Last night I saw for the first time, “An Inconvenient Truth”. As I knew the issues regarding Climate Change already when the film was released, I saw no point in wasting money that I did not have at the time it was released. Then when it became popular or notorious depending upon your view point, I did not want the thinking of others to colour my own thinking or research.
However, I wanted to see the film and had tried to get it on DVD. But last night it was on television. It was the same channel that showed the fake documentary casting doubt on Climate Change. So as it was shown after the film “The Day After Tomorrow” I was concerned that the station was still following a more subtle agenda. That of suggesting that Climate Change is and should be regarded as a fiction, just like any Hollywood Fiction.
I watched it and enjoyed it, Al Gore is an entertaining speaker. I did not learn anything new, but it was interesting to see the way the science was presented. I also realised that much of my own research was redundant as it had already been done. However, only by being confident that my research was sound have I been able to counter the many attacks that I get from people who will not accept the facts.
Then this morning when I turn on the computer to discover the environmental news, the majority of the time the media is so fixated on political and celebrity gossip that real news gets ignored or marginalised. Well the long feared break up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf has started.
I firmly believe that we will see a sudden and damaging rise in sea levels. While the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the sea and will not create a rise in sea levels, there have been seven Ice Shelves that have collapsed in the Antarctic already. In each case it has allowed the land based ice, the glaciers to flow into the sea easier.
While the attention is focused upon economic bad news and the peccadilloes of the elected, the environmental problems are still there. We ignore them at our peril.
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