Just Watched An Inconvenient Truth on DVD

[RestoreGore]

I couldn't wait for the copies I ordered to arrive so I went out and bought one for myself today and just finished watching it again. It is so clear that we must begin to take action on our own to mitigate the effects of what we are doing to our relationship to this planet. There was a special feature on the DVD where Mr. Gore talked about the changes in the last year since the movie was completed regarding soil moisture, temperatures, glacial earthquakes, permafrost, drought, ocean acidity, wildfires, population.

I am especially interested in and concerned about what climate change is doing to our oceans, especially coral, which are called the rainforests of the ocean. 70 million tons of Co2 are spewed into our atmosphere daily, with 25 million tons being absorbed into our oceans. This makes the oceans more carbonic and changes the Ph levels, which affects the animals that thrive in making shells, and that affects the entire food chain. Seventy percent of our Earth is made up of oceans... I don't believe we should be fooling around with them in this fashion.

Another effect I am concerned about is glacial earthquakes. Mr. Gore reported in the special feature that 50 cubic miles of ice melted off Greenland in 2004, and that between 1999-2005, 32 glacial earthquakes were recorded. The average between 1993-1999 was only 7-15. That is believed to be occurring because of melting that is causing shifting ice, with water runnning down to the bedrock and making the ice unstable. I am most concerned should this melting continue at the pace it is going, because another doubling of quakes in the same time period or less could cause that break that would raise sea levels by 20 ft.

I am also very pleased he mentioned drought, because I believe it will become a much more serious problem regarding water scarcity in relation to population growth/water pollution. He claimed he really did not see it on the level of a Lake Chad yet, but from what I saw regarding the Darling River in Australia and the effects of the severe drought in China, we are seeing the beginnings of it.

This is most definitely a DVD to donate and share, as it's inside already makes very easy to do with a to and from line to write on. So when the copies I ordered come in, one goes to my local library and one either to the local high school or the University... but they will be donated and I will try to get free showings of it somewhere in order to move people to action.

If we do not reign in the amount of greenhouse gases we are spewing into the atmosphere daily, this Earth could be unrecognizable in as little as forty years. And that is not something to be ignored or used chiefly by political operatives for their own political purposes. This is a MORAL campaign, and it is a WAKE UP CALL for those who refuse to see what we are all doing to our planet.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. What extras are on the DVD? nt

[RestoreGore]

3. Extras

An update on this issue by Mr. Gore. An interview with the director, Davis Guggenheim, and an interview with the producers. The music video done by Melissa Etheridge who sings the theme song, "I Need To Wake Up" (a very apppropriate title) and the making of An Inconvenient Truth along with an educational guide.

[sce56]

4. An update by Al Gore and the making of documentary, A definite keeper

[LiberalArkie]

2. I bought i yesterday at Walley world. It is more powerful than I thought it would be.

I am going to buy a few more copies to give some people at work..

[Tellurian]

5. Yep, netflix sent it on Wed..

Al does a great job of interfacing the extreme climates changes with his own personal
experience as a student of the environment back in the 80's. Also, great family photographs
of his dad, sister and mother during his childhood years on their family farm.

Well done, striking just the right balance of his personal life in relation to his continued
crusade of educating the public to help save the environment of our planet.

I hope he runs for president. If he doesn't run willingly,
I hope someone will have the foresight to draft him.

[DemonFighterLives]

6. Just watched it yesterday

Great show with awesome graphs.

A tip at the end Plant trees
Lots of trees.
I'll be working on that at my place.

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. It is happening faster than we think

I foresee many many earth changes in the next year, which will precipitate a change in our whole way of living. When our GOP county judge says in an open forum that it would be wise to store at least two month's worth of food and water in case there is a pandemic or other disaster, I'm thinking that the government realizes that things are going to get bad.

[SpiralHawk]

8. "Move along. There is nothing to see here." - Commander AWOL

"My Ministry of Truthiness will soon issue some propaganda to put you at rest. So please put your heads back in the sand, and go out and spend, spend, spend to help enrich my republicon corporate cronies this Xmas season." - pResident AWOL

[samfishX]

9. The Only Thing I Wish He'd Had Addressed

In the 2006 update feature is the fact that the the North Pole is gaining ice on the top, while the sides and edges are melting away. As I understand it, they aren't sure why this is occuring yet, but it doesn't make a damn bit of difference, considering that the poles are still showing signs of crumbling.

The reason I wish he'd have addressed it is because I was talking to some right winger who I work with and, though I gave him a copy, he was already decided on the issue because he saw that global warming "Rebuttal" on Fox (or whoever aired it) that stated this new little talking point. Therefore, Al Gore CAN'T be right! He's a Democrat!

God damn...for those of you who might doubt the power of the far right media's influence on it's listeners...don't. It's like brainwashing..

[DemonFighterLives]

11. I have an otherwise intelligent buddy who thinks it is a sham

I was stuck arguing with him and 2 other righties who repeated the line that Gore said everyone uses. = It is Cyclic and this planet is so big that we can't affect it.

From Gore's research there were something like 800 papers in agreement and none in dissent. Talk about dumbing down.

