For some reason, I took the time to watch all the special features on the "An Inconvenient Truth" DVD. I wanted to get some insight into what these people could possibly have been thinking.
As I suspected, it sounds like Al Gore himself provided essentially all of the "scientific thinking" behind this movie. It appears that producer Laurie David and director Davis Guggenheim just gulped down all of "hero" Al Gore's claims without question. After all, since Gore has given this slide presentation so very many times, he must know what he's talking about!
It sounds like the people working on the film sincerely believed this stuff, speaking of "tearing up" at the end, etc. They sound extremely grateful to be part of this wonderful movie, which they really did see as critical in "saving the world" from catastrophe.
David, Guggenheim, etc sound absolutely sure that the science is on their side, with "every scientific article" saying that catastrophic warming was a "fact". Deniers must be funded by Big Oil; they are compared to people who believe the Earth is flat or who don't believe in gravity.
To these people, it seems that Hurricane Katrina provided absolutely rock-solid confirmation of the dangers of CO2. They evidently had no idea of the devastating storms that occurred well before the invention of the SUV or the beer fridge.
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