Stanley's obsession with film transcends time - from Cary Grant to Jim Carrey, and Casablanca to Cars.
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SEMINOLE - Osceola senior Taylor Stanley, a movie fanatic, typically teases teammates with a line from one of her favorite Jim Carrey flicks: "If I'm not back in five minutes - wait longer." Stanley's obsession with film transcends time - from Cary Grant to Jim Carrey, and Casablanca to Cars.
After watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, I decided to try to do my part and ride the bus or bike as much as possible.
I borrowed my brother's bike, invested in a lock and a helmet and, at least one day a week, I resolved to not use my car.
I have been struck by the friendliness of people on the bus (always offering their seat to someone who needs it) as well as surprised by the number of conversations I have had by just riding my bike (what color is your bike? Tangelo?).
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress Wednesday to plead with lawmakers to fight global warming with moral courage while revealing nothing about whether he'll join the 2008 presidential race. The former vice president is a Democratic favorite for the presidential nomination even though he says he's not running. Fresh off a triumphant Hollywood appearance in which his climate-change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," won two Oscars, Gore drew overflow crowds as he...
Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress on Wednesday to plead with lawmakers to fight global warming with moral courage. He called it "a true planetary emergency."
> Gore first testified before a joint hearing by two House committees ?- Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology ?- and later before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
> His wife, Tipper, sat behind him. Beside him was a stack of boxes containing what he said were about 516,000 e-mail petitions he received in "a few days" after he asked for expressions of public support.
Gore tells Congress of a "true planetary emergency"
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Spring is here, which means it’s time for a snowstorm.
I hope you’ll forgive my springtime cynicism, but I don’t trust our weather. I have mentioned before that our weather sort of has a mean streak, so snowing right around springtime is something that our weather would think is funny. Our weather has a sick sense of humor.
See, right now our weather pretty much has people convinced that warm weather is here to stay. It’s possible that our weather might let it get up to 80 degrees this weekend. That’s right, 80 degrees in March. Our weather likes to convince people that it’s time to put the sweat shirts and sweat pants away and pull out the shorts. By the way, is it just me or are there some people who might want to wait a little longer before pulling out the shorts — at least in public?
Global warming is a threat second only to all-out nuclear war and America has to act now, a famed environmentalist and geneticist told a Madison audience Tuesday night.
To not take action against climate change would be un-American for a country that put a man on the moon, said David Suzuki, 70, who has hosted the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s natural science series "The Nature of Things" since 1979.
Suzuki spoke to crowd of about 500 in the Union Theater as the last speaker in the 2006-07 UW-Madison Distinguished Lecture Series and got a standing ovation when he finished.
WASHINGTON - Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer refereed a blistering verbal assault on Al Gore by the leading Republican skeptic on global warming Wednesday as the former vice president returned to Capitol Hill to call for immediate congressional action to save the planet.
Gore, whose documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" recently won an Academy Award, had a heated exchange with Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who tried to paint the Tennessee Democrat as an overzealous hypocrite when Gore ducked a question about whether he would sign a pledge to have his household cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The testy exchange came in an otherwise laudatory hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which Boxer heads.
I just rented the DVD "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. A compelling view of our future. A must see for Floridians along the coastal areas. Rent it and watch with the family and become part of the solution to global warming.
Rita Nulanz
Fort Pierce
Re: Larry Smilgius? ?Don?t be soft-hearted? letter.
It is appropriate that the Riviera Golf Estate association?s ?ruling authority? should enforce the rules established for the ?health, safety and benefit of the majority.?
But, how does Paul Smith?s hobby of making dominoes infringe on anyone?s health, safety or benefit?
The countdown to the Final Four is on, and March Madness consumes us. Watching basketball has become our rights of spring. But things are moving so fast, I get them confused.For a while I had Anna Nicole Smith mixed up with Nicole Brown Simpson. I assumed that O.J. had moved to the Bahamas.Hillary Clinton compared herself to John Kennedy in having to break down barriers. Most people find a greater resemblance with Kennedy in Bill.Scooter Libby seems to resemble G. Gordon Liddy, the architect of ...