Welcome to DU!
:dem:

[CrispyQ]

20. "The planet is so big that we can't affect it."

:eyes:

They are ignorant of exponential power.

There are over 6 billion people on the planet. If one were to count from 1 to 6 billion at a rate of one count per second, it would take 192 years to count the people on the planet now.

Gore projected population to be 9 billion before the end of his life. :wow:

Small, small minds.

[DemonFighterLives]

21. Isn't that the part of the movie where Gore had to

get on the scissors lift to get to the "off the chart" part.
The population bomb.
The righties will still laugh in my face and my friend lived for years in Alaska and got to see first hand the glaciers melting. Hundreds of years old ice was melting while little to none was forming.
:hi:

[Tellurian]

12. Reading the effects of the melting..

Recently I came across some scientific data stating, the effects of all that fresh water
melting from the solar caps will result in a bulging around the equator and a flattening
of the earth's curve at the top of the poles. The bulging areas resulting from the overflow
of fresh water would be in the South Pacific, around the Fiji Islands and the nearby chain of lesser islands.

Which, I imagine would overflow and submerge most of those islands.

At that point, I questioned if the configuration of the globe were changed into a misshapen ball
would that occurrence have any effect on the earth's normal rotational pattern.

I didn't get any answer..Has anyone else heard of the possibility of this dynamic happening?

[Lasthorseman]

13. There were

people having fist fights today over a few extra play station 3s at the local Best Buy. Long before the earth flattens people will have killed each other off through riots caused by the dwindling food supplies. While Al does an excellent job of selling the concept of global warming there are yet other forces at work.
One is an uncontested fact and the other has been labeled conspiracy.
http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=1&subcatid=2
The other one is chemtrails, a globally reported theory that there is a worldwide effort to alter the earth atmoshpere by releasing chemicals from airplanes.
http://www.chemtrails911.com/index.htm

[Spangle]

14. That could be caused from the Article Circle movement

The North Pole moves. And the circle moves as well. All slowly, of course. The area with the most 'ice' has been included in the 'circle' for a long time. But it is moving out of the circle at some point. As 'new' areas become part of the circle, it accumalates ice. Not as thick as the well known ice, because it hasn't been in the circle as long. The other ice is thicker, because it has been in the circle for an extreamly long time, just adding ice layers.

I'm not an expert on this. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn this week.

Seriously, I ran into this a couple of years ago on a web site that wasn't dealing with warming issue. The web site had maps showing the last several 'circles' and where the circle will be going next. I found it all very intresting. And that 'little bit' of info stayed with me. The rest was way above my head.

Anyway, the addtional ice and where it's being added, might be explained by the natural changes caused by the changes in the 'circle.' This wouldn't mean that global warming isn't happening. However, those who don't want to wake up to the fact of global warming, will use anything as a reason to ignore it. Or at least ignore that they can and should do something to stop this from happening

[DemonFighterLives]

19. My crack at the ice growing on the top of North pole

Water tries to reach equilibrium. An area of less humidity will pick up moisture from an area of higher humidity. As some of the ice is melting the warmer temps cause the high moisture air to rise and when it reaches the cold surface it condenses.
Seems to fit with moisture studies in houses. Hot air on the inside of a house tries to carry the moisture out and when it reaches the cold glass or hole in the house, it condenses.
Jack Frost
Of course I could be wrong, the construction industry has been trying for years to figure out moisture problems. See Moldy cardboard castles.
:dem:

[bananas]

16. Welcome to DU, Sam

Interesting blog you have!

[DemonFighterLives]

10. Link from the climate site about a Fusion Reactor

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4352634.html


"Worldwide demand for energy is expected to double in the next 25 years and we need to diversify our energy supply," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman, during a tour Tuesday of Princeton University's Plasma Physics Lab.

Experiments on two reactors at the Princeton lab _ one in use since 1999 and the other under construction _ will be crucial in helping scientists determine how to translate research at the ITER facility into a design for commercial fusion reactors, Bodman said.

French President Jacques Chirac hailed Tuesday's agreement as a victory for humanity _ and for France, which widely exports its nuclear energy expertise and beat out Japan in the bidding to host the reactor. The project's director will be Japanese, and Japan will supply the reactor's most complex parts.

"The growing shortage of resources and the battle against global warming demand a revolution in our ways of production and consumption," Chirac said. "We have the duty to start research that will prepare energy solutions for our descendants."

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France does it again- should make dubby mad.

[Sydnie]

15. I just saw it for the first time

and I am blown away. There is a lot to digest in that movie. I will have to watch it several more times just to get the facts in order in my mind enough to speak about it intelligently. There were points where I just sat there with my mouth hanging open and wondered why ... like the current admin guy that altered the report then left to work for Exxon. Just boggles the mind.

In the graphic with the scale balancing gold and the globe ... I'll take the globe please.

[earth mom]

17. K& R & Gore 2008!

:kick:

[HeeBGBz]

18. I watched most of it last night

Got to finish it today. Very excellent movie. It was my Netflix selection of the week. He does really well in explaining why these things are happening and he does it in a way that isn't boring. He is such a great man. He needs to be our president.