An Inconvenient Truth

Well my wife and I finally got around to watching the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth and I must say it was time well spent. At first I was not really all that sold on the idea of watching a film with a "moral" message from the right hand man of a president who thought of his secretary as a cigar holder or whose wife had petitioned so vehemently against those icons of my youth Judas Priest. However, to my surprise film was very entertaining and educational. Al Gore comes across earnestly and without the air of a past vice-president just milking the post administration pay check. The film uses just enough science to be convincing and informative without making the viewer thing he his watching a re-run of the Nature of Things. Overall the film delivers a compelling call to arms for all of us, especially in North America, to get off our butts and start taking care of the land the has so efficiently looked after us before it is too late. Of course, the downside is that I am now filled with guilt every time my furnace kicks in and when my kids start to complain about the cold I find myself lecturing them about how cold it is going to be when we bring about the next ice age.