An Inconvenient Truth

As Netflix devotees, we often miss movies in theaters & watch them at home. Yes – there is something about a theater experience. But, we’ve got a pretty sweet setup at home (see previous post), so we just pop our own popcorn (sans fake butter) and kick back. An Inconvenient Truth arrived the other day and we finally got around to watching it. Very interesting movie.

I had heard that a lot of it is Al Gore lecturing in a traditional lecture environment. The theater he was in reminded me of my Psych 101 class in college. The kind of room that also doubles as a children’s theater stage in the summer. He had very fancy slides and was using some form of PowerPoint I’ve never seen. But all that aside, his information was provocative. The visuals he used were staggering especially when you consider the effect. Will Florida really be washed away (What will happen to South Beach?) Are polar bears really drowning? (weep, weep) CityCrab & I discussed it. CityCrab considers himself a science minded person, which he is. I pride myself on never having taken a science or math class in college (I was a communication major!) His take is that “science minded people always try to disprove hypotheses rather than prove them. If you can’t disprove it, then it becomes a theory. I thought a lot of what he said was true but had to question some of his projections, etc. I know it’s happening but at what rate, I don’t know. What I did agree with was his how we can do more to reduce our CO2 emissions. That’s the part that resonated the most.” The disproving hypothesis vs. theory stuff is new to me. I am undecided on my thoughts. However, I do think that there are some things I can do on a (very) local level. The next time I need lightbulbs I won’t squawk so much about the reduced energy ones being $10/bulb. And I am going to make a better effort to recycle. I gotta think that religiously recycling the Sunday Times alone can make a difference.