Originally posted by st00p1dfac3i saw him give the presentation live a couple of months ago - pretty much identical, i gather, to the movie.
Everyone should watch this, but ignore the BS personal side notes that Gore throws in there for a laugh...
i agree it's well worth watching; personally i enjoyed the anecdotal asides, from which my favourite line was: "you win some, you lose some... and then there's that lesser-known third category..."
Originally posted by Officer DibbleThe problem with the asides is that if you're trying to convince the oher side, you need to keep it clinical. The anecdotes open doors to "stupid left-wing democrat bleedin heart liberal" arguments. They're wrong, but it gives the inroads...
i saw him give the presentation live a couple of months ago - pretty much identical, i gather, to the movie.
i agree it's well worth watching; personally i enjoyed the anecdotal asides, from which my favourite line was: "you win some, you lose some... and then there's that lesser-known third category..."
...yes, the planet mars is gettting warmer....greenland used to have grass...i guess the sun is at it again...but if you really want to save the rainforests you should go to brasil and ask them to stop destroying the rain forest ( i don't think guys living in milwaukee are cutting down all those trees..i think it is someone with a hard hat named pedro )...
Originally posted by st00p1dfac3i'm in the uk and there aren't that many people around here who'd react like that - there's not much climate-change denial around. the audience i saw it with was full of distinguished scientists, for example, and none of the questions to gore afterwards suggested he might have got any of the science wrong.
The problem with the asides is that if you're trying to convince the oher side, you need to keep it clinical. The anecdotes open doors to "stupid left-wing democrat bleedin heart liberal" arguments. They're wrong, but it gives the inroads...
but rubberjaw has certainly demonstrated your point. following his posts in other threads, he'll be delighted to hear i'm nominating him for the biggest douche in the universe award.
Originally posted by reinfeldor gilberto, or juan, or fernando, or jose
...yes, the planet mars is gettting warmer....greenland used to have grass...i guess the sun is at it again...but if you really want to save the rainforests you should go to brasil and ask them to stop destroying the rain forest ( i don't think guys living in milwaukee are cutting down all those trees..i think it is someone with a hard hat named pedro )...
Originally posted by st00p1dfac3indeed. I really wondered why all that mushy stuff about his mom & dad was in it. but I suppose the americans wouldn't sit through 90 minutes of facts only, so they dumped the sentimental crap in to make it easier to digest.
The problem with the asides is that if you're trying to convince the oher side, you need to keep it clinical. The anecdotes open doors to "stupid left-wing democrat bleedin heart liberal" arguments. They're wrong, but it gives the inroads...
otherwise it was great.
...great ?...good science ?...the united nations report on global warming estimates millimeters of ocean rise in 50 years....mr. gore said
it is 20 feet...who do you think has the best science..the united nations or mr. gore ?...i am no scientist ( boy the sun is hot today )...so i leave it to the next 50 years...
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
This supermarket life is getting long
What is the half life of a colour TV
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
News hound sniffs the air
When Jessica Hahn goes down
He latches on to that symbol
Of detachment
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
Ooh western woman
Ooh western girl
And the children of Melrose
Strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough
And out in the valley warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens
No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry
Down to the very last breath
Bartender what is wrong with me
Why am I so out of breath
The captain said excuse me ma'am
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death
oh me oh my; scientists are shocked to report that the polar ice caps are melting three times faster than previously predicted; cell phones are killing off the bees whilst butterflies and bats are decreasing in number as we speak thus distorting cross-pollenization beyond redemption; gas prices will skyrocket through your pockets and into your goider; britney spears is a horrible mother figure; we're up for a global natural disaster by 2015 of biblical (pfft) perportions!
how do i know all this? cuz my newspaper told me so, and those guyz are my messengers from GOD
thats a fact, bro