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LODI An Inconvenient Truth, the Academy Award-winning documentary about global warming narrated by former Vice President Al Gore, will be shown free at 6 p.m. Monday at Crete Hall in Hutchins Street Square, 125 S. Hutchins St.The movie is being shown as part of the city electric utilitys Lodi Energy Smart Workshop series. The utility previously showed Who Killed the Electric Car? with a question-and-answer session about new auto technologies afterward.Each person who attends will be entered in ...
Gore, who 20 years ago held the first hearings in Congress on global warming, testified before House panels today that it's not too late to deal with climate change. He has emerged as perhaps the leading spokesman on the issue because of his Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
Later today, the former vice president will testify before a Senate committee that includes Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gore is among the Democratic favorites for the presidency, but has said he's not running.
CAPITOL HILL Former Vice President Al Gore brings his push for government action on global warming to Capitol Hill todayHis appearance comes less than a month after his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award.Gore has called the need for government action on climate issues "the overriding world challenge of our time."His appearance comes a day after executives of some of the country's largest electric utilities discussed the possibility of mandatory carbon emission limits to a...
There are two environmental movement out there with little danger of merging.
One is based in science, a science that embraces the entire world and goes wherever facts may lead. This asks the same questions of all areas of the world and tells of the ruin created in the former Soviet Union, the polluted rivers, scores of cases of mad cow disease in the Czech Republic, the shrinking of the Aral Sea, that sort of thing. Gory, but not Al Gore's story.
The other environmentalism is where the best available science is political science, financed by federal funds or tax-exempt foundations, that used the environment as a weapon to hit free enterprise capitalism with and would rather eat a handful of DDT than tell what has been accomplished without it.
Re "Extra day off for city employees considered":
As a former 20-year resident of Long Beach (still paying property and sales taxes in the city) and as a combat-injured Marine veteran, I am against giving city employees a paid day off on Veterans Day. Although Councilman Val Lerch's proposal is an honest attempt to honor America's veterans, it will not cause anyone to reflect on or to remember the sacrifices of those who served.
Reflection and remembrance should come from the heart - not from the public till. Like the rest of the population, those city employees who will observe Veterans Day (either actively or passively) will do so with or without a paid day off.
(Fort Wayne - WANE) The city of Fort Wayne is encouraging residents and businesses to become for energy efficient. An expert on global warming was in the Summit City offering tips on how to do that.
John Steinbach is one of 1,000 people in the world trained by Al Gore and the Climate Project to present the material from the movie An Inconvenient Truth. Steinbach says we all can do small things to help conserve energy. At a presentation at Mitchell Books Tuesday night, he make several suggestions. Among them: lower your thermostat, replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones, consider carpooling, and insulate attics and crawl spaces.
Other Climate Project presentations will take place in our area. To find out more, visit the Grassroots Green website.
EVEN though 2008 has long seemed like a done deal in terms of who's in the running for presidential nominations, there's a growing buzz about two Tinseltown candidates: Fred Thompson and Al Gore. Gore's already had a shot with the Democratic party, and Thompson, who has been raising money for Scooter Libby's defense fund, is being urged by some to enter the race.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday" recently, Thompson, a co-star on NBC's "Law & Order," said he is "going to leave the door open" and even engaged in a "lightening round" litany of hot-button political questioning from host Chris Wallace.
Would Thompson and/or Gore run? If I were Fred Thompson, unless I had a real sense that the United States needed me and no one else as commander in chief, I'd be happy with a life dealing with fictional problems and getting paid well for it.
WASHINGTON - The fight against global warming is getting an extra push from lobbyists and lawmakers in a series of efforts aimed at spurring Congress to take decisive steps to reverse the negative trend of climate change.
On Wednesday, former Vice President Al Gore, perhaps the most prominent advocate for climate change and author of the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," is to testify before two congressional environmental committees. He has promised to bring a mailbag of the nearly 300,000 postcards he has received since Christmas to help convince Congress the country is ready for federal action to curb the effects of global warming.
