We just watched "An Inconvenient Truth" - thoughts?

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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
spoke-, yeah but’s just going to last a week and it’s the first big storm they’ve had in years.
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I know. I’m just joking. :wink:

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[QUOTE=Subterraneanus]
And maybe it’s due to Intelligent Wobbling. Maybe there are purple elephants dancing the Watusi on the far side of the moon. Maybe Anna Nicole Smith is still alive, munching on apple fritters in a diner somewhere with Elvis. Maybe the internet is just a silly, silly place.

Is there a climatologist in the house?
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Where did this come from? I thought I made a good point? Please explain this rant.

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[QUOTE=solkoe]
Where did this come from? I thought I made a good point? Please explain this rant.
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You’re postulating influences that have somehow escaped the notice of every climate scientist in the last fifty years or so, instead of anthropogenic global warming, which is accepted by virtually every reputable scientist on the planet who knows anything about it. Does that help?

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[QUOTE=choie]
I thought the frog was supposed to be pure metaphor, not part of the science of the film.

Actually, what pissed me off about that damn boiling frog is that they saved it – much to the audible relief of the entire theater audience, I might add – but didn’t do the same for the poor polar bear! Dayum! Did Stephen Colbert write this film or what?

(Don’t get me wrong, I wanted the frog to get out alive, but seeing that polar bear pathetically trying to crawl up onto a melting ice floe was heartwrenching.)
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Bah! We’ve got the Coca-Cola polar bears, but nobody’s had a famous frog since Frogger. :wink:

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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Bah! We’ve got the Coca-Cola polar bears, but nobody’s had a famous frog since Frogger. :wink:
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Budweiser Frogs?

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[QUOTE=choie]
I thought the frog was supposed to be pure metaphor, not part of the science of the film.

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I think the frog cartoon was intended to show by example that if a frog will sit in a gradually-warming pot until it is cooked, humans might suffer a similar fate if they don’t do something about global warming.

So if the premise is false, and frogs do no such thing, I’m afraid the example doesn’t work well as a metaphor, either.