An Inconvenient Truth airing
I saw this on the Herald's events page.
Saturday, Jan. 27 - The celebrated film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in the reception hall of the Cheshire United Methodist Church (205 Academy Road, 1/2 mile east of Route 10 on Route 68).
I'm curious. I might go.
I've only seen part of the film so far. And some of it is certainly debatable. But I do think it could be a good conversation starter for a debate.
Tim White
Town Council, 4th District
12 comments:
The film is based oupon pure junk science. There are so many factual errors in the film, specifically regarding greenhosue gases, that is cant be taken seriously except by the lunatic left wing environmentalists...
there once was a man from Crawford
who did not think he was think
he said "its hard work"
he seemed like a jerk
and he was angry and got us into big trouble in the world
Some of its debatable? Here is a very simple analogy. When beer is made, yeast is added to the unformatted beer. The yeast starts as a small colony but quickly multiply in the presence of the sugar. They take the sugar and convert it to alcohol and carbon dioxide. The yeast multiplies. At certain point the yeast as so numerous they create too much alcohol and poison their environment and die. Good for us, bad for them.
Who’s going to benefit when we are so successful and numerous that we poison our own environment? The yeast don’t know when to stop and don’t have the ability to stop producing alcohol (again good for us). We do have the ability to understand what we are doing to our environment and do have the ability to change how we affect our living space.
At some point in our history, we learned not to place the toilet next to the drinking well. Sounds basic today but back in history large cities had open sewers running through them. This is just another point in time were we need to evolve and change to survive.
In today’s Hartford Courant (1/26) there was article about a man in Washington State that refused to allow his daughter to see the movie in school. He reasoning is as an evangelical Christian (just like the guy from Crawford TX) he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.
Tim, time to expand on what you mean by debatable.
Sorry - should have been unfermented beer in second sentence.
"what is debatable?"
well, i didn't see the whole movie. But there was one comment I remember where Gore said "X is happening because Y has happened."
In my opinion, a statement like that could be debated because it may be the inverse. It may be "Y is happening because X has happened."
I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I just said it was worthy of debate.
1. someone here is drinking too much home brew
2. There is another reason for global climate change. It is about 93 million miles away and beyond political jurisdiction. The old paintings about ice skating on the Hudson River in the 17th and 18th Century weren't imaginary. I doubt wood stoves circa 1800 suddenly raised global temperatures
Also, there is reason to believe circa 1000 CE "Greenland" actually had green land, and then the glaciers expanded. As I recall, Lief Erickson did not use internal combustion engines
I believe in global warming. I also believe lights make rooms warmer. Neither makes more than an incremental difference in ambient temperature.
3. BTW, mind explaining why a public board is listed in the Herald as an official sponsor of a movie promoting a potential political candidate held in a church?
OK - there have been variations in climate in the past. How does that prove our actions today aren't having a an effect on the environment? Think Love Canal. Think Chernobyl.
Tim - to use the which came first argument - chicken or the egg - and to comment on a movie you have not seen- I really expected better of you.
"Tim - to use the which came first argument - chicken or the egg - and to comment on a movie you have not seen- I really expected better of you."
I believe in global warming, but I haven't researched the reasons for it. So I don't feel like I should be opining too strongly on it.
The point of this post was more about generating a discussion.
"BTW, mind explaining why a public board is listed in the Herald as an official sponsor of a movie promoting a potential political candidate held in a church?"
Public board? Not sure I follow.
Tim, what did the ad in the Herald say?...It said the Energy Committee was sponsoring the film
4:54... I saw the online posting (see the link embedded in the original post):
"Saturday, Jan. 27
The celebrated film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, will be shown on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in the reception hall of the Cheshire United Methodist Church (205 Academy Road, 1/2 mile east of Route 10 on Route 68)."
That doesn't mention the EC. I guess you're talking about the hardcopy issue of the Herald? I'll look for it if I can still find this week's Herald.
GO ahead an follow the link to this article. It is the best at using actual proven science to debunbk Gore's fasle claims on greenhouse gases and its impact/relationship to global warming.
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
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