While pro-growth interests dominate all major political parties the threat of climate change will be ignored. What government would stop the doze and develop vandalism of bushland or productive farmland for reasons other than to give their own interests a commercial advantage? What government would stop low lying development threatened by sea level rise when it is so profitable? What government would consider cutting immigration or the baby bonus when this would only stop the house price spiral and the huge stresses on water supply and other infrastructure?

The alleged scaremongering and misrepresentation by Al Gore on climate change does not even approach the “Australia is doomed without huge population growth.” scaremongering and misrepresentation from pro-growth interests.

So Gore's movie gets scientific support? I would have expected big Al
got the support before he made the movie.It's all a propaganda war with impartial analysis long forgotten.Funding can best be raised by headlines,and headlines best generated by extreme/scary pickings from selectively winnowed statistics and poor analogies.
The average Arctic temperatures on record for the 1930s were higher than 2005/06 but we are shuffling a stacked deck of stats going back only 27 years probably to make sure the alarmists get their ammunition.

Other say that the movie is Misleading, Exagerrated Speculative and Wrong.

Have a look at http://www.cei.org , and the On Point piece. Even if this document is also only half right it sort of pulls the rug from under the Goreaphiles.

After all Gore has has other fish to fry in promoting this, in the same way Mike Rann is seeking the President of the ALP job and therefore currying favour with the greenies by stumping up his AGW credentials.

The climate is still a chaotic system and with chaotic systems doing nothing has the same probability of an adverse outcome than doing something. For the CSIRO to say they can predict with some certainty what is going to happen in 50 years time is just nonsense.

But when they cant model either the effect clouds and the sun properly then it is a delusion bordering on fraud.

All I can say to those who maintain that nothing is wrong with global climate and no action is needed - be prepared to face up to the victims in years to come.

Be prepared to face the drought stricken farmers, the innundated Bangladeshis, hurricane-stricken victims in the tropics, those hundreds of thousands stricken with the spread of tropical diseases, Pacific peoples whose islands are submerged.

When you see grieving parents whose children have died from these causes, it is no longer possible to glibly assert the problem is not real.

Climate sceptics are like German people 50 years ago who subconsciously knew about the holocaust, but denied it was happening. The weren't strickly being ammoral, they were just in a state of chronic denial because the issue was too big for them to psychologically handle.

For those people who suffer (or will suffer) from climate change events, this issue is not an academic plaything, it is real stuff. Life and death stuff. The numbers of environmental refugees in the world are climbing on an annual basis.

Be prepared to look all these people fair and square in the eye and say there is no problem.

Gore has an unstated and very significant agenda item - he will be running for U.S. President in 2008 and he needs to change the American political agenda away from terrorists and security to environmental disaster. Gore's political party, the Democrats, are viewed as the party more likely to address environmental issues than the Republicans.

An Inconvenient Truth is a movie that everyone should see. This movie will have more influence than any other in history.

There is a book called 1001 movies you must see. This is the 1 movie you must see.

The presentation is first class. It is both straightforward and insightful. It captures the attention of those with little interest in science. It provides plenty of information for those who want the facts laid out. I thought I thoroughly knew this issue, and found there was much more I needed to know.

I encourage everyone to see this movie. I believe it is still playing in all major cinemas. You'll be very glad you did.