Watch Al Gore's Actual Slide Show (c. mid-2005)

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"Watch Al Gore's Actual Slide Show (c. mid-2005)" on Google Video
I found on Google Video (OMG they're useful for something!!) this recording of Al Gore's climate crisis presentation sometime last year. If you're interested in watching the presentation outside of the An Inconvenient Truth constructs, I recommend it. One of my strongest wishes after seeing the movie was to see the actual slide show that he does, since the movie cuts much of it out. I found out last week that Gore was training 1000 volunteers at his ranch to take this slide show on the road, but I was too late to get involved. I think that would be an incredibly meaningful job, and I would take it in a second. The event was sponsored by MoveOn.org, an organization which is progressive but not shy about their political leanings, so the introductions are quite political. Additionally, the presentation by Gore gets very political around the 1-hour mark, since he customizes his presentations for each audience. But it still provides a great opportunity to see what his presentations look like. I also recommend the director's and producers' commentaries on the AIT DVD. They give a lot of behind the scenes comments about why certain things were done in the movie. Some of my favourites: When he's shown working on the laptop, he was actually working: it was not staged. Even at 4am on the flight to China. When they include his family stories, etc, it is actually against his original wishes. He thought the movie should be pure science and no personal stories, but the director and producers believe that the personal stories allow a connection to him that is not possible with just graphs. Melissa Etheridge donated her song for the credits, and when the Director went to her house and showed her the movie, she immediately kicked him out so that she could write the song. "I need to write a song right now."