An Inconvenient Truth

I'm afraid I don't know for sure but I know that it is only being shown in "select" cinemas, it is being shown in Edingburgh, London and Manchester and I haven't seen any mention of elsewhere. I am very disappointed about this as I live in Birmingham. I am sure it will arrive in Ireland but as such an important film, I think it should be shown at all cinemas and that school children should get to see it too.
 
I've seen it already, there was a free members screening at our local cinema a couple of weeks ago.
it is a good, thought provoking film, I hope more people get to see it. :)
 
I don't know about Ireland, but it's on from today in London and nationwide from next Friday. You can also put Oxford down on the list of places showing the film.
 
I have heard the film is excellent and although it is shocking it is riveting viewing. The Odeon only seems to have it on in Central London but I intend to make the trip myself this week.
 
Saw it tonight - the only depressing thing was that the cinema was almost empty.

As Empire said, considering this is a film of a slideshow of a failed politician, it is nothing short of miraculous that it is better than good. Extremely well put together, never once dipping into boredom, restrained rather than manipulative but overwhelming simply due to force and quantity of argument.

Should be compulsory viewing for the whole planet, really.
 
I also saw it last night, in Aberdeen, and found it fascinating. I went home and had an argument with my husband who doesn't believe that global warming is an issue (he hadn't been to see it with me) so today I found Roger Ebert's review and sent it to him.

I had no idea that Al Gore had been involved with the issue from when he entered the senate, and it was great to see a politician (albeit a former one) speak about something he is obviously so passionate about.
 
That's the sort of thing that annoys me. Scientist have been warning of global warming for twenty years, but because of special interest groups the information has been ignored by much of the general public (especially in the likes of the US). Even when results of studies in the last year have pretty much proven something is going very badly wrong, there's still the pressure groups working away trying to block the information. I've not seen this film, but plan to have a look at it when it reaches DVD...
 
Yes, exactly - Gore has a section on this in the film. On a meta-analysis of 925 scientifc peer-reviewed articles on global warming, 0% were in disagreement on the main findings. On a meta-analysis of media articles on it, 57% were in disagreement or called the evidence ambiguous. This deliberate misinformation and, well, lies (not the conspiracy theorist nutty stuff, but propaganda against unanimous, unchallenged scientific evidence) could be a legacy of Bush's even more horrific than the war on terror.
 
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