Take your Chinese shoes and get out of here.
An Inconvenient Truth was released on DVD yesterday, so while I was at BestBuy picking up an Xmas gift, I snagged it and watched it last night. The movie is a documentary on Global Warming. No deep plot lines or character development, no explosions or frontal nudity...just a documentary, yet it still managed a 93% rating at Rotten Tomatos (136
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Before watching this, I would have made the identical argument. But when you see the CO2 levels and temperatures that go back hundreds of thousands of years (by "reading" the ice cores in Antarctica), you can see how the two are directly related. It's probably the most disturbing environmentally-related piece I've ever seen.
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I wouldn't compare the observations of a century past (regardless of source) to the scientific capabilities of today that are able to accurately trace temperature differences to less then a tenth of a degree all the way back to 650,000 years ago, spanning six known cycles of glaciation (mini ice ages). That said, I still like your analogy...heh. Since you were kind enough to send me one of your mix CD's a few years back, if I can find a way to copy this, would you like one? I'm not one to preach (and it's not my intention), but I've seldomly (read: never) seen a piece that so clearly shifted my thinking on something that I considered so unprovable.
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Nicely Googled. As a note, best old-school kung-fu movie....ever (one of Jet Li's earlier works).
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