Added by Mlewk over 2 years ago in Books & DVDs
A great movie articulating the case for global warming.
An Inconvenient truth Reviews
05/28/2007
Great movie...you owe it to the world to see it...
03/12/2007
I have been a fan and supporter of Al Gore since reading "Earth in the Balance" in college. I admire the way he's able to bring this information to the general public in a way that's non-threatening and understandable. Global warming and sustainability aren't just issues for environmental "elitists" to ponder any longer. We all need to be concerned and involved.
11/02/2006
10/28/2006
10/27/2006
Gore does a great job presenting the various forms of overwhelming evidence for global warming and mankind's link to it, but he doesn't do it in a political or spiteful way. He shows global temperature and atmospheric carbon patterns, and he shows that our last 20 years have been the highest by a longshot over the previous 600,000 years. Frankly, before seeing the film, I'd heard a lot of information about global warming being a myth, but this film dispels that notion with many independent pieces of evidence.
Even more importantly, it goes to show why we should care that global warming is occurring. As you may have seen in the trailer, if global warming continues at its current rate, the earth's coastlines will be flooded displacing tens of millions of people, it will increase the strength and frequency of hurricanes and tornadoes, it will irrevocably kill off many of the worlds glaciers, it will dry up lands interior to the coastline (like our heartland), and it will disrupt/kill species after species from polar bears to birds. These changes could occur in as short a time as ten to fifty years from NOW.
Lastly, he finishes with ways in which we can affect a change. It would be easy to see this film, get depressed about all the state of affairs, and throw up one's hands in despair, but the film offers us ways, big and small, to help reverse global warming's effects right now. Fivelimes has been partly inspired by the material presented in the documentary.
Even more importantly, it goes to show why we should care that global warming is occurring. As you may have seen in the trailer, if global warming continues at its current rate, the earth's coastlines will be flooded displacing tens of millions of people, it will increase the strength and frequency of hurricanes and tornadoes, it will irrevocably kill off many of the worlds glaciers, it will dry up lands interior to the coastline (like our heartland), and it will disrupt/kill species after species from polar bears to birds. These changes could occur in as short a time as ten to fifty years from NOW.
Lastly, he finishes with ways in which we can affect a change. It would be easy to see this film, get depressed about all the state of affairs, and throw up one's hands in despair, but the film offers us ways, big and small, to help reverse global warming's effects right now. Fivelimes has been partly inspired by the material presented in the documentary.
10/27/2006
10/25/2006
A really good summary of the state of global warming. Perhaps a tad too long but overall it seems to be making a real impact with people unfamiliar with the coming catastrophe
10/25/2006
