Lindsay Beyerstein reviews Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth

From Majikthise:

Co32Last night I went to see Al Gore’s new anti-global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth (IMDB). I was very impressed. It’s not great art, but it’s terrific science. More importantly, it’s an easily accessible message that everyone needs to hear. Go see it whether you feel like it or not and take your kids.

Al Gore lays out the evidence of an impending climate crisis clearly, rigorously, and compellingly. Given the profound implications Gore’s argument, it seems almost perverse to dwell on the movie’s aesthetics or its implications for American presidential politics. An Inconvenient Truth deserves to be assessed as a scientific, political, and moral argument for American leadership in the fight against global warming.

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