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...
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I got my new passport today and it expires in 2016. I'm lucky I guess because Algore says that since we'uns didn't buy into the Kyoto BS, our world is going to end in ten years (i.e., 2016). So, I'm lucky, I didn't buy any passport years that won't be used, thanks Algore. Please run again.
algore is an inconvenient idiot
LMBO! I wondered if there would be a "manbearpig" reference on the thread. The vidcap is a big bonus. Nice!
Wasnt this the same guy who gave a global warming speech one year in new york on its coldest day on record
What were the details of the offer (who, where)?
The answer is No. At best, this will come across as just one more disaster movie, and people are desensitized to them. I expect this "movie" to flop fast.
IIRC, it was the coldest recorded temperature for that date.
Mark Bellings, the substitute host for Rush Limbaugh today, nailed it, IMHO. Gore will get an Oscar for best documentary. Instead of a new book or other some such occasion for a media event, Gore has an Oscar winning documentary. The Moveon.org types will swoon.
I heard that the first title of Al's movie was a bit wordy, so they cut it down. It was originally called:
"An Inconvenient Truth: How Science does NOT support the theory of global warming, and how we've gotten past that so far by re-eduating impressionable people with questionable psuedoscience."
Luckily, the ManBearPig hunter was never famous for letting good research ruin policymaking.
Hey, Al! What's the size of your carbon footprint?
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