Twisters, which stars Glen Powell and has an 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, has been taking heat from some segments of the online left for being a movie about tornadoes without ever mentioning climate change. As The Hollywood Reporter (THR) noted: The one thing Twisters doesn’t have: A reference to climate change. This is rather surprising. The possible impact of climate change on tornadoes is complicated and still being figured out, but scientists seem to agree tornado patterns are changing (with more tornadoes happening on the same days and more tornadoes happening outside of Tornado Alley, even if the number of tornadoes overall is unchanged). And, in any case, the American Red Cross recent told ABC News that “the climate crisis is forcing the American Red Cross to respond to nearly twice as many large disasters as we did a decade ago.”Just shut up and film...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
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