After the Warming (Global Warming documentary by Burke 1989)

Bas

another doomer approved documentary by James Burke, this time about global warming. As always nicely wrapped in a spicy little history of the world. Enjoy! Smile

After the Warming documentary

PS For the more mystically inclined doomer: take note of the prediction of New Orleans being evacuated at the beginning of the docu.
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I_Like_Plants

Genius!!

chakra · Tar Sands Joined: May 15, 2006 Posts: 71

That was excellent. It's unbelievable that the writer had us pinned down so well 18 years ago.

eXpat · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 959

Ptarmigan · Coal Joined: Oct 17, 2006 Posts: 5

Can you count how many of his prophecies came true?
This guru is unbeliveble. I dropped my jaw when his said that troops will be back in Middle East, the droughts and the international agreements between countries about the climate and enviroment.

pup55 · Expert Joined: May 26, 2004 Posts: 3676

I like James Burke a lot.

He was surprisingly correct on a number of things, (war, hurricanes, refugees, water crises, oil peaking in the 2010-2020 time frame) but way off on one important one:

In this scenario, by 2000, the US starts to act responsibly, and joins the effort to control greenhouse gases. The cause of this would be a couple of serious droughts, that cause food shortages in the US, and mass starvation in the third world.

We all know what has happened instead. The US walked away from any agreements, due to lack of being able to see past the end of its nose. It never got bad enough to have the natural disasters to force the US over to the other side. Plus China has emerged as a global power, and they have no interest in joining anybody or conserving anything.

Also, the third world for the most part is still not well organized enough to agree to any coordinated international system of anything.

Although this thing was intended to be optimistic, it in fact is surprisingly gloomy. Millions of deaths to starvation, refugee migrations, environmental catastrophe, all with the "good scenario" of the US being on board with the plan.

Wonder what we'll get instead.

Licho

Nice documentary. His predictions are on the track, althought exact timing and sequence is not correct.

Licho · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: After the Warming

*delete me double post*

Alcassin

Bas

gg3

We would have been on track in 2000 except for the little matter of a stolen election.

9/11 didn't change half as much of "everything" as the day the Supreme Court issued the only decision they've ever claimed is not to be taken as precedent.

And for those who think I'm biased against Republicans a-priori, consider that it was Reagan's EPA that issued the first definitive report saying we're heading into a climate crisis. That was in 1984. I got a copy and I still have it around somewhere. Whatever else you can say about Reagan, at least he didn't appoint political commisars to censor the science coming out of the various departments, and he didn't nearly destroy our military.

BTW, how long is that documentary? I want to know before I tie up my computer with it.

Bas

it's about 105 minutes long.
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