of 2018, movie director Adam McKay was talking to journalist David Sirota about the relative lack of media coverage for what they saw as the biggest issue of the time: climate change. An IPCChad just come out, predicting widespread upheaval even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming—global food shortages, ecosystems ravaged by rising temperatures—and McKay was “absolutely freaking out.”
Although the film aims most of its barbs at the government and the media, the scientists don’t come across particularly well either—when DiCaprio’s character is in the Oval Office explaining the situation to the president , he starts off by talking about orbital dynamics and the Oort cloud, and ends up obfuscating the headline news: that a giant comet is going to destroy Earth. Journalists call this burying the lede.
There are echoes in the movie of how serious messages get diluted due to the uncertainty inherent in the scientific process—experts are never 100 percent sure, they speak in confidence intervals and p-values. “We are particularly bad with uncertainty and love to jump straight in with what we don’t know,” says Forster. “We are also bad at not telling people what they should do about it. We should start by saying what we know and give solution options.
tdverstynen davidsirota Really want to “nail” the frustration? Pay the actors what a typical scientist makes.
davidsirota Horrendous movie, important topic
davidsirota We are all living in that movie right now. Nuclear power replaced asteroid
davidsirota Speaking of the 'frustration' of being a scientist, my own frustration as a naturalist, singer-songwriter and activist has inspired me to write my first rap! Warnings about how we are destroying the world, and ultimately ourselves continue to be ignored!
davidsirota Now asteroid ☄️ booming… do a choice NOW
davidsirota 'Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: To know so much and to have control over nothing.' Herodotus
davidsirota elonmusk is doing a lot. Other corporations too. The US government -- ostensibly trying to solve climate change -- has an expensive Green New Deal that isn't very Green. Instead, have NASA run billion dollar prizes for a GreenShot program to solve power storage.
davidsirota Absolutely horrible movie.
davidsirota Nominated only because of its “climate change” theme, terrible movie….
davidsirota If the scientists could precisely predict the next phenomenon, that would be 'science', and people could no longer deny it.
davidsirota good movie
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