An Inconvenient Truth

I’ve been avoiding watching Al Gore’s, An Inconvenient Truth because I feel like it’s a movie that you have to suit up for. I’m pretty comfortable living in my world of denial and I knew that after I saw the movie… that would change. Change is inevitable however, so tonight we suited up and watched. I’ve heard so many people say that global warming is a hoax and that we haven’t been measuring temperature long enough to really know whether or not it IS warming up and the old, the Earth goes through phases of ice age and then warms up again routine and I’ve never really had the facts to argue this, until now. You see, actually, they can take core samples from the polar ice caps and use the make up of the ice to determine the precise temperatures going back hundreds of thousands of years, so we actually do have that data, (who knew!). And while the Earth does warm and cool in regular intervals, the warming that’s occurring now is about three times any previous interval and when you see it laid out in graph format, it’s quite striking. Striking and down right scary.This movie is sort of a pyramid scheme of global consciousness and I’m hoping that it catches on. So tonight because I just can’t stand to think of days any hotter than it was today like this Thursday when it’s going to be 101 degrees. Now I know it’s been 101 degrees before and probably will be again, but just standing outside it the heat makes me a little nervous… I mean what if the green movement doesn’t catch on and this snowballs into a global disaster? So to ease my fears and to feel like I’m doing something, besides throwing my Bud Light bottle in the recycle bin, I’m blogging about it. I’m asking everyone that reads this blog to at some point in the near future suit up and watch this movie. You could probably fast forward though the brief segments about Al Gore’s life, the opening and the end credits and watch the whole thing in an hour. Then you too can keep having flashbacks of the late 80’s commercial where the American Indian is crying because we are killing the Earth. Nothing like a little guilt before bed. Sweet dreams all.