Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 30, 2017 0:33:48 GMT -5
Al Gore's new film was premiered (Greek premiere, European premiere?) last Tuesday 29th August, in Aegina.
The premiere was organized by Aegina (and Israel) resident Ilias Messinas, president of the ecological NGO Ecoweek: www.ecoweek.org/
Here is a crit of the film: www.newyorker.com/science/elements/whats-missing-from-an-inconvenient-sequel-al-gores-new-climate-change-documentary
Ilias gave an introduction prior to the screening and invited questions and comments afterwards. Only two members of the audience responded. I (Wayne Hall) drew attention to the record of Judith Curry, her resignation from her academic post and critique of the climate change establishment, her view that the climate "debate" has become intolerably politicized, her judgement that Trump is not likely to do too much damage and also that his presidency may (objectively) facilitate change of the kind that Judith Curry would like to see. The other intervention was from Dimitris Skarpalezos,who argued that the climate debate was not too politicized but in fact not politicized enough.
Perhaps Ecoweek has the potential to host some of the kind of dialogue that Judith Curry (and others) say they would like to see. Would the "others" include Al Gore? That is perhaps a question for Ecoweek to address.
The premiere was organized by Aegina (and Israel) resident Ilias Messinas, president of the ecological NGO Ecoweek: www.ecoweek.org/
Here is a crit of the film: www.newyorker.com/science/elements/whats-missing-from-an-inconvenient-sequel-al-gores-new-climate-change-documentary
Ilias gave an introduction prior to the screening and invited questions and comments afterwards. Only two members of the audience responded. I (Wayne Hall) drew attention to the record of Judith Curry, her resignation from her academic post and critique of the climate change establishment, her view that the climate "debate" has become intolerably politicized, her judgement that Trump is not likely to do too much damage and also that his presidency may (objectively) facilitate change of the kind that Judith Curry would like to see. The other intervention was from Dimitris Skarpalezos,who argued that the climate debate was not too politicized but in fact not politicized enough.
Perhaps Ecoweek has the potential to host some of the kind of dialogue that Judith Curry (and others) say they would like to see. Would the "others" include Al Gore? That is perhaps a question for Ecoweek to address.