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America: From the Road of Freedom to the streets of fascism documentary trailer publishing the month that the documentary will be published on which is sometime on November of this year of 2011.
Description: Discover how America is being fundamentally transformed from a free republic and even a democracy to a complete fascist dictatorship police state run by a tiny elite. Watch this film to learn the truth about where power grabbing started beginning in this country.
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50 Documentaries To See Before You Die presents an exclusive interview with Al Gore on The Inconvenient Truth.
Former Vice President Al Gore is Chairman and co-founder of Current Media. He also serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. Al Gore is chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit he founded to educate citizens in the U.S. and around the world about solutions to the climate crisis. He is a member of the board of directors of Apple, a senior adviser to Google, a partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and is a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis and is the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Al Gore is the co-winner, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”
50 Documentaries To See Before You Die airs every Tuesday in August at 10pm
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The New York Times
December 21, 2010
A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
By JUSTIN GILLIS
PART ONE…
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii — Two gray machines sit inside a pair of utilitarian buildings here, sniffing the fresh breezes that blow across thousands of miles of ocean.
They make no noise. But once an hour, they spit out a number, and for decades, it has been rising relentlessly.
The first machine of this type was installed on Mauna Loa in the 1950s at the behest of Charles David Keeling, a scientist from San Diego. His resulting discovery, of the increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, transformed the scientific understanding of humanity’s relationship with the earth. A graph of his findings is inscribed on a wall in Washington as one of the great achievements of modern science.
Yet, five years after Dr. Keeling’s death, his discovery is a focus not of celebration but of conflict. It has become the touchstone of a worldwide political debate over global warming.
When Dr. Keeling, as a young researcher, became the first person in the world to develop an accurate technique for measuring carbon dioxide in the air, the amount he discovered was 310 parts per million. That means every million pints of air, for example, contained 310 pints of carbon dioxide.
By 2005, the year he died, the number had risen to 380 parts per million. Sometime in the next few years it is expected to pass 400. Without stronger action to limit emissions, the number could pass 560 before the end of the century, double what it was before the Industrial Revolution.
The greatest question in climate science is: What will that do to the temperature of the earth?
Scientists have long known that carbon dioxide traps heat at the surface of the planet. They cite growing evidence that the inexorable rise of the gas is altering the climate in ways that threaten human welfare.
Fossil fuel emissions, they say, are like a runaway train, hurtling the world’s citizens toward a stone wall — a carbon dioxide level that, over time, will cause profound changes.
The risks include melting ice sheets, rising seas, more droughts and heat waves, more flash floods, worse storms, extinction of many plants and animals, depletion of sea life and — perhaps most important — difficulty in producing an adequate supply of food. Many of these changes are taking place at a modest level already, the scientists say, but are expected to intensify.
Reacting to such warnings, President George Bush committed the United States in 1992 to limiting its emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. Scores of other nations made the same pledge, in a treaty that was long on promises and short on specifics.
But in 1998, when it came time to commit to details in a document known as the Kyoto Protocol, Congress balked. Many countries did ratify the protocol, but it had only a limited effect, and the past decade has seen little additional progress in controlling emissions.
Many countries are reluctant to commit themselves to tough emission limits, fearing that doing so will hurt economic growth. International climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, this month ended with only modest progress. The Obama administration, which came into office pledging to limit emissions in the United States, scaled back its ambitions after climate and energy legislation died in the Senate this year.
Challengers have mounted a vigorous assault on the science of climate change. Polls indicate that the public has grown more doubtful about that science. Some of the Republicans who will take control of the House of Representatives in January have promised to subject climate researchers to a season of new scrutiny.
One of them is Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California. In a recent Congressional hearing on global warming, he said, “The CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rather undramatic.”
But most scientists trained in the physics of the atmosphere have a different reaction to the increase.
“I find it shocking,” said Pieter P. Tans, who runs the government monitoring program of which the Mauna Loa Observatory is a part. “We really are in a predicament here, and it’s getting worse every year.”
As the political debate drags on, the mute gray boxes atop Mauna Loa keep spitting out their numbers, providing a reality check: not only is the carbon dioxide level rising relentlessly, but the pace of that rise is accelerating over time.
“Nature doesn’t care how hard we tried,” Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Columbia University economist, said at a recent seminar. “Nature cares how high the parts per million mount. This is running away.”
