Cinema - An Inconvenient Truth

If you are the sort of person that leaves lights on, this film will make you go around turning them off. If you are the sort of person who enjoys budget flight European city breaks, this film will make you think about going local. If you are the sort of person who drives everywhere, this film will make you think about walking, or buying a bike. If you are the sort of person who buys foreign vegetables from the supermarket, this film will make you start getting a veggie-box from a local grower. If you are the sort of person who has any sort of social conscience, this film will make you change the way you behave. ‘An Inconvienient Truth’, in which former presidential candidate Al Gore gives out the bald details of the causes and effects of global warming, is the sort of film which is likely to change the way you live your life. Whether it'll help save the planet is another matter. Perhaps it's too late.

The powers behind the US government have tried to refute the global warming theory by paying lackey scientists to dispute the facts. But amongst bona fide scientists there is very little debate. "There is no controversy about these facts," says Gore in the film. "Out of 925 recent articles in peer-review scientific journals about global warming, there was no disagreement. Zero." He provides statistics; he gives evidence. It is all so very convincing. Don’t drive to the All Saints tonight: you might end up walking back. (Norman Baker MP will present tonight’s film, which is also screened on Friday, Sunday and Monday). DL