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- Title: Weird Weather and Climate Culture Wars (Commentary)
- Author : Arena Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 173 KB
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In 2004, two years after Antarctica's massive Larson B ice shelf shattered and only months after scientists signalled that the North Atlantic current might be cooling, two mass media spectacles ground like icebergs against each other. The first was the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, which opens with the fracturing of the Larson B shelf and then uses a narrative of accelerating catastrophes to depict its stark message about human actions leading to cataclysmic climate change. In the United States, it was rated 'PG13', because of 'intense situations of peril'. The second was Michael Crichton's State of Fear, a 600-plus page antidote to fears about global warming wrapped in a fast-moving tale of manipulation and deception by wicked environmentalists seeking to manufacture a threat where none exists. What makes the pulp science fiction of The Day After Tomorrow and State of Fear so interesting is how they carry environmental debate into the heartland of popular culture. Diametrically opposed in their views about whether or not climate change is a real danger, these two globalized media events try to use mass entertainment to capture hearts and minds. Battling over the narrative body of climate change, they are salvos in a culture war over how we are to understand weird weather, each generating media debate and drawing responses from prominent scientific and environmental organizations such as NASA and the US Natural Resources Defence Council. (1)