There are people on here that have much more expertise in this area than me so I wanted to ask for views on the movie. I just saw it yesterday and it really shook me up. I am curious if there were any questionable facts in the movie.

I'm more interested in what others thought especially those with some scientific education.

Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Movie: Fact or Hype? - from the National Geographic website.

The 'free DVDs for schools' story.

Christian Science Monitor movie review

One questionable fact, at least:

'[Richard Harris, NPR science correspondent] says Gore -- and the film -- get the "big picture" on climate change right. On some of the finer points, though, Harris says there is still scientific debate. And that sometimes isn't reflected as clearly in An Inconvenient Truth.

The reason behind the melting of Mount Kilimanjaro's snows is an example of this. As Harris notes, the snows have been melting since the turn of the last century. This may possibly be because of decreased rainfall, not increased temperatures, as Gore argues.' www.npr.org

Aside: I am just re-reading Rachel Carson's wonderful book The Sea Around Us and it occurred to me there is an explanation why global warming results in more storms, and more violent storms.

The ocean currents are not 2-dimensional, or restricted to the surface waters. There are powerful deep currents, which exchange dense, heavy water (cold and full of salts) with warmer surface water.

So as surface water warms, the pattern of the influence of these upwelling waters would without a doubt affect the surface waters, paradoxically making them cooler. In turn the atmospheric conditions above the surface would be much affected.

And earth's surface is 80% water.

To me, the most striking part of the movie, which nimn's article points to, is the melting of the artic ice masses. Because I live in Chicago next to a Great lake, I understand the great effect a cool body of water has on our climate in a micro sense. When I think of the amount of sunlight reflected by the polar ice, and that it's starting to melt at an alarming rate it truely terrifies me. It just seems to me that we're taking away our air conditioner for the planet and leading ourselves into ruin.

I am really freaked out because the rate of melt should theoretically increase with every bit of ice that melts... it seems like it anyway.

The view against the movie, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth

Some of the objections are kinda lame, but some seem to carry more weight.

(Exx-Cons)