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September 22 & 24, 2006 |
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An Inconvenient Truth (2006) September 22, 2006 at 6:00 and 10:00 pm in 26-100 September 24, 2006 at 7:00 pm in 26-100 The 6pm September 22 showing is FREE, and will be accompanied by a lecture by Prof. Ernest Moniz, co-director of the Laboratory For Energy and the Environment (time TBA). Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. A catastrophe we have helped create. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, An Inconvenient Truth, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his 'traveling global warming show,' Gore is funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our 'planetary emergency' out to ordinary citizens before it's too late. [www.rottentomatoes.com] "If you see only one movie this year, make it An Inconvenient Truth. It may not be the year's best movie, or its most entertaining, but it's certainly the most terrifyingly crucial." Co-sponsored by MISTI and the Laboratory For Energy and the Environment. |
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