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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
I think that the point here is that the film is simply not scientific at all and has been widely disputed by the scientific community.
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So how do we find out who's right?
In the film Gore addresses this very point, and lists something like 500 scientific papers - all of which agree with his thesis and none of which disagree.
Gore claims that 99% of the serious scientific community backs his conclusions - and the naysayers are all in the pocket of Big-Oil.
I am no fan of Gore, and neither am I a scientist who could evaluate his claims independently - but his core message sounded very, very convincing.
From my untutored perspective the thrust of the film is 150% right. We are incredibly wasteful with fossil fuels. There is much we could do to lessen our negative impact on the external environment. There are climatic trends that are very disturbing - and at least in large measure (if not entirely) these trends are exacerbated by the indifference that most people/corporations/nations show towards environmental protection.
Surely there is nothing controversial about these core propositions. Surely we should make our children aware of these concerns. Surely we can find 90 minutes in the school year for this.
And does anyone seriously believe that the entire science behind this film is unsound? That would make this film one of the biggest swindles in recent memory - and I just don't buy that.