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  • Gore's Oscar win could be good for climate (Barf ALERT!!!)

    02/27/2007 12:53:54 AM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 16 replies · 424+ views
    news.com.au ^ | 27 February 2007 | Deborah Zabarenko
    THE double Oscar win for An Inconvenient Truth, former US vice-president Al Gore's expanded slide-show on global warming, could spur grassroots support for the fight against climate change, environmental advocates say. That was because a movie, especially one that many people had seen on home video, took the issue beyond the realm of distant policymakers and put it on a more personal footing, according to Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "The funny thing about the Oscars is, they're very intimate - people watch them in their living rooms," Mr Pope said. "Global warming has seemed abstract, distant,...