[Graeme]

Last Sunday, I saw Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth". It was well worth seeing. He explained in simple laymans terms how and why the Earth is warming, and near the end what we can do about it. If there is one movie you should see this year, it should be this one! The film was screened at an International Film Festival in Dunedin (NZ), and it received polite, subdued applause at the end.

Personally, I think that global warming poses a greater threat to human survival than peak oil. It is really heartening to see that many of the world's leaders are finally doing something about this: see today's (3rd August) news article "Major world cities team up to fight global warming".

You will find other reviews and information at: climatecrisis

This site says that Gore's film was awarded The Humanitas Prize.

[LadyRuby]

I'm glad to see it making its way around. I would expect a good showing at the many countries that are more enlightened than the U.S. (or at least that's my impression) regarding global warming.

[gego]

I agree with Graeme that global warming is a threatening problem; I do not see it as separate from peak oil.

Nature, over a very long time period, stored carbon in the ground in the form of hydrocarbons. Man figures out how to extract this "fossil fuel" from the ground, and starts to release the carbon into the atmosphere at ever increasing rates. The energy from this storehouse propelled the human species from under 500,000 up to 6.5 billion.

The current human population level is out of balance with what nature would allow without using this stored energy, so this really is a Catch22 situation. If we continue to use the remaining storehouse of "fossil fuel" we can keep up the current population levels temporarily, but we add to the carbon in the atmosphere, making dieoff from heat inevitable. If we stop using the "fossil fuel" now, there is no way we can keep up these population levels now, so we accelerate the time of the dieoff.

I guess the point is mute anyway, because once peak arrives, we will be forced to use less oil and the dieoff will be imposed by nature.

In my view there is no way to have your cake and eat it too. There is no practical, significant way to stop adding to the global warming problem without eliminating the root problem, about 6 billion human life forms.

[NEOPO]

We laughed - We cried.

Being very familiar with 35mm film I struck up a conversation with the projectionist and while talking he asked me how we heard about the showing.

I said "www.peakoil.com" and then apologized for what will probably result in more stress for the fellow

Hope this comes to DVD and soon.

[NugBlazer]

Jesus, people, stay on topic here. This thread is for comments on the movie "An Inconvienient Truth".

Anywhoo, I saws the film last night, and it is very well done. Everyone should see it.

[Graeme]

Here is a review of the film by the BBC.

[NEOPO]

good review.
At least I do not have to tell my grandchildren why I didnt go see it and I can tell some others peoples grandchildren that the only reason their pappy and mammy saw it was because I was adamant and persistent pushing them to go see it with me

A quick smile is a sea of sadness.............

[Graeme]

Here are some more recent reviews:

Gore's movie gets raves in Berlin, yawns in Bangkok

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n eco-friendly Germany, where Gore attended last week's Berlin premiere, the film was a multi-media event, covered by major newspapers and several television news shows. It drew specific praise from German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel at a news conference on energy.

Overall, critics in the United States have been enthusiastic, giving the film an overall 93 percent positive rating on the RottenTomatoes.com Web site, which calculates reviewers' opinions. "Truth" beat "Crash," this year's winner of the Academy Award for best picture, which scored 75 percent, and was only marginally lower than the family-pleasing documentary "March of the Penguins," which rated 95 percent.

[seldom_seen]

What gego said. Trying to seperate peakoil from global warming is like trying to seperate cow shit from cattle ranching.

The atmosphere is the sink for our fossil fuel feeding frenzy. Like the proverbial yeast in the wine vat we are now beginning to choke on our own defecation, just as our prime food (energy) source starts to wane. With the foresight of algae, we start grasping in desperation for other food (energy) sources (strip mine alberta for lowgrade tar sand and burn down the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra for palm oil).

We've completely upset the conditions that made us so populous and powerful in the first place (ecological succession). We now get to go to the back of the bus.

[Graeme]

And this:

Al Gore picks up literary prize

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ormer US presidential candidate Al Gore has won a prestigious Quill literary award for his book An Inconvenient Truth.

The Quill Book Awards will be broadcast on the NBC network in the US on 28 October.

[julianj]

This is an excellent film. Highly recommended.

(BTW - Gore offsets all the carbon emissions from all the flying he does, just to counter another scullious rumour put about by the denialists).

Actually, I don't need to see the 10,000 year old Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsing in 30 days to know something's wrong with the climate - the tree outside my window still has full Autumn foliage - in November - It should be bare by now!

Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NugBlazer', 'J')esus, people, stay on topic here. This thread is for comments on the movie "An Inconvienient Truth".

Anywhoo, I saws the film last night, and it is very well done. Everyone should see it.

[Revi]

Gore was given a position in Europe as the spokesman for Global Warming. The prophet is never recognized in his hometown.

[Bas]

Absolute must see period.

[Quinny]

Only just seen this last night on TV. I thought it was very good. Bet you could murder those cheats in Florida!

[pablonite]

Uhhh, just some healthy skepticism here but you might want to see what some of the real scientists on the IPCC think here...

global warming or global governance
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 7427439443

the great global warming swindle
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0655100870

Of course if you like a politician preaching to you about science go ahead and watch his show again!

[TheDude]

We already had a thread on the Great Global Warming Swindle. Chances are you won't like what others have to say about it.

[Subjectivist]

I went back and watched this again tonight along with the making of featurette on the DVD. The Director says at the start of the commentary they filmed it over the last six months of 2005 so I got to thinking, what was CO2 a decade ago?

From the CO2 thread first reading for 2015.

Week beginning on January 4, 2015: 399.83 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 378.13 ppm

So six months before they started filming An Inconvenient Truth we were 21.7 ppmv lower than we were this year.

Is it time for the ten year update to be filmed? We have not altered coarse one iota, if anything we have barreled ahead faster than ever.

[Lore]

You should also note that the prediction of the documentary was that we had 10 years to change our ways. Times up, nothing's changed.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'Y')ou should also note that the prediction of the documentary was that we had 10 years to change our ways. Times up, nothing's changed.