It makes me sick that Americans voted for this conservative administration which is backed by corporate interests and which cares not one iota for the health and well-being of this planet. Who are these people who advertise against Environmental protection as a response to the Green movement? I'll tell you who they are: they are George Bush cronies who can't be satisfied with simply destroying American life. They have to destroy human life as we know it, too. Have we all lost our minds? What is it going to take for people to educate themselves and stop living only for the next bag of Doritos and episode of American Idol? Nature is going to revolt and the only defense we'll have is a remote control and a really expensive (leased) car that doesn't work because it has no gas.

It's ironic that he has the nerve to title his documentary like this. Medical marijuana was an "inconvenient truth" that he couldn't deal with politically so went out on the campign trail and told a convenient lie.

I hope somebody is verifying the science in this documentary other than Gore and his political spin doctors.

To have full credibility, claims about global warming have to be religiously adherent to peer-reviewed, published science.

I love Gore's politics, but his history is one of placing ambition over science.

The Clinton administration was a studiously mendacious administration that disrespected science that did not serve their political purposes, and it concerns me to see these people so deeply involved in global warming education.

I hope these Clinton people are aware that if they get up to their old tricks now, it could ruin more than just their own careers.

Al Gore has always been involved in environmental causes, ever since he was a kid in college.

To say that Gore is just another Clinton haindmaiden Patricia, is to miss the point entirely. In the past Gore was often wishy-washy. he does have a number of faults (I will not enumerate them here), but environmental causes was and still is his lifelong passion. His interest in global warming is not another political ploy; he was actually inspired by a professor during his college days who was the first to seriously track the route of global warming.

It's a shame that folks did not listen to his platform closely in 2000 and even prior to his campaign. Instead, they just followed the Clinton cult-of-personality and derided Gore as a talking cardboard cutout or lumped him in with the carnivalesque Clintons.

Instead of reading just the BS that Salon feeds folks (like the description of Gore as a "wonk," a pseudo-southerner, or "portly," as one other so graciously wrote), or the mere lip service from most media outlets, read some other articles that are way more informative (like the NYT series or the New Yorker article). This pseudo-hipness that Salon writers spout is simply ridiculous.

While I support Al Gore and plan to read his book and watch his movie, I can't help but think things just haven't gotten bad enough yet.

For Americans to do something about this problem requires an immediate, serious threat to the standard of living for the majority of the population.

However, right now many of the stimuli we are receiving about the facts of global warming create a feedback loop and just make the problem worse. Consider:

1) It's getting really hot outside! I guess I need to crank up the AC in my house/car. More consumption = more carbon emissions

2) The Arctic ice cap is melting! However look at the upside, the June 2006 issue of wired magazine notes that this makes untold dozens or hundreds of billions of barrels of oil reserves underneath the Arctic Ocean available for offshore drilling (and burning, and turning into carbon emissions)

So what are concerned progressives are left to do? Mostly just cross their fingers and "hope" that some sort of dreadful scenario takes place to raise awareness. Like three or four Category 5 hurricanes making US landfall a year, every year. Or peak oil causing a worldwide energy collapse (before the Arctic Ocean is tapped). Or any other number of distasteful things that would get you branded as "unpatriotic" for speaking them out loud.

If you took all of the money spent by eco-freaks,

greenie-weenies and enviromental-cases funding

global warming hysteria and politicking in Washington,

a true alternative energy vehicle could have been

brought to market for the masses years ago.

Instead, these frauds insist on sowing the seeds of hysteria using money that is not even theirs to spend.

What these folks have done is shown what happens when you cloak ambition for power in the false veneer of altruism.

This part of the article is right on 'Gene Case, the founder of Avenging Angels, a politically focused advertising firm, said a heavy-hitting climate outreach campaign is much needed but will require better branding. "Let's start with the title of the group -- the Alliance for Climate Protection. That's a branding flaw right there," he said. "What a snooze! It's hardly distinguishable from the Environmental Protection Agency. At least they could have picked an acronym that pops." The current board lacks representatives of youth groups, ethnic minorities, and other key segments of the American populace -- constituencies that would need to be on board to make any large uprising successful' !!!!!!!

Alliance for Climate Protection sounds to elitist and snobby not to mention for the Americans who are buying Hummers, huge homes, and other wasteful goods you need a catchy name that will grab peoples attention witin 30 seconds and then make them want to think global but act loaclly and in the end change the way they live. This is what the over educated, DC, Hollywood crowd totally misses.

They need a name that will become part of the internet and daily language like MoveOn.org has done. Or even old groups like the Moral Majority on the right. Alliance for Climate Protection will produce more late night talk show jokes.

Did these people even do a study to see how the name would go over with average Americans? Or was it an inside their small group thing?

Having said all that, I did pre order Gore's book from Amazon.com and do look forward to reading it and seeing the film.

~Beth