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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 07:08 pm (UTC)8. It's the sunspots, he says. Nope. http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/04/its-sun-stupid.html
9. The next section features Dr Boris Winterhalter. I don't know his background, but I note that the article doesn't actually address what Gore talked about in his presentation and in the movie: melting pools and water drilling down underneath glaciers. Instead it complains about the video of ice crashing into the water.
10. Next, they talk about Antarctic ice breaking off and floating away. "...just like it has done back in time." The changes are not "just like they have done" unless the individuals are talking about hundreds of thousands of years, which is not stated. Additionally, they bring up the false argument of "Antarctica is growing, so it's all ok". First, the data shows tiny growth, and there's very little data. There's more data showing shrinkage. Second, it's OK for Antarctica to grow and for the planet as a whole to warm -- just like it can be cold in Burnaby and warm in Miami on the same day. (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/4/211834/644) In fact, Greenland is growing internally but shedding ice externally, losing about 200 cubic km each year.
11. Next, another region-based statement. Part of the Arctic has shown "fluctuations since 1940 but no overall temperature rise". Again, taking the climate record of one small area and saying it obviously contradicts decades of science and hundreds of thousands of years of evidence around the globe is not valid science.
12. A cute argument about the map projection Gore uses. Mercator is very inaccurate in the way it shows the continents, this is true and undisputed. But Dr Morgan claims that if only they had used a more fair map, the warming and cooling areas displayed on the map would have been closer together in size.
This article also made it onto Slashdot back in June. It got lots of debate, and you'll find a bunch more interesting responses there (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/14/209235&threshold=3) from both sides of the debate.