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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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