Hollywood spotlights environment

To "green up" their businesses, many studios now have departments dedicated to reducing their carbon footprints and some have even offered staff incentives to buy hybrid cars.

But the biggest challenge is cutting down on the excesses of large-scale productions.
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Some cite the industry's massive use of fuel and diesel engines on location as its biggest problem.

"Consider how much fuel we use. Generators, night shoots, 'distant locations,' trucks per shoot, idling trucks, moving cranes, moving everything, people, wardrobe, grip equipment, out to the set and back, move locations, fly crews and helicopters," film and TV producer Judith James wrote in Traction, an online publication for women in Hollywood.

Obnoxious alarmist Phil Plait appeals to authority

About once or twice a month I get an email from some global warming denier who mocks my stance that humans are the cause of most of this effect.
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Incidentally, water vapor is far and away the biggest contributor to greenhouse warming. The amount in the air is hugely variable, but relatively unaffected by man’s activities. So over time, those variations even out, and the contribution of warming from water vapor is steady. The increase we see in temperature — and there is an increase in temperature — cannot be from water vapor, and the methane contribution is small. We also know it’s not from the Sun, either.

That’s why atmospheric scientists primarily study carbon dioxide.

And they’ve been studying it a long, long time. It’s a very difficult field of research, fraught with hidden variables, difficult measurements, and political landmines. But chances are they know more about this than you and I do. There’s a reason they’re called experts, folks.

So the next time you want to send me some snarky email to embarrass me about some piece of info you just found on the intertoobs, please do yourself a favor: stop, think for just a moment, and ask yourself: "Is this really likely to have been missed by thousands of really smart highly educated people who have been studying this field for a combined length of time equaling many man-millennia?" The embarrassment you save just might be your own.

2007--A sample of Plait's previous work entitled "Glenn Beck: idiot"

I don’t like to call people names, but Beck is given a national audience, and his intellectual capacity is clearly such that he shouldn’t even be allowed to rant in public parks to passing squirrels. I’ve had enough of such idiocy, especially on matters of what is in fact and in deed life and death.