Global Warming - "An Inconvenient Truth"

From the NY Times

"An Inconvenient Truth': Al Gore's Fight Against Global Warming."

"In interviews and e-mail exchanges, many climate specialists who have seen the film quibbled about details but tended to agree with Eric Steig, a University of Washington geochemist who posted his reactions at the Web log realclimate.org after a recent Seattle screening: "The small errors don't detract from Gore's main point, which is that we in the United States have the technological and institutional ability to have a significant impact on the future trajectory of climate change. "

From the NY Times - "Warning of Calamities and Hoping for a Change in 'An Inconvenient Truth'"

"He [Gore] speaks of the need to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions as a "moral imperative," and most people who see this movie will do so out of a sense of duty, which seems to me entirely appropriate. Luckily, it
happens to be a well-made documentary, edited crisply enough to keep it from feeling like 90 minutes of C-Span and shaped to give Mr. Gore's argument a real sense of drama. As unsettling as it can be, it is also intellectually exhilarating, and, like any good piece of pedagogy, whets the appetite for further study. This is not everything you need to know about global warming: that's the point. But it is a good place to start, and to continue, a process of education that could hardly be more urgent. "An Inconvenient Truth" is a necessary film."

Here's the clip.

Update. One more from the a Times.

The Greener Guys

Bill McKibben, a resident scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont and the author of "The End of Nature," a book about global warming, said there was no single answer.

"What people don't get is the scale of what needs to be done," he said. "Anybody whose solution includes the phrase 'in 20 years,' hasn't quite caught on to where we are."

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