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24Feb

Will Al Gore win the Oscar (in the science-fiction category)?

DateSaturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:26AM

goreoscar.jpgThe no 1 planetary issue this weekend is surely: Will Al Gore carry off the Oscar for the most expensive PowerPoint presentation in human history? Al is thrilled to have produced a Hollywood blockbuster in the same mould, and out of the same stable, that gave us Plan 9 From Outer Space, Rabid Grannies and Howard the Duck.

Though no polar bears were just during the filming of 'An Inconvenient Truth'  (they'd seen it all before and hid from the cameras) it seems that humans viewing the film have not been  so fortunate. A Toronto Star article this week felt obliged to ask whether Al Gore is helping to develop Ecophobia and wondered whether: Is Al Gore bad for your mental health? Apparently, thousands of Stephen King readers who have attended Gore symposiums ended up sobbing in the aisles, distraught, rageful (at government) and generally (including children) not sleeping at nights. Here's a taster: " One mother, unable to get tickets to the show, called U of T and lamented that her daughter, a high-school student, has been unable to sleep since seeing Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and hoped seeing him live would make her feel better." Funny, the sight of Gore always has the opposite, even soporific, affect on me.

Not quite in the right spirit of Ecophobia however were observation on the Gore film from the excellent Patrick J. Michael (see Books page). In this National Review article Patrick wonders whether Gore  would take the highest accolade the Hollywood myth-makers have to offer. Describing Gore's film as a "riveting work of fiction" he points out how lacking it is in science support, inconveniently pointing out that "the film exaggerates the (water post melting. ed) rise by about 2,000 percent".  Michaels shows how the latest IPCC report already makes Gore's assertions hype-history and that Science has recently published a paper revealing the acceleration of Greenland's ice loss from its huge glaciers "has suddenly reversed".

So will Al Gore reverse his former loser status at this weekend's luvvie Oscar bash (and subsequently at the Nobel Peace Prize self-aggrandizement party)? Well, to quote another Hollywood leg-end: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."  

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    It's brighter there, if everything is all right, isn't it?

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Patrick Michaels is the nong who tells us that the because the CFC scare of the '80s didn't come to pass (we took evasive action and banned CFC's) ergo the climate change warnings will not come to pass. If only:

:::[Why you aren't doing anything about global warming]

The gap he took, I call this one apocalypso reincarnatis, refers to events like the ozone hole scare where scientists warned that CFCs were eating our ozone layer, increasing concentrations of harmful UV rays. The public remembers the scares of the 80s, and is aware that the problem has norecededed, but is rarely cognisant of the fact that CFCs were banned. Michaels is not saying, 'the reason why we turned around the problem is because we listened to the scientists and modified how we did business'.

February 25, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterWadard

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