{"id":15988,"date":"2014-09-22T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2020-10-31T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:38:51","slug":"global-warming-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15988","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming, the Musical!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the annals of mindbogglingly stupid ways to waste taxpayer money, producing a play nicknamed “Climate Change: The Musical” has to rank right up there. And, as you would expect, it was an utter disaster.<\/p>\n

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Now, you would think that this fiasco was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, but you would be wrong. It was funded by the National Science Foundation<\/a>. Here are the details from Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The curtain has come down on Climate Change: The Musical and reviews of the taxpayer-funded play about global warming are downright icy. The play, which is actually entitled “The Great Immensity,” and was produced by Brooklyn-based theater company The Civilians, Inc. with a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, ended its run early amid a storm of criticism from reviewers and lawmakers alike. It opened a year late, reached just five percent of its anticipated audience and likely fell short of its ambitious goal of informing a new generation about the perceived dangers of man-caused climate change.<\/i><\/p>\n

Plus, it apparently wasn’t very good. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

$700K right down the drain. I wonder if the Producer\u2019s name was Max Bialystock<\/a>? (Click on the link. It will explain who Max is) The reviews were brutal.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite fine performances, the musical mystery tour is an uneasy mix of fact and credulity-stretching fiction. It\u2019s neither flora nor fauna,\u201d New York Daily News reviewer Joe Dziemianowicz wrote in a review<\/a> at the time. \u201c[The] songs \u2014 whether about a doomed passenger pigeon or storm-wrecked towns \u2014 feel shoehorned in and not, pardon the pun, organic.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Epic_Facepalm_by_RJTH\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I followed the link to Mr. Dziemianowicz\u2019s review<\/a> and the above paragraph, along with comments about the cast in his review, was probably the nicest thing he had to say about it. Now you might be wondering just how badly this thing flopped? How about this badly?<\/p>\n

The play, which featured songs and video exploring Americans\u2019 relationships to the environment, opened in New York in April with a three-week run before going on a national tour that was supposed to attract 75,000 patrons. But it stalled after a single production in Kansas City, falling short of the lofty goals outlined in a grant proposal. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what were those goals?<\/p>\n

It was envisioned as a chance to create “an experience that would be part investigative journalism and part inventive theater,\u201d help the public “better appreciate how science studies the Earth\u2019s biosphere\u201d and increase \u201cpublic awareness, knowledge and engagement with science-related societal issues.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"stupid_meter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh it gets \u201cBetter\u201d for varying degrees of \u201cBetter.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a plot description on the theater company\u2019s website<\/a>, “The Great Immensity” focuses on a woman named Phyllis as she tries to track down a friend who disappeared while filming an assignment for a nature show on a tropical island. During her search, she also uncovers a devious plot surrounding an international climate summit in Auckland, New Zealand. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"snorting<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder if the people who apply for these grants have to take a drug test? I\u2019m guessing not, because this sounds like whatever moron dreamed this up swallowed, snorted and injected the entire contents of the Drug Enforcement Agency\u2019s evidence locker. The link is still valid, but how long it will remain live is anyone\u2019s guess. Needless to say, Congress is taking notice of this flop, and not in a good way.<\/p>\n

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said the dramatic debacle was a waste of public money. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no doubt that the Great Immensity was a great mistake,\u201d Smith told FoxNews.com. \u201cThe NSF used taxpayer dollars to underwrite political advocacy dressed up as a musical. And the project clearly failed to achieve any of its objectives.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, if it\u2019s objective was to waste $700K in taxpayer money, then it was a smashing success. If it was to be a successful propaganda piece for the Church of Global Warming, it didn\u2019t work out to well. The National Science Foundation has responded that we shouldn\u2019t jump to conclusions over the success or failure of this play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis particular project just concluded in August and the final report has not yet been submitted to NSF,\u201d the statement said. \u201cFinal reports are due to NSF within 90 days following expiration of the grant. The final report will contain information about project outcomes, impacts and other data.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Flying<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, allow me to give you a blurb from the About the National Science Foundation web page<\/a> on just what they are supposed to be doing with our money.<\/p>\n

NSF’s job is to determine where the frontiers are, identify the leading U.S. pioneers in these fields and provide money and equipment to help them continue. The results can be transformative. For example, years before most people had heard of “nanotechnology<\/a>,” NSF was supporting scientists and engineers who were learning how to detect, record and manipulate activity at the scale of individual atoms–the nanoscale. Today, scientists are adept at moving atoms around to create devices and materials with properties that are often more useful than those found in nature. Dozens of companies are gearing up to produce nanoscale products. NSF is funding the research projects, state-of-the-art facilities and educational opportunities that will teach new skills to the science and engineering students who will make up the nanotechnology workforce of tomorrow. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t see where funding a propaganda play for the Church of Global Warming has anything to do with science or engineering. Apparently, the House committee is also asking some unpleasent questions of the NSF.<\/p>\n

FoxNews.com first reported<\/a> on the House Committee\u2019s dismay over the grant program back in March. Smith had also questioned the validity of other grants from the NSF including; $200,000 towards a three-year study of the Bronze Age, Another $50,000 towards the survey of archived lawsuits from 17th century Peru and $20,000 for a study on the causes of stress in Bolivia. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"double-facepalm\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Without seeing the grant application, the study of the Bronze Age might be justifiable. However, $50k to read about lawsuits in 17th<\/sup> Century Peru? Nope. That might be something a legal academic might do for some sort of history book that no one will read, but it isn\u2019t going to help push forward engineering science at all. And the study of stress in Bolivia? Who cares?<\/p>\n

I have no idea how grant proposals are selected for funding by the National Science Foundation, but whoever agreed to pay for \u201cThe Great Immensity\u201d needs to lose their job. This modern day version of \u201cSpringtime for Hitler<\/a>\u201d smells to high heaven of either a complete disregard for science, or someone was ripping off the government. And for those of you who don\u2019t know about \u201cSpringtime for Hitler,\u201d here\u2019s a short video:<\/p>\n

[youtuber youtube=’http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw’]<\/p>\n

The difference between Global Warming: The Musical and the move The Producers is simple. The movie was meant to be a comedy and it worked. The Great Immensity was meant to be a serious play that should have been a comedy. I\u2019m sure every single taxpayer who helped pay for this drivel is laughing all the way to the bank…NOT!<\/p>\n

Thatisall<\/p>\n

~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n\"1\"2\"3\"4\"5 (1<\/strong> votes, average: 5.00<\/strong> out of 5)
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