A Convenient Endorsement for Gore

Associated Press, via Wired.: "The nation's top climate scientists are giving An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.

The former vice president's movie -- replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets -- mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press."

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Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street. (courtesy of boingboing.)

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It's Wuv

Lilah Likes Stickes:

I recently discovered the OSX version of 'Stickies' on my computer, and I've pretty quickly spiraled out of control. How did I live before I found these things? I ask myself. I can make them change color! They're see-through! They float! (Actually, I used to just make zillions of TextEdit documents, one or two sentences each.) Anyway. I've found the one program I want to have open instantly as soon as I turn on my 'puter. Maybe I should get a room. It's WUV!

Daddy makes software. Daddy has never, to the best of his knowledge, made software that so enthralled someone that they need 'a room.'

This Modern Life

Mom sent an e-card to wish me a happy father's day and Carrie called to wish me a happy 28th anniversary.

Lilah: Wow, second gay post in a week. I'm on a roll.

Lilah, she got the Gay, on..

Lilah told her mother and me that she was gay when she was a senior in high school.

For a number of reasons, mostly having to do with me not wanting her to get strung up on a fence somewhere, I'd advised caution about broadcasting this news. At least until complete certainty had set in for her. At which point, I promised, I'd fly her and her partner to Canada if she ever wanted to get married. After getting to Santa Cruz she's become involved in campus queer activities. (Queer as in Gay, not (necessarily) queer as in odd.) and generally settled into her happy life.

So, she's out now. Grandma got the word today, others are getting it via this post. :-)

I seem to be personally responsible for countering Senator Inhofe's efforts for a more wholesome America.

Cars

I am amused by the thought that our second choice, if An Inconvenient Truth was sold out, was to go see Cars.

The National Geographic weighs in.

Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Movie: Fact or Hype?. As you might guess, it's fact. (I'm looking for a credible rebuttal).

An Inconvenient Truth

I saw An Inconvenient Truth tonight. Here's a link to The Science section of their website.

It's quite good, of course.

One slide that was interesting to me was the comparison of the percentage of peer-reviewed studies that conclude the global warming is a real threat (100% of over 900 studies), compared with the ratio of stories in the popular press - about 50%. That is, about 50% of the popular press stories presented the global warming science in some ambiguous way. I.e., we get lied to on a regular basis and those lies get ingrained.

I'll be curious to see if Gore really stays out of the 2008 election.

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I have 21 more years!

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2006 Commencement Address: "And when you enter the workforce, you will find competition from those crossing our all-too-poorest borders. Now I know you’re all going to say, “Stephen, Stephen, immigrants built America.” Yes, but here’s the thing—it’s built now. "