Reply #1: "Here's to Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth""

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Yet much of what Gore said in his 1993 book, "Earth in the Balance," has proven prophetic. His prescriptions -- increased mileage standards, wind power, appliances rated by the energy efficiency, hybrid cars -- are more practical than anything the government has done lately and are now widely accepted, even by the industries that fought them.

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The movie has a plot. If nothing is done, Wall Street will be underwater and Greenland will barely exist. Our own Glacier National Park, which even now has only a few glaciers left, will have none. Gore shows how Hurricane Katrina was a mild storm over Florida that grew to deadly intensity by the time it hit Louisiana and Mississippi after absorbing heat over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. More deadly storms are coming.

There still could be a happy ending if people like the president would sit still long enough to grasp the evidence. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush prefers science fiction to science.

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With all the needless death from a ill-conceived war, the wasteful corruption of sweetheart contracts in Iraq and New Orleans, debt and deficits as far as the eye can see, gas prices through the roof with no energy policy in sight, and with a president who delegates to incompetents and cronies, I'm ready to give the class nerd his due and raise a glass to a serious man. Here's to you, Al and a huge box-office gross.

pro-Bu$h = Anti-America (and a dead planet)