An Inconvenient Truth: Loaded with sublime symbolism?

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Commentary
Global Warming as Summer Movie
Editors: ‘Revelations’ in 7th graph is as spoken in film By DAVID SARASOHN<R/>
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c.2006 Newhouse News Service
(UNDATED) “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s new movie on global warming, is hot at the box office.
OK, Gore’s stats don’t compare with the crowd seeking a summer movie message from “The Da Vinci Code” — although Gore’s formulas are actually easier to understand. But “An Inconvenient Truth” also topped national per-screen receipts listings one week, and did anybody mention that the summer movie peak is also hurricane season?
Gore may not be Tom Hanks — despite some odd similarities in haircut — but climatology could actually make a small run at symbology.
The argument of “An Inconvenient Truth” — a cinematic version of a computer slide demonstration Gore has been showing for years — is simple. 1) We’re putting huge, and rapidly increasing, amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. 2) The planet is getting a lot hotter, with nine of the 10 highest recorded annual average temperatures occurring since 1990. 3) Part of Antarctica seems to be missing, together with ice layers from the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and mountains and glaciers all over the world — including what Gore calls the Montana attraction “formerly known as Glacier Park.”
The movie features striking before-and-after — meaning, 30 years ago and today — shots from the Italian Alps, the Andes and Africa, where “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” are about to become another Hemingway historical memory, as long gone as the Spanish Civil War.
In today’s self-help language, this movie could be called, “Who Moved My Freeze?”
“An Inconvenient Truth” also courses through the hot list of current natural disasters, from baking droughts to rising ocean levels to super-powered hurricanes, in what its narrator calls “a nature hike through the Book of Revelations.”
The two stars of the movie are Gore and the planet, and if Gore still occasionally looks stiff, the planet seems to be melting.
The travelogue leaves lots of time for Gore himself, shown looking thoughtful and concerned in closeups, explaining the problem to rapt audiences, wheeling his suitcase through countless airports, and in intermittent biographical moments that all seem to have symbolic meaning for the future of Earth. It makes you wonder if “An Inconvenient Truth” is a cinematic equivalent of the standard pre-campaign autobiography — although way less boring.
It also has a lot more to say than most of them. Gore, along with the pictures, is persuasive on the subject, especially when noting that there is now essentially no academic debate on the existence of global warming, He also lays out steps that can be taken against it, including proposed increases in fuel economy standards that are opposed by the Bush administration and the automobile industry but would still leave the United States well below European, Japanese and Chinese mileage standards. He lays out other steps, from increased recycling to more efficient electrical appliances, that might not swiftly return snow to Kilimanjaro but could slow down the carbon dioxide pipeline.
Gore points out that the danger is that the thinking on global warming could go “from disbelief to despair.” But he declares ringingly, “In America, political will is a renewable resource.”
Whether Gore is thinking of that as a presidential campaign slogan, somebody should be.
It’s still hard for some part of the population — just over half, if memory serves — to watch this movie without thinking of Gore’s last campaign for president, when a candidate who’d written a book on global warming lost to one who would hire a Petroleum Institute lobbyist to coordinate White House policy on the subject. (When the Arctic Ocean turns to open water during the summer, as projections suggest it will, maybe it could be called Lake Nader.)
Gore lost to George W. Bush, you may remember, because of what political reporters called a feeling that Bush would be more fun to have a beer with.
Gore’s revenge is to return with a movie showing how badly we’re going to need one.

"Gore lost to George W. Bush, you may remember, because of what political reporters called a feeling that Bush would be more fun to have a beer with."

what the ....????

Gore didn't lose! I get so goddamn tired of shouting that out to imbeciles like this. Gore didn't lose the election. Sorry, but I can't get past that line, and I'm not crazy about the writer's style anyway.


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Only the ones who appear on Fox would spout such bull.

search and alert.

state climatologists? Anyways Surveys of opinions are certainly less interesting than Surveys of peer reviewed journal articles.

The facts are all laid out for you, you just have to accept it is Gore, not Sean Hannity, telling you the truth.

It's just the planet, friend, and your kids. Believe what you will.

any links to actual scientific studies which back this up?

"Al Gore has a movie out, and it's doing well? We can't have that! We're the mighty Press Corps, and we have to prove that we were right! We have to justify our bigotries, our conceits, our mistakes!"

Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden Gore is wooden ...

Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff Gore is stiff ...

Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says Nader says ...

Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush Beer with Bush ...

Yep, they sold America out for a beer, and they're gearing up to do it again.

--p!