Review – An Inconvenient Truth

What a disappointment. The hype made this sound like a ground-breaking documentary about global warming. What we get instead is a 90-minute-long lecture from former Vice President Al Gore about the morality of carbon emissions. What he says is right. It’s how he says it that’s the problem. He’s got a lot of fancy graphics, but Gore’s delivery is still like watching paint dry. As a teacher, he’s the kind of professor who appeals only to a small sect of particularly obsessive grad students. I was also put off by the references to the 2000 election. If Gore’s doing some early stumping for 2008, he would have gotten a lot farther with this voter by dwelling less on the Florida ballot irregularities and saying a lot more (presuming there’s more to be said) about his pro-environment accomplishments during the prior eight years. Indeed, the whole thing was very long on problem identification and very short on solutions. “Shoot your car” simply seems inadequate. Mildly amusing