an inconvenient truth

before i begin, i have a confession to make. well... i have a couple confessions to make. first, i did not vote in the 2000 elections. second, if i had voted, i would have voted for bush.

i know, it wouldn't have made a difference - i live in utah, the reddest of states. nevertheless i am ashamed. my only plea of defense is ignorance. i didn't know.

with that out of the way, let's continue...

i recently saw al gore's big screen power point presentation, an inconvenient truth. whatever your political stance, this is a movie you and everyone else should see. like many of the misguidances of my past, i once disbelieved in the human involvement and implications of global warming. i bought into the whole this is a natural cycle of the earth and we are just still recovering from an ice-age mumbo jumbo. despite the science and and studies, i relied on the so-called wisdom of the right-wing and just pushed it aside.

i've since learned my lesson.

an inconvenient truth is by far the best presentation of global warming i have ever seen. you may disagree with much of al gore's politics (i once did). you may think his humor is still too dry and scripted (i still do). however, it is difficult to find fault with his presentation which is largely the culmination of over two decades of work. as he discusses the evidence andpoints out the implications of this growing crisis, you can tell that this something that he cares deeply about and not just some partison political maneuvering. in fact, there is very little partison politics going on. gore openly points out that this is a issue that both democrats and republicans wish to avoid.

our planet is in danger. it's that simple. each day scientists are unanimously finding evidence that carbon dioxide (greenhouse gasses) is higher than it has been in the last 700 millenia, and is increasing at an accelerated rate. temperatures are rising and glaciers and ice caps are shrinking faster than expected. i have had a basic idea of what has been going on, but i had no idea had badly things are. it is not something that our children's children will face, but something that might have major implications in our lifetimes if not dealt with, things far worse than what we've already experienced with the rise of tornados and hurricanes.

go see an inconvenient truth and judge it for yourself. do some research and find out if gore is presenting the truth.

for those of you in the provo area, it is currently playing at the wynnsong theatres.

we need to put partison politics aside here and deal with this issue.