{"id":263291,"date":"2023-06-22T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263291"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:40:47","slug":"an-invitation-the-abc-couldnt-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263291","title":{"rendered":"An Invitation the ABC Couldn\u2019t\u00a0Resist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By TONY THOMAS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The government-owned Australian Broadcasting Commission climbed into bed last week with Britain\u2019s most loopy climate cultists, called BAFTA-albert, the BAFTA bit standing for British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The agitprop arm is albert, with its lower-case \u201ca\u201d increasing the irritation factor. You can bet this new union will increase the ABC\u2018s bombardment of its rapidly-shrinking<\/a> audience with net-zero memes. How? What? Perhaps like this: ABC Entertainment debuts a WA drama about rural romance in Wyalkatchem. From my imagined script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wealthy Perth widow (played by Nicole Kidman, pronouns she\/her)<\/strong>:<\/strong> \u201cCecil, don\u2019t you find the reflections on the dam romantic?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunky young Cecil (played by Chris Hemsworth, pronouns he\/him)<\/strong>:<\/strong> \u201cYes, I sure do. Especially when the moonlight glints on those turbine blades. That\u2019s clean electricity helping to fix Australia\u2019s emissions crisis.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Their lips touch)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wealthy Perth widow, whimpering: And I hear you\u2019re also sustainable in the cot.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunky young Cecil, breaking loose from their embrace: <\/strong>Look out! That\u2019s a climate-fuelled cyclone approaching! etc<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be clear, as politicians like to fib, the ABC-albert nexus is indirect. The ABC last October signed on to \u201cSustainable Screens Australia\u201d<\/a> or SSA, a new wing of the hard-left federal agency<\/a> Screen Australia. On June 9, albert UK signed up SSA<\/a> (including the heavyweight member ABC) to its revolutionary social goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BAFTA-albert aim is to \u201cset the cultural agenda\u201d.<\/a>From their messianic video (emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN says what is now required is rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.\u00a0What could be more exciting than the first-ever complete re-design of our society? Reformulating it to build\u00a0equality, justice, opportunity and well-being into our future. We must ensure our\u00a0money, electronics, clothing, holidays, infrastructure, energy and everything elseworks for the people and for the planet\u2026We have never faced a challenge this large but we have never had a better opportunity to succeed. The screen industry with unrivalled ability to inspire, challenge and unify has an opportunity like no other. With changes in front of and behind the camera\u00a0we can lead the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, BAFTA has promoted author David Wallace-Wells and his 2019 Uninhabitable Earth<\/em>polemic<\/a>, little suspecting that in late 2022 he would disavow his book<\/a> as unduly sensational.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key BAFTA member is the BBC (check out the BBC\u2019s \u201cTwenty-eight Gate\u201d<\/a> conspiracy) along with ITN, ITV, Sky, Sony, Warner Bros, Netflix, BT Sport and UKTV. In Australia, SSA\u2019s seed financiers<\/a>include Screen Australia and Minderoo Pictures<\/a>. Foundation members are ITV Studios Australia, Nine, Stan, Lingo Pictures, Lune Media and the <\/strong>National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). Signed up now<\/a> are ABC, <\/a>SBS, Netflix and Paramount ANZ<\/a>, plus screen agencies Screen NSW, VicScreen, Screen Queensland and Screen Tasmania, production companies BBC Studios, CJZ, Dreamchaser, Film Art Media, Matchbox Pictures and Regen Studios, the Docklands Studios and Shark Island Foundation<\/a> (which backs Damon Gameau\u2019s naive climate indoctrination for schoolkids like 2040<\/em><\/a> and Regenerating Australia<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSA\u2019s executive director is Maree Cochrane, whose CV includes stints with the BBC and Victorian government and an \u201cintimacy coordinator\u201d role a year ago<\/a> with Bronte films\u2019 true-life romantic drama Take My Hand<\/em> shot at Byron Bay<\/a>. (For me, a must-see).[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carys Taylor, an albert director, explains<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be supporting Sustainable Screens Australia in a creating a new vision for productions that puts the planet front and centre.\u201d  But the ABC hardly needs albert\u2019s urging to step up its climate-crisis misinformation  (the University of Alabama, Huntsville, satellite readings<\/a> show no Australian warming<\/a> for the past 11 years). A week ago the ABC\u2019s managing director, David Anderson (pronouns he\/him), told his troops he\u2019d establish a dedicated climate, environment and energy reporting team<\/a> that will \u201cprioritise issues that are consistently rated as critical for the nation\u2019s future, particularly by younger Australians.\u201d This initiative probably pre-dated albert and will be additional to whatever else albert is flogging to its ABC bestie down-under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ABC\u2019s\u00a0prize effort<\/a>\u00a0to brainwash schoolkids is\u00a0Fight for Planet A: Our Climate Challenge<\/em>. The program \u201cexplores how we can all reduce our individual and collective carbon emissions. This three-part documentary aims to empower and motivate Australians to take action on climate change.\u201d The farce was fronted by their so-called \u201ccomedian\u201d Craig Reucassel \u2013 depicted in an ABC cartoon as borne aloft, improbably, by black bags of heavier-than-air CO2. Craig forgot to mention \u2013 as does albert \u2013 that China\u2019s emissions growth is swamping anything and everything Australia does about emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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