Al Gore’s fight against global warming

The New York Times : When Al Gore wrote Earth in the Balance , his book on climate change in the late 1980s, President Bush acused Gore of being so environmentally extreme in the 1992 presidential election, that “we’ll be up to our necks n owls and out of work for every American.” Despite presenting numoerous lectures on climate change and his close involvement in formulating the 1998 Kyoto Climate Change Protocol , Al Gore laments on being unable so far to awaken the public to what he calls a “planetary emergency” despite evidence that heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases are warming the earth, and even after Hurricane Katrina and Europe’s deadly 2003 heat wave, which he calls a foretaste of much worse to come. Al Gore’s views are presented in a new documentary called “An Inconvenient Truth.” The film, basically a version of a lecture the ex-Vice President has given is reviewed in the New York Times.According to the review

In interviews and e-mail exchanges, many climate specialists who have seen the film quibbled about details but tended to agree with Eric Steig, a University of Washington geochemist who posted his reactions at the Web log realclimate.org after a recent Seattle screening: “The small errors don’t detract from Gore’s main point, which is that we in the United States have the technological and institutional ability to have a significant impact on the future trajectory of climate change.”