An Inconvenient Travesty
The opportunity presented itself recently to see a new action science-fiction film at the local cineplex. It had performed poorly at the box office despite its makers’ fervent hope and belief that it would be greeted with universal applause. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Luc Besson’s rendition of Valérian and Laureline that graced the screen — as this would have been infinitely preferable — but that travesty of Al Gore’s fevered imagination, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Very much like An Inconvenient Truth, the former vice president’s original climate propaganda film, Sequel is built on a shifting foundation of cherry-picked information, somewhat slick motion graphic charts, emotional hyperbole, and near-blasphemy (really).
The Faulty Foundation
The new movie is based on the same oversimplified and incorrect interpretation of the Earth’s climate system as the original. In keeping with leftist climate orthodoxy, it makes the assumption that at some arbitrary time in the past, the planet’s climate was in some hypothetically normal, natural, and static state. Then, clever people started burning things to make energy with which to power various devices. As a result, “climate pollution” (i.e., CO2) was pumped into the atmosphere with wanton abandon, trapping heat and kicking off rampant global warming.
To illustrate this point, Inconvenient Sequel does two things. First, it attempts to make the point that the Earth is warmer now that it has been previously, and abnormally so. Second, it points to a range of natural disasters and attributes them directly to global warming.
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