The star power of Gore's testimony may give the Senate and House the momentum necessary for lawmakers to meet self-imposed deadlines to bring an emissions-reduction bill to a vote. Several senators have pledged to push for action in this session of Congress, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has promised to have legislation on the floor by July 4.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has snagged one of New Hampshire's top political operatives.
Bill Shaheen, husband of former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, will serve as co-chairman of Clinton's New Hampshire campaign.
"I am supporting Hillary because I trust her, because she's honest and intelligent," Shaheen said in an e-mail sent to Clinton supporters. "She has the experience, wisdom and courage we desperately need in our next president. She has faced the toughest tests time and time again, and she has always remained true to herself, emerging stronger and more prepared to handle the challenges that come her way."
Man caused global warming is a myth. Globalists are using Al Gore's movie and one-sided United Nations reports to force us into world government. Their chicken-little allies in the media and government are promoting these lies.
Remember the global cooling headlines of the mid-seventies in Time, Newsweek, Science and National Geographic. The death and suffering caused by efforts to solve the mythical global warming or cooling "crisis" is deliberate. They want to reduce world population by 90 percent (see the Agenda 21, Biodiversity Assessment) and are the means to an end for the global power elite.
Implementation of the Kyoto Treaty would greatly reduce our standard of living and consolidate more power into world government elitists.
WASHINGTON - Global warming has gone Hollywood, literally and figuratively. The script is plain. As Al Gore says, solutions are at hand. We can switch to renewable fuels and embrace energy-saving technologies, once the dark forces of doubt are defeated. It's smart and caring people against the stupid and selfish. Sooner or later, Americans will discover that this Hollywood version of global warming (largely mirrored in the media) is mostly make-believe.
Most of the many reports on global warming have a different plot. Despite variations, these studies reach similar conclusions. Regardless of how serious the threat, the available technologies promise at best a holding action against greenhouse gas emissions. Even massive gains in renewables (solar, wind, biomass) and more efficient vehicles and appliances would merely stabilize annual emissions near present levels by 2050. The reason: Economic growth, especially in poor countries, will sharply increase energy use and emissions.
The latest report came last week from 12 scientists, engineers and social scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Called "The Future of Coal," the report was mostly ignored by the media. The report makes some admittedly optimistic assumptions: "carbon capture and storage" technologies prove commercially feasible; governments around the world adopt a sizable charge (a.k.a. tax) on carbon fuel emissions. Still, annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 are roughly at today's levels. Without action, they'd be more than twice as high.
Kudos on your editorial, "Climate change claims a victim." It should be required reading in all high schools.
We have a granddaughter at South High that is being told only the Al Gore side of the story. Too bad.
Would it be possible for you to e-mail me the editorial? I want to send it to my mailing list. I also want our senators to get a copy. If there is a charge for the service I'll be happy to pay for it.
Because we?re at the start of the electoral roller coaster, the part where the car slowly chugs upward, building anticipation for the gut-wrenching plunges and loop-the-loops ahead, I?d like to hand out a little political Dramamine.
It has become a central ritual of our times for Beltway priests like the Washington Post?s David Broder to lament the coarseness, acidity and all-around ickiness of our polarized political culture. They?re not absolutely wrong. All I need to do to appreciate the toxicity of the political culture is check my e-mail each morning.
Indeed, since at least the election of Ronald Reagan, the left and the right have grown ever more snappish with each other. Each feels entitled to take the wheel without suffering any back-seat driving. Each side feels the other is illegitimate in some way and that that somehow justifies their nastiness. That can be a shame, but really, it?s not the end of the world.
Global warming is a serious enough problem without exaggerating it with dubious factoids.
One such factoid ? widely cited in the last couple years ? has to do with the shrinkage of snowpack in the Cascade Mountains. A number of people, including environmentalists and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, have been saying that half the snowpack in the mountains has disappeared in the last 50 years or so.
The Cascade snowpack is an essential source of drinking water and irrigation in this state, so the loss of half of it would be alarming, if true. If. In fact, there doesn?t seem to be any basis whatsoever for that 50 percent claim. It may have originated in an editing mistake in a 2004 scientific report from Oregon.
Washington ?- Is it a post-Oscar victory lap or a warm-up for another presidential campaign? That's what many in Washington will be asking as former Vice President Al Gore makes a highly publicized return to Capitol Hill today.
