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Where's the snow?
It was so warm in January 2003, they couldn't even make fake snow in Park City, Utah - that's right, not cold enough to make fake snow! In this scene a group of very frustrated snowmakers at the Canyons Resort wait and wait for the temps to drop low enough so they can go out and make some snow.

The "Do You Care?" mobile
At a moment when the polls ranked climate change dead last as a voting issue, the filmmakers went on the road to take an unscientific poll-on-wheels in a biodiesel-ready "DO YOU CARE MOBILE". They traveled from New Hampshire to New Orleans to find out what Americans really thought about Global Warming.

Global messenger Ross Gelbspan
Ross Gelbspan is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist (sort of the Columbo of Climate Change) who has dedicated himself to exposing the global warming disinformation campaign led by the fossil fuel industry. We catch up with him when he is sorting through ten years of climate change memorabilia, very disgruntled that the federal government and the public is ignoring the issue -"just the same story in different typeface."

Global messenger Heidi Cullen
The Weather Channel's Dr Heidi Cullen, the first climatologist on national television solely dedicated to reporting on climate change has to pack her PhD in climatology into a sound bit.. This clip features Heidi rehearsing with another anchor for a post-Katrina broadcast: "Heidi... is this Global Warming?"

Global messenger Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
They've been nick-named "The Bad Boys of the Environmental Movement", Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are co-writers of the controversial paper, "The Death of Environmentalism", a scathing critique of how environmentalists have been messaging global warming to the American public.

Global messenger Rick Piltz
Rick Piltz, a coordinator for the federal climate change program, resigned. Piltz blew the whistle on a Bush Aide, Phil Cooney - a former oil Industry Lobbyist - who blatantly doctored the scientific language and intended meaning of the reports to congress. Piltz gave his very first interview, post-resignation, for the film.

Global messenger Bish Neuhouser
John "Bish" Newhouser, is a Park City snow groomer who, in an effort to save winter, embarks on a bio-diesel odyssey that is intercut throughout EVERYTHING'S COOL. Will Bish's 1975 diesel Mercedes convertible run on his home-brewed bio-diesel? (Please note: there are safer ways to do this, viewers can go to www.biodieselamerica.org to learn more.)

Iqaluit, the Canadian Arctic
This clip shows an act of "extreme messaging" in response to dramatic and calamitous impacts global warming has caused to native communities in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia. Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) welcomes Salma Hayek and Jake Gyllenhaal whose presence help lure hundreds of Inuit elders, children and teenagers to gather in subzero temperatures on the sea ice, and in collaboration with the aerial artist John Quigley, to form a native drum dancer and the words "ARCTIC WARNING" in English and "LISTEN" in Inuit.

Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben, the "Poet laureate of climate change" speaks to young activists at the What Works Environmental Conference in Middlebury Vermont. He makes a plea to experience life and the beauty of the natural world - "because we might lose this fight..."

 
 
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