I watched An Inconvenient Truth....and I just watched The Great Global Warming Swindle.
Gore's movie wins by a landslide. Polished, excellent cinematography, editing, writing, etc. Gore himself is a powerful preacher...uh, I mean...speaker. His presentations include big graphics in front of a warm and friendly audience, intercut with some powerful video clips. There's even an animation of a poor lost polar bear lost at sea, and Gore tries desparately to hold back a tear.
Perhaps to most compelling reasons to believe that man's generation of CO2 is the cause of global warming is that a) the election was stolen by Bush, b) he enjoyed chopping tobacco as a kid, and c) his sister died. After all, why would he have spent so much of the film on these points if they weren't salient??? Yup. That's what sold me.
The Great Global Warming Swindle on the other hand was a typical brit production, without the Hollywood polish, and worse, it stoops to using actual climate scientists presenting actual science. They discuss censorship and politics too, and that's just not fair. Its OK if Gore does it, since he's right, but not these guys. These guys are heretics, and they even admit it.
Rugrats-The Movie was better than either of these two productions though. Better production values than TGGWS, and more technically accurate than AIT.  |