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Film Review / Comment: An Inconvenient Truth
Just seen this at the Arts Cinema in central Cambridge this
evening. It's a well-presented documentary showing Al Gore's lecture
tour where he talked about the problem of global warming. He delivers
a compelling message, with a fair amount of data to back up his
conclusions. I only had a couple of issues with the movie:
- A sequence about his presidential election defeat in 2000; in my
opinion all this added was distraction from his points.
- Some of the scary-looking graphs he showed didn't have any clear,
useful labels on the Y axis; my own experience from studying science
and engineering makes me always suspicious of such things. I hope that
this was just a deficiency in the film, and I'll check out the
accompanying book to confirm this.
In my opinion, the conclusions from the movie are quite clear:
- Global warming is a problem.
- We need to do something about it, probably a mixture of trying to
reduce the causes and coping with the consequences.
- There's a moron in the White House; this is not news to many of
us...
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