An Inconvenient Truth

I finally managed to find Al Gore's movie, an Inconvenient Truth, online. I was very interested to see what he had done and I was quite pleasantly surprised by the movie. It gets the point of Global Warming across nicely.

Of course, when I watch the movie it is very much him preaching to the choir. That is just how it is, of course. What I'm hoping is that some people who are more skeptical about these ideas sit down and watch this movie. In that vein, I decided to take a look at some people's websites who thought the movie's science was rubbish. It was interesting to see how they had to rely on small insignificant errors and then extrapolate from there that clearly the rest of the movie must be rubbish as well.

This writer is a perfect example. He basically says 'oh evil Al Gore! Why does he only concentrate on all the bad things and not tell about all the fantastic and good things that people have done? Why doesn't he tell about the good things that have come out of science?' That's pretty easy to answer, this movie is about Global Warming! In it, Al Gore is trying to bring across a message. Anytime you do that, you have to edit, in order not let the audience lose sight of the forest through the trees. Yes, you can say that that is Al Gore trying to twist your mind, but only if you then turn around and admit that your side is doing exactly the same kind of twisting. Otherwise you're just a hypocrite.

It's interesting how people (on all sides) have grown so convinced of their enemies' evil ways that they judge the message, based on the messenger. I bet you that those people who are the most fiercely against Al Gore's movie are those that have never watched it.

So even if you don't like Al Gore, don't be one of those and watch the movie.