A new movie about global warming titled ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ based on former US Vice President Al Gore’s personal journey of discovery will be out soon.
Produced by Paramount Classics the trailer has already been released, click here to watch.
I received the link with the note: “In a macabre way, this is gripping and the absolute epitome of the propaganda-maker’s art.”
Interestingly Al Gore makes comment in the trailer that global warming is not a political issue, it is a moral issue.
I heard sociologist and public commentator Frank Furedi speak at the Brisbane Ideas Festival late March, and he commented that global warming was not a moral issue, but a technological issue.
I tend to agree wtih Furedi, once we move beyond fossil fuels as a main source of energy, carbon dioxide emissions will nolonger be the issue they are now.
But Al Gore and others will keep pushing the moral arguement. And as I have previously mentioned at this blog, click here, there will be a book out also called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore and Al Gore is working with major environment groups in the US on a new consortium with the aim of running a “campaign of public persuasion” about global warming and its consequences.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
The inconvenient truth is that not even Gore’s home state could stomach the creep and voted against him.
He continues to terrorize the US and the world with his nonsense.
I can’t wait to see the movie- for a laugh.
He’s a loser.
Thanks for linking to the short, Jennifer. It reminded me why I went out of my way not to vote for him in 2000.
Hearing that sermonizing voice immediately put me in a bad frame of mind.
Unlike that saint Bush that invades countries, wiretaps his own people in defiance of the law and leaks CIA agents cover identities. Yep you sure voted the right person in.
Ender
Why don’t you put everything in your own words instead of running off to the Daily Kos to get off on another one of those sensless rants of yours.
If this rant is the best you can do in defense of Gore, I suggest you read some other hard, angry left swill because the “Bush lied people died” cropola is really starting to wear thin.
joe – “Why don’t you put everything in your own words instead of running off to the Daily Kos to get off on another one of those sensless rants of yours”
What so you can do all the senseless ranting?
Why don’t you take a leaf out of your own book and get your head out of Bush loving Fox News and take a look around at the rest of the world. Small hint – its not how it appears on Fox.
Ender
I don’t watch FOX. I get most of my news as follows.
1 Wall street Journal
2 Pink Times
3 New York Sun ( Great paper, probably the best in the world)
4 Economist
5 The Oz
6 Herald Sun and New Post for juicey gossip.
7 Scan Drudge each day.
Where do you go other than the daily Kos.
Joe
I don’t read Daily Kos. I get most of my news from:
1. ABC News (Australian)
2. Google News feed.
3. Planet Ark
4. Sydney Morning Herald
5. Alternet
6. Christian Science Monitor
7. The Age
8. The Oil Drum (http://www.theoildrum.com/)
9. SpaceDaily
10. GreenCar Congress
and the list goes on
Mr Ender – don’t you worry about Joe Boy here – the boy is a nouveau riche vulgarian growing well on the vices of Wall Street gambling den. The fact that Al Gore actually won more of the 2000 total vote and can speak intelligently without a script is disturbing for him. (A mere 543,895 citizens preferred Al Gore). Given Joe’s unable to distinguish major science journals from magazines indicates that all that reading isn’t helping.
Perhaps some balancing comic relief to the movie clip above, and counterbalance to the hypocrisy of the thread’s title, might be the excellent fictional piece tendered by Tina some days ago here.
http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=3.
At least Al Gore’s comments are founded in reality.
Johnboy
I’m not vulger, you are. Wall street taught me to be generous: when I worked there we “asked” to give 5% (gross) of our bonus to charities of our choice. Did your employer ever think of that? Do you?
“At least Al Gore’s comments are founded in reality:”.
Is that the comment he made about a, er, inventing the internet?
Yes Bush is thick tongued, but at least he got through Yale undergrad and a Harvard MBA. Gore couldn’t even complete a journalist course.
Bush was also a fighter pilot and no matter who’s progeny you are the US air force doesn’t give planes away to dummies. Bush’s air force aptitude score correlates with an IQ of around 130, no bad for a dunce.
Johnyboy you got to stop with the abuse, otherwise you’re gunna show us those wonderful limey teeth of yours.
