'Everything's Cool': The global warming coverup exposed

In an eco-film hitting theaters now, Al Gore looks 20 years younger -- because he is, in footage from 1988.

"Everything's Cool," a new doc from the producers of "Blue Vinyl" (which I reviewed here) features Gore, enviro-activist Bill McKibben, and many scientists who started talking 'bout global warming in the '80s -- and were ignored or censored -- to illustrate the "most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action."

While everyone but a few bizarro holdouts agrees that global warming's a reality now, the scientific findings about global warming were long silenced, especially under the Bush administration. In "Everything's Cool," we hear about the political censorship of the reality of global warming from candid interviews with Ross Gelbspan, author of "The Heat is On," and Rick Piltz, former senior associate in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program who resigned in March 2005, citing political interference in the program's climate change reports.

Unfortunately for the release of this film, global warming and the political scuffle behind it isn't exactly news anymore. And for a film self-dubbed a "toxic comedy," "Everything's Cool" wasn't very funny.

Still, seeing the hypocrisy of the government exposed on film is somewhat gratifying. And the film does illustrate how much time we've unfortunately lost in the fight against global warming -- and how fast we need to act now.

"Everything's Cool" is now playing at the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex  in downtown LA. (Watch the trailer here) The DVD comes out on Dec. 11 -- packaged in 100% post-consumer recycled material.

Image courtesy of City Lights Media

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[chris]

I continue to be annoyed by the name of this blog. Seattle is the Emerald City. This blog is not about Seattle. Ach! Cognitive dissonance!

[Siel]

You'll get over it.