"It "ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble...

...It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

-Mark Twain


When you were five, your world didn't go much beyond the block you lived on. When you twelve, your world didn't go much beyond your side of town, maybe your town at best. Now you've grown up, now you're all grown up and you have learned all about the world around you. Or have you? It is difficult to accept that what we think we know is inaccurate (or even wrong), yet how often do we find ourselves redifining what we know with a wider definition of what is actually true?

Global Warming has been a hot issue for a long time now. There has been growing acknowledgement that the way we live our lives is detrimental to the environment around us. Our complaceny, our thirst for a more convienant life, has come at the cost of dramatically altering nature. You get in your car to drive to work, stop on the way to get a latte and a bottle of water. It's hot out today--seems much hotter than it did this time last year--so you turn on the air conditioner at work; without thinking you crank the dial down four or five degress. The day ends and you get back in your car and drive home. The house is a mess, so you start cleaning up, throwing away all the newspapers and plastic bottles from the same routine from the days before. To someone who's day mirrors this, it may not seem all that bad. You're just one person, right? One person is all the difference when it comes to global warming, you do have an affect, and that is the point of the growing global warming movement, and the point behind Al Gore's an Inconvienant Truth.

An Inconvienant Truth, part environmental presentation/part behind the scenes documentary, follows Al Gore on the road as he goes from place to place, country to country give his "slide show" a detailed presentation on the adverse affects of global warming. His friendly demeanor and charming charisma draws you into listen to every word he has to say, whether about the ice shelf of antarctica melting, or of his son's near-death experaince when he was six year old. Gore cares about this issue, as much as he cares about his family, and in his soft-spoken way, make you realize that they two are absolutely related. Gore's presentation is poignant and well-assembled, he successfully addresses every issue that has caused a contraversy with global warming and effectively crushes them. His facts are solid, his graphs are colorful (and numerous). The presentation is suited for any audience who may see it (using an explination of global warming from television's "Futurama" certainly helps).


The movie is good, the message is better. I was on the fence for a long time, but this movie has certianly enlightened me. I've heard many say that this issue is just politics. I've heard many rationalize this problem as nothing more than cyclical. This movie answers your questions. Go see it while it's still playing at the State.