"I'm totally serial!"
Posted on 05/22/2006 3:31:21 PM PDT by neverdem
The frustrations of a man whose long-sought goal remains out of reach are vividly on display in the first few minutes of "An Inconvenient Truth," a new documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's quest to spur action against global warming.
And the scene has nothing to do with the Supreme Court vote that denied Mr. Gore a chance to win the 2000 presidential election.
He is tapping on his laptop, adding yet another tweak to the illustrated climate lecture he has given more than 1,000 times since 1989 in ever more sophisticated ways: first with flip charts, then slides, then a mix of digital imagery, animation and high-tech stagecraft, and now through this film itself, which was screened at Cannes and opens on Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles.
He laments being unable so far to awaken the public to what he calls a "planetary emergency" despite evidence that heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases are warming the earth, and even after Hurricane Katrina and Europe's deadly 2003 heat wave, which he calls a foretaste of much worse to come.
"I've been trying to tell this story for a long time, and I feel as if I've failed to get the message across," Mr. Gore muses.
The question now is whether the documentary, with the potential to reach millions of people instead of a roomful of listeners at a time, can do the job.
For the moment, opinions on its prospects range from hopeful to scornful, not so much a reflection on the film's quality as the vast distance between combatants in the fight over what to do, or not do, about human-caused warming.
In a recent interview in Manhattan, Mr. Gore said he was convinced that Americans would move on the issue, not just because of his documentary...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He is serial!
What evidence?
Gore:"I've been telling this story for a long time,and i feel as if i've failed to get the message across."No kiddin?If it's any consolation Al,at least the msm buys it.
Oh Al, no need to be so modest. If Earth gets saved, we'll know who's responsible. It's all you, baby.
"I'm totally serial!"
It will be a barn burner if Gore runs in '08..oh,
the fun watching these dingbats..Kerry, Hillary, Gore,
Edwards, Sharpton....oh yeah, and the others...like
Warner, Biden,etc..is like putting more logs on the fire...they'll cut each other ..then, any sound and
conservative Republican, can just glide in...Jake
Yet since Al Gore was offered the opportunity to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 4 months and a half have elapsed. Despite milking lucrative speaking engagements and book deals with his global warming schtick he declines any such debate.
Sorry, I stopped reading right there. Was the article interesting?
I had to change that before I went on to ignore the rest of the story.
Why would I post it if I didn't think it was interesting? I believe this is Gore's start at a political comeback for the 2008 campaign.
He laments being unable so far to awaken the public to what he calls a "planetary emergency" . . .
His problem is that he's go so far out on a limb to market himself as an expert on an issue that most Americans don't give a sh!t about.
He may as well be campaigning on the theme that the sun is going to burn out someday.
An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore is a nut job, and Dems will say and do anything to regain power.
He shoulda called it "A Convenient Lie"
I'll be inclined to take Al seriously about global warming as soon as he comes out for crash development of nuclear power. His position at the moment, as I understand it, is that global warming threatens the end of the human race but that the Yucca Mountain repository is too dangerous to build.
Let me get this straight, 120,000 years ago we had our first ice age and before that it must have been relatively warm for at least through out the jurassic until the ice. The last glacial maximum was 20,000 years ago and this twit thinks it is hot after a couple of hundred years where trends take millennia and it may not be as hot as it has been since the lgm. It may be we are headed for another glacial maximum. The best we can do is be wealthy enough to adapt to the change, not, retreat back into the cave.
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