CONTINUED…The New York Times
December 21, 2010
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The new documentary Cool It from acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner (DiG!, We Live in Public) is a breath of fresh air for anyone sick and tired of the fear-based approach to fighting climate change. With the help of Bjørn Lomborg — the Danish environmentalist and author with which she co-wrote the film — Timoner’s Cool It acts as a rebuttal of sorts to Al Gore‘s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Lomborg is author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, in which he posited that much of the money that industrialized nations are pouring into the fight against climate change is being ill-spent.
The film was born out of what Lomborg saw as a lack of a middle ground, “The whole climate debate has been marred by the fact that just two positions have been viewed as acceptable: either you are a climate change denier or you are Al Gore and the world is coming to an end,” told the Agence France-Presse. Lomborg does not deny that climate change is happening, in fact his entire argument is based on the fact that climate change is very real — the difference between Lomborg and others is that he believes that we’re not doing the right things to combat it. Cool It acts as a vessel for Lomborg’s ideology, in it he calls out the alarmists and fear-mongers in the climate change debate and explores practical alternatives to current models.
Read more: http://www.enviralment.ca/2010/11/18/required-viewing-cool-it-takes-a-pragmatic-look-at-fighting-climate-change/The new documentary Cool It from acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner (DiG!, We Live in... more
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Best movies ever is curious to see Waiting For Superman as we love documentaries, and this is one that’s sure to get people riled up with the upcoming elections. Naturally it’s the people behind An Inconvenient Truth to stir the pot!Best movies ever is curious to see Waiting For Superman as we love documentaries, and... more
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Sorta weird how this became the globe-trotter episode. I’d seen BABIES a few weeks ago and was going to go with it as the sole focus of the show, then late last week I stumbled onto BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO and — despite the little voice whispering ever so delicately in the back of my head, “YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BACK OFF THE WORKLOAD, M*TH*F***A!” — I realized I had to cover it as well. Hence, another double-up ep for ya (and just so you’re braced, we’ll be doing it again the week following next).
What changed my mind about BEETLE QUEEN was debuting director Jessica Oreck’s approach to the subject of Japan’s seemingly nationwide fascination for insects. Oreck, who’s also an animal keeper and docent at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, lays the motivations out neatly — turns out much of Japanese culture is rooted historically in the observation and appreciation of creepy, crawly things — and examines how that veneration plays out in contemporary society through a healthy collector’s subculture; commercially marketed supplies for both the support and preservation of pet bugs; and vending machines that dispense live creatures into the eager clutches of the nation’s children (Japan, remember?). But then she takes it further, absorbing the animistic outlook of Shinto and such concepts as mono no aware and using them to model the film as a meta-presentation of the philosophies that drive the country’s appreciation of the natural world. More than just simple nature film or an anthropological examination, BEETLE QUEEN becomes the attitude itself, and a fascinating immersion into another society’s vision of the world.
Director Thomas Balmès has a much simpler mission in BABIES, but with a somewhat similar goal: Travel the world, capture on film the first year-or-so of four babies from markedly different corners of the world, and let the viewer examine what in those initial months are universal, and what is markedly different. The four societies Balmès selects — a tribal group in Namibia; a farming family in Mongolia; and parents in urbane San Francisco and two-minutes-into-the-future Tokyo (again) — all form distinctive incubators for their newest residents. Yet for all that the environments leave their marks on these kids (in one particularly indelible moment, the overstimulated Japanese baby suffers a grand mal meltdown within a nest of playthings), what stands out most is how closely the recently arrived experience their entry into the world. That may not be a revolutionary concept, but it does make for a viewing experience that extends beyond just the obligatory, “Awwwwww.” (But you will probably go, “Awwwwww,” at least once.)
Click on the link to hear the interviews:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-persons/mighty-movie-podcast-emba_b_568738.htmlSorta weird how this became the globe-trotter episode. I’d seen BABIES a few... more
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Rapidly melting Arctic sea ice is changing the world's weather, releasing contaminants into the food chain and threatening the survival of whales and polar bears, a massive international study on climate change has found.
Some 300 scientists from 27 countries spent months on an icebreaker in 2009 studying the effect of climate change in the Arctic and they released their preliminary results Friday at a youth summit in Winnipeg.
David Barber, one of the world's top Arctic researchers, said the rapid sea-ice melt is affecting everything from polar bears to micro-organisms.
"We know we're losing sea ice. The world is all aware of that," said Barber, who holds the Canada research chair in Arctic science at the University of Manitoba. "What you're not aware of is that it has impacts on everything else that goes on in this system. We're just starting to understand that from a scientific perspective."
The expedition discovered there is more open water than ever before in the Arctic, he said. That is creating more cyclones - Arctic storms, characterized by snow and high winds.
