An Inconvenient Truth
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Lifts moratorium on Gore movie, still doesn’t get it
Good news: the Federal Way School Board just lifted its moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth.
Unfortunately, coverage in the Seattle Times, the largest paper in the region, was disappointing. It mostly treats the decision as a simple controversy without ever explaining that there is, in fact, only one right answer about the reality of human-induced climate change.
To paraphrase my earlier rantings: this is not a matter of personal opinion for lay people; it's a matter of scientific consensus. And when an article fails to acknowledge that overwhelming consensus, it misleads readers.
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Al Gore and the Oscars
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. I’m on record predicting it will win. Should we start a betting pool?
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School board official defends the decision
Remember the story about how the Federal Way school board put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth? David Larsen, the now-extremely-embattled vice president of the Federal Way school board, has a piece in the Seattle Times today, explaining what the school board really did and why they did it. First, I should say […]
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A dispatch from Gore’s climate training sessions
I'm blogging from Nashville, where I just spent two days hanging with Al Gore and shooting the sh-t about climate change. OK, it wasn't just me and Al -- there were about 200 other people there.
This meeting is part of Al Gore's effort to train 1000 people to go out and deliver his Inconvenient Truth talk.
The meeting started off on a low note when I found out that Cameron Diaz had been in the session before mine. Damn. My session was actually devoid of anyone well known. The closest we got was Dennis Kucinich's wife, who it turns out is actually quite a babe.
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Al Gore’s movie booted by wacky school board
Congrats to Seattle P-I enviro reporters Robert McClure and Lisa Stiffler for unearthing the funniest story I’ve read in a good long while. Here’s the nut: The school board in Federal Way, a southern exurb of Seattle, just put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth, based largely on the complaints of one parent, […]
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Gore: Oscar winner
An Inconvenient Truth will win the 2007 Oscar for Best Documentary. You heard it here first.
On a related note: below the fold, you can watch video of Al Gore's surprisingly funny appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. (Thanks to Treehugger for uploading the video.)
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Al Gore out, Big Oil in for public schools
Gristmill readers have been knocking at our proverbial door to make sure we've seen Laurie David's article from Sunday's Washington Post. It details the National Science Teachers Association's (NSTA) rejection of 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth for use in science classes across the country, and it's definitely worth some Gristmill grinding.
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Something you need to know
The DVD of An Inconvenient Truth is released tomorrow.
Speaking of which, it's entirely possible that AIT will win the 2007 Oscar for Best Documentary. Wouldn't that be something.
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Children, anxiety, and global warming
I found this post over on the Climate Ark blog.
Hello,
My 8-year-old daughter has just come running to me in a flood of tears. Why? Because she thinks the world is going to end sometime soon and it's the fault of me and, to a lesser extent, my generation. That's why. Why does she think that? Because she takes it for gospel that over bearing boffins like yourself know more than ordinary folk like me. Does it make you feel good? Making an eight-year-old girl with a mouth brace bawl her little eyes out?I really empathized with this father. There's more: