"An Inconvenient Truth": Undoubtedly to be Next "Star Wars"-type Summer Blockbuster
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.