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<H1><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>An Inconvenient Truth</FONT></H1>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000>The film eloquently weaves
the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal story and lifelong
commitment to stop global warming. A rallying cry for action<SPAN
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<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><SPAN class=951295700-08062006>It took
me 10 minutes to see the 2 minute 30 second trailer because of all the traffic,
but the second time it played right through. See the trailer and you won't want
to miss the movie.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Trailer (2:30)<SPAN
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PG<BR><IMG hspace=4 src="http://209.132.218.23/sgw/assets/inconvenienttruth.jpg"
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<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000>R<SPAN
class=951295700-08062006>EVIEWS by Rachel Giese (CBC) and Roger
Ebert</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><IMG height=234
alt="Al Gore addresses the effects of global warming in An Inconvenient Truth. Photo Eric Lee. Courtesy Paramount Classics."
src="http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/pics/Inconvenient1.jpg"
width=396><BR><SPAN class=caption>Al Gore addresses the effects of global
warming in An Inconvenient Truth. Photo Eric Lee. Courtesy Paramount
Classics.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the beginning of the new documentary <EM>An
Inconvenient Truth</EM>, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore introduces
himself as the man “who used to be the next president of the United
States.” It’s funny to a point, then not so much, because it’s a reminder
of what might have been. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>But don’t cry for Al Gore, people. He has moved
on. Of the nail-biting conclusion to the 2000 election, Gore says with
typical understatement, “well, that was a hard blow. What do you do? You
make the best of it.” And for Gore, that meant returning to the issue
that’s obsessed him since college: global warming. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>For the past few years, he’s been touring the
world with a surprisingly engaging slide-show talk on the subject — how it
works, what causes it and its very real, very dire consequences. Along the
way, he caught the attention of </FONT><A
href="http://www.lauriedavid.com/" target=_blank><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2>Laurie David</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>, the
high profile Hollywood environmentalist who is married to <EM>Curb Your
Enthusiasm</EM>’s Larry David. She helped persuade Gore to participate in
the documentary, signing on as a producer and bringing in TV veteran
(<EM>Deadwood</EM>) Davis Guggenheim to direct. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gore estimates he’s given the presentation a
thousand times. After failing to get the message out while in public life,
he says he knows of no other way to educate the mainstream, but “person by
person, family by family.” The show is an impressive affair. Backed by a
slick presentation of graphs and charts and corny animation — including a
woeful polar bear drowning when it can’t find a purchase on melting ice
floes — Gore seriously but amiably sets out the crisis. Rising
carbon-dioxide emissions have raised temperatures around world, triggering
a complicated series of problems, ranging from melting glaciers, to
increased hurricane and tornado activity, to drought and flooding. These
phenomena, in turn, have exacerbated political, ethnic and class tensions
in places including drought-stricken </FONT><A
href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/07/27/niger050727.html"><FONT
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Niger</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>
and </FONT><A href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sudan/darfur.html"
target=_blank><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Darfur</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2>, and, closer to home, in the poor black neighbourhoods
of </FONT><A
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/katrina/katrina_timeline.html"
target=_blank><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>New
Orleans</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the planet continues to warm up, rising sea
levels from the melting ice of Greenland and Antarctica will, within in
the next few decades, engulf large coastal cities, displacing millions of
people. Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai and most of Lower Manhattan will be
under water, Gore says, as a computer image shows the flooding of the
World Trade Center memorial site. “Is it possible,” Gore asks in his one
brief moment of petulance, “that we should guard against other threats
besides terrorists?”</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Still, for Gore this is “not a political issue,
but a moral one.” Trouble is, in America, morality and politics are
increasingly intertwined. When the religious right continues to amp up its
battle against the teaching of science in schools, how sympathetic will it
be to scientific findings about carbon-dioxide levels that date back
650,000 years? In some quarters, suggesting the Earth is that old is akin
to proposing that we evolved from primates. So it’s no surprise that
naysayers have written off global warming as an unproven “theory” and
dismissed Gore as tree-hugging alarmist. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><IMG height=234
alt="Gore with scientists in China. Photo Eric Lee. Courtesy Paramount Classics."