Never mind that the 2000 Democratic nominee has said he has no plans to run for his party's 2008 nomination. Gore's appearance before House and Senate committees to advocate for action on global warming is creating quite a political buzz.
"Who else could attract so much interest from Internet activists, faith-based stewards, environmental leaders, hedge-fund managers and Wall Street banks placing smart-money bets on America's future?" asked Democratic strategist Brent Budowsky. "It's quite extraordinary."
CAPITOL HILL Former Vice President Al Gore brings his push for government action on global warming to Capitol Hill todayHis appearance comes less than a month after his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award.Gore has called the need for government action on climate issues "the overriding world challenge of our time."His appearance comes a day after executives of some of the country's largest electric utilities discussed the possibility of mandatory carbon emission limits to a...
Like her or not, Ann Coulter has a brain, unlike Paris Hilton.
There's nothing wrong with those left lane exit ramps. If you pay just a little bit of attention, even you can figure them out.
I am going to invent a simple, foolproof voting machine. My motto will be, "So easy to use even a Democrat can do it!"
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WASHINGTON - Large pension funds and companies called Monday for Congress to place limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, the latest among several business-oriented groups to call for a national climate policy.
The 65 signers of a letter to President Bush called for a 60 to 90 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, a goal that could require, among other changes, a major shift away from fossil fuels used to run power plants and automobiles. The letter promotes a market-based system that would give companies the incentive to curtail growth of these emissions.
The White House opposes mandatory, economy-wide carbon caps to deal with climate, instead citing its efforts to spend almost $3 billion a year on energy-technology research and development to slow climate change. Critics of strict limits on greenhouse gases, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, argue that any new laws on climate change should be crafted to avoid harming the economy.
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Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney have emerged as the leading presidential favorites among party insiders, according to a new Los Angeles Times poll, which found deep partisan divisions over the country's direction and top issues in the 2008 campaign.
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The survey showed former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina in second place among Democratic Party leaders, ahead of Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. It pointed up danger signs for Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who trailed Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the leader among Republicans in national voter surveys.
WASHINGTON — For all the policy blueprints churned out by presidential campaigns, there is this indisputable fact: People care less about issues than they do about a candidate's character.
A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll says 55 percent of those surveyed consider honesty, integrity and other values of character the most important qualities they look for in a presidential candidate.
Just one-third look first to candidates' stances on issues; even fewer focus foremost on leadership traits, experience or intelligence.
By striking down the District of Columbia's extraordinarily strict gun control law, which essentially bans guns, a federal appeals court may have revived gun control as a political issue. It has been mostly dormant since autumn 2000, when Al Gore decided he was less interested in it than in carrying states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania. The appeals court ruling appalls advocates of gun control laws, and should alarm the Democratic Party.
The court ruled 2-1 that D.C.'s law, which allows only current and retired police officers to have handguns in their homes, violates the Constitution's Second Amendment: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
This ruling probably will be reviewed by the Supreme Court, which 68 years ago seemed to hold that the amendment's first 13 words circumscribe the force of the rest. That is, there is a constitutionally protected right to "keep and bear" guns only insofar as the keeping and bearing are pertinent to service in state-run militias.
NEW YORK — Al Gore is waging a fierce campaign for recognition and an Oscar statuette for his global warming documentary, while reviving talk that he's pursuing a bigger prize: the presidency.
His recent itinerary has been the ultimate in high profile. The former vice president made self-deprecating jokes on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," offered ideas on preserving the environment to Oprah Winfrey and her daytime audience and parried questions on Iraq from Matt Lauer on "The Today Show."
This Saturday Gore is hosting a network of 1,600 house parties across the country to watch and discuss his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," with the Democrat planning to address the gatherings by satellite hookup. The movie is on the short list of feature-length documentaries being considered for Oscar nominations.
As presidential candidates try to stake out an electable position on the Iraq war, Americans are justified in wondering: Is it reality, or politics?
Can anyone's judgment be trusted during an election cycle?
