Inconvienient
This New York Times article talks about a few exagerations or distortions in Al Gore’s famous film. I still haven’t seen it all, but I did see about half an hour of it the other day.
Frankly, I was surprised by they ‘martyr persona’ that Al Gore projects in this movie. There was a lot in what I saw that had nothing to do with global warming, but was simply the terrible trials of Al Gore, it reminded my of Biblical accounts of ‘testings’ to become a prophet, and I don’t think that is entirely accidental.
Whatever you think about Global Warming, it is pretty obvious that Al Gore’s son’s accident and subsequent hospital stay, the contested 2000 election or the prosaic way he was raised on a farm (while is father was an extremely powerful senator and he mostly lived in DC) have nothing to do with the issue.
They do though demonstrate the ‘worthiness’ of the messenger, to those that are impressed by such things anyway.
Like I said, I haven’t seen the whole film yet, but what I did see was mostly about how great and noble Al Gore is, rather then being much at all about climate change. I suppose if you are looking for a prophet for your religious beliefs such things make sense, those who are looking for real understanding of the issue though are left with fairly thin data.
It’s a good ‘wake up call’. However, everyone should be skeptical about everything.
it’s a movie. Not the truth. It’s the truth repackaged into nice little sound-bites that the American public will be able to digest. Not a great movie. I lasted about 3/4 of the way through the film before I fell asleep.
I doubt that the worst case scenarios depicted in the movie will come about. I do believe that we humans and our evil ways do have some impact on the environment. We do need to find ways to mitigate those impacts - if not for the environment, but then for our health (the wonderful smog in LA is not natural!).