Great reviews for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth

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Posted on May 23, 2006
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Fossil fuel dependency, Earth spirituality

Today from Margaret Swedish:

Great reveiw for Al Gore's book on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, in today's NY Times.  The reviewer writes:

"…as a user-friendly introduction to global warming and a succinct summary of many of the central arguments laid out in …other volumes, An Inconvenient Truth, is lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective."

The film version opens this week, of course.  Andrew Revkin, NY Times writer on climate issues, wrote glowingly yesterday about the film and about Gore's campaign to take his message around the country.

President Bush has weighed in on the hype around the film's opening.  Asked in an AP interview if he intended to see the film, Bush responded: "Doubt it."

Said our president, ''New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment,'' Bush said. ''And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects and focus on the technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment.''

Set aside whether or not greenhouse gases are caused by human activity [sic: mankind]?  Does he read any science reports at all, even from his own government agencies?  So it's all just a matter of finding something else to put in our cars.  That's the word from the Oval Office. 

Well, Gore had something to say in response, also from the AP article:  ''Why should we set aside the global scientific consensus,'' Gore said, his voice rising with emotion. ''Is it because Exxon Mobil wants us to set it aside? Why should we set aside the conclusion of scientists in the United States, including the National Academy of Sciences, and around the world including the 11 most important national academies of science on the globe and substitute for their view the view of Exxon Mobil. Why?''

''I'm a grandfather and he's a father and this should not be a political issue,'' Gore said. ''And he should ask the National Academy of Sciences … whether or not human beings are contributing to global warming.''

Too bad Gore gave up his fight for the Florida vote in 2000.

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