The Inconvinient Truth

So, I finally watched the new Al Gore movie/documentary, An Inconvinient Truth. I have to say that even three days after watching it, the images of the ice bergs melting and the billowing smoke from industrial exhausts continues haunt me . . .

Here are my main thoughts about the movie/documentary:

1) Even though I found the flashbacks about Al Gore's life in the movie interesting, I did find them distracting during the presentation about global warming. Also, they left me with a lot of unanswered questions while I was watching the movie like: What happened to his son? (he survived, btw) and Why did Al Gore live in Washington and only spend his summers in the farm? (because his father was a senator of course), etc.

2) In general, I found his argument about global warming pretty convincing but he was essentially preaching to the choir. I have been pretty convinced that Mother Nature has gone berserk for some time with all these tsunamis, hurricanes and really hot summers. However, I have to say I was irked to find no scale on the y-axis on the CO2 graph that was shown and other potentially misleading graphs (groan) . . .

3) Even though I am convinced of the problem, unlike some other people, I have a hard time finding meaningful ways of solving it. After all, the environment is pretty fragile and influenced by forces greater than myself. As a result, I feel that Al Gore left me stranded with this feeling of impending doom with very little guidance on how to save the world.

I don't mean to sound too critical because it was a good production overall and should give people something think about (and facilitate a real change in attitudes about climate change). And who knows? It might even motivate me to cut down on my hot showers . . .