![]() ![]() Now, I don't know about you, but I was watching this to find out about global warming, not to find out what Al Gore thought about losing the 2000 election. The problems come in the short but noticeable periods when the film tries to be a biography of Al Gore at the same time. In fact, if you're well-versed in your science, you'll probably already know much of what Al Gore talks about (though probably not quite all) - this film is really for the general public who doesn't quite know all of this, and also for those who might have heard something about global warming here and there but want to see exactly how all of the facts fit together. The film starts off with a few diagrams that many of you will probably have seen already, as well as a rather famous Futurama clip. ![]() It is, in essence, one long speech in various cities around the world (Al Gore says that he's given this presentation thousands of times), inter-cut with some various other footage. The film basically consists of a tour of Al Gore's climate change speeches around the world. It explains the facts very well, explains away the objections that people have been hearing about from the media, and is also pretty funny at times. ![]() I thought that this was on the whole a good film - I can imagine it being an EXCELLENT film for teachers to show to a class to explain global warming, actually. ![]()
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