D.C. Watch » Movie http://blog.getm.org The Official GETM.org Blog Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:11:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Story of Stuff http://blog.getm.org/2009/12/07/story-of-stuff/ http://blog.getm.org/2009/12/07/story-of-stuff/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:11:43 +0000 Moderator http://blog.getm.org/?p=124 Here’s an interesting story of stuff title “Story of Stuff”

Per the site, the Story of Stuff video is a “20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.”

Good watch and no doubt sheds light on some of our own idiosyncrasies that has become the norm.

]]> http://blog.getm.org/2009/12/07/story-of-stuff/feed/ 0 First it was Al Gore, Now Tom Brokaw! http://blog.getm.org/2006/07/10/first-it-was-al-gore-now-tom-brokaw/ http://blog.getm.org/2006/07/10/first-it-was-al-gore-now-tom-brokaw/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:52:17 +0000 Moderator http://blog.getm.org/?p=77 brokawAssociated Press reporter David Bauder interviewed the former NBC anchor, who said that after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Brokaw was impressed and wanted to pitch in his two cents. He said on talking about a new show on Discovery channel that premieres Sunday at 9 p.m., “It’s the same science that we are drawing upon and it’s irrefutable,” he said. “I thought there was too much of Gore, but that’s not my call. I thought it was very effectively done. To give credit to him, he’s been on this issue for a long period of time.”

Apparently, Brokaw’s wife, Meredith, is vice president of the environmental organization Conservation International. They’ve traveled to some of the places featured in the Discovery documentary, like Patagonia and Mongolia, and have seen firsthand the effects of global warming.

Patagonia? Mongolia? Do we need to go that far to figure out the effects of global warming, can’t he just tell by looking at his utility bills in summer!!!colbert

Well anyway, another liberal media mogul joining the “global warming awareness” crusade only makes for good…news. Who’ll be next, Stephen Colbert?
 

Read the complete interview: Associated Press by David Bauder
 

 

 

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]]> http://blog.getm.org/2006/07/10/first-it-was-al-gore-now-tom-brokaw/feed/ 0 Scientists OK Gore’s Movie http://blog.getm.org/2006/06/28/scientists-ok-gores-movie/ http://blog.getm.org/2006/06/28/scientists-ok-gores-movie/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:16:34 +0000 Moderator http://blog.getm.org/?p=71 aicI can understand people fussing about the ”Da Vinci Code”, that’s what religious zealots do. But “An Inconvenient Truth”?

In an unprecedented move, the nation’s top climate scientists gave 5 stars for Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, making it an historic first for scientific topping Ebert and Roeper who gave the movie a B-.
William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University said, “excellent, he got all the important material and got it right.” Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists read the book and saw a presentation said, “I sat there and I’m amazed at how thorough and accurate,” he continued, “After the presentation I said, `Al, I’m absolutely blown away. There’s a lot of details you could get wrong.’ … I could find no error.”

One exception amid the back patting was Brian Soden, a University of Miami professor of meteorology and oceanography, who said, “I thought the use of imagery from Hurricane Katrina was inappropriate and unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific consensus.”

Contrary to the academic praises, Dave White a columnist for movies.com said “OK, here’s my beef with Al Gore, and then I’ll talk about the film’s message: He’s a hypocrite. During the Clinton administration, the causes of global warming were chugging right along with help from the government. Global warming didn’t stop when the first Bush left the White House and start up again when the second Bush stole the place back for the Republicans. Gore himself gave the Tellico Dam project a waiver from the Endangered Species Act. George W. Bush might be a nightmare for the EPA, but the Democrats weren’t their wet dream by a long shot.”

Somehow, by the end of it all, I personally believe the debate should not be “whether the film was right or left wrong,” but rather “how to combat global warming,” after all the effects are felt by one and all, irrespective of how dramatized or underplayed it is in movies.

 

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