If anyone saw the movie An Inconvenient Truth - A Global Warning, what was your impression of the movie?

Answer 1

It actually interested me and opened my eyes a little we need them opening more on this subject if not for us for our future generations :)

Answer 2

I saw this for the first time at a presentation by the Atmospheric Sciences department at my university. Afterwards three of the professors in the department discussed it.

The overall impression was that the movie would have been a lot shorter had it stuck to the facts of global warming and skipped the mini-biography of Al Gore.

As for the facts themselves, they were mostly correct, though sometimes they were presented in a misleading fashion. Overall, there was more truth in this film than you will find in any of the arguments "debunking" global climate change.

Answer 3

I thought it was interesting, some of the data presented seemed to show that we are in a period of greater global warming than for a long time.. but that long time is not so long in terms of geological eras... I still have doubts whether man is the primary cause (I do believe we probably contribute.. but how much I'm not sure).

Then of course there is the whole question whether global warming is so bad... I live in Canada... so I rather like it... and anyhow, the warm start of winter everyone started going nuts.. global warming global warming... but then come Jan, the temperature has been below normal since then! So maybe we over compensated!

Answer 4

Try looking at it as pure Marxist propaganda.

I would recommend "The Global Warming Swindle"

You can find a link on Junk Science..


http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

http://www.junkscience.com


Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming

"The Public Has Been Vastly Misinformed," NCPA's Deming Tells Senate Committee

12/6/2006 5:57:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks.

"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

"In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent.

"There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed."

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Answer 5

I was impressed. Al Gore did an excellent job laying out the evidence without omitting anything or blowing anything out of proportion.

I would not have expected such a logical, straightforward, honest presentation from a politician. His science training and background really shine through.

Answer 6

Very educational documentary. Would have been nice to see more options for people to take action but hopefully it opened some people's eyes.

Answer 7

I was impressed by how Al Gore reached so many conclusions that don't agree with the vast majority of the scientific communities.

Answer 8

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