Captain Future's Log

Oil V. Gore

"An Inconvenient Truth," the docu featuring Al Gore's famous presentation on the realities of the Climate Crisis, opens this weekend in some cities. (You can see the trailer for it here.) But also coming your way this weekend--coincidentally, in cities where the film opens--will be a television ad blitz warning against "global warming alarmism." Which scientific group is behind this? Which impartial think tank or institute? Only one receiving its major funding from Exxon.

Think Progress reminds us of some inconvenient facts:

Science Magazine analyzed 928 peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming published between 1993 and 2003. Not a single one challenged the scientific consensus that the earth’s temperature is rising due to human activity. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program concluded that humans are driving the warming trend through greenhouse gas emissions. And the EPA has said that the recent warming trend “is real and has been particularly strong within the past 20 years…due mostly to human activities.”

So when you're filling up this weekend (we're at $3.55 a gallon here), be comforted in the knowledge that your money is going to pay for not only untold wealth for people who are already among the wealthiest on the planet, but to pay for slick lies that have no higher moral purpose than to enrich these same people a little bit longer. They don't care about you, they certainly don't care about your children and grandchildren, or life on this planet outside of their own.

So maybe you have to buy their gasoline this weekend, but maybe you can think of ways to buy a little less. And you can send a message to them as well by going to see "An Inconvenient Truth" this weekend (or see it as soon as it opens where you are), because the opening weekend box office is what get's the attention of the corporations that control so much of our lives. They may not care about the future, but show them you do.

And tell them Captain Future sent you.