I went and saw Al Gore’s new movie (some would say the new movie about Al Gore) An Inconvenient Truth this weekend. Aside from the many product plugs for apple, this was a good movie.

Being the kind of internet geek that compulsively trolls all media sources for news about everything there was not a lot of things in the movie that I have not seen. Judging from the repeated shocked gasps from the audience it seems that others however have not. This movie is nice, very nice. It lays out the arguments for why we need to act now to stop global warming. Only the most fact-resistant among us can withstand its calm, logical, and scientifically based claims. Gore does an amazing job of illustration just how important it is that we start doing something major about global warming, and that we start doing it now.

The movie also highlights a version of Al Gore that makes many in the liberal community almost cry. We cry because if the Al Gore in this movie, would have been the Al Gore that ran for president in 2000, he would have won by an even greater landslide. When we in the progressive community look back on the last 6 years of out of control rampage by George W. Bush and his ilk we yearn for what could have been.

I remember being fooled like everyone else in 2000. Thinking there was “no real difference” between Gore and Bush. Thinking that both men seemed somewhat robotic, and uninteresting. Both “seemed” to be saying almost the same thing. I voted for Gore, more because I didn’t like Bush, not because I had much good to say about Al Gore. If only Gore would have demonstrated this passion then that he has shown since the “loss” in 2000.

If you have not seen this movie yet, go see it. If you are a skeptic of global warming science, go see this movie. If you want to see a man that is passionate about one issue, go see this movie. Most of all, if you want to see the shadow of “what could have been” go see this movie.