I met Al Gore last night...

[willgc]

hey everyone,
So last night was the Attenborough Awards Ceremony at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and I was credentialed for the red carpet press line to meet and do an interview with Al Gore. He's winning the award for An Inconvenient Truth. I thought you all might get a laugh at this: he was making A LOT of space references through the whole night! He kept talking about Apollo 8, 11 and 17 with the earthrise and blue marble photos and making jokes about people who believe the moon landings were faked, it was really fun... just thought I'd mention it!

[LunarOrbit]

He has come across as a much more friendly person since he left office. I'm glad he was talking about Apollo in a positive light.

I plan on renting "An Inconvenient Truth" this weekend, it looks interesting.

[DonPMitchell]

I thought "An Inconvenient Truth" was pretty good.  Wow, six years ago I voted for Bush, and now Al Gore looks so much better.  Oh well, live and learn.

[ckiki lwai]

I've seen his movie too, and it changed my mind a bit about climate changes, but I am still not convinced we can solve the problem.
Even if Europe and the US reduce CO2 exhaust, China wont worry about the climate at all, and they are growing so rapidly that they will use everything to create power (climatefriendly or not).
And Bush his new vision for space exploration seems more convincing than some notes of the Apollo program in Al Gore's movie.
(but you can have your own opinion of course, after all, I'm not an American.)

[Peyre]

I've seen his movie too, and it changed my mind a bit about climate changes, but I am still not convinced we can solve the problem.
Even if Europe and the US reduce CO2 exhaust, China wont worry about the climate at all, and they are growing so rapidly that they will use everything to create power (climatefriendly or not).
And Bush his new vision for space exploration seems more convincing than some notes of the Apollo program in Al Gore's movie.
(but you can have your own opinion of course, after all, I'm not an American.)

The problem with the president's vision for space exploration is that it's an unfunded mandate.  He laid it out as a goal, but has put no effort into getting funding for it.  As a result, NASA has had to choose between science and exploration (manned spaceflight) programs.  The science takes the much smaller part of their budget, and they've tended to slash it pretty hard to beef up the exploration.  Not a good thing, IMO.

[RCS1]

China wont worry about the climate at all, and they are growing so rapidly that they will use everything to create power (climatefriendly or not)

I beg to differ, to sustain a productive modern lifestyle each person requires a certain amount of useful energy (electricity, heating in cold regions and transportation). China's population is almost 1/5 that of the entire planet.

Not to mention the vast manufacturing industries that China support to produce almost everything...erm...almost everywhere. The keyboard you're gonna to type your replies on is probably made in China, forcryingoutloud.

Yes, much of China's electricity is still produced by burning coal. At least they are making realistic inroads into cleaner energy generation (Three Gorges Dam, small safe pebble-bed nuclear reactors and supporting green mass transit such as electrical buses)