Hurricane!

It's too bad politics seems to get in the way of a good discussion about climate change.

Today I saw the new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, at the Arclight theater. The film basically documents a slide show presentation that Al Gore has been giving to audiences all over the world since his 2000 presidential election loss. I’m sure there are a lot of “right wing” liberal hating republicans out there that would like to dismiss Mr. Gore’s message as political maneuvering. They’ll probably suggest that this is all an attempt by Gore to slowly ease his way back into the public eye to begin a campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. If that turns out to be true, I think it would be a very very good thing. That said, what this movie is REALLY about is the message itself. Mr. Gore spends the majority of the 100 minute documentary detailing just exactly what we’ve managed to do to our planet in the last 40-50 years. His evidence is irrefutable. He answers every doubt about global warming that I’ve ever heard (”oh its a natural cycle”, “so its getting hotter, so what?” etc). This is all build up to his main point which is that we CAN still do something about this.