration's indifference to it are causing an escalation in hurricane frequency and intensity.  Al Gore made that claim a central feature of his full-length cartoon, "An Inconvenient Truth."

"An Inconvenient Truth" is a bit hysterical.  Consider the first paragraph of the first section on the movie's website:

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb.  If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.