"An Inconvenient Truth" comes out on DVD today!

[doublethink]

Al Gore's movie on Global Warming, just wanted to give a heads up, definitely recommended ... http://www.climatecrisis.net/

[Roland99]

1. I just picked it up at a local Blockbuster. Didn't know it was out!

Saw it on the shelf and went, "Schwing!!" :D

[doublethink]

4. I'm gonna make my whole family watch it after football on Thanksgiving!

.... okay maybe friday, but they aren't getting out of town without watching it. :)

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Oooo, I should pick up a copy for my sister to take to the...

family reunion in the North Georgia mountains. I've got some fundies on the tree that could use a little edjumacating.

[doublethink]

10. I'm kinda wondering if Al Gore purposely had it come out ....

right before a bunch of family gatherings on Thanksgiving? Well I'm taking advantage of the timing anyway. Yea edjumacate um! ;) Peace.

[NYCGirl]

11. Probably not, but it makes a GREAT Christmas gift!

:hi:

[doublethink]

13. Great minds think alike!

:bounce: :hi:

[NYCGirl]

22. Also a fine gift for Chanukah or Kwanzaa!

:hi:

[doublethink]

28. Then there's Valentines day in Feb .....

what did we miss between now and then? A lot of birthdays and such too huh ... :)

[Roland99]

24. That's a good idea! (if I don't end up going in to work)

[Beelzebud]

2. I don't believe that so-called "lasers" can read "data" from a "plastic" disk!!

:evilgrin:

Can't wait to get a copy.

I didn't need this movie for me to know global warming was real though. It's just a matter of science at this point. To deny global warming is real, and that we are having an effect on it, is to deny that lasers can read data from plastic disks. :)

[doublethink]

5. .........

:thumbsup:

[NYCGirl]

3. Thanks for the reminder! K&R

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. My church had a screening of it on Saturday morning. Phenomenal!

I took my 9 year old son to see it. He hasn't stopped talking about it.

[doublethink]

8. Awesome! n.t.

[Patiod]

9. Going to be included in select copies of "The New Yorker"

going to be included in copies sent to select (150,000) "influencers".

I'm probably not an "influencer".

[doublethink]

12. Wow, that's good to hear !

Hey I'm not a major 'influencer' either so I'll be paying for my copies too but what the hey. :shrug: :)

[Patiod]

14. I agree - if it leads a few "influencers" to see the movie

Good on them

I'm already on board!

[Auggie]

15. My dad despises Al Gore -- but I sent it to him anyway through NetFlix

[doublethink]

21. Good for you ........

this subject goes beyond all our politics, and I'm sure you've told your dad that. Peace. :thumbsup:

[Lisa]

43. true -- there are plenty of Republicans who are onside

McCain, Warner -- and I very much doubt that the hundreds of scientists who now report on global warming and are trying to develop ways of tackling it, are ALL Democrats.

[TommyO]

16. Thanks for the reminder!

I need to return something to Target, so I'll probably grab it there (and probably for a decent price too).

I'll also add it to the family holiday viewing, along with Kill Bill 1 and 2 (brother hasn't seen them yet).

[NYCGirl]

17. Do you know there's a connection between "Kill Bill" and "An Inconvenient

Truth"?

Lawrence Bender (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004744/) was a producer on BOTH films!

[blm]

18. Please purchase extra copies to DONATE to your local library.

Thanks.

[RestoreGore]

19. I agree

And your local schools, rotary clubs, churches, and government offices. Hopefully it will inspire more people to actually get out of their seats and take action like Al Gore and others are doing, which is the point of the movie.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2773965&mesg_id=2773965

[Lisa]

44. ditto!

From what I've heard, there are already wait-lists building up at the libraries (>80 people in my city alone).

[ComerPerro]

20. Definately gonna have to get it, I finally saw it last week

[doublethink]

29. ..........

:thumbsup:

[NYCGirl]

23. KICK.

[survivor999]

25. It's funny. After reading this speech

By Michael Crichton, I've become more skeptical about the whole global warming biz. If you have the time, please read his speech here (the first on the list) and tell us what you think (please, avoid flames, the guy has good, reasoned points that require rational responses).

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/index.html


For his remarkable bio, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chrichton

[NYCGirl]

27. Hey, if it's good enough for John Stossel, it's good enough for us, right?

:sarcasm:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200412170002

ABC News 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel used a report on novelist Michael Crichton's new book, State of Fear (HarperCollins, December 2004), to promote Crichton's view that global warming is "just another foolish media-hyped scare." In the 11-minute segment, Stossel did not present the opposing view, even though the summary of a 2001 National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by the Bush administration began: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise."

Stossel started his December 10 20/20 report by casting Crichton as a brave iconoclast for "contradicting something most people believe and fear" and those concerned about global warming as gullible pawns of Hollywood and environmentalists. Stossel showed a clip of a supposedly typical woman on the street saying of global warming: "I'm thinking it's like the end of the world. I don't know." Stossel cut in: "She got her information from this recent movie The Day After Tomorrow. This movie was mocked by scientists, but serious people are worried." While scientists found the events depicted in The Day After Tomorrow -- a nightmare scenario in which global warming causes severe and sudden weather that ravages North America -- to be implausible, as the Associated Press reported, many embraced it as an opportunity to increase awareness about global warming. And "serious people" -- including scientists -- were worried about global warming long before the film was produced.

Stossel depicted skepticism about global warming as a viable response to respectable scientific research and opinion. He explained: "Crichton was once worried ... but then he spent three years researching global warming. And now, he's concluded it's just another foolish media-hyped scare. And many climate scientists agree with him." In fact, while some scientists agree with Crichton, many more believe that global warming is very real and a cause for legitimate concern. In addition to the National Academy of Sciences study, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 1996: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." A 2001 IPCC report recalled this earlier finding before noting: "Three of the five years (1995, 1996, and 1998) added to the instrumental record since the SAR are the warmest in the instrumental record of global temperatures, consistent with the expectation that increases in greenhouse gases will lead to continued long-term warming."

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change website notes: "The scientific community has reached a strong consensus regarding the science of global climate change. The world is undoubtedly warming. This warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities." And in a statement on Crichton's book, the Union of Concerned Scientists declared: "here is a very strong consensus among the vast majority of climate scientists that global warming is under way and human activity is a primary cause."

[gully]

31. Polar bears

beg to differ Mr. Crichton, as do most of the worlds actual climate scientists.

Good, reasoned points? I don't think so, but here is a "critical" response or two from those who are authorities on the matter in "question."

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=76

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story12-13-04b.html

[Roland99]

33. 928 Peer-Reviewed articles were studied. Not one disagreed with the consensus on Global Warming.

NOT ONE.


The "dissent" is purely fabricated by the right-wing spin machine.

[ComerPerro]

35. He is a hack. I stopped reading or caring when he got to the point

where he claimed the Chernobyl death toll was just fifty.

That was a study of confirmed and traced deaths by the IAEA. Not that they would have any motivations to downplay the death total.


Its just one claim among many, and just about every other report I could find disputes the IAEA's findings, even though they disagreed with one another on the death toll and the methodology. The common thread was that they completely discredited the IAEA.


His entire argument is based on an unproven assertion from one source only.

Why, again, should I care what he has to say?

[MoseyWalker]

36. You're a funny guy

i think?

[ComerPerro]

38. in what way is what I said funny? I am serious.

[applegrove]

26. Thanks forthe heads up! n/t

[gully]

30. Just bought a copy today.

:toast:

[Roland99]

32. Just finished watching it. RENT IT NOW! BUY IT NOW! WATCH IT NOW!

RENT IT NOW! BUY IT NOW! WATCH IT NOW!

SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE NOW!!

[MoseyWalker]

34. I live in a small, western, mostly repug town

we have two video stores.

I went to one 15 minutes after it opened, and every copy they had was already gone.

I went to the other store, which opens later, and got the very last copy they had gotten in.

This is great!

I'll be watching in just a few minutes!

[ComerPerro]

39. enjoy it. Its really well done. And Al Gore is fantastic in it

[MzNov]

37. Horraaaaaay thank you nt

[Subdivisions]

40. I didn't know it was out already...going to get it right now. BBS.

[Subdivisions]

46. I'm back! Got it! Wal-Mart was my only choice (since they

ran every other store out of town).

I got there and there were four slots for An Inconvenient Truth. They were all empty. I asked an associate to check to see if they had any in stock. They didn't. However, it seems that Wal-Mart was offering a special which happens to include a copy of the DVD along with a energy-saving flouresent Phillips Marathon 40 decorative twister lightbulb for free. I didn't notice before, but the associate looked down on the bottom shelf and, lo and behold, there was the special DVD/Lightbulb pack!

I'll be in business just as soon as the s/o is done watching the American Music Awards on the big screen.

[doublethink]

54. Good to hear ya got a copy ......

and enjoy the free lightbulb too! ;) ..... seriously show it to everyone you know! The movie, not the lightbulb! Peace. :hi:

[Earth_First]

41. I picked up the book and the dvd for my reforming GOP father

He admitted to me about a month ago that he "might be all turned around on this global warming thing."

This, the same man who has been voting GOP party line since as long as I can remember, the SAME man who cast 4 ballot votes for the first time EVER for Democratic candidates, including a Democratic governor in New York.

[Lisa]

42. okay -- the big video store downtown is now sold out, as of mid-afternoon

There were 2 copies on the shelf -- the documentary section guy said, "No we haven't got any more." He looked kind of stunned. (So this is really going to send a message -- people ARE interested in this kind of thing!) I gathered that there's been a steady stream of buyers all day. (I snagged both copies ... one of them's going to the public library, so I don't feel like I'm being too greedy ... their wait-list is already >80 people long.)

I especially like the low-impact packaging (cardboard holder).

[Roland99]

45. Another KICK! The graphs he employed in his presentations.... WOW!

[NYCGirl]

47. Best "Power Point" presentation ever! (Actually, it was not really Power Point.

It's the great Mac application, Keynote.)

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2006/05/inconvenienttruth/

[Roland99]

52. I want that screen he used!

:D

[Not Sure]

48. My wife and I kept searching for it

on the shelves at the video store for weeks, since seeing the ads at the beginning of other films we've rented recently. It wasn't until last week I found out it was due to come out today. So, I made it a point to stop by and pick it up after work. We both sat there riveted during the whole film.

In fact, one of our friends came over (whose husband is a over-the-top pro-corporate type) to check it out. She sits on the fence enough she might come to our side on this, but her husband will probably scrub those ideas from her brain pretty quickly. Still, the possibility exists she'll be one of several of our friends who can help spread this film like a virus. And that's the only kind of advertising you can do in this red, red town.

I may just have to incur a late fee on this 2-day rental, because I'm thinking I should watch it again!

[jgraz]

49. Woohoo!! I've had one on pre-order for my fundie brother

I've offered him $1000 for every factual error he can point out.

[shadowknows69]

50. I don't think I'm going to watch it

I'll probably buy it as a gift. I pretty much believe that we are fuked environmentally and scaring the shit out of myself about it more isn't goint to change much.

[Lisa]

51. stay tuned for the next film ...

Apparently Clinton's been pressuring Gore to do a sequel ... and indeed he's putting out a book in the spring, so it could well happen. It would take up from where AIT left off, and demonstrate the types of solutions that are available. (He does start getting into this at the end of the movie, and talks about the kinds of problems we've solved in the past, and where we could go from here.)

[NYCGirl]

53. The book that is being released in the spring is NOT about climate change;

it's called "The Assault on Reason". From the Washington Post:

Although saying he has no plans to run for president in 2008, former vice president Al Gore has nonetheless left the door ever so slightly ajar. It's a good bet that door will swing open a good bit wider come next May.

That is when Gore is scheduled to publish his next book. With no fanfare, he signed a few weeks ago with Penguin Press to write "The Assault on Reason."

As described by editor Scott Moyers, the book is a meditation on how "the public arena has grown more hostile to reason," and how solving problems such as global warming is impeded by a political culture with a pervasive "unwillingness to let facts drive decisions."

While that may sound abstract, both the subject matter and the timing of the release have an unmistakable subtext. In 2004, Gore cheered liberals when he lashed at President Bush for allegedly falling captive to right-wing special interests and taking flight from "fact-based analysis." If the book strikes a chord, it will produce new momentum for Gore to make another bid for the White House, presumably fueled in large part by anti-Iraq-war Democrats.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600877.html

[Lisa]

56. okay, thanks for the correction ...

The description seems to be more in the science/policy area, but -- I wouldn't be surprised if there will likely still be a significant climate change component in the book, since he's used it as an example of the disconnect between the "reality-based community" (as Suskind's quote described it) and policy. Not just in Bush's administration, but a bunch of different contexts. After all, dealing with barriers to implementation (why aren't we doing some of this stuff already, and why did we actually stop acting on some of the steps outlined in the "stabilization wedge" diagram shown by Gore) is the logical next step to actually changing course. The article does mention "solving problems such as global warming".

Of course, Gore seldom writes about just one topic, anyway -- which is something I like about his style. He's so well-versed in many different fields (science, history, art, government, etc.).

[earth mom]

55. I'm first on the list for it at the library...

:woohoo:

I don't usually buy dvds except for animated dvds for my kid-we just have too much clutter and lots of books as it is-but I may send a copy or two to some family members on my hubbys side. :evilgrin: