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Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
Cowspiracy: A movie for sheep. Join the stampede!
Cowspiracy, a movie with as many ridiculous calculations, cherry picked facts and fallacies as NASA climate "scientist" publications. The 8.3 rating shows that there are a lot more two legged sheep than cows in the U.S.. A cow drinks 1 to 2 gallons per 100 lbs. per day. About the same as a human. Methane levels during the Carboniferous period, when terrestrial life was most abundant, was about 10 ppmv vs less than 2 ppmv today. Using the same formula, I'd like to see how many gallons of water are used by a human being to produce 160 lbs of worm food after 70 years of life, and how much human excrement is produced each second? Too bad that no one taught Kip and Keegan that cow excrement is called fertilizer, and helps the grass grow.
Here is a short list of simple inconvenient truths that all of the 3,000 published "scientists" who benefit from NASA's annual multi-billion dollar Earth "Science" budget, totally ignore:
1. The world CAN NOT flood as long as Antarctica is at the bottom of the globe, surrounded by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, cut off from warm water from the Equator, with an average temperature of -40°! As it has been for the last 35 to 45 million years. The ice sheet is 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick, and holds 70% of the Earth's fresh water.
The North Pole on the other hand has had an average temperature of 0°C. Question is, if humans CAN cool the Earth, do you really want to repeat the Last Glacial Maximum of just 18,000 years ago, when glaciers reached as far south as Missouri, and New York was under a 1 mile thick sheet of ice?!
2. There is no correlation between CO2 levels and average global temperature. Google Image Search Geologic Climate History CO2. What you'll find is that the Earth has been unusually cold for the last 3 million years. That the Medieval Warm Period (950 to 1250) and the Roman Warm Period (250 BC to 400 AD) were both 1°C warmer than today. That the temperature rose 1.5°C in the 140 years from 1740 to 1880, but only 1°C in the 140 years from 1880 to today. So the rise in temperature is subsiding, not increasing!
3. Just like those who predicted that Y2K would lead to total technological and economic collapse, NASA "scientists" predicted, and even testified to Congress in the 1980s, that New York City would be under water by 2020. I'll pay $1000 to the first person who takes me on a zodiac rafting tour floating down Wall Street.
4. The CO2 levels are currently at 400 ppm. At the beginning of the Carboniferous period, when terrestrial life was most abundant, CO2 levels were over 5 times higher (2000+ ppm), yet the average global temperature was similar to today, and well below the average of the last 500 million years +6°C.
It only takes ONE scientific FACT to destroy a theory. In the instance of human caused climate change, there are numerous facts that profiteers who call themselves "scientists" choose to ignore, and can be easily found with simple Google searches. Just like religion, people pathetically perpetuate profitable myths for free. The church, and other sheep herders are the ones that profit.
SCIENCE NEVER IGNORES ANY FACTS, EVER! and SHEEP NEVER LEARN TO DO REAL RESEARCH!
Outside Ozona (1998)
If you like Stephen King dramas, you'll probably like this too.
How have I not heard of this movie in 20 years? (Written and directed by J. S. Cardone) With a bit of gore, nudity at a strip club, a good storyline, a little romantic longing, and characters that you can care about. (I'm not a fan of King books, but I almost always like the movies they make from them. The pace of Outside Ozona resembles Misery, The Green Mile, Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, Secret Window...)
There's not a whole lot of excitement (like Cujo), but the stories have a nice steady pace, with a fairly cool climax when they all come together. It's not a movie for my top 10 list (hence 8 stars instead of 10), but it is one that I will tell others about, because I'd never heard of it in 20 years, and probably never would have if I hadn't been on page 46 of my Amazon Prime list of movies.
Sully (2016)
This isn't a documentary, the NTSB weren't attack dogs as portrayed.
Clint Eastwood, his political views aside, might be wise to stick with comedy, like Space Cowboys (since he's too old to play Dirty Harry anymore), and leave the directing to better people. Are there any left in Hollywood?
