Global Warming: an Inconvenient Truth

Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so" (Mark Twain). Humanity is a ticking time bomb and the likely-hood of it going off in our generation is slim, however it's projected to go off in our children's generation. We have just ten years to prevent a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of monstrous destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. This would be a catastrophe we created with our own hands, if the majority of scientists are right.

If that sounds like a recipe for disaster - think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, "An Inconvenient Truth," which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming, while revealing at the same time that the same humans who are creating it can turn their actions around and prevent it. That ambitious man is former Vice President Al Gore, who re-set the course of his life to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change, after losing the 2000 election. In this eye-opening and emotional portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore is also funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the ugly truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to everyday citizens before it's too late.

We are a large contributor, as Americans, to the problem at hand. The worst storm season in 2005 that America has experienced is just behind us, but it appears that we may be reaching a tipping point. Gore is extremely blunt in explaining the dreadful situation. "Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive...