His colleague, Professor Dave Frame, director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute (CCRI) at Victoria University of Wellington, said the big difference between the film and real life is that a comet would be “easier to deal with”. It’s not six months, but it’s not exactly the distant future, it’s in the lifetime of people who are young today.” “Climate change could get catastrophically bad within 50 years. In Don’t Look Up, the scientists try to explain the threat the comet poses on a fictional American news programme, but the issue is trivialised by the hosts.
In September 2021, Waikato became the first university in the world to offer a Bachelor of Climate Change and Barbour said the “screaming scientists in the movie are a vivid example of the motivation” behind the multidisciplinary course.Īctors Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. “There were strongly relatable feelings of helplessness and frustration that people in power chose to prioritise short-term political and monetary gain over protecting life on Earth,” she said. Professor Margaret Barbour, dean of science at Waikato University, said that “like many other scientists working on the impacts of climate change, the movie felt familiar”. “But what did we do? We allowed excessive wealth creation and short-sighted politicians to delay and delay, until now we have 10 years until we hit 1.5C, and 20 years before we reach 2C of global warming, at current rates of CO2 emissions.” “The film is resonating amongst the climate science community, who have been trying to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis for more than 30 years He uses a whiteboard to calculate the location and path of the comet, something astronomer Alan Gilmore said would actually require computers. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dr Randall Mindy. Unlike the six-month deadline in the film, the scientific consensus for more than three decades has been that a global temperature increase of more than 2 degrees Celsius could be “catastrophic” for the planet, he said. “The film disturbingly mimics reality, when it shows the consequence of media manipulation of information and the impact of weak moral leadership from governments, influenced by big business and the wealthy elite.”
“Without mentioning climate change, the film does more in two hours to explain the situation we are in with the climate crisis than all the media around COP26 climate summit,” he said. Professor Tim Naish, of Victoria University of Wellington’s Antarctic Research Centre, said Don’t Look Up was a “satire on the disinformation age, the lack of trust in expertise and the power of social media to control the narrative”.
It has received mixed reviews from critics but been welcomed by scientists who felt the allegory accurately depicted their frustrations around global warming – a sentiment shared by New Zealand climate scientists. “An impact would be a certainty only a short while before it happened, such are the measurement errors involved.”Īstronomers Pam Kilmartin and Alan Gilmore are based at the Mt John Observatory, in Tekapo. “To be sure that a new and distant comet or asteroid would hit the Earth would require weeks to months of observations,” Gilmore said. In one early scene, Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) calculate that the comet is on a collision course with Earth within hours of its discovery, but in reality it would take much longer.
* Climate change to make king tides more common - scientist * Heatwaves, droughts and downpours: Niwa report paints gloomy climate change picture * Floods a glimpse of the future as climate warming steps up * Wellington wins the award for wet and windy weather in 2020, NIWA climate report shows * Wellington's wet December fits with heavier rainfall climate change predictions Urn:oclc:655010174 Republisher_date 20120402012524 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120331201901 Scanner them are husband and wife team Alan Gilmore and Pam Kilmartin, who have discovered more than 40 asteroids from the University of Canterbury’s Mt John Observatory, in Tekapo.ĭon’t Look Up was a “thoroughly enjoyable movie” with “superb acting”, Gilmore said, but he did have “some quibbles”, especially around the timing. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:03:06 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA173301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Corgi ed.
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