Through the wonders of Netflix, I finally took the time and sat down to watch An Inconvenient Truth – staring Al Gore.  Golly, and what a star.  I though the movie was about global climate change – but it ended up being a movie about Al Gore’s ill-fated run for the presidency.  I also learned that Al used to grow and sell one of the deadliest drugs to hit the streets of the US – tobacco.  Gore also crashed the family car when he was much younger (perhaps the carbon fumes muddled his driving).  He also showed a poor anime polar bear suffering from the climatic changes – not sure why they couldn’t find a real polar bear – they could have borrowed one from LOST.  Oh – and beyond the story line staring Mr. Gore, there were some interesting points about “global warming.”  My favorite is:

Many years ago, all scientists were in agreement that the continents do not move – it was a “fact”.  For instance, the silly coincidence that the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa seemed to fit together like two puzzle pieces was dismissed as that – just a coincidence.  Now we now that the continents are constantly moving and have been drifting about the globe for billions of years.

Curious.  Well, according to Mr. Gore – pretty much the entire scientific community is convinced that “global warming” is a “fact”.

I think it would be safer to say that the more “facts” we seem to think we know – the better it is to question those “facts.”  It is 23 degrees and snowing in Fairfax, Virginia – an inconvenient truth.