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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (69927)6/5/2006 10:47:59 AM
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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.

Al Gore is back in the news because of his new movie about global warming called "An Inconvenient Truth." He was one of the big attractions at the Cannes Film Festival where the movie was just screened. Now it's opening in American theaters. Reporting from Cannes, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote, "Gore is a surprisingly engaging vehicle for some very disturbing information."

Here's an example of disturbing information from Gore's companion book, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore writes "The voluminous evidence now strongly suggests that unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes including more and stronger storms like Hurricane Katrina. We are melting the North Polar ice cap and virtually all of the mountain glaciers in the world. We're destabilizing the massive mound of ice in Greenland and the equally enormous mass of ice cropped up on islands in west Antarctica, threatening a worldwide increase in sea levels of as much as 20 feet."

Gore's new movie and book are adapted from his multimedia presentation about global warming which he estimates he's given about a thousand times to audiences here and in other countries.

Al Gore, welcome back to FRESH AIR. You know, at the beginning of the movie, you say that you've been trying to tell this story about global warming for a long time and that you feel as if you've failed to get the message across. Why was it so difficult as a politician to get the message across?
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