Some measure of comfort may be found in the dual reality that is Washington. What you see on TV isn't necessarily what you get away from the cameras. Off the set, honest discussions about Iraq and the war on terror have a different tone and content than one might expect based on the gibbering of talking heads.
Earlier this year in this column, I suggested that Al Gore could be the unity candidate for Democrats. Because of his portly appearance, I stated further that he's not running unless he starts losing weight. Well, he's losing weight.
Here's my call on Gore strategy. He will stay out of the race until the end of this year. He will let Senators Obama and Clinton carve each other up over the next 9 months.
Negative campaigning works, but it also reduces the standing of the camp launching such negative campaigns. The signs are clear that the next 9 months will provide plenty of intraparty blood-letting between the Obamas and the Clintonistas.
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WASHINGTON - By striking down the District of Columbia's extraordinarily strict gun control law, which essentially bans guns, a federal appeals court may have revived gun control as a political issue.
It has been mostly dormant since autumn 2000, when Al Gore decided he was less interested in it than in carrying states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania: "Gore Tables Gun Issue As He Courts Midwest" (The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2000).
The appeals court ruling appalls advocates of gun control laws, and should alarm the Democratic Party.
If Al Gore is a hypocrite, does it matter? No sooner had "An
Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar for best documentary feature than
the Tennessee Center for Policy Research accused Gore, when he's not
Sometimes the most dangerous course of action is doing nothing.If we do nothing, then global climate changes already making their mark on our weather, glaciers and air quality will harm our environment in irrevocable and dire ways.Washington is especially vulnerable to climate change because of our dependence on snow pack for summer stream flows and because any rise in sea levels would threaten our many coastal communities.If greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, temperatures will rise by...
• John McCain. To many, the senator from Arizona's candidacy is a foregone conclusion, and his recent buddying up to Bush loyalists and other old adversaries suggests he's serious. He's a genuine hero with terror-fighting credentials and know-how in handling the media. Allies say he's the answer to the GOP independent-voter problem that exploded last week.
• Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani. He continually scores well in national polls, and GOP candidates across the land flew in the former mayor of New York as an anti-terror symbol. But he's given no indication thus far of wanting to run, and skeptics wonder how far his distinctly moderate Republicanism would play among hard-core GOP conservatives.
• Mitt Romney. Perhaps no one benefited more from the collapsing political career of Virginia Sen. George Allen, which opened up a space in the party's conservative wing. Romney's ability to become governor of Massachusetts shows electability. His name and good looks are assets. Some wonder if his Mormon faith will play in places like South Carolina.
The writer is an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University's Weill Medical College in New York City. This commentary was distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
It's not just that Ann Coulter used the word ``faggot.'' This, after all, is the person who continues to defend her argument that the women whose husbands were burned alive on 9/11 are enjoying the men's deaths.
What struck me were the depth and breadth of reaction to a gay slur in a country that is not all that far removed from swapping AIDS jokes.
Many do. His 50 books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. He lectures all over the globe and is the go-to guy when Larry King needs someone with a mind-body-soul perspective. In recent weeks, he has bantered with HBO's Bill Maher and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert.
We know Deepak is officially cool because he has his own blog on MySpace.com.
He's the founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and president of the Alliance for a New Humanity. His international work includes teaching conflict resolution and diplomacy at leadership training programs in the Middle East. In 2005, he joined the Gallup Organization as a senior scientist, leading its research on how one-to-one relationships affect peace throughout the world.
As presidential candidates try to stake out an electable position on the war in Iraq, Americans are justified in wondering: Is it reality, or is it just politics?
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As presidential candidates try to stake out an electable position on the war in Iraq, Americans are justified in wondering: Is it reality, or is it just politics?
Can anyone?s judgment be trusted during an election cycle?
Some measure of comfort may be found in the dual reality that is Washington. What you see on TV isn?t necessarily what you get away from the cameras. Off the set, honest discussions about Iraq and the war on terror have a different tone and content than one might expect based on the gibbering of talking heads. Even pundits are sometimes of a different mind off-camera than on. There?s no underestimating the power of peer pressure in the green room.
