For eight years former VP Al Gore stood at the second most powerful pulpit in the world. During that period little progress was made in the fight against global warming and climate change. Since then Mr. Gore has made a movie - Inconvenient Truth - that tells a powerful story about the threat of Global Warming to our planet. This movie has grossed nearly $25,000,000. At $8.00 a ticket that means that over 3,000,000 people got into their fossil fuel burning mini vans, cars or trucks and drove anywhere from 5 to 25 miles to learn about Global Warming. Let’s say that everyone drove on the average 10 miles to get to their local Cineplex. That means Inconvenient Truth produced 17,000 tons of CO2. I will go ahead and assume that everyone also drove back from the theater for a grand total of 34,000 tons of CO2. I know it may be a little lower because I have to assume that Ed Bagley Jr. drove his electric car.
Maybe next time we should just call the Discovery Channel! That would be a more convenient truth for our planet!
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