An Incoveniant Truth

[Drunk Monk]

Dear Mick LaSalle: According to "An Inconvenient Truth," we're down to one alternative with regard to global warming. Would that be an alternative like Kyoto, which would trash our economy with unachievable reductions in greenhouse gases, while the Chinese burn as much fossil fuel as they please? Wikipedia says there is not a consensus among climatologists that human-generated gases are a significant cause of this undisputed warming. I checked.

TJ Pierce, Oakland

Dear TJ Pierce: Yours is one of about 20 e-mails, all expressing varying degrees of anger or skepticism, that I received the morning "An Inconvenient Truth" opened, before it played to a single paying customer. The movie answers every aspect of your question, so why not see it and form an opinion that way? Maybe you'll like the movie's answers; maybe you'll argue with them. But, in any case, you'll be informed. Frankly, I think you can argue with the movie until the cows come home, but those cows are coming home. The cowbells are tolling for thee and everybody else. But that's just my opinion. There's no reason you should care what I think, though you should certainly care what you think, and I mean think, not believe or feel or have a strong hunch about. Citizenship doesn't begin and end with checking Wikipedia.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...005&sc=578

BTW, there's a great Simpsons-like video in An Inconveniant Truth, just for people like TJ.