"An Inconvenient Truth" is even better the 2nd time around....

My friend and I returned to the theater today to see the film again. The first time it took our full concentration to try to absorb the scientific arguments being made by Gore.

The second time, I recognized my "favorite chart"--the one with the temp. and CO2 which spreads across the screen and the info Gore extracted from it.

I also was able to get a better handle on the emotional qualities of Gore's story. What guts this guy has.

We picked up on the fact that Gore mentioned Carl Sagan a couple of times....and the realization that today we have no Carl Sagan in the public eye...nor a Jay Gould, who talked about paleontology, evolution and related topics.

It's quite a realization to make, that Al Gore is essentially filling the role as the "popular scientist" on the critical climate issue. And sad, because science is under attack.

And the crap going on today was going on 20 years ago....altering the testimony of scientists, etc.

We really are in a mess....it's not just the climate, it's the utter capitulation of reason and statesmanship to the forces that John Dean is now talking about--the destruction of democracy and the slide into facism. And taking the planet with it, this time.

this for such a long time, and Clinton could have given him the green light to make this one to the American people over 10 yrs ago. In fact, Clinton could have used it as part of a strong policy proposal for his administration.

He could be fishing back on his farm in Tennessee, but instead criss-crosses the country making the presentation seen in the film. I wonder how he feels about what was - and wasn't - done during the Clinton years.

of Clinton's really turned into stinkers for this country and the world. Once he and then Kerry went out on the campaign trail they started to hear a whole other story from what the DC media and the Dem party consultants were saying.

That is a heavy education for any potential candidate to have to learn - especially when you are not gifted with the corporate media protection that your GOP oppnent gets without lifting a finger.

During the first Clinton/Gore campaign I was sure they would do all kinds of great things for the environment. I don't know whether that was based on what they said, or on what I imagined after reading Gore's EARTH IN THE BALANCE - but, if not Clinton/Gore, who WILL put all the rhetoric into action???

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the second time. I also liked being able to 'watch' the movie and not be so focused on trying to absorb the science.

My 16 yo neice told me she couldn't stop thinking about it.

The next time I see it it's going to be a DVD.
It's a flick worth owning.

Sometime during the Clinton administration, I heard a story that Gore had given the talk at some posh East Coast gathering. Apparently Cokie Roberts (I'm pretty sure it was her) was exclaiming over the fact that he had brought a flip-chart to the party, and had stood on a chair during the presentation. The story makes a lot more sense now, since I'll bet it was an early version of the scene where he uses the hydraulic lift to point out the projected CO2 level later this century!

The waiting list to read the book, at my local library, is now more than 50 people long. I donated a couple of extra copies, and at this rate they will make it through cataloguing before the ones they'd ordered show up (a local bookseller said she had to go to 3 different distributors to get enough for her store alone, so there may some backlogs in the supply chain!). I also hope to give them the DVD, once it's released, so more people will be able to see it. I'm thinking of getting them National Geographic's "Strange Days on Planet Earth" as well, just to tide them over (and get some interest going) until the home version of "An Inconvenient Truth" comes out. I gave them "The Corporation", "Darwin's Nightmare", and the Wal-Mart movie a while back, and apparently those DVDs have been either in circulation or on hold continuously since then.

It's better with each viewing - no doubt about it.

It's a rare film I'll go see twice, but this is one of them, and I'm so glad I did. Once I had the "big picture," so to speak from the first time, I was able to really sit back and absorb a heck of a lot more the 2nd time. And while my admiration for Mr. Gore has been steadfast over the years, I walked out of the 2nd viewing just blown away by him.

I commented to my brother after the 2nd show it was apparent that the energy lobby had Gore's number years ago, and knew he was dead serious with this stuff far earlier than most folks realized, and they were going to be damned if he became president in 2000. Not that I'm enlightening anyone with that thought on this board, I know!! I guess I still feel pretty ill over it.

Bumpersticker I saw in DC yesterday:

"W. Once with Fraud, Once with Fear"

Doesn't that say it all?

Both times I was totally engrossed from the first minute. This one is going into my DVD collection as soon as it's available.

and was VERY impressed...