Too bad this movie's title was already used:
Posted on 04/18/2006 6:28:32 AM PDT by finnman69
Boring Al Gore has made a movie. It is on the most boring of all subjects - global warming. It is more than 80 minutes long and the first two or three go by slowly enough so that you can notice that Gore has gained weight and that his speech still seems out of sync. But a moment later, you will be captivated, then riveted and then scared out of your wits. Our Earth is going to hell in a handbasket.
You will see the Arctic and Antarctic icecaps melting. You will see Greenland oozing into the sea. You will see the atmosphere polluted with greenhouse gases that block heat from escaping. You will see .photos from space of what the icecaps looked like once and what they look like now, and, in animation, you will see how high the oceans might rise. Shanghai and Calcutta swamped. Much of Florida, too. The water takes a hunk of New York. The fuss about what to do with Ground Zero will turn to naught. It will be under water.
"An Inconvenient Truth" is a cinematic version of the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming. The case Gore makes is worthy of sleepless nights: Our Earth is in extremis. It's not just that polar bears are drowning because they cannot reach receding ice floes or that "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" will exist someday only as a Hemingway short story. It's rather that Hurricane Katrina is not past, but prologue. Katrina produced several hundred thousand evacuees. The flooding of Calcutta would produce many millions.
You cannot see this film and not think of George W. Bush, the man who beat Gore in 2000. Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless. It is similar to Bush's initial approach to global warming. It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by winning in 2000.
Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. "I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. He won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the previous Gulf War - right both times. He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.
In the meantime, he is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611870/posts
Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1611101/posts
Scientists blame sun for global warming (February 13, 1998)
No way do they expect to get their money back.
I sure hope none of my tax-dollars were used!
Richard Cohen wrote this drivel? That explains a lot. He never met a leftwingnut idea he didn't like.
We need someone to put together a website that debunks all the false claims made in this propaganda piece.
Something like happened with Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Whenever one of my lefty friends would say "Did you see in the movie where ..", I could just respond "But that segment was really from ..." which eventually turned them around to realise it was just a hit piece made up of deceits.
ROTFLMAO!
Turns out this thread has given me the bigger laugh!
If Gore would only shut up (and Dean and Hillary and Teddy and others of their ilk), there would be very little or no global warming.
YES!
Richard Cohen. I checked to make certain, too.
ROTFLMAO!
I almost want to bookmark this column.
As a scientist, Doctor Alvin Gore knew that if he were ever to break wind in the Greenspeace echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it.
What state did you move from?
And who said that libs weren't funny ... LOLOLOL
"Keep your stick on the ice."
:^)
I know what a disaster is. It's the world created by politicians like Gore, and reported on by gullible idiots like this columnist.
It's a liberal mantra - and a critique - that Bush uses "fear" to get people to go along with his anti-terror policies, but isn't it "fear" that libs are using to scare people into buying into their global-warming political agenda? As usual, if libs accuse someone of something, you can bet that it is the libs who are most guilty of that very thing.
Very interesting charts and graphs.
Is this person having a psychotic episode?
Too bad this movie's title was already used:
Excellent post. Please repeat as often as you can on the Global Warning threads.
A better title for the movie is "An Inconvenient Scenario -- possible but not probable."
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