Hello,

I recently saw An Inconvenient Truth. I had wanted to see it in theatres, but things didn't work out that way. The important thing is that I have seen it. And I am convinced by it. I've been following global warming since my early teenage years, at first as a skeptic convinced it was a hoax (fuelled by authors like Larry Burkett). As I grew older, I developed an intense dislike for propaganda that allowed me to recognize and throw off some of the brainwashing I was enveloped in.

And now I have seen an Inconvenient Truth. I have to compliment the Honorable Mr. Gore on his amazing presentation. Although he does divulge into the occasional lamentable shot at the opposition (which, I fear, weakens his appeal to said opposition, as I once was,) for the most part his presentation had facts to back up his assertion, at least to my satisfaction (and if you knew me, you'd realize that isn't easy.)

But, as is so often the case, "facts" in documentaries are one-sided. Thus, my dilemma. My family, and most of my friends, are of a distinctively pro-Bush global-warming-is-a-hoax bent. It is far to easy for them to say that it's a Gore-presented movie produced by Miramax, and thus so biased as to be worthless. And now critics are being brought out, and websites germane to conservatives like www.drudgereport.com are presenting each one as further evidence that this so-called global warming thing is a hoax.

What I really need is some kind of rebuttal. While these forums are a tool for that, is there a website or something connected with Climate Crisis or An Inconvenient Truth that answers these challenges being made to the film? Before this is answered, understand that I am appealing to conservatives, hoping to change their minds. Propaganda, or a website that is presented in anything less than a scientific method, will simply convince them that global warming is a hoax (I mean this as no respect, especially since the opposition is just as, if not moreso, guilty of this, but many of the so-called "rebuttals" are so full of doubletalk and propaganda that it makes a humble seeker of truth like myself sick.)

Does anyone have any good websites out there that can help me? Something that actually takes the whole criticism, not just bits and pieces, and calmly, rationally refutes them? Something that backs up its sources with documented accounts, and at least makes a decent attempt at being unbiased? (What I really need is something like factcheck.org.)

Thank you so much for helping me. I know I'm asking a lot, but then I'm trying to get people entrenched in dogma that has inhabited them without opposition for decades to turn around and see the truth while there's still time to change it, so I fear a lot is required.

Jeffrey

It would be amazing if you can change the mind of even one conservative on this issue, but I give you credit for trying.

There's a wealth of information with which you can counter their arguments. A simple Google search turns up hundreds of sites. I typed in "proof of global warming" and came up with this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=proof+of+global+warming. "Evidence of global warming" turns up even more sites: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=evide...G=Google+Search.

Read through the articles listed here, and do some more searching on your own, and you'll find reams of material to counter their arguments with.

But I wouldn't bank on your being able to change their minds. :rolleyes: