Ebert gives major thumbs up to Gore's film
Roger Ebert gives a glowing review to An Inconvenient Truth, the new film about global warming featuring Al Gore.
Ebert, who usually eschews advocacy in his writing, says:
Global warming is real.
It is caused by human activity.
Mankind and its governments must begin immediate action to halt and reverse it.
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
The rest you can read for yourself at Ebert's site: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/REVIEWS/60517002
I will most probably see the fim; however, I am not as convinced as Ebert that global warming is man made.
I am familiar with all of the science, so please don't start emailing it to me. I am simply not one to accept cultural truisms without some skepticism. For instance, global climate and temperature records only go back to the mid-19th century. Is that really enough time to see long term patterns?
What if those patterns last thousands of years? What if we simply have the misfortune of living on Earth during a warming trend?
Geologists have told us that the Earth goes through regular warming and cooling trends, which influcence the advent of ice ages and tropical periods. Civilization was not around the last time we had an ice age; man was a primitive hominid who had no affect on the Earth's climate then.
So even if gas emissions have some effect, I think it's a bit presumtuous and even a bit hubristic to blame global warming on us.
Still, all signs point to the film being excellent. Check out Rotten Tomatoes review page here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?critic=columns
Ebert, who usually eschews advocacy in his writing, says:
Global warming is real.
It is caused by human activity.
Mankind and its governments must begin immediate action to halt and reverse it.
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
The rest you can read for yourself at Ebert's site: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/REVIEWS/60517002
I will most probably see the fim; however, I am not as convinced as Ebert that global warming is man made.
I am familiar with all of the science, so please don't start emailing it to me. I am simply not one to accept cultural truisms without some skepticism. For instance, global climate and temperature records only go back to the mid-19th century. Is that really enough time to see long term patterns?
What if those patterns last thousands of years? What if we simply have the misfortune of living on Earth during a warming trend?
Geologists have told us that the Earth goes through regular warming and cooling trends, which influcence the advent of ice ages and tropical periods. Civilization was not around the last time we had an ice age; man was a primitive hominid who had no affect on the Earth's climate then.
So even if gas emissions have some effect, I think it's a bit presumtuous and even a bit hubristic to blame global warming on us.
Still, all signs point to the film being excellent. Check out Rotten Tomatoes review page here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?critic=columns
True this could be part of the earth's cycle, but that does not detract from the very real effect that post-industrial revolution humans have had on the planet. Peking Man certainly did not have to endure the smog and poor air quality in modern day Beijing nor the polluted rivers nor the spring sand storms that come with the disappearing of arable land and expansion of the deserts in China due to human development.
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