An Inconvenient Truth - watch it online

luckat

http://tinyurl.com/35ml8o - Google Video has the whole film online.

biko

Isn't that copyrighted?

luckat

I assume so - but perhaps Gore feels it's important enough to loose it on the Net?

biko

I happened upon a "special copy" of this film and it's well worth watching.

Pascal14

Does anybody know who funded this video?

luckat

A quick Google finds:

the Skoll Foundation or Participant Productions, Jeff Skoll’s production company in L.A, which produced and co-funded the funding for “An Inconvenient Truth”

Here's the IMDB listing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/

It lists the director as David Guggenheim, a Hollywood pro with credits for Deadwood, 24, etc - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346550/

Here's a piece about the use of Apple's Keynote in making it, which shows some of the team: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2006/05/inconvenienttruth/

It lists Lesley Chilcott http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2026261/ as co-producer.

I'll let you dig out anything further for yourself.

I assume that your post, Pascal14, means that you think it was funded in some sinister way? Do you know something we don't? Some evil plan to save the planet?

Pascal14

No not really, just that it helps to know these things. For example if the IRA funded a united Ireland video would you trust the content?

luckat

Pascal14 wrote: »

No not really, just that it helps to know these things. For example if the IRA funded a united Ireland video would you trust the content?

I'd use my judgment. Odd analogy, imho.

biko

Pascal14, are you trying to undermine the validity of the film by questioning the funding? The film is biased of course, just as all the Moore films.

Pascal14

biko wrote: »

Pascal14, are you trying to undermine the validity of the film by questioning the funding? The film is biased of course, just as all the Moore films.

Poor attempt, mate.

luckat

biko wrote: »

Pascal14, are you trying to undermine the validity of the film by questioning the funding? The film is biased of course, just as all the Moore films.

Can you give me an example of bias in the film, please?

Pascal14

luckat wrote: »

Can you give me an example of bias in the film, please?

I am not a scientist, so have a look at this:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22559777-5000117,00.html

biko

luckat wrote: »

Can you give me an example of bias in the film, please?

The correlation between CO2 and heat, some claim, is backwards in the film.

luckat

The Australian article in Rupert Murdoch's right-wing tabloid the Herald Sun claims Gore's findings are incorrect, rather than *disputed* in some cases.

It talks about Pacific islanders not fleeing islands threatened by high seas - whereas the BBC last week reported the desperate pleas of the people of Tuvalu, who are campaigning against global warming which threatens their island:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1249549.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7205226.stm

I won't insult your intelligence by going through the disputed items one after another - except, perhaps, to point out another BBC article, from as long ago as 2004 - one of the first warning of the rapid increase in the rate of ice melting in Greenland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3922579.stm

(This is the particular aspect of climate change that most threatens Ireland, and Europe generally; if the Ocean Conveyor Belt, which brings the warm water to our shores, shuts off, we could face a new ice age within 10 years of it happening.)

zippy 99

Pascal14 wrote: »

Does anybody know who funded this video?

Good post.

When big business gives away dvd's for free eyebrows are surley raised.

Them seem to see this film as a loss leader.

luckat

Big business gives away DVDs for free? Citation needed...

zippy 99

luckat wrote: »

Big business gives away DVDs for free? Citation needed...

Read that link posted above. Schools in the Uk getting free dvd's.

Why cant they give them dvd's of cartoons or something, you know a child might like that.

luckat

zippy 99 wrote: »

Read that link posted above. Schools in the Uk getting free dvd's.

Why cant they give them dvd's of cartoons or something, you know a child might like that.

The link to the Rupert Murdoch owned tabloid?

zippy 99

luckat wrote: »

The link to the Rupert Murdoch owned tabloid?

Is it? What your point

luckat

As you say, zippy 99, it's probably best to give children cartoons to watch instead. In fact, why bother offering any education - children probably would prefer to play computer games.