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c9I received a copy of An Inconvenient Truth on DVD for Christmas from Vinny's Mom, and I'm just getting around to looking at the special features today. There's some really interesting stuff.
The DVD was assembled a full year after the movie was completed, and there's a mini-movie with Al Gore going through the dozens of studies and new pieces evidence that have appeared in late 2005 and early 2006. He references things shown in the movie, and gives more details or provides specific examples of even higher temperatures in the past year.
There are eight sections or so, on things like hurricanes, ocean acidification, soil moisture, the permafrost, and others. It includes extended scenes from his slide show too, which just makes me want to see his full slide show more.
It also makes me want to study climate science. I get very frustrated to see thousands upon thousands of highly-knowledgeable, skilled, experts talking about things they understand, and to then see climate professional change deniers, funded by companies that think they can't adapt, get all the press. What's especially frustrating to me is not knowing all the details about every single topic, so I can't respond effectively to those sorts of debates.
Just need to get Vinny done with school, then it's my turn again.
The DVD was assembled a full year after the movie was completed, and there's a mini-movie with Al Gore going through the dozens of studies and new pieces evidence that have appeared in late 2005 and early 2006. He references things shown in the movie, and gives more details or provides specific examples of even higher temperatures in the past year.
There are eight sections or so, on things like hurricanes, ocean acidification, soil moisture, the permafrost, and others. It includes extended scenes from his slide show too, which just makes me want to see his full slide show more.
It also makes me want to study climate science. I get very frustrated to see thousands upon thousands of highly-knowledgeable, skilled, experts talking about things they understand, and to then see climate professional change deniers, funded by companies that think they can't adapt, get all the press. What's especially frustrating to me is not knowing all the details about every single topic, so I can't respond effectively to those sorts of debates.
Just need to get Vinny done with school, then it's my turn again.
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Date: 2006-12-29 01:38 pm (UTC)So he didn't actually say that pine beetles were attacking spruce trees, but easy to accidentally mix those two up when watching the movie.
2. Nature has been drinking water from glaciers since they first formed. Glaciers create rivers, and provide a huge percentage of all drinking water on the planet. There is a little engine creating more ice: the water cycle. Glaciers are always changing in size, shrinking and growing (and even moving). Learn more here.
3. Weather and Climate are two different fields. Climate is the study of weather patterns averaged out over 30+ years. It involves measuring amounts of oxygen in ice for example, and checking plant records to show different plants in different parts of the world. You're right that talking about the weather in the year 600,000 BCE is almost impossible, but talking about the climate is not. We have significant pieces of evidence of what the global average climate looked like at that time.