src="http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/pics/Inconvenient2.jpg"
width=396><BR><SPAN class=caption>Gore with scientists in China. Photo
Eric Lee. Courtesy Paramount Classics.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yet in <EM>An Inconvenient Truth</EM>, Gore
comes off as the avuncular voice of reason. In this thoughtful and tightly
paced doc, Gore makes the complicated science of global warming accessible
for a lay audience. Gore notes that the upward trend of carbon-dioxide
emissions and temperatures are currently off the charts, wildly beyond the
normal flux. He goes on to explain that in more than 900 peer-reviewed
studies in credible science journals, not one has challenged the idea of
global warming. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, most average folks wouldn’t know that.
In the popular press, 53 per cent of articles about global warming have
presented it as a controversial idea. Gore points out that scientists have
been cowed into silence by the current administration; specifically,
there’s the case of </FONT><A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?ei=5090&en=22149dc70c0731d8&ex=1275883200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss"
target=_blank><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Philip
Cooney</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>, a former environmental adviser
to U.S. President George W. Bush (though he had no scientific background
or expertise in the field) who edited a report on global warming by
government scientists to play down their findings. When his tampering was
exposed, Cooney resigned and promptly took a position at ExxonMobil.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>While Gore has been </FONT><A
href="http://www.newyorkmagazine.com/news/politics/17065/index.html"
target=_blank><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>coy</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2> about running in 2008, this hagiographic portrayal by
director Guggenheim completes Gore’s transformation from also-ran to
eco-hunk. Interspersed with scenes of the lecture are Gore’s thoughts on
life in and out of politics (including his poignant memories of nearly
losing his young son after he was hit by a car, and his grief over the
lung cancer death of his older sister), scenes of him revisiting his
childhood home and a pointed montage of the controversial 2000 election
results. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>If Bush’s image machine has him in ever more
butch poses — clearing brush in a cowboy hat, strolling the deck of an
aircraft carrier in a </FONT><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:20030501-15_d050103-2-664v.jpg"
target=_blank><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>crotch-enhancing
flight suit</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> — then Guggenheim depicts
Gore as the warrior of the laptop. He’s seen typing on planes, in deserted
hotel coffee shops and in the back of town cars, occasionally staring
pensively into the distance. It may not be as virile, but the way in which
the doc contrasts the former political rivals is deliberately stark. On
one side is grinning, heckuva job, good ole boy George W. Bush; on the
other is wise, hard-working elder statesman Al Gore.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since 2000, Gore has gained a few distinguished
pounds around his middle and, more notably, a sense of humour. He’s a
terrific lecturer, in the style of a keen academic rather than a slick
politician. His speech has the patness of repetition, but that doesn’t
dampen his genuine passion. Gone is the stuffed shirt, scolding pedantry
that made him the smart but unlikable presidential candidate of 2000.
Here, he’s confident, worldly and charming — a geeky, but beloved
professor. Even his voice has mellowed into the honeyed drawl of his
Tennessee roots. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Without the handlers and consultants and the
pressure of appealing to soccer moms and NASCAR dads, Gore is finally free
to speak his mind. Paradoxically, he now seems all the more presidential.
