An Inconvenient Truth through Peak Oil
I just returned from watching the film "An Inconvenient Truth" about global warming leading to climate change due to industrial civilizations release of greenhouse gasses. Al Gore does a very good job of getting several points across. He even had some facts an analysis that I hadn't learned about.
I didn't know that when the Ross B ice shelf disintigrated, it did so in a bunch of little chunks, rather than a big sheet. I also didn't know that at the end of the last ice age in North America that the great ice-melt lake, covering most of Canada, drained into the Atlantic, sending Europe into a mini-ice age. I didn't know that Gore had been working this education campaign for so long.
The graph of CO2 levels over 650,000 years; along with the figures of peer reviewed papers contradicting global warming, were both extremely memorable and excellent tools when anyone expresses schepticism. Gore also did well in showing how climate change impacts different areas of the world differently: impacting the poles more severely, and altering global rainfall patterns.
"An Inconveneient Truth" is a film that every American should see, not only due to both the information on global warming, but also because of the background on Gore. He lost a razor thin race for President in 2000. I for one would be interested in seeing him run again in 2008.
While watching, I was thinking to myself about how all of this relates to Peak Oil and the campaign to raise awareness of Peak Oil. Educating the public about Peak Oil is in ways more difficult than global warming because Peak Oil has gained so little mainstream media attention. Peak Oil, as others have pointed out, is rather un-intuitive.
I'm going to keep thinking on this... More later.
I didn't know that when the Ross B ice shelf disintigrated, it did so in a bunch of little chunks, rather than a big sheet. I also didn't know that at the end of the last ice age in North America that the great ice-melt lake, covering most of Canada, drained into the Atlantic, sending Europe into a mini-ice age. I didn't know that Gore had been working this education campaign for so long.
The graph of CO2 levels over 650,000 years; along with the figures of peer reviewed papers contradicting global warming, were both extremely memorable and excellent tools when anyone expresses schepticism. Gore also did well in showing how climate change impacts different areas of the world differently: impacting the poles more severely, and altering global rainfall patterns.
"An Inconveneient Truth" is a film that every American should see, not only due to both the information on global warming, but also because of the background on Gore. He lost a razor thin race for President in 2000. I for one would be interested in seeing him run again in 2008.
While watching, I was thinking to myself about how all of this relates to Peak Oil and the campaign to raise awareness of Peak Oil. Educating the public about Peak Oil is in ways more difficult than global warming because Peak Oil has gained so little mainstream media attention. Peak Oil, as others have pointed out, is rather un-intuitive.
I'm going to keep thinking on this... More later.