[Grovenet] Roger Ebert (movie reviewer) on Al Gore's AnInconvenient Truth

[Steven]

Well, one thing the movie did was get Ebert to wake up.
"I did a funny thing when I came home after seeing "An Inconvenient Truth."
I went around the house turning off the lights. "
Something I've done for years.
Here's a quote from a NY Post review.
"Global warming hasn't noticed that we got the lead out of our gasoline or
that Stage One smog days in Los Angeles fell from 121 in 1977 to zero in
2004. All regulations and taxes to date have done nothing. Does this hint
that pollution isn't the cause? "

I find it funny to read movie reviewers turned political pundits. If one guy
has been wasting energy until June 2006 and the other doesn't want to
realize expanded uses of energy, maybe we should remind them to stick to
celluloid.

I don't think that WashDC is a solution to polution. So if the movie will
make more folks turn off their lights and think green, I'll say thank you
Al. Probably the best think he's done since inventing the internet. But if
it produces dumb legislation with no benefit, well yuk.

If the ozone hole was caused by flurocarbons, and solved by legislation,
look at the lag time. I wonder what the lag time is in global warming?

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http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/REVIEWS/6
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Ex-US Vice President Al Gore has a new movie out, about his passion,
global warming, and what he says is the linkage with man made pollution
from burning fossil fuels. Ebert has his movie review, although this
isn't his normal movie review.


"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."





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