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"An Inconvenient Truth," the big-screen adaptation of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's slide-show lecture about the perils of global warming, won the Academy Award on Sunday for documentary feature.

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    TechnologyExpert1 year, 6 months ago

    This was the only reason I really cared about the Oscars this year. I'm not really into the Awards Show thing ... but I wanted this film to win.

    Quote from Gore:

    Holding the Oscar, Gore said that solving the climate crisis is "not a political issue; it's a moral issue."

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      earthlingerer1 year, 6 months ago

      I hope he uses it to take his rightful seat as President of the USA.

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      TimALoftis1 year, 6 months ago
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      DeltaX1 year, 6 months ago

      A resounding triumph for group-think.

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      Searchbeam1 year, 6 months ago

      Sure, it's a money issue -

      Like the billions upon billions of dollars going each day to the Saudis and rest of the oil-gangsters.

      Then again, only people capable of thinking will think.

      Rest of them follow their mindless leader like sheep, and will jump right over the cliff!

      There is really no cure for ignorance.

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        Blackace1 year, 6 months ago

        WOW the stiffs at the Oscar got it right for a change.

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          NoSpinDave1 year, 6 months ago

          Gore won the Oscar? Humm. No prejudice here by the left wing Hollywood voters ehh? Please. This category was rigged from day one. I am not impressed.

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          m-simon1 year, 6 months ago

          Bad Movie.

          Bad Science.

          Bad Gore.

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            pc251 year, 6 months ago

            Some truth about your hero Sir Lancelot

            http://groovygreen.com/groove/?cat=29

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              mark-stevens1 year, 6 months ago

              His contractor used old growth timber to build his new home...

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                NonnaUrBiz1 year, 6 months ago

                PLEASE! This is Gores' lame attempt to save his legacy in the history books. He was a wet noodle as V.P. and nothing has changed. How ignorant does he think the American Citizens are "This is not a political issue, it's a moral issue" suggesting what? that The multinational conglomerates (that absolutely have no morals) will do the morally correct thing and reduce the amount of pollution they spew (tons per day) into the atmosphere or stop destroying the rain Forrest (hundreds of acres a day) that is the probably the only way to reduce or reverse the damage that has been done? This is the most political issue there is, if the Politicians don't draft, enact and enforce real regulations humans will eradicate themselves from the planet. The bottom line is that nothing will change as long as multinational conglomerates are the major contributors to political campaigns or in control of all the information that the (FOX leading the way) news spoon feeds American Citizens.

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                r2me21 year, 6 months ago

                And he is right. This planet is the only home we have and we hven't been taking good care of it. What are our children going to inherit? A litter box? A junk yard? It's time all of us start to do something about our home planet. We owe it to our future generations.

                We thought that Earth was so big we could trash it and nobody was going to notice it. We were and are wrong. Earth and nature can take so much and after that the balance starts breaking and it won't stop, just like a chain reaction.

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                Scott-O-Rama1 year, 6 months ago

                Yay!

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                  TechnologyExpert1 year, 6 months ago

                  Melissa Etheridge won for best song for "I Need to Wake Up", also from this movie:

                  http://blogs.usatoday.com/redcarpetreport/2007/02/

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                  Neophile1 year, 6 months ago

                  Melissa Ethridge just won for best song for An Inconvient Truth as well. Way to go!

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                    bubba21 year, 6 months ago

                    YES!!!

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                      elzorro21621 year, 6 months ago

                      A resounding message from the Academy awards! Don't forget that in the same line Happy Feet won the Animated Film!

                      Go green!!!!!

                      Z

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                      Virginia1 year, 6 months ago

                      Didn't see it but bound to be in today's news cycle clips as it should be. Congrats, Al Gore!

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                        spkguy1 year, 6 months ago

                        I was watching CNN the other day and Wolf Blitzer was interviewing the Department of Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman, and the subject of the environment and global warming and the apparent turn around by this President and the White House opinion in regards to global warming. Well he went on to say that they agree with the science but that they would need more science on what the overall man made effects on global warming are. Then running out of time on the interview, Wolf brings up the upcoming Oscars and and the Movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and then wolf asks Samuel W. Bodman, "have you seen it?" And his answer "NO".

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                          Virginia1 year, 6 months ago

                          Dept. of Energy Sec. Bodman is not the best man for the job. Let's elect a Democrate who will offer the job to someone like Al Gore who knows a lot more about the subject.

                          I gave the DVD to many family members as Christmas gifts this past year.

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                        TimALoftis1 year, 6 months ago

                        worth repeating...