The storms further erode the sea ice crucial to the region's ecosystem.
"Those storms are having a very dramatic impact on the sea ice - they are melting the ice from underneath," Barber said. "The other thing the cyclones do is they bring winds with them. Those winds remove snow from the surface but they also break up the ice as well."
Scientists found the loss of that sea ice has both far-reaching and immediate consequences, from boosting temperatures further south to threatening whales and releasing toxic contaminants.
Steve Ferguson, who studied marine mammals on the expedition, said the melting ice has removed a barrier that once kept killer whales and other predators from entering the Arctic. Now there are more killer whales in the region and the loss of ice means there are fewer safe havens from the predator, he said.
Polar bears and other species who live on the ice are running out of room, he added.
"I think we will have ice for a long time, at least for part of the year, but it may only be located in a certain area in the world," said Ferguson, a biologist at the University of Manitoba. "These species are going to be crowded into a small area so that's going to be challenging."
The eroding ice is also threatening mammals in another way - by releasing contaminants into the Arctic food chain. Gary Stern, who studied the level of PCBs and mercury on the expedition, said the contaminants latch on to the increased carbon in the surface water, which is drawn downwards.
The contaminants are then consumed by zooplankton, fish and, eventually, beluga whales.Rapidly melting Arctic sea ice is changing the world's weather, releasing... more
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CHICAGO IL On Tuesday, November 24th 2009, We Are Change Chicago attended a book signing with former vice president Al Gore, at the Borders Bookstore on 150 N. State Street.CHICAGO IL On Tuesday, November 24th 2009, We Are Change Chicago attended a book... more
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Apparently, Al Gore has given plenty of speeches over the past four years promoting his agenda driven documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘. And amazingly, not once has he allowed a question and answer period afterward.
Well, at long last, at the The Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Madison, Wisconsin last week, Mr. Gore opted for a question & answer, and "environmental journalist" Phelim McAleer, the director of Not Evil Just Wrong, jumped at the opportunity to ask Al Gore about the British Court Case that found his documentary (An Inconvenient Truth) had nine significant errors.
What followed was a quick but classic verbal tennis match of what happens when truth speaks to power.
Here’s the scoop from the "Not Evil Just Wrong" blog:
Al Gore & The Death of Journalism
Written by Not Evil Just Wrong
The Society of Environmental Journalists spent much of its conference in Madison, Wis., questioning why mainstream journalism is dying.
Then they answered their own question when they decided it was their role to protect Al Gore from An Inconvenient Question.
Phelim McAleer, the director of Not Evil Just Wrong, asked Al Gore about the British Court Case that found his documentary An Inconvenient Truth had nine significant errors.
McAleer said that given his documentary is being shown in schools, does he accept the errors and has he done anything to correct them?
However, Gore declined to address the issue and when asked for a straight answer from McAleer, the response of the Society of Enironmental Journalists was not to applaud one of their own for bringing truth to power, but instead they cut the mic of a journalist.
It seems it is more important to protect a wealthy politician/businessman than to allow a journalist to ask inconvenient questions.
And they wonder why no one wants to buy their journalism.
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I will post the nine above mentioned (and rather major) errors in the comments section. Reply to the comment to say what you think about that specific question.Apparently, Al Gore has given plenty of speeches over the past four years promoting... more
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On Friday at The Society Of Environmental Journalists conference, Al Gore got caught up in the increasingly common "town hall" moment with independent filmmaker Phelim McAleer. McAleer is making a documentary titled "Not Evil Just Wrong," which will attempt to debunk global warming by labeling such concerns "hysteria." McAleer starts the video stating he's going to ask Gore "tough questions," and during the Q & A starts aggressively questioning Gore about inconsistencies in An Inconvenient Truth and whether he accepts the British High Court's ruling that the film contains errors. McAleer goes on to badger Gore about polar bear statistics until he's asked to stop and then his mike is cut.
Watch how the former vice president reacts and the argument that ensues.On Friday at The Society Of Environmental Journalists conference, Al Gore got caught... more
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Shelley Pack and Sarah Norton, Planet Green's "Keep it Green Girls" give the cliffnotes version of their favorite movie!Shelley Pack and Sarah Norton, Planet Green's "Keep it Green Girls"... more
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Paul Watson dropped out of Greenpeace because he felt they weren’t doing enough to protect whales from fleets hunting in supposedly protected seas. He founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and over the years has become the bane of whalers — Japanese in particular — by employing confrontational tactics that start at stink bombs (did somebody have a bad experience in high school?), run through fouling props, and don’ t rule out rammings, if necessary. Are they controversial? Well, Greenpeace doesn’t like dealing with them. Does it make for a riveting documentary? Yup, no question.
In AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, director Dan Stone (exec producer of Animal Planet’s WHALE WARS, which also focuses on Sea Shepherd) follows Watson and forty-six volunteers as they track down and challenge a fleet of Japanese whalers hunting in the protected waters of the Antarctic — the “edge of the world” mentioned in the title. With two ships, one built to handle the treacherous, icy waters but not capable of much speed, the other fast enough but lacking the ruggedness; a bunch of amateurs for a crew; and tracking equipment that’s largely a notch up from a game of Marco Polo, Watson dares to take on ships larger and more formidable, and Stone has found the material for a dramatic, beautifully photographed demonstration of how some people are willing to risk their lives to protect an endangered species.
I was able to talk to Stone and his cinematographer, James Joyner. They were willing to clue me in on why one shouldn’t necessarily trust a Japanese vessel labeled “Research,” and how there are few safe ports in the world for those who would entertain extreme measures to come to the aid of the dwindling whale population.
Click on the link above to hear the interview.Paul Watson dropped out of Greenpeace because he felt they weren’t doing enough... more
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Who the hell didn’t love FLIPPER? Cute ‘n’ cuddly (and how many sea creatures do you know get to claim those adjectives?), the titular bottle-nose dolphin of the classic sixties TV show was a real Up with People kinda mammal. You may not remember any of the specific episodes (didn’t most of them have to do with Bud and Sandy being held hostage by bank robbers?), but the image of fun-loving Flipper gliding through the water, dancing on the surface, and just plain grooving on life was indelibly printed on many a child’s memory (mine included).
Flash forward forty-plus years. In Taiji, Japan, dolphins are herded into an isolated cove. The best get sold to sea parks and aquariums, the rest are killed for their meat, while Ric O’Barry, the man who captured and trained the original Flippers (there were five of them), resolves to expose the atrocity to the world. THE COVE — directed by photographer, environmental activist, and Oceanic Preservation Society co-founder Louie Psihoyos — tells the tale of O’Barry’s quest to get the goods on the Taiji fishermen, a quest that takes an unexpectedly global turn when it’s discovered that dolphin meat, including that coming from the cove, is tainted with lethal levels of mercury.
Psihoyos knows how to build a story, and the film — as most of the publicity points out — plays like a real-life OCEAN’S ELEVEN. He’s also passionate about his environmental cause, and our conversation as a result was an interesting mix that covered the film itself and its underlying issues. Click on the link above to hear the interview.Who the hell didn’t love FLIPPER? Cute ‘n’ cuddly (and how many sea... more
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Today marks the centennial of the birthday of scientist and scholar Roger Revelle who was first to measure carbon dioxide in relation to global warming in Mauna Loa, Hawaii in the late 50s. A commemoration was held at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, with Al Gore receiving the Roger Revelle prize. Congratulations, Mr. Gore (I can only imagine how it must feel to receive a prize named after your mentor) and happy birthday to a great man in Roger Revelle who opened up our eyes to the effects of our actions.Today marks the centennial of the birthday of scientist and scholar Roger Revelle who... more
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The East Siberian Sea is bubbling with methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, being released from underwater reserves, according to a recent expedition by a Russian team.
This could be a sign that global warming is thawing underwater permafrost, which is releasing methane that has been locked away for many thousands of years.
If these methane emissions from the Arctic speed up, it could cause "really serious climate consequences," said study leader Igor Semiletov of the Pacific Oceanological Institute in Vladivostok, Russia.
"According to the data, more than 50 percent of the Arctic Siberian shelf is serving as a source of methane to the atmosphere," Semiletov said.
This vast shelf is about 750,000 square miles (2 million square kilometers)—about the same size as Greenland or Mexico—and about 80 percent of it is covered with permafrost, Semiletov said.The East Siberian Sea is bubbling with methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, being... more
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We replay our Jim Demint interview, the man leading the charge to drill now and leading the charge to halt the auto bailout. Skits on OBama, Blago, Al Gore, and more. Newscope notes. Follow this link to get the full transcript, including the audio and video clips.We replay our Jim Demint interview, the man leading the charge to drill now and... more
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You won't believe some of the things that Steven Chu has said...listen to Bill Collier's article from freedomist.orgYou won't believe some of the things that Steven Chu has said...listen to Bill... more
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