At the Age of Stupid premiere

Ed Miliband is challenged by director Franny Armstrong and the movie's star, Pete Postlethwaite, pledges his support to the Not Stupid campaign by vowing to return his OBE if the UK government fails to secure urgent and drastic global decarbonisation at Copenhagen. Find out more about the movie at www.ageofstupid.net.

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• Ed Miliband
• Pete Postlethwaite
• Age of Stupid
• Franny Armstrong
• Copenhagen
• Climate change

[greenpartysw]

Kingsnorth is NOT being planned to include CCS from the outset - it is being planned and built as an old fashioned dirty coal power station to have CCS retrofitted when the technology becomes available. To justify it on the basis that it will show the Chinese that we are serious about finding climate solutions is specious nonsense.

China can put a man in space and sells us most of our consumer goods - they are well able to solve their own carbon problems.

We need to find our own solutions

[adecentusername]

I saw him in the audience too: he went white, then red, then sweaty, then white again. I thought at one point that he was going to be sick: from the look on his face he probably did too. Half of me was gleeful, half of me thought: poor bloody Ed.

Still... he could resign tomorrow from the DECC, stating no confidence in the rest of his cabinet's ability to keep our homes, livelihoods or families safe, and be a shoo-in as an independent green. Could be the making of him.

Go on, Ed. Dares you.

[Obataladance]

Rubbish film...manipulation propaganda !

[miiawh]

Miliband is a liar

[rattaplan]

@cupera1

Hypocrisy aside (a subject I don't want to get into), my analogy was based more on the premise that those who acknowledge global warming are being rediculed/discredited by the established power (oilcratie?). Same with atheism vs. religion.

The real question is why do nothing but oppose and delay solutions? Fossil fuels will deplete at some point anyway. And by then our time of action will be much too late.

[cupera1]

Global cooling predicted in 1890's

Global warming predicted in 1930's

Global cooling predicted in 1970's

Global warming predicted in 1990's

When you have farms and vineyards again in Greenland then we have fully recovered from the LIA. If ALL human activity stopped tomorrow there would be no noticeable change in temperature, 0.01 Degree Cen. over a period of 100 years, of the planet.

[cupera1]

@rattaplan

The Warmers are the ones that chant Global warming while standing up to their hips in snow. How is there a difference in selling indulgences to forgive you for the sin you committed verses buying a carbon credit to fly your private jet?

Gore is never going to stop his life style of the rich & famous. The private jet keeps the common folk away

[rattaplan]

@cupera1

You do realize that the whole religious comparison applies more to the naysayers than the people recognizing the science behind global warming, yes?

And it always makes me wonder how serious Al Gore would've been taken by the snobbish populace, like you, if he had forsaken modern life..

[rattaplan]

Nuclear power an alternative!? You've got to be kidding me!

But yeah, I guess if we aren't even capable of recognizing climate change untill we start to fry, surely it will take at least a penis growing out of your skull before we realize what a insane suggestion nuclear power really is.

[cupera1]

This in no longer science or politics it has now raised to the level of religious fanaticism for the church of global warming. They will destroy anyone who attempts to disprove the churches theology. The selling of indulgences was done the Catholic Church in the 1500's so there is precedence for Al and his cronies to sell "carbon credits" for money to pay for their own lavish life style, 4 mansions, private jets, 20X energy use of an ordinary home, and the life style of the rich and famous.