Insomnia Ursus

22:30	leapfish suggests we go to bed before we're too tired
23:05	we go to bed
23:47	still awake
00:44	still (or perhaps again) awake
01:00- 06:00	dream about  our CEO visiting the office on Thursday, except in the dream she was bringing all her executive team including my boss, and our office was a high school, and all my coworkers from Halifax were there, and I spent most of my time cleaning and vaccuuming, and I had the sniffles or something so I was supposed to be in this tiny isolation room thing but didn't want to be.
06:30	*click* "...and Kitchener residents are warned to be on the lookout for a black bear that was spotted in the city yesterday..."
06:31	[Snooze]

 

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth is a movie version of a presentation that former US Vice-President Al Gore has been making around the world for many years. The movie "offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it."

Check out this 30-second clip: By the time you watch this video…

Some notes:

• A rebuttal of the not-yet-released movie is already rushing around the internet, mainly promoted by right-wing websites. Think Progress has posted a rebuttal of the rebuttal.
• 1995 was the hottest year on record until it was eclipsed by 1997 — then 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. (Seattle Times)
• The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture [in December] calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. (NYTimes)
• Trying to understand the confusion that some people have toward whether or not global warming is actually happening and is partly our fault, Naomi Oreskes read 928 papers published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 that had the keywords "climate change." They represented about 10% of the papers published on climate change ever. 75% agreed with the concept that global warming is occurring and is to some extent our fault, 25% dealt with scientific methods and had no position on the question, and 0% disagreed. (Science) Think about that for a moment. No studies between 1993 and 2003 said that global warming isn't mankind's fault. Despite the huge increases in evidence gathered between 2003 and 2006 not being a factor. How overwhelming must the concensus be, then?

See the trailer on Goole Video, iFilm, and YouTube.

Is this movie coming to your city? Most likely. (no Thunder Bay or Fredericton or Aukland or Romania on the list yet) Here's a list for most of you:

Atlanta   - June 9 (Tara)
Boston   - June 2 (Embassy) + 11 other cinemas in MA
Calgary   - June 16 (Globe)
Halifax   - June 16 (Park Lane)
Montréal   - June 9 (AMC Forum
New York   - June 2 (Empire) + five other cinemas later
Ottawa   - June 9 (Bytowne)
Providence  - June 23 (Avon Cinema)
Richmond    - June 23 (Westhampton 2)
Seattle   - June 2 (Guild + Pacific Place)
Toronto    - June 2 (Cumberland)
Washington, D.C.  - June 2 (E Street + Georgetown)
Waterloo   - June 23 (Princess Cinemas)