Raising The Temperature

Trying to lay my fingertips on stuff that's in storage five hundred miles away is a real pain. Information like the notes taken a year or so ago from a Nova show on PBS about earth's interior changes.

This science documentary accounted nicely for the perceived illusion of global warming and explained in detail what changes are occurring in the earth's core. At the end of the documentary, I remember thinking: Ah Ha! So THAT's the scoop. The ocean's are heating up from the inside out, not from global warming.

This Nova science documentary made an excellent case for the point of view that as the earth's axis rotates, the earth's core experiences additional internal heat . . . which is normal.

Since this theory confirmed my hunch that all this hype about greenhouse gases is much ta-do about nothing, I haven't paid much attention to the current scare tactics floating around the universe re: global warming.

However, Al Gore feels passionately enough about the dangers of the greenhouse effect and global warming to creat the film, "An Inconvenient Truth".

According to Richard Cohen in the New York Daily News this morning, 75 minutes of this 80 minute long cinematic version of Gore's global warming lectures are riveting, captivating and so effective they are nightmare material, full of drowning polar bears and a flooded Calcutta, New York and Florida producing millions of evacuees.

Cohen, a syndicated columnest for the Washington Post and a four-time honorable-mention winner in Pulitzer Prize competitions, makes an excellent case for both Gore's film and, also, for Gore himself as a presidential candidate in the 2008 elections.

Cohen deftly switched the focus of the film review from what he describes as a boring topic of global warming to progressive scientific attitudes which he then related to Bush's lack of mental acuity in regards to scientific progress. The transition was subtle and cleverly executed.

While I agree with most of the statements Cohen expresses in this article, it is my opinion that Al Gore, the master-teacher and pedagogue, is a much better choice than Al Gore, the president.

Greenhouse gases and global warming? You know, it absolutely, positively couldn't hurt a thing to reduce carbon-based economy dependency, replace and replenish forests, and regulate industry emissions in accordance with clean-air standards.
Raising The Temperature © 2006 Chaeli Lee Sullivan