Film at 11
Alvia Gaskill
Just an update for all you local people with no jobs or plenty of free time on Friday morning. The Owning the Weather movie (starring me as one of the bad guys) will be shown around 10:15 am at the Durham Convention Center (Durham has a convention center? Maybe I misread it and it's detention center) in beautiful downtown Durham as part of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The official schedule lists another 26-minute film about Romanian shepherds ahead of it, so it may start around 11.
http://www.fullframefest.org/grid/grid.php?order=friday
Following the screening, I will escape out a side entrance, pursued by environmental crazies and assorted commies that makeup the audience for these type films. Assuming I survive, a complete report including pictures this weekend. So be there or accept my version.
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Running Time:
92 minutes Screening Info: Friday, April 3 10:15AM Cinema Three Director(s):
Robert Greene Producer(s):
Douglas Tirola, Robert Greene, Susan Bedusa Editor(s):
Robert Greene Cinematographer(s):
Robert Greene Release Year:
2009 Country:
USA World Premiere |
From Machiasport, Maine, to Palo Alto, California, people are talking about the weather. But can they do anything about it? This poetic, ironic, and beautifully shot film answers that question by juxtaposing interviews with weather scientists and lay obsessives—including climate scientists, television meteorologists, air-conditioning technicians, and Weather Channel junkies—with evocative images that subtly comment on the way humans interact with their environments. Moving us deftly through an ominous exposé of failed experiments, and treating us to breathtaking encounters with sublime forces of nature, director Robert Greene examines the checkered history of weather modification schemes and their implications for climate change. This compelling study of science, nature, ingenuity, and eccentricity unfolds—accompanied by an arch and oddly nostalgic sci-fi score—as a stark meditation on, and cautionary tale about, our all too human need to control. MP Q & A with filmmakers following screening. |
Alvia Gaskill
Ken Caldeira
The failure for this country to put enough money into education is one of the reasons why democracy is threatened here. (Not to mention failure to deal with making sure that people who lose out in the lottery of birth have access to as good an education as those who win that lottery.)
Maybe with a more educated population we would decide to work harder on emissions reduction and we could spend less time thinking about responses to climate emergencies.
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Ken Caldeira
Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology
260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
kcal...@ciw.edu; kcal...@stanford.edu
http://dge.stanford.edu/DGE/CIWDGE/labs/caldeiralab
+1 650 704 7212; fax: +1 650 462 5968
Alvia Gaskill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Man_Flint
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/o/ourmanflint.html
The climate control machine is actually a giant turbine inside a volcano. The Galaxy scientists use it to melt the polar ice caps as well as cause other disasters in order to force world governments to give up their WMDs.
NOTE: the Dr. Schneider in the film is not Stephen Schneider (leading climatologist who opposes climate engineering). http://www.owningtheweather.com:80/
