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An Inconvenient Truth
As much as I love this guy, and I do love this guy, I couldn't help but snicker during the opening of the film. It's a lazy pan of a misty, muddy river with forest on the banks, as our man Al narrates the scene. It's a boring few seconds with a jolt of comedy as Gore explains some of the sounds you aren't hearing, saying with a drawl "and . . . somewhere . . . there's a cow."
From there on out, it's a gem. Gore is smart. There will be more graphs in this movie than you may have seen in your life. But among all the Apple keynote and stock footage of the 2000 travesty, you start to get worried.
Stop making this about politics. Gore gets the jabs at the current administration out of the way quickly and gets in to the coming of the next ice age, the carbon levels 65,000 years ago up through today, and a great half-gag where he needs a platform lift to rise above his already colossal screen graph to reach predicted temperatures in 50 years. This is science, and the notion that people from both parties have tried to dress this all up as theory instead of fact is all too believable. Scientists aren't disagreeing.
Most could've done without the biographical inserts on Gore. Only a few tie in with the overall story, but the ones that do have a good place. Al Gore Sr. stopped growing tobacco, a cash crop he'd known his whole life, after his daughter (Al Gore Jr's sister) died of lung cancer. It's a change akin to our realizing what we're doing to the Earth.
This is information you need to know. This is an important movie. And Al has a hilarious (perhaps unintentionally) aside about gold bars.
First class work. I'm happy to discuss this with anybody.
www.climatecrisis.net
An Inconvenient Truth
As much as I love this guy, and I do love this guy, I couldn't help but snicker during the opening of the film. It's a lazy pan of a misty, muddy river with forest on the banks, as our man Al narrates the scene. It's a boring few seconds with a jolt of comedy as Gore explains some of the sounds you aren't hearing, saying with a drawl "and . . . somewhere . . . there's a cow."
From there on out, it's a gem. Gore is smart. There will be more graphs in this movie than you may have seen in your life. But among all the Apple keynote and stock footage of the 2000 travesty, you start to get worried.
Stop making this about politics. Gore gets the jabs at the current administration out of the way quickly and gets in to the coming of the next ice age, the carbon levels 65,000 years ago up through today, and a great half-gag where he needs a platform lift to rise above his already colossal screen graph to reach predicted temperatures in 50 years. This is science, and the notion that people from both parties have tried to dress this all up as theory instead of fact is all too believable. Scientists aren't disagreeing.
Most could've done without the biographical inserts on Gore. Only a few tie in with the overall story, but the ones that do have a good place. Al Gore Sr. stopped growing tobacco, a cash crop he'd known his whole life, after his daughter (Al Gore Jr's sister) died of lung cancer. It's a change akin to our realizing what we're doing to the Earth.
This is information you need to know. This is an important movie. And Al has a hilarious (perhaps unintentionally) aside about gold bars.
First class work. I'm happy to discuss this with anybody.
www.climatecrisis.net
posted by Jon at 1:48 PM
2 Comments:
"his daughter (Al Gore Jr's brother)"...
Hmmm.
How disrespectful. I apologize.
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