Wind power plus solar power equals hot air in the propaganda piece “Carbon Nation,” a documentary so disconnected from reality it could have been produced by President Obama’s speechwriters.
This grade-school filmstrip masquerading as a movie takes the standard, surreally ill-informed position on climate change — that we need to switch instantly to renewable fuels such as ethanol and wind and solar power, with no discussion of costs. Supposedly this transition will create jobs. But often these aren’t real jobs because they don’t make sense in the marketplace. Unmentioned are the massive subsidies being pumped into corporate welfare for purveyors of renewables.
Nor are we told that the “experts” interviewed tend to be special interests who stand to profit from handouts. Interviewees who issue hysterical statements like “the sea ice cap is almost gone” go uncontradicted. “We’re looking at a World War II level of mobilization,” says one subsidy seeker, after the narrator grimly intones that a multilevel revolution is coming. It isn’t. Which is why even Obama barely mentions climate change anymore.