An Inconvenient Truth (4 of 5): This movie is about global warming. Wait! Please, continue reading. I know for many of you the thought of watching a movie about global warming is not as appealing as say, watching this summer’s "can’t miss" installment of The Fast & The Furious, but I insist, you must read this review and go see this movie. An Inconvenient Truth presents Al Gore’s approximately 30 years of study on the topic. Gore is truly passionate about the subject and it shows. He presents all the facts you need to know in a carefully crafted scientific presentation, using graphs and charts that just about any layperson should be able to understand. His presentation thoroughly details the human race’s contribution to global climate change in a professional and unbiased manner, without any spin and in terrifying clarity. If I have one complaint, it is that his presentation is intercut with details about his personal life and efforts as an environmentalist. These moments seemed to convey him as a martyr and distracted from the core of the film. However, this is a minor quibble to an overall very interesting movie. An Inconvenient Truth is a compelling and thoughtful call to arms about a subject that we as a society have chosen to largely ignore. Unfortunately, global warming is a problem that is not going to go away and I strongly believe that every American has the responsibility to see this movie in order to better understand the subject.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Movie Review - An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth (4 of 5): This movie is about global warming. Wait! Please, continue reading. I know for many of you the thought of watching a movie about global warming is not as appealing as say, watching this summer’s "can’t miss" installment of The Fast & The Furious, but I insist, you must read this review and go see this movie. An Inconvenient Truth presents Al Gore’s approximately 30 years of study on the topic. Gore is truly passionate about the subject and it shows. He presents all the facts you need to know in a carefully crafted scientific presentation, using graphs and charts that just about any layperson should be able to understand. His presentation thoroughly details the human race’s contribution to global climate change in a professional and unbiased manner, without any spin and in terrifying clarity. If I have one complaint, it is that his presentation is intercut with details about his personal life and efforts as an environmentalist. These moments seemed to convey him as a martyr and distracted from the core of the film. However, this is a minor quibble to an overall very interesting movie. An Inconvenient Truth is a compelling and thoughtful call to arms about a subject that we as a society have chosen to largely ignore. Unfortunately, global warming is a problem that is not going to go away and I strongly believe that every American has the responsibility to see this movie in order to better understand the subject.
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Al Gore's 30 years of study? When did he have time to invent the internet??
I find it very disappointing that all the critics of this movie seem to attack Al Gore, instead of attacking the facts which he presents. The science that conclusively supports the hypothesis that the human race is accelerating the rate of global warming on this planet.
Southerndawg, go see the movie and then tell me what you think about global warming. I don't want to hear your opinion of Al Gore or what you can remember from Rush Limbaugh's latest tirade. If you saw the movie, you would know that Gore presents China in the same regards as he does America and the rest of the world - as polluters who need to pollute less. Not once does he blame Bush for a hurricane - a concept I find totally rediculous. Also the "statistics" aren't his. They are representative of the scientific community - he's just presenting them (with citation I might add).
People need to recognize that global warming is not a political issue, its a moral issue. Who cares what political stance you have, sooner or later global warming is going to negatively affect us all the same way.
OK, I haven't seen the movie yet. It is still in the theatres, so I can't bring it to you. However, it's no secret that I readily identify with this cause and tend to agree whole-heartedly.
I cant argue the merit of any "facts" because I have not seen the movie or done any research into the topic outside of college, which was 6 years ago. However, the logic makes perfect sense, and there is a mountain of evidence supporting the existence of global warming. Obviously there is a counter-point that is made to that evidence, but the FACT is that a MAJORITY of the scientific community believes that global warming is a realistic threat.
I'm not one for believing something just because the masses do, MG #1 can attest to that, but logically, it is safer and infinetely more responsible to heed the warning, even if it turns out to be unfounded, than to ignore the topic altogether.
China MAY be the biggest polluter in the world. (I'm guessing that proportionatly the U.S. is) however there is no use in pointing fingers at them an expecting them to inact change if the U.S. isn't willing to do the same. The U.S. is the only major country to pull out of the Kyoto agreement. China is still in, and those mandates are enforced and changes implemented in all those countries; except this one. I'm not in any way trying to make any other political statement or initiate any debate in this direction, but it was the current president who withdrew the U.S.'s participation in Kyoto.
Wow. It never ever occured to me that some people believed global warming to be over-hyped. I work primarily with seniors, and I have discussed this issue with them. Some of them are 90, no joke. Many are mid to late 80's, all lucid, intelligent, well read individuals, and in their personal experience, and I stress personal, they have seen a major change in the environment since they were kids. They not only believe global warming is serious, they think they should have better educated their kids and grankids on it, and they wonder about how it will affect their great-grandkids. Now, they're not scientists, or politicians, or Al Gore, or anything other than retirees, really. But are a select group of the elderly, and I have learned to consider what they say, since they have at least 60 years on me, often more. Their conviction gives me pause, as they are not in the stage of life to willy nilly throw things out there. They have seen almost everything they believed change, the world alter drastically with technology, social mores, economics, etc. They have been proven wrong before, and they know more what they don't know than what they do, but yet they put forth this theory. The last theory of a fool, or words of wisdom from elders?
Here are some links that I believe will be interested
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