The annual cost to the United States of the war in Iraq is more than $100 billion (and worldwide embitterment).Now the money goes to the U.S. military and U.S. contractors in Iraq. I advocate bringing our military and contractors home and using the money to directly pay Iraqi police and contractors to rebuild their country. Do this over two years and put the billions saved into a trust fund, to be used as follows:
Pay Iraqi policemen several times the average local wage. His job is dangerous and critical to stability in Iraq. He must be unbiased and protect all Iraqis from terrorists, insugents and criminals. If he fails, he loses his job and is replaced. Will this work? Is it a bribe? Perhaps, but our current path has failed. In the past, Iraq was built by Iraqi contractors and citizens. Yes, they hired some foreign help, and they can do that again. Pay Iraqi contractors and citizens to rebuil...
LOS ANGELES Tired of abuse by mankind, the Earth is angry. Worse, the planet is out to even the score. Audiences can expect a story along those lines when M. Night Shyamalans film The Happening reaches screens in the next year. The project, to which 20 th Century Fox has just signed on, imagines a planet that is starting to act like Travis Bickle, the title character in Taxi Driver. The Happening will not be the only big-budget studio film to test a new kind of villainy, in which the real victi...
WASHINGTON - By striking down the District of Columbia's extraordinarily strict gun control law, which essentially bans guns, a federal appeals court may have revived gun control as a political issue. It has been mostly dormant since autumn 2000, when Al Gore decided he was less interested in it than in carrying states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania: "Gore Tables Gun Issue As He Courts Midwest" (The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2000).The court ruled 2-1 that D.C.'s law, which allows only curren...
Let’s reveal the identity of our mystery subject: Margaret the Mortgage Dog. She’s the CCO, or canine comfort officer, at Jalen Capital Inc./Altamont Mortgage in downtown Vancouver. Margaret specializes in snuggling with co-workers and enthusiastically greeting clients.
E-mails from her recently included another photograph, which is posted in the online version of this feature at columbian.com/lifehome, as well as statements about her leadership strategies: “If I could only convince (co-workers) that wagging their tails is not inappropriate business behavior, we could really get somewhere.”
This picture of Margaret, and the accompanying suggestion to write limericks for St. Patrick’s Day, inspired a “Say What?” record response of 331 entries. The previous high was 284 in November. Here is a sampling:
You've probably seen the public service announcement. It's run all over television, even in American Idol, one of the most valuable platforms on TV.
A guy in his late 30s, early 40s is standing on railroad tracks as a locomotive barrels down on him. He blathers on that global warming isn't his concern, since he probably won't be around when the dire forecasts begin to come true. Then he takes a step to the side and there's a little girl standing behind him as the train engine draws ever closer.
The message: If you're not as panicky about global warming as Al Gore, you're selfish, ignorant and have no regard for future generations. It's an outrage this political statement has qualified as a public service announcement.
As presidential candidates try to stake out an electable position on the war in Iraq, Americans are justified in wondering: Is it reality, or is it just politics?
Can anyone's judgment be trusted during an election cycle?
Some measure of comfort may be found in the dual reality that is Washington. What you see on TV isn't necessarily what you get away from the cameras. Off the set, honest discussions about Iraq and the war on terror have a different tone and content than one might expect based on the gibbering of talking heads. Even pundits are sometimes of a different mind off-camera than on. There's no underestimating the power of peer pressure in the green room.
Las alarmas por las consecuencias del calentamiento global se han disparado en los últimos meses con agoreros pronósticos de desastres naturales, pérdidas de cosechas y hambruna en todo el mundo.
Desde el sombrío documental del ex vicepresidente Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (``Una verdad incómoda''), ganador de dos Oscar este año, hasta una cadena de estudios y observaciones, casi todos coinciden en que ese calentamiento es causado por los gases invernadero, principalmente el dióxido de carbono, que contaminan la atmósfera.
Sin embargo, varios destacados científicos alzaron sus voces en días recientes para criticar lo que llamaron una ''exageración'' de los peligros del cambio climático por parte de sus colegas y pusieron en duda la exactitud de sus conclusiones.
Caught up in March Madness - presidential campaigning, not basketball - I have begun to tune out Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for