Have not seen the movie, and untill it's free, and I have ABSOLUTELY nothing else to do, I will not.
Have however looked at his book. (About 12.00 at Costco.)
Very interesting book. Full of photos, graphs, IPCC data, concerned scientists and of course Al's own diatribe about how the environment is being ruined by man's use of fossil fuels, adding hundreds of tons of C02 to the atmosphere every year.
Shows great photo op's of him and Tipper in TN, hiking in the mountains, and lots of photos showing glaciers melting over 100 year time spans (Or more in some cases.), and other alarmist pics of wholesale death and distruction unless we act now to stop Man's abuse and addiction to fossil fuels, urban sprawl and all the other things we do like build dams, kill fish, eat cows.. (Ok, I made up the eating cows thing, but you get the point.)
I was looking at each page, thinking... Hmm, he's right with the photo, but fails to note that 125 years ago, man was not making anywhere near the C02 we are today, yet these glaciers were melting then... Hmm, wonder why that was if we are responsable for ice melt?
Looked at his photos of Glacier National Park, and his poor lament about how he remembers seeing glaciers there that his kids will never see... boo hoo, we are all to be ashamed of ourselves for melting them with our internal combustion engines...
OK, had to LOL at that one...!! Again, shows photos from the 1930's, and we are now 76 years later, and wow! what a supprise! the weather has changed!
Guess what Al? Those glaciers your so fond of? They used to be larger and covered the entire area you are talking about... see how the mountains are scraped away, and you can see where entire ice sheets covered the USA in places.... (An inconvient truth for Al I'm sure, so he avoided talking about it.)
Well, that ice melted, and guess what? WE ARE ALL THE BETTER FOR IT!!!
Ice comes and goes, the temp of the earth goes up, and then goes down, it's all controlled by the sun, and earth's relation to it combined with the sun's variable output over the ages. (Yes, our own sun is not constant, it produces more heat and radiation at times, and less at others, and they can predict it very well, much better than any GCM prediction to date.)
Oh, wait, how "inconvienent for me" Cries Al Gore... "If the sun actually controls the weather, global warming theory as we have presented it in this movie is BULLSHIT, and I'm just another ULEE whineing about not being elected president when I clearly lost the election...."
Ultra Liberal Elite Environmentalist... AKA. Alvin Gore. (Also Joel, and a few others on here that worship the earth, fish and electric cars...) LOL