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"An Inconvenient Truth": Undoubtedly to be Next "Star Wars"-type Summer Blockbuster
Published on May 30, 2006 By Rightwinger In Misc
Beforte I start---no, I haven't seen it, of course, but I have read several sparkling reviews of it. Sounds wonderful (yawn).

So our former Man-Who-Would-Be President has a new movie. Ever determined to save the planet from the evils and excesses of Humankind, Al Gore and his coterie of scientist-like whackos and Environmentalists have enlisted the willing co-conspirators in Whacko Hollywood to aid them in their battle.

"An Inconvenient Truth" is a feature documentary film starring Al Gore, a nice-looking, hi-tech slide show (with "beautiful" pics of Mother Earth from space, mountains and jungles), and about 20 years of fuzzy "science" that mirrors the kinds of things they told us were happening in the 70s, with the opposite effect.

By all accounts, it is quite an accomplishment, with Entertainment Weekly wistlfully wishing that this charming Gore, a man of jovial bent and quick, easy humor, had been the one who ran in 2000. Unfortunately for the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Saddam, it was not.

Now, see, I'm old enough to remember the 1970s, and I can remember much of what I was told by my science teachers and the hytserics on the news.
There was too much pollution in the atmosphere, which was blocking the sunlight and cooling the Earth. In the next 15 or so years (which would have been by the late 1980s), we would likely be seeing the first major effects of a new Ice Age. Global temps would drop precipitously. We'd see massive climate changes. Oceans would suffer severe drops in temperature which would result in massive fish kills. Entire species of flora and fauna would be forced into extinction, and it was ALL OUR FAULT!
Well, of course, by 1986 or '87, when no marauding glaciers had levelled Detroit, Bangor, Maine or NYC, we suddenly started seeing odd rises in the global temperatures, which may explain exactly WHY no glaciers had appeared. Now, it was another story; or rather, the same story with the opposite effect. And it's still ALL OUR FAULT!
According to a magazine article I recently read (thanks, $9.99 Supercuts, for the info), they've only been monitoring global temperatures for something like 110 years. Know how much global temperatures have risen in the last century and one-tenth? 1.6 degrees (cue scary organ music).

A couple years ago, Gore breathlessly embraced "The Day After Tomorrow", a sci-fi/disaster movie, pretty much a B-flick, really, that showed the horrific damage that COULD "result from uncontrolled global warming". That didn't scare enough people, though. Now, he's decided to do it himself. Thank God for small miracles....if this act of extremism doesn't finish off his political career once and for all, nothing will.

Comments
on May 30, 2006
I saw EW's glowing review and gagged. I love what flies as "fact" in Mr. "I invented the internet"'s world. Anyone who embraced The Day After Tomorrow as having any scientific merit is a total kook in my book.

Fuzzy science is a good way of putting it. Say they prove there is global warming (which they haven't) and they prove that humans are the cause (which they haven't), is he really saying that Americans are going to change that? Has he considered China for even a moment? Is China going to change their ways any time soon?

Al is just starved for attention since he's been out of office.
on May 30, 2006
I saw an interesting peice that said the temperature increases on Mars have been mirroring own own pretty well. I wonder if Al thinks our bad old behavior is somehow screwing up the martian environment, too.

What Gore has never been able to understand is people don't want to be preached to, and no one really believes he is somehow superior to them. So when he gets up there and tries to "teach" and give us all a good lecture, as he did in the 2000 election, people just see him as the know-it-all, self-important ass he is.

The only thing I ever liked him on was when he played himself along with Gary Gygax, Nichelle Nichols, and Steven Hawking on Futurama as the "Vice Presidential Action Rangers". He makes a darn good cartoon character, being the caricature that he normally is.
on May 30, 2006
Eegads! US News and World Report has him on the cover too!

I wonder if Al thinks our bad old behavior is somehow screwing up the martian environment, too.


It truly wouldn't surprise me.
on May 30, 2006
well at least he is blaming the entire human race and not just "IT'S ALL BUSHES FAULT!"
on May 30, 2006
What I love is the way they hedged their bets this time aroud; in the 70s, all the hooha was supposed to be happening within 15 or 20 years. This time around, they've given themselves a vague 50 or so years of slack, just in case.

is he really saying that Americans are going to change all that? Has he considered China for even a moment? Is China going to change their ways any time soon?
---JillUser

Uuummm....yes, nope and nope.
See, what you have to understand here is that America is the Root Of All Evil, and the entire global climate hinges directly on what we do within our own borders.
The fact that we've already managed to hamstring our industry and economy with the most stringent Environmental laws in the world (all the while having to compete nations like China and India, who haven't bothered) cuts no ice with Gore and his Tree-Hugging Hippie Moon Pies. America must be brought to heel before anyone else!

I saw an interesting peice that said the temperature increases on Mars have been mirroring own own pretty well. I wonder if Al thinks our bad old behavior is somehow screwing up the martian environment, too.
---Baker

I dunno from Mars; all I know is, it's the end of May, and two nights last week, I had to bring in my plants because of frost. Damn those warm temperatures!

What Gore has never been able to understand is people don't want to be preached to, and no one really believes he is somehow superior to them. So when he gets up there and tries to "teach" and give us all a good lecture, as he did in the 2000 election, people just see him as the know-it-all, self-important ass he is.
---Baker

But that's what makes him the perfect liberal. He's smarter than you and he knows it.
You, why, you're just an ignorant moron who refuses to acknowledge his clearly apparent greatness in intellect and his obvious superior ideas and views. Now, you just you siddown over yonder, and listen close to old Uncle Al spin his yarns. He'll tell you how to save the world!

well at least he is blaming the entire human race and not just "IT'S ALL BUSHES FAULT!"
---ModMan

For once, anyway.


Well, I'm gonna pick up my advance tickets from Ticketmaster, put on my "I (heart) Mother Earth" t-shirt and go camp out at the mall so I can get the first seat in the Multiplex when it opens. Look out X3! Here comes Big Al!