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Critics Blast Al Gore’s Documentary As ‘Realistic’
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The Al Gore-produced global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth is being panned by critics nationwide who claim the 90-plus minute environmental film is “too disturbingly realistic and well-researched to enjoy.” “I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief in man-made climate change for the first half-hour—and utterly impossible after that—which makes for a movie-going experience that’s far more educational than it is enjoyable,” said New York Post film critic Skip Hack. “Gore’s film overwhelms viewers with staggering amounts of scientific information until nothing about global warming is left to the imagination, and that’s just not good entertainment. Two stars.” Some critics have called the film’s claims that sea levels could rise 20 feet somewhat sensationalistic, although most agree that this is not enough to save the film from being unwatchably factual.
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I’m an old school conservative and it’s outlandish statements like this that give all of us a bad repuation. Clearly the film is being praised nationwide while you’re highlighting a critic that is being paid by Rupert Murdoch. For the truth, go to:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/
It’s a gag from the Onion. When in doubt, click the link.
The real gag is that Gore is able to pawn these theories off as proven facts. He’s about as credible a source on global warming as Michael Moore is on Iraq…
Jericho – are you saying that you do not believe global warming due to man made influences is real?
I’m saying it’s a theory, which is what it is – it’s not a proven fact. It has however become a sort of fundamentalist religion of the left – dare to question Man’s Global Warming and you are damned for heresy. The earth has been going through rather significant heating and cooling cycles for as far back as the geologic record can be read. I don’t believe Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble were cruising around in SUVs at the end of the last Ice Age…
It’s interesting to see that well over 95% of climatologists agree the Earth is warming up. I’m sick of the debate wether mankind had any influence in creating that increase in temperature, because I don’t really care about the outcome of that debate. Wether we did or did not contribute to the warming is irrelevant. A far more interesting question, and one constantly being buried below the “liberal treehugger” vs “oil sucking SUV driver” name-calling, is wether mankind can actually do something about the warming, or if you want to, wether we should or not. I think we can, and I think we should. But then again, I have personally seen what the climate change in progress is doing to the coral reefs.
John – well said. Here is a dated, but relevant article: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/