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.
All this global warming is such BS...
If we look at the 'little ice age' we had widespread famine and disease from 1100 to 1800. Animals and crops tend to like warm weather.
Sorry Al, I'll take the global warming over global freezing anytime.
Gores extreme fear tactics and rhetoric are impossible for any rational person to take seriously. Honestly this film sounds like that laughable "day after tomorrow" nonsense.
Keep talking algore, keep talking.
A better title for the movie is "An Inconvenient Scenario -- possible but not probable."
The only "inconvenient truth" is for the democrats.....Gore is a moonbat nutter.
He writes about Al Gore like he's the starting quarterback for his school.
Strictly speaking it was from about 1300 to 1800, but otherwise you are spot on.
Al Gore should have been around in Europe, 1350. The crop yields were way, way down, and 40% of the population had dropped dead of the Black Death. That was an real global catastrophe, not this made-up Global Warming nonsense.
20,000 years ago there was 300-500 feet of ice over Boston and New York. The coastlines used to extend out to the continental shelf. There used to be a landbridge to Russia, likely how humans migrated to the Americas from Asia.
If you go further back there used to be an inland sea in the middle of the United States.
Global warming and cooling has been going on for billions of years and will continue to do so until the sun eventually turns the Earth into a piece of charcoal when it turns into a red giant star.
Another great way to put it. If the history of the planet is The Empire State Building, human history is represented by a postage stamp stuck on the building. Human influence on the global planet is still marginal at best.
Richard Cohen, a syndicated columnist for the Washinton Post, is a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and attended Hunter, NYU and Columbia. He was a four-time honorable-mention winner in Pulitzer Prize competitions (he doesn't know if that's a record, but says it's his personal best). Cohen splits his time between Washington D.C. and New York City.
Gore Movie............HOW 'BOUT GLOBAL BORING!!!
BTTT
Al Gore . . . . . . hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . . . . . the name sounds familiar . . . . . . . . didn't he play second banana on a kids cartoon show a few years ago!!??
From the couple of sentences I read, it already sounds like the recent Hollyweird disaster flick disaster - The Day After or some such garbage.
I might want to buy a DVD of it for those nights I can't sleep, though. Ishtar reruns just don't do it for me anymore.
also, FYI to gore
NYC and Boston was under a glacial ice sheet 300 feet thick 50,000 years ago.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12325
GLACIERS IN NEW YORK CITY - INWOOD HILL PARK
Inwood Hill Park
Inwood Hill Park now contains the last natural forest and salt marsh in Manhattan, but the land once lay beneath a huge sheet of moving ice. The most recent ice age began about 1.5 million years ago, at the advent of the Pleistocene Era, and lasted until around 10,000 years ago. At the beginning of the Pleistocene, global temperatures dropped dramatically. Huge masses of snow and ice formed in the Arctic, sometimes as thick as two miles. The tremendous weight and pressure of the ice sheet caused the snow underneath to solidify, providing a surface on which glaciers could travel. During the Pleistocene Epoch, there were four glacial advances - the most recent being the Wisconsin ice sheet, which had the greatest impact on the land beneath New York City.
The Wisconsin ice sheet began its southward journey from the Arctic around 100,000 years ago, reaching what is now New York roughly 50,000 years later. By this time, it had lost some of its bulk, although it was still 300 feet thick and stretched from Massachusetts to Montana. As the glacier moved through this region, it deepened the bed of the Hudson River, carved out such geologic features as the Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes basins, and left its mark on the Adirondack mountains. The glacier also deposited tons of gravel and pebbles, moving boulders from the Palisades to Central Park, plowing up topsoil, leveling the earth, and filling in depressed areas with glacial till. This glacial activity sculpted the characteristic terrain of Inwood Hill Park, with its dramatic caves, valleys, and ridges.
http://www.geotimes.org/feb06/Travels0206.html
What the exhibits won't tell you is that the Puritans settled at the base of Beacon Hill because it is made of stratified sand from a glacial outwash channel. The layered deposits allow groundwater to flow and pool at the base, where the settlers could collect it for drinking water. King's Chapel is built of 450-million-year-old Quincy Granite, which formed when an island the size of Japan collided with the island that carried Boston-to-be, long before it was part of North America. Bunker Hill is a drumlin: a streamlined hill of compacted glacial debris, shaped by a retreating glacier.
From the Prudential Building, most of what you see below you is glacial debris. The Wisconsin Ice Sheet, the last glacier to blanket New England, retreated about 16,000 years ago, leaving in its wake boulders and gravel it had carried down from the North, and forming Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Around Boston, the glacier left dozens of drumlins and "kettles" (bowl-shaped hollows created when glaciers melt), which form most of the ponds of the city's "Emerald Necklace," one of the oldest series of parks and parkways in the United States that are worth a visit unto themselves
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Despite a lot of science and even more debate, scientists don't have a clear idea about whether the ice in Antarctica as a whole is growing or shrinking. They do worry, however, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might shrink enough to raise global sea levels appreciably in the coming centuries. The worst-case scenario is a complete collapse of the sheet, which would jack sea levels up by as much as 20 feet. Below, see what would happen to selected coastlines around the world if such a disintegration occurred. See also how these coasts looked 20,000 years ago at the height of the Ice Age, when seas were 400 feet lower than today, as well as how they would appear if the much larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet were to disintegrate. No one believes this tremendous dome will disintegrate anytime soon. But if it did, it would raise seas around the world by as much as 200 feet. (To play it safe, these images depict a conservative rise of 17 feet if the West sheet collapsed and 170 feet if the East sheet did. Note that black lines represent current coastlines).—Peter Tyson Click on the images below to see larger versions.
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Yep, that's the moonbat I was referring to. Gerry Trudeau is so in love with this clown that he's regularly featured in "Doonesbury".
Should have a Mega-Ultra-Projectile barf alert for this one...
The trailer for this turd. It's Farenheit 9/11 for Global Warming.
http://movies.aol.com/movie_exclusive_an_inconvenient_truth?ncid=AOLMOV00150000000002
C'mon finn, you know the rules. Don't post articles from The Onion!
So in 6 years Bush being in offic edid all this and Gore knows exactly how he did it? Damnhes good
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