Oh, Johnyboy, Gore lost the election. He’s a dope.
Ender
Stay away from Fairfax, they’re just trying to brainwash you and by all accounts it seems they’re succeeding.
Isnt Al Gore a distant cousin of Gore Vidal? – well, that is what Gore Vidal reckoned and he is more than a bit queer.
Al Gore has made his share of queer statements too, he supported Operation Desert Fox, a three day bombing campaign against Iraq that attempted to “degrade Saddam Hussein’s ability to make and to use weapons of mass destruction” and later said “We know that [Saddam] has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country. Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power” but has campaigned against the war in Iraq.
Is that what they call hunting with the hounds and running with the foxes?
Wall Steet Journal, New York Sun, juicy gossip. Say, where is Australia? Isn’t that where they filmed The Sound of Music?
“‘Bush lied people died’ cropola is really starting to wear thin.” I’m sure the amputees in Bagdad’s hospitals would agree with you.
“once we move beyond fossil fuels as a main source of energy, carbon dioxide emissions will nolonger be the issue they are now” That’s gotta be the blond statement of the week. Is there a point trying to be made?
“global warming was not a moral issue, but a technological issue”. Yes, the use of modern technology, not morals, is causing global warming. Glad to see some people are finally catching up.
“Is that the comment he made about a, er, inventing the internet?”
Now where is the original quote for that – when did Gore say that exactly? When did he claim to have invented the internet?
Gore was instrumental in supporting the internet in the early stages of it’s development. If you want to know more google “vint cerf gore” – Vint Cerf is considered one of the fathers of the internet and has some comments on Gore’s contribution. Also Gore was awarded a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet at the Webbys last year.
Sorry completely off-topic but I can’t let an urban myth pass like that.
His said: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
Clumsy and open to misinterpretation.
Rog:
I actually heard him utter those lying words and the impression he was trying to convey was that he was Mr. Start up wiz bang computer geek.
Even lefties were embarrassed when he bolivator said this.
rog & joe decline to take SimonC’s input on board, ie to consider additional info that goes against their predecided view. Shows that the Bush defenders are guilty of the same accusations they make about the Bush attackers – unwillingly to take on board FACTS that don’t fit with their rigid bias. “Open to misinterpretation”?! 1 statement v’s potentially every utterance bush has ever made!? People in glass houses, as they say….
Kamahl
Politicians lie. Gore lied and trumped up his “accomplishments” more than anyone else ever did.
That’s why the electorate never took to him.
Al Gore had Ohio speechless;
“Two hundred years ago this summer, at the sunrise of America’s first full century, veterans of the American Revolution came here and founded Smith County. In their minds’ eye, the very idea of what America could become was still then a barely discernible horizon.”
“(my father) saw a horizon in which his black and white constituents shared the same hopes in the same world…. His last election was lost — but his conscience won.”
“Each of us has our own sense of the next, finer horizon.”
“America always looks forward, to the next horizon.”
“Just visible within a generation’s journey is a new horizon”
“And I know that with our history as our rudder and our ideals as our compass, we can reach our new horizon.”
“And I see on the horizon an America where people with disabilities are fully respected for the abilities they have, everywhere in this land.”
“Come with me toward America’s new horizon. Across that horizon stands the promise of our common values and prosperity – of strengthening every family, lifting every child, leveling every barrier, leaving no one behind.”
“Here, at the center of my home town, in the heart of America, in the midst of the people I love – that is the new horizon I see”
http://www.4president.org/speeches/gore2000announcement.htm
“That’s why the electorate never took to him.”
That’s why more people voted for Gore than Bush (51 million to 50.5 million)
Why all these falsehoods? Especially ones so easy to check and correct? I’m not American and I don’t really care who’s in power in the US. I care about some of the decisions that they make but if they’re a Democrat or Republican or Looney Monster Party I don’t care because I don’t vote.
joe and rog are simply one eyed supporters (or haters) who no matter what evidence is presented will never sway from their already formed opinion. I suspect that joe and rog aren’t scientists and don’t really want to engage in debates.