I realize that this movie was not meant to be a documentary, which is a genre that I often enjoy, and I also realize that Hollywood has to do what is best for their revenue, which often means sensationalizing "true stories", (Like the movie Race the Sun, about a good friend of mine, but almost totally fictitious) but we're talking about the Miracle on the Hudson here, it's sensational as it is. Granted, the intensity only lasted for 208 seconds (plus another minute or two to get out of the plane), but there is sooo much of the story that this movie could have told, but didn't, like the rescue, background of those involved, etc.
All the confusing bouncing back and forth in the timeline, all of the distortion of the events, were beneath Tom Hanks acting abilities. And the portrayal of the NTSB was pure fiction. So much so, that they spoke out as soon as they heard about the movie. Search: bloomberg crash investigators pan their portrayal
I still give the movie 4 stars, because Tom Hanks played his roll well (and the other actors tried, especially Aaron Eckhart), although Tom's heart didn't seem to be in this one. And if you don't care about accuracy, it was an OK movie. It's worth seeing once, I guess, with a grain of salt (or a mine), but unlike many movies in the same "True Story" genre, I doubt I'll watch this one more than once.
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
A climate change propaganda film
First let me start off by saying that burning of fossil fuels for energy is stupid. The energy this planet gets from the sun (which causes the wind) is more than we'll ever need. All we need to do is learn to harness and store it economically and efficiently.
Every human caused global warming / climate change "scientist" says essentially the same thing, "the last 20 years have been the warmest on record". But the record that they refer to is only the last 150 years. They ignore EVERYTHING we know about the ENTIRE climate history of the planet, as you will find by googling "geologic climate history". Your research will show you that the earth has been unusually cool for the last 35 million years. This is like saying that the last week of March has been the warmest all month, and ignoring all of the other 11 months, the cycle of the seasons etc.
Merchants of Doubt starts off with the deception of the tobacco industry, which is irrefutable, throws in a little about the fire retardant industry for good measure, then tries to show a correlation to global warming.
REAL science never ignores ANY facts, yet global warming scientists ignore the majority of facts. The fact that the most abundant life in Earth's history was during the Jurassic period, when the average global temperature was 14C higher than it is now, compared to 1C lower pre-industrial level, and CO2 levels were over 4,000ppm, compared to today's 450ppm and the 300ppm pre- industrial levels; that the polar ice caps have melted and reformed many times, and extended as far south as Missouri just 500,000 years ago. That the Antarctic Ice Sheet is 2 miles thick and growing.
Merchants of Doubt doesn't get into the science. Instead it tries to get you to discount REAL science, by making you believe that anyone who shares real scientific information is merely doing what the tobacco industry did.
Gravity (2013)
MADE FOR IMAX 3D!! The most incredible visual sense of floating in space.
This is one of those very rare movies (like Jurassic Park) that were MADE for the BIG screen! From beginning to end, the excellent 3D effects are amazing and nearly constant. The majority of the movie is floating in space outside of the spacecraft, with a few minutes inside now and then. Things are always floating around, and there is a lot of depth and amazing views of the Earth, stars, spacecraft etc, giving you an incredible visual sense of being in space.
The story is pretty good, but not the perfect edge of your seat story (e.g Aliens). If you're hoping for a Clooney / Bullock romance or chemistry, it's not there. They are coworkers trying to survive. These are the reasons for losing one star, but the 3D experience in IMAX should earn it an extra 5 stars.
No other sci-fi movie I've ever seen has given such a realistic visual sense of being in space! If you read this review before Gravity leaves IMAX 3D theaters, go see it NOW, it's worth the extra money for IMAX to be engulfed by it! If it has already ended its run in IMAX 3D, I guess you'll have to settle for Blu- ray, sitting a meter from the highest quality 100 in. 3D TV and a room shaking stereo system, if you or a friend have one.