An Inconvenient Truth
January 5, 2007
It’s going to be 65-plus degrees in New York tomorrow. I should be skiing in the Berkshires; yet I’ve yet to even locate my heavy coat this winter. I spied two mosquitos in my bedroom this morning. The crocus are pushing up. The Forsythia are in bloom. I may be a late convert to the global warming crisis, but that’s only because I hadn’t been paying attention. The alarms go well beyond this strangely warm winter on the east coast. I am now convinced that our melting polar ice caps are a grave threat. If you have not yet seen Al Gore’s movie (the title of which is the same as the headline above) do so soon. It’s on DVD. This is not great filmmaking. But it’s a compelling story.
