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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: JC Markatos <markatos@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:11 AM
Subject: BAJ Feb 19: "SHORED UP" film: NC, NJ shores hit by climate change
To: JC Markatos <markatos@mindspring.com>



*Philadelphia filmmaker Ben Kalina's new documentary *
*features the collision between sea level rise and coastal development*
*in NC and NJ, and the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.*

*Jay Price's N&O article on the film **includes a letter from the director *
*of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences **“explaining" the self censorship *
*evident in declining to show **this Sundance award winning first US *
*full length documentary **on the complex issues around sea level rise.*
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/03/3588875/film-on-coastal-development-and.html

The decision is forthrightly if indirectly explained by comedian Stephen
Colbert's
satire of the NC Legislature’s *outlawing climate science projections *
*in coastal planning. *He opens with the line:
     “There’s troubling news from the so-called scientists…."
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/414796/june-04-2012/the-word---sink-or-swim

*Analyses of recent weather including severe drought in California and
repeated*
*bouts of extreme cold across the continent theorize that loss of polar ice
has *
*allowed the jet stream to roam outside its customary boundaries.  *
*Are the broad, serious changes needed to end or reduce climate
destabilization*
*possible, or will the forces **resisting honest discourse make it
impossible?*

 *Come see **a documentary that raises the questions and delivers **diverse
voices *
*including** scientists, surfers, politicians, environmental groups, *
*seaside *
*businesses and residents.  *

TRAILER: http://shoredupmovie.com/trailer

         Share the word, bring a friend….

         Jerry Markatos  919 542-2139
         Balance & Accuracy in Journalism
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       BALANCE & ACCURACY IN JOURNALISM
                                Presents

                          BEN KALINA’S
                          director’s cut of

                 SHORED UP
         When Human Nature
        and the Force of Nature
                     Collide

    Wednesday, February 19, 7:30 pm

 at Community Church, 106 Purefoy Rd
     (Community Room is on the right)

Union of Concerned Scientists’ climate specialist
Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel:

“...every perspective is brought together to capture wisdom and ironic
lessons as New Jersey and North Carolina grapple with accelerating sea
level 
rise<http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Sea-Level-Rise-and-Global-Warming-Fact-3.pdf>before
and after Hurricane Sandy. It is a gripping tale about human nature
and how we try to prevail over the tremendous forces of nature that can be
episodic and terrifying at times, separated by long periods of seeming
tranquility. The scenes shot during and after Hurricane Sandy remind us of
that reality in a visceral way.

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DIRECTIONS TO MEETING SITE
Community Church, UU
106 Purefoy Road, in Chapel Hill

FROM EITHER DIRECTION ON THE CHAPEL HILL BYPASS:
take 15-501 [or 54] to the 15-501 Pittsboro exit
As you exit, TURN at the traffic light toward Chapel Hill.
Almost immediately TURN RIGHT just short of the convenience store.
That's PUREFOY ROAD, and you take it almost half a mile,
passing side streets and curving left  up the hill
until you can - just - see the stop sign ahead of you.
When you can see the stop sign, there is a driveway on the left
with a white-painted curb and a small sign for the church.
That driveway takes you to the parking lot and the Community Church.

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