It's all over the news, the UK judge's harsh words for AIT.
Al Gore is 'terrorizing school children'.
One reasonable blog offers up their statement, and invites comments.
http://blogs.nature.com/...
Here's what I posted there, below.
The judge's decision is near hysteria, a knee jerk reaction in it's attempt to deflect the major thrust of Gore's film. The implications of these nit picking attacks and implication of the 'harm it does' grossly outweighs any conflation done in the documentary itself.
The overall conclusion from AIT is that we as a species are on a serious unsustainable course, which is imperiling the future of this planet, and future generations. It's valid, and it's real.
If one wants to quibble about details of the impact of these changes and time lines presented in the film, cases can be made to do that within all of the models. But not one serious and fair scientific analysis can conclude we can continue on our current course without disastrous consequences.
The Inconvenient Truth is that we are destroying the ecological balance which is required to support all current forms of life on this sphere.
This sphere, our home, is the only one we have.
So, what are willing to give up?
How many species are an acceptable amount to go extinct? How many people relocated in those countries that cannot cope with climate changes? How much increase in disease vectors are we willing to tolerate? How many people will die?
What is everyone globally willing to give up, so a small percentage of the world's rich can rush around in their frenetic lives and stuff themselves full of mindless entertainment and trinkets?
When is humankind going to become socially responsible for itself, as a community?
This judge seems to be proud of himself for finding these things he can shoot holes in, and make these summary disparaging comments about AIT. In the US media, the giant propaganda right wing Wurlitzer is cranked up. The conclusion? They use this 'finding' as 'proof' that climate change is a mirage, that 'Al Gore is a fraud'.
This puffery, this indignation about how "Al Gore is scaring our children", is a defense of greedy and selfish lifestyles, foisted upon us by mega-multi national corporations. We have been marketed to and sold a bill of goods, that life somehow isn't complete with remote controls, huge televisions, giant sports venues and a massive consumer economy. We need ever more, our appetite for goodies and trinkets and labor saving devices outstrips every conceivable notion of common sense.
It's the convenience and entertainment for the lucky 25% of world's population that is more important, no matter how inconvenient the truth is for the other 75% of the people who live on this planet with us.
The basic facts remain.
We are killing our planet: we either change the way we live, post haste, or we doom species on this planet to wholesale extinction, and end the lives of millions, if not billions of human beings who are not able to cope with climate change, changes in agricultural patterns, disease vectors .. horrors that we can hardly plan for and imagine.
This bickering, this arguing is only about how soon these changes happen. We are already too late to prevent many of these changes from happening.
'Scaring our children'? We are already here. The actions we take now are to mitigate the worst of the effects, to hopefully reduce the impact of the damage we have done.
Our children should be scared for their future.
We must act now. Next week, next month, next year is already too late.
Note: I have edited the content slightly from the original. Not enough sleep is starting to effect my already convoluted writing style.
Update: I'll be brief because I'm not functioning on all cylinders right now.
NeuvoLiberal pointed out this excellent point by point and step by step rebuttal of the absurd charges made against AIT.
http://scienceblogs.com/...
No one is going to deny the film is an advocacy piece; but the charges swirling around at freeperville and Limpbot-land are not the only places it's happening.
Major new organizations like CNN, MSNBC and of course all the worst of the criminal media are distorting AIT's message, and using 15 second soundbites to swiftboat it.
Thanks all, for the response to the diary.