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Movie and Resolution
Jan. 6th, 2008 09:09 pmMovie #9: An Inconvenient Truth
Took me long enough to see it. I rewound the section on the yearly oscillation in the CO_2 levels b/c I wanted to see exactly how he explained it - he did a good job. I didn't see any of the glaring errors I'd heard rumor of, but I did see a few places he might've been glossing over things. There weren't as many polar bears as I was expecting - in fact there was only a single CG one. I was also impressed w/ how he referred to albedo (reflectiveness) of the Earth in a few places as being a major source of the acceleration of the warming. I did think a bunch of it was likely over the heads of lots of watchers (though I suspect that the average watcher of this movie is more highly educated than the average movie-goer). I also liked the comparison to the ozone hole, and that the problem of the ozone hole has been essentially solved. (Though I'd like to see for once an environmental thing about global warming that has absolutely NO references to ozone since the physical processes are not at all related.)
Conclusion: it's worth seeing.
Conclusion 2: I resolve that when I've finished paying off my car, I'm going to [finally] sign us up for electricity from renewable resources, and if T$ doesn't want it I'll pay the difference myself. (My only New Year's Resolution.)
Edit:
Conclusion 3: Time to watch The Day After Tomorrow (or as we like to call it, "An Inconvenient Truth 2: The Reckoning")
Took me long enough to see it. I rewound the section on the yearly oscillation in the CO_2 levels b/c I wanted to see exactly how he explained it - he did a good job. I didn't see any of the glaring errors I'd heard rumor of, but I did see a few places he might've been glossing over things. There weren't as many polar bears as I was expecting - in fact there was only a single CG one. I was also impressed w/ how he referred to albedo (reflectiveness) of the Earth in a few places as being a major source of the acceleration of the warming. I did think a bunch of it was likely over the heads of lots of watchers (though I suspect that the average watcher of this movie is more highly educated than the average movie-goer). I also liked the comparison to the ozone hole, and that the problem of the ozone hole has been essentially solved. (Though I'd like to see for once an environmental thing about global warming that has absolutely NO references to ozone since the physical processes are not at all related.)
Conclusion: it's worth seeing.
Conclusion 2: I resolve that when I've finished paying off my car, I'm going to [finally] sign us up for electricity from renewable resources, and if T$ doesn't want it I'll pay the difference myself. (My only New Year's Resolution.)
Edit:
Conclusion 3: Time to watch The Day After Tomorrow (or as we like to call it, "An Inconvenient Truth 2: The Reckoning")