His talk ends with a rousing call to arms — he cites the abolishment of
slavery, female suffrage, the civil rights movement, the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid as examples of the tremendous
achievements of a united global community. For sheer inspiration, it comes
close to rivaling JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you”
inauguration speech. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>According to Gore, the knowledge and technology
exist to slow and even reverse the damage of global warming. The only
thing lacking is political will. But, Gore adds, “political will is a
renewable resource.” </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Spoken like a true candidate. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>An Inconvenient Truth <EM>opens June 2
across the country.</EM></FONT></FONT></P><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Arial><EM>Rachel Giese writes about the arts for CBC.ca.</EM>
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Inconvenient Truth </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>BY ROGER EBERT / June 2, 2006 </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Cast & Credits<BR>Paramount
Classics presents a documentary featuring Al Gore. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG (for mild thematic elements). </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I want to write this review so every
reader will begin it and finish it. I am a liberal, but I do not intend this as
a review reflecting any kind of politics. It reflects the truth as I understand
it, and it represents, I believe, agreement among the world's experts. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Global warming is real. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>It is caused by human activity. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Mankind and its governments must begin
immediate action to halt and reverse it. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>If we do nothing, in about 10 years the
planet may reach a "tipping point" and begin a slide toward destruction of our
civilization and most of the other species on this planet. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>After that point is reached, it would
be too late for any action. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>These facts are stated by Al Gore in
the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Forget he ever ran for office. Consider
him a concerned man speaking out on the approaching crisis. "There is no
controversy about these facts," he says in the film. "Out of 925 recent articles
in peer-review scientific journals about global warming, there was no
disagreement. Zero." </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>He stands on a stage before a vast
screen, in front of an audience. The documentary is based on a speech he has
been developing for six years, and is supported by dramatic visuals. He shows
the famous photograph "Earthrise," taken from space by the first American
astronauts. Then he shows a series of later space photographs, clearly
indicating that glaciers and lakes are shrinking, snows are melting, shorelines
are retreating. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>He provides statistics: The 10 warmest
years in history were in the last 14 years. Last year South America experienced
its first hurricane. Japan and the Pacific are setting records for typhoons.
Hurricane Katrina passed over Florida, doubled back over the Gulf, picked up
strength from unusually warm Gulf waters, and went from Category 3 to Category
5. There are changes in the Gulf Stream and the jet stream. Cores of polar ice
show that carbon dioxide is much, much higher than ever before in a quarter of a
million years. It was once thought that such things went in cycles. Gore stands
in front of a graph showing the ups and downs of carbon dioxide over the
centuries. Yes, there is a cyclical pattern. Then, in recent years, the graph
turns up and keeps going up, higher and higher, off the chart. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The primary man-made cause of global
warming is the burning of fossil fuels. We are taking energy stored over
hundreds of millions of years in the form of coal, gas and oil, and releasing it
suddenly. This causes global warming, and there is a pass-along effect. Since
glaciers and snow reflect sunlight but sea water absorbs it, the more the ice
melts, the more of the sun's energy is retained by the sea. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Gore says that although there is "100
percent agreement" among scientists, a database search of newspaper and magazine
articles shows that 57 percent question the fact of global warming, while 43
percent support it. These figures are the result, he says, of a disinformation
campaign started in the 1990s by the energy industries to "reposition global
warming as a debate." It is the same strategy used for years by the defenders of
tobacco. My father was a Luckys smoker who died of lung cancer in 1960, and 20
years later it was still "debatable" that there was a link between smoking and
lung cancer. Now we are talking about the death of the future, starting in the
lives of those now living. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>"The world won't 'end' overnight in 10
years," Gore says. "But a point will have been passed, and there will be an
irreversible slide into destruction." </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>In England, Sir James Lovelock, the
scientist who proposed the Gaia hypothesis (that the planet functions like a
living organism), has published a new book saying that in 100 years mankind will
be reduced to "a few breeding couples at the Poles." Gore thinks "that's too
pessimistic. We can turn this around just as we reversed the hole in the ozone
layer. But it takes action right now, and politicians in every nation must have
the courage to do what is necessary. It is not a political issue. It is a moral
issue." </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>When I said I was going to a press
screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," a friend said, "Al Gore talking about the
environment! Bor...ing!" This is not a boring film. The director, Davis
Guggenheim, uses words, images and Gore's concise litany of facts to build a
film that is fascinating and relentless. In 39 years, I have never written these
words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this
film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why
you decided not to. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Am I acting as an advocate in this
review? Yes, I am. I believe that to be "impartial" and "balanced" on global
warming means one must take a position like Gore's. There is no other view that
can be defended. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment
Committee, has said, "Global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on
the American people." I hope he takes his job seriously enough to see this film.
I think he has a responsibility to do that. </FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>What can we do? Switch to and encourage
the development of alternative energy sources: Solar, wind, tidal, and, yes,
nuclear. Move quickly toward hybrid and electric cars. Pour money into public
transit, and subsidize the fares. Save energy in our houses. I did a funny thing
when I came home after seeing "An Inconvenient Truth." I went around the house
turning off the lights.
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