In looking up the poster for the Gore movie for my AskLoonie post today ? again, it really is priceless: a hurricane is spinning out of a smokestack! what delectable, flap-jawed paranoia! ? I found the website for the movie (not providing the link; why give them the hits). It’s super high-octane, triple-refined global-warming scaremongering.
Take, for example, this from the “About the film” section:
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
Heavens to Murgatroyd, what a load of hooey! Who would choose to go through life this easily spooked?
Unless, unless, UNLESS you allow yourself to undergo that bug-eyed, cold-sweating frenzy of terror so that you achieve bliss afterward by imagining THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD; i.e.:
[the film] offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his “traveling global warming show,” Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media – funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our “planetary emergency” out to ordinary citizens before it’s too late.
