I watched The Inconvenient Truth on DVD this afternoon. Impressive. I believe it now; before I thought it was probably true, but just a theory, not a fact. Global Warming was something one believed in, rather than ineluctably deduced or knew. Now, I am convinced and it is an inconvenient reality that I will have to live with from now on.
The clincher was the Antarctic and Greenland facts of melting. Gore calls it the climate crisis, and that is a better term. Ice is reflective, and when it is gone, the seas warm on which it sat in the Antarctic, so more ice melts. This is just one powerful argument among many. Greenland is losing its ice much faster than predicted, as photographs show.
Getting warmer is just the symptom and, let's face it, hating warmer winters and summers in the UK is a bit hard to do! Global Warming just does not sound serious to me, and that was why I heard the arguments but resisted them, I think. Climate Crisis is more than inconvenient - it is a catastrophic threat to me, my own and humanity, the planet ... see, I can get quite worked up about that. The multiple threats are undeniably grave for mankind.
Gore's movie offers hope. Personally, I like to think in terms of changing emissions and our ways of living, and Gore's movie gives hope for that. 70 million tonnes of CO2 are emitted world-wide per day and 25 million tonnes are absorbed into the seas causing them to become acidic, killing coral and making it harder for animals that make carbonated shells, and that includes the base of the food chain- plankton. He says we have to stop doing that, and, he is clearly right. Sometimes the right course of action is simple and obvious. We need to change how we use energy, and how we dispose of the atmospheric gasses that are overwhelming the Earth's natural dynamics.
If you have not seen the movie, I recommend it.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
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