An Inconvenient Truth

By: Lowell
Published On: 7/29/2006 9:37:55 PM

Check out the website, see the movie, and take action.  Vote for candidates who will protect our planet; vote against those who won't.  The ice caps are melting, the polar bears are drowning, the forests are dying, and the climate is going completely haywire. We have no time to lose, so act fast. Start by seeing Al Gore's amazing movie, and telling all your friends to do the same.  Thanks.


Lowell Feld is Netroots Coordinator for the Jim Webb for US Senate Campaign.  The ideas expressed here belong to Lowell Feld alone, and do not necessarily represent those of Jim Webb, his advisors, staff, or supporters.

Comments



Very good message (thegools - 7/29/2006 10:02:24 PM)
I saw this film a few weeks ago.  As a graduate student in biology/environmental science, I studied and was taught about everything Gore discusses in the movie.

In the press I have heard film's ideas referred to as Al Gore's "ideas."  This is greatly in error.  Gore only presents ideas that are heavily supported by hard data and widely accepted by the scientific world.

To attribute these ideas to a politician, is folly, by politicizing issues that are really not in dispute. (But then again WMD's were not so different were they.  Experts said they didn't exist in Iraq in 2002, yet some our Pres. et al. sowed the doubt about those assertions in order to create the justification for invasion....we all know the rest.)



Trying to sow doubt (Lowell - 7/30/2006 5:49:17 AM)
is one way the right wing ensures that no action is taken to deal with this grave threat to our futures.  Of course, since a large group of right-wingers actually believes in - even prays for - the end of the world (Armageddon), that's perfectly fine with them.  Then, we've got all the people who claim that the economy will be crushed if we do something about global warming.  That's nonsense; just look at our car companies bleeding red ink as they churn out gas guzzling SUVs, while Japanese automakers kick butt while turning out far more fuel efficient vehicles.

The bottom line is this:  we have everything we need RIGHT NOW to prevent catastrophe to our planet, but we have to act fast.  And that requires political will and LEADERSHIP, something the Bush Administration and Republican Congress are utterly incapable of providing.  That is why it is urgent and essential that we elect people who are committed to stopping global climate catastrophe.  As citizens of this country, we must DEMAND it from our representatives on every level.  We must also LIVE it in our day-to-day lives, in the purchases we make, in where (and how) we choose to live, etc.  If not, we're screwed, plain and simple. 



Another Inconvenient Truth (Rebecca - 7/29/2006 10:53:34 PM)
At risk of seeming out of the mainstream, I think the truth about 9-11 is another inconvenient truth.


A must see movie (Eric - 7/30/2006 12:15:49 PM)
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you haven't seen the movie go see it.  Even the Republicans and Gore haters should spend a few bucks and an hour and half.  It's not like going to see a Michael Moore movie.

It's not particularly political (although a few jabs are thrown in), it's not demanding, it's not hysterical, it's not heavy-handed.  Plain and simple, it's insirational and motivating.

You won't walk away angry, frustrated, scared, or upset.  Just motivated to do something about a very real problem that isn't going to go away on it's own.



Actually, I walked away (Lowell - 7/30/2006 12:41:04 PM)
VERY scared and VERY motivated to do something.


I felt the same way (Nick Stump - 7/30/2006 1:37:03 PM)
Terrifying movie, and very well done.  The science has been out there for a while, but to see it presented in such a concise way really brings this issue home. We missed a good chance with Gore.


Two facts on climate change (Kindler - 7/30/2006 3:36:17 PM)
Climate change is an immensely important issue, and history will compare George Bush and the Republicans with Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burns.  Except this time the whole world is burning.

There is no serious scientific debate left about the basics of climate change anymore.  Here are two quick facts to put this so-called "debate" in perspective:

1)  Climate change as a scientific theory is over a century old, first formulated by the Nobel Prize winning chemist Svante Arrhenius in 1896, and increasingly demonstrated to be true since then by a range of scientists using a variety of methods and tools. 

2) Pretty much the whole field of "climate change skepticism" is proven to have been bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industries -- especially Exxon Mobil, which has plowed over $8 million into the groups and individuals who advance this cause -- see "Some Like It Hot", Mother Jones, May/June 2005, www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html

So I hope that the Webb campaign comes out strong on climate change soon...



"The Great Warming" TONIGHT (David Campbell - 7/31/2006 4:08:34 PM)
"Congressman Robert C. 'Bobby' Scott (D-VA-03) will host a screening of the film "The Great Warming" at the Mills E. Godwin Student Center, Ballroom A, at Norfolk State University on Monday, July 31, 2006 at 6:30 p.m." (http://www.house.gov...)

I'll be there.  I hope Phil Kellam shows up.  He had "no opinion" on global warming at the last debate.

I also hope Bobby Scott will campaign for Phil Kellam and Jim Webb.