Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Becoming An Opera

MILAN, Italy — First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is opera.

La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera on the international multiformat hit for the 2011 season at the Milan opera house. The composer is currently artistic director of the Arena in Verona.

La Scala also announced Thursday that Daniele Gatti will conduct next season's gala premiere of Verdi's "Don Carlo" on Dec. 7.

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[GMRoper]

Gore visits the church of Gaea

[walk0nwalls]

Act 1: The Water is rising
Act 2: The Water is still rising
Act 3: The Water is pretty damn high now
Act 4: Clay Aiken performs "Believe" originally performed by Cher
Act 5: Water, everywhere
Act 6: Kevin Costner was right.

[suntzu]

The whole issue on global warming reduces to a straightforward question: If the global warming theory is CORRECT and we do nothing about it, then the planet is in for some very bad days ahead. On the other hand, if the global warming theory is WRONG and we begin to take proper steps to reduce carbon emissions, we will still take a long step towards cleaning the environment and making life more bearable for future generations.

Therefore, from a risk/reward scenario taking global warming seriously is a no-brainer, and any intelligent game theorist would say, yes, from the point of any rational calculation of risk/reward, at the very least we should not dismiss the idea, and optimally, we should take it seriously.

So, my view is that any intelligent gambler would get behind the global warming theory. A stupid gambler would pooh-pooh global warming.

[Tator]

I would suggest you do not gamble. The wildcard is "What is the Earth doing naturally?", and there is not a single scientist that can answer that.

Lets suppose the C02 effect is real, meaning it warmes the climate some, but the Earth is in a natural deep cooling cycle that will last 500 years. The C02 actually prevents a mini-Ice age like the one in the middle ages and saves millions of lives from starvation because of failed crops.

I know it is a bit technical for all you Liberal Arts majors , but go spend some time at http://www.climateaudit.org/ where all aspects of climate are discussed and analyzed. Just be warned it is a very technical site that dives deep into the models, their statistical weaknesses and of course they reveal the way the data used by the AGW crowd has been falsefied and purposly manipulated to offer the desired outcome.

The author of the site is the statistician that totally rendered AlGore's Hockey Stick a total fraud with all the supporting data and calculations for any one to challenge. Many of you moonbats may be unaware of this since your media spoon feeds you only information that supports the Religion of Man-Made Global Warming.

[Tator]

For the followers of the Religion here is a link to the Ohio State Presentation
By Steve McIntyre that will just break your little hearts. But like I warned before it is a bit hard for Liberal Arts majors to understand.

http://www.climateaudit.org/pdf/ohio.pdf

[suntzu]

Inconvenient Truth to be made into an opera? Hmm...is Al Gore a tenor or a baritone?

[The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker]

I think I'll hold out for the cartoon parody.

Honestly, people, do you really need a trumped up crisis to do the Right Thing? I don't.

The entire solar system is experiencing climate change. It's the sun, stoopid, and there is nothing we can do about it. How about going green for the RIGHT reasons; i.e., ensuring there is enough traditional energy to go around while we develop greener alternatives? Gee sounds like a plan, I'm onboard. NEXT question?

[ohiomark]

Will the fat lady have to be a vegan?

[TimmySlagle]

Not if she buys meat offsets!

[KSFARMBOY]

I think it's great, Al gets to turn his comedy into a musical. It would be so cute to see him and the other two chipmonks get the band back together.

[UnbiasView]

Will this version use stolen CGI footage from "The Day After Tomorrow" like Al's movie did?

It is a lot easier to scare people when you ake them think that what they are seeing is real when in reality it is from a doomsday movie with one of the Brokeback Mountain guys.

[Gasparilla]

Gee, wouldn't they sue over "stolen" footage?

[amanda85]

"Will this version use stolen CGI footage from "The Day After Tomorrow" like Al's movie did?"

And the proof of this ridiculous allegation is?

[JulieSA]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4682216&page=2

[brewski]

The consensus about anthropogenic climate change entails the following:

1) the climate is undergoing a pronounced warming trend beyond the range of natural variability;
2) the major cause of most of the observed warming is rising levels of the greenhouse gas CO2;
3) the rise in CO2 is the result of burning fossil fuels;
4) if CO2 continues to rise over the next century, the warming will continue; and
5) a climate change of the projected magnitude over this time frame represents potential danger to human welfare and the environment.

These conclusions have been explicitly endorsed by:

Academia Brasiliera de Ciências (Bazil)
Royal Society of Canada
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academié des Sciences (France)
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
Indian National Science Academy
Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
Science Council of Japan
Russian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society (United Kingdom)
National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)
Australian Academy of Sciences
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
Caribbean Academy of Sciences
Indonesian Academy of Sciences
Royal Irish Academy
Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Academy of Sciences
State of the Canadian Cryosphere
Environmental Protection Agency
Royal Society of the UK
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics
National Center for Atmospheric Research
American Meteorological Society
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

[KSFARMBOY]

"The consensus about anthropogenic climate change entails the following"

If I get a consensus of scientists to declare the world is flat, would it be flat?

science is more about facts than consensus. and AlGore is a politican, not a scientist

[brewski]

These organizations also agree with the consensus:

The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Northwestern University
University of Akureyri
University of Iceland
Iceland GeoSurvey
National Centre for Atmospheric Science UK
Climate Group
Climate Institute
Climate Trust
Wuppertal Institute for Climate Environment and Energy
Royal Meteorological Society
Community Research and Development Centre Nigeria
Geological Society of London
Geological Society of America
UK Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Research Council
Juelich Research Centre
US White House
US Council on Environmental Quality
US Office of Science Technology Policy
US National Climatic Data Center
US Department of Commerce
US National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
The National Academy of Engineering
The Institute of Medicine
UK Natural Environment Research Council
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Council on Environmental Quality
National Economic Council
Office of Management and Budget
The National Academy of Engineering
The Institute of Medicine
UK Natural Environment Research Council
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Engineers Australia
American Chemical Society
American Association of Blacks in Energy
World Petroleum Council
The Weather Channel
National Geographic

[brewski]

Global warming deniers constitute a very small minority. If we require unanimity before being confident, well, we can't be sure the earth isn't hollow either.

[TimmySlagle]

Do you have a link for this allegation?

Because it is my understanding that no more than 40% of the observed warming is from Anthropogenic CO2.

[brewski]

This consensus is represented in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Working Group 1 (TAR WG1), the most comprehensive compilation and summary of current climate research ever attempted, and arguably the most thoroughly peer reviewed scientific document in history. While this review was sponsored by the UN, the research it compiled and reviewed was not, and the scientists involved were independent and came from all over the world.

[suntzu]

If 40% of the observed warming is from human produced CO2 that is a HUGE amount. Perhaps well over the "tipping point" that the Earth by itself was able to sustain for over three billion years. In fact if it is 40% it would be WAY OVER my own uneducated guess of about 10%

What we have yet to learn is that the earth is in delicate balance, and even small changes over time in combination with other influences can wreak havoc. Take your own body for example. The nominal average temperature is 98.6 F. Clinically speaking you have a fever if your temp rises to 101.0 F. That means a rise of 2.4% in your temperature means you clinically speaking are sick.

So don't tell me a 40% contribution to warming from human activity is not HUGE as far as the planet is concerned.

[brewski]

Oh, and the following companies agree with the consensus:

ABB
Air France
Alcan
Alcoa
Allian
American Electric Power
Aristeia Capital
BASF
Bayer
BP America Inc.
Calvert Group
Canadian Electricity Association
Caterpilliar Inc.
Centrica
Ceres
Chevron
China Renewable
Citigroup
ConocoPhillips
Covanta Holding Corporation
Deutsche Telekom
Doosan Babcock Energy Limited
Duke Energy
DuPont
EcoSecurities
Electricity de France North America
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
Endesa
Energettech Austraila Pty Ltd
Energy East Corporation
Energy Holding Romania
Energy Industry Association
Eni
Eskorn
ETG International
Exelon Corporation
ExxonMobil
F&C Asset Management
FPL Group
General Electric
German Electricity Association
Glitnir Bank
Global Energy Network Institute, Iberdrola
ING Group
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Interface Inc.
International Gas Union
International Paper
International Power
Marsh & McLennan Companies
Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company
MEDIAS-France
MissionPoint Capital Partners
Munich Re
National Grid
National Power Company of Iceland
NGEN mgt II, LLC
NiSource
NRG Energy
PG&E Corporation
PNM Resources
Reykjavik Energy
Ricoh
Rio Tinto Energy Services
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rolls-Royce
Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS Group)
Stora Enso North America
Stratus Consulting
Sun Management Institute
Swiss Re
UCG Partnership
US Geothermal
Verde Venture Partners
Volvo

[CreekProf]

For those of you who have attempted to introduce partisan politics into the global warming issue, I have this to say.

First, Al Gore was one politician out of 2000 other people (scientists) who were awarded the Nobel prize. If Al Gore had any integrity, not only would he live what he preaches about global warming in each of his three multi-million dollar homes, he would also remind people that the Nobel prize was not his alone.

Second, do all of you Democrats believe everything a liberal politician tells you just because he/she may be a liberal politician?

To the person above who said they would comment but they are afraid of the liberal thought police, I say, please, take heart and comment. When independent thinkers are silent, the liberal thought police win their "poor me, the Republicans did me dirty" argument.

Finally, some people like opera, but I can't imagine anyone finding an opera about the incomplete truth an interesting way to spend time and money.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle believe we have a global warming problem. How that problem is resolved will be the issue.

While Al Gore preaches to the choir, he doesn't give any solutions. He's just blowing contaminated hot air into the atmosphere. Like I said, he needs to practice his beliefs.

[Gasparilla]

I don't think it's any secret Al shared the Nobel Prize, nor has he made any claims it was awarded to him alone. If that is your idea of criticism, it's pretty absurd.

[TheEmptinessOfTruthiness]

But thank goodness he took the high road and refused to "introduce partisan politics" into it.

[rwe]

Luciano Pavorotti (sp) would be Al.... If he already wre not turning over in his grave..

[adamsmith]

It should be a cartoon first. Al could be Carbon Footprint Man. Global warming is a myth.........

[amanda85]

"Global warming is a myth"

Only in the mind of fools. **Scientists** think otherwise:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0724-28.htm

[TimmySlagle]

Yeah, but Al doesn't care about his footprint.

I don't think he can even SEE his feet.

[walk0nwalls]

Keep laughing right up until Kansas is beachfront.

[chicago25624]

QUICK. Someone tell me what the temperature was, on this date, in Phoenix Arizona, 532 years ago?

You can't? Why not? If you have no idea what the temp was then, you can't tell what it will be in the future.

Here's an easier one. How many Hurricanes hit the US coast