"The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie.
But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right."
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And this basically will now prove what utter IDIOTS the paid shills are regarding this
movie. Half of them haven't even seen this movie, yet they trash it simply because they are getting PAID TO DO IT. If they actually had seen it, it would be obvious that throughout the entire film, Al Gore NEVER ONCE states that anything in the movie he was showing as a scenario was absolutely going to happen.
He was presenting the scenario of what we face now, and what could well happen to our world if the present conditions are not mitigated or get worse. That is why at the end of the movie he says we definitely have time to fix this problem. This movie is a way of getting this issue out to people who do not either know of it, or understand it. It is absolutely a movie that also speaks to lay people out here who would find the explanation indepth as either too involved or boring otherwise.
It is a clarion call to people to start taking action to reduce greenhouse gasses that have been SCIENTIFICALLY proven to exacerbate global warming and other repurcussions. And it calls for us to be morally responsible for our actions... so no wonder the paid shills for EXXON and other selfish interests are working so hard to trash it. MORALITY isn't a word in their dictionaries.
Did Al Get The Science Right??
The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie. But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right.
BY Katharine Mieszkowski
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Competitive Enterprise Institute
A still from "Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story"
June 10, 2006 | To the tune of the Allman Brothers Band's "Ramblin Man," Al Gore's face rides a cartoon airplane across a map of the United States. As he zips from coast to coast in a Web video clip titled "Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story," a ticker at the bottom of the screen displays his rapidly rising CO2 emissions next to the comparatively modest emissions of everyday folk. The climate-change Paul Revere's steed is an airplane, powered by fossil fuels. The implication: Gore's sure spewing a lot of carbon dioxide as he travels the land spreading the word about global warming.
Produced by the industry flacks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is funded in part by Exxon-Mobil, the clip dismisses Gore as a hypocrite, leading a carbon-intensive lifestyle while scolding us plebes that we should strive to reduce our own carbon footprints. Of course, nowhere does this oil-industry-funded propaganda mention that Gore used carbon offsets to mitigate the global warming impact of his travel for "An Inconvenient Truth," that Gore pledged to make the documentary carbon-neutral.
The Web clip is just one bit of the skeptic zaniness that has greeted the release of Gore's film. On Fox News, another Exxon-Mobil-funded pundit, Sterling Burnett, compared watching "An Inconvenient Truth" to learn about global warming to watching Joseph Goebbels' Nazi propaganda to learn about Nazi Germany. Over at the New York Post, a reviewer baldly asserted that "there is widespread disagreement about whether humans are causing global warming," a false statement that even oilman-in-chief President Bush doesn't accept anymore. Meanwhile, the College Republican National Committee encouraged skeptical students to throw global warming beach parties. Global warming? Break out the bikinis!
Ideological blowback or no, "An Inconvenient Truth" is drowning plenty of competition at the box office. Last weekend, playing at only 77 theaters around the country, it was the ninth most popular film, and took in more money per screen than any other film showing, with many screenings in liberal cities like San Francisco and Boston sold out. The film opens more widely this weekend.
Yet global warming skeptics continue to infiltrate media outlets as mainstream and reputable as PBS'"The NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, which failed to acknowledge the industry ties of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, while giving the group a free pass to call Gore's film "alarmist." One of the most widely read critiques of the science in the film has come from longtime climate-change skeptic Robert C. Balling Jr., a professor of climatology at Arizona State University, who has received more than $400,000 from the coal and oil industries, according to the Center for Media and Democracy. On the industry-backed Web site Tech Central Station, Balling posted a purported fact-check of the film titled "Inconvenient Truths Indeed," which charges that the movie is "not the most accurate depiction of the state of global warming science," casting doubts on its claims about melting glaciers and intensifying hurricanes. The article has made the rounds of the right-wing blogosphere as a takedown of Gore, and the Philadelphia Daily News published it as an Op-Ed without any acknowledgement of Balling's well-documented ties to industry.
Balling's critique inspired this dismissive reaction from one climate scientist: "Some people believe the earth is flat, too." That's Eric Stieg, an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington, who is one of the co-founders of the Real Climate Web site, where working climate scientists provide commentary and context about the news in their now-hot field. Stieg e-mailed his reaction from Greenland, where he's conducting field research on the ice. He'd posted his own largely favorable review of "An Inconvenient Truth" on the Real Climate site before he left.
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And I believe that is the one real overriding factor that EXXON and other interests like them fear the most. That this movie explains the crisis in such a way that ALL can understand it. Remember, a truly informed and enlightened citizenry is the bane of many who wish to keep people ignorant in order to be able to manipulate their behavior to give them the desired result they want: mainly huge windfall profits. The fact that this movie could then even be understood by my 15 year old son who is not one who is scientific to those who know this in and out is a threat to them for it puts all of us on an equal footing to fight it. This is then also about Democracy, and as we have seen as well, those who support Bush don't exactly like that word in its true context either.
Well, Thomas Jefferson did, and so does Al Gore:
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278