An Inconvenient Al

The other night I finally got around to seeing An Inconvenient Truth (I know, I know: frothy Hollywood escapism at its worse. But I needed a break from the gritty, existential realism of movies like Pirates of the Caribbean II and Superman Returns.)

The film taught me a few things I didn't know about global climate change, but I was actually much more interested in what it had to say about Al Gore – or rather, what Al had to say about himself and his 20-year crusade to convince America to accept climate change for what it is: a potentially civilization-ending crisis.