From Ebert's review of An Inconvenient Truth:
Global warming is real, and unless it is reversed, the planet will pass a "tipping point" in about 10 years and start a slide into the destruction of civilization. ... This documentary...[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.
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.
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.
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.
And Andrew Tobias:
I’ve gotten a lot of very smart people emailing me to debunk the movie. To each, I always answer: have you seen it? And in each case the answer has been: no.
The feeling of many ... is that so long as there is some chance we are not doomed, we should not act. ...
But the feeling of most who go see the movie is that everybody else ought to see the movie.
The feeling of many ... is that so long as there is some chance we are not doomed, we should not act. ...
But the feeling of most who go see the movie is that everybody else ought to see the movie.
3 comments:
Russ, I've approved your comment (thereby making an exception to my moratorium on movie criticisms from people who haven't seen it) because I want to ask you a question.
You have great respect for your colleague and co-SESF board member George Rebane. So far he's been silent on global warming, although I've asked him (and you) what his views are on this issue, numerous times.
(I believe you've said you don't know what he thinks; I really wish you would ask him.)
Russ, a thought experiment - if it were to come out that George Rebane did consider anthropogenic global warming to be a serious (and real) threat, would that shake your views on global warming, your respect for George, or both? (or neither?)
(At this point let's consider this scenario to be purely hypothetical)
(correction to background of the above Q. - Russ hadn't said he didn't know George's views, instead he'd said (here) that he thought they both were in agreement, but would let George answer for himself)
Russ, you submitted a comment on this post this morning but it didn't answer - or even reference - the "thought experiment" question I asked you here last night.
Still waiting/hoping for
a) an answer from you
and
b) a position from George.
Also,
c) I have an additional question for you - what will you say to your grandchildren, if it turns out that the climatologists were right and you were wrong?
(btw, even Frank Luntz now believes in anthropogenic global warming.)
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