This is a really well done and enjoyable, though horribly scary documentary based on former Vice President Al Gore’s slide show he presents on the environment, and on Global Warming. It is filled with facts that really refute the G.O.P.’s contention that Global Warming is just a theory and that the climate changes are cyclical, so that this is normal (yes climate is cyclical, since we using Antarctic ice we can plot the average temperature and CO2 levels of the earth, and never have the CO2 levels or temperature been so high. It is a really well done documentary intercutting Gore giving his presentation with footage of him around the world, as well as doing research and footage showing milestones in his life, and the environment and the world, and what is happening. It is very well done, and should be seen by everyone, not just liberals who already believe in Global Warming, but everyone so they can see the facts about Global Warming, and what is happening to the world that we live in before we have an environmental disaster that makes Katrina look like nothing.

This is Al Gore giving his presentation on Global warming, and giving un-refuted facts about what is going on in our world with the polar ice caps melting and getting thinner and much of Greenlands glaciers melting and starting to break up, and glaciers worldwide shrinking or even disappearing all together. We see how Gore got into this with a teacher who had only recently started reading the ever climbing levels of C02 in the atmosphere, a level that has a direct relevance to the average world temperature, as can be seen in the 650,000 ice record that scientists have tapped into in the Antarctic, and how they have know about the 7 ice ages, and the levels of air CO2 during all of them, and we have C02 levels and temperature levels never seen in the history of the earth. Not some cyclical change in the global temperatures, but temperatures and changes directly influenced by the pollution being let out by Mankind and the US in particular as the worlds largest polluter.

And most of the film is not political, as this really should not be a political issue, it is a survival issue, but it does delve into some of what the current Administration has done. Being one of only 2 Industrializes nations to refuse to ratify the Kyoto protocols, having the worst gas mileage for vehicles of any nation in the world, in fact even so far behind China’s gas current levels. Having one of their pundits change scientific facts to suite them, and when caught go take a job with Exxon Mobile, to attempt to turn Global Warming fact into a theory so it can be denied, and to suppress scientists at NASA whose research show the truth of Global Warning.

This also goes into the dangers that Global Warming is causing and will cause it not checked. The torrential storms, such as Katrina, famine and droughts that can already be seen all over the world. The ice caps melting, and while floating ice will not effect the overall sea levels, it is the land based ice that is melting, that is not only losing the world it’s clean water sources, but that when entering the ocean will not only affect the temperature and currents in the ocean, but if the ice in Greenland or on the shelf in Antarctica were to melt the entire world would have ocean levels rise 20 feet would displace millions.

And this does not have to ruin our economy in fact we can make money by being clean, and developing new technologies that other nations are now working on, we could use clean energy such as solar and wind power and more energy efficient and less polluting cars like hybrids. We can do something about this and we all should, instead of denying the scientific facts.

You can see some about this at the films official web site Climate Crisis.

An interesting side not that I noticed while watching the film is that one of the producers, Lesley Chilcott was a producer I used to work for in Commericals. She was in fact one of my all time favorite producers to work for and she had heavy involvment from this, in fact as you can see in this article on the film and the Apple program Keynote that Al Gore uses for his slide show, Apple Article, you can actually see a photo of Lesley with Al Gore in the editing room, here is the photo, she is the one on the right.

Wow I need to get in touch with her and see if she ever needs an editor or an assistant editor in the future for something like this!

Actually I did, and it is her, and she is going to keep me in mind for the future! How cool is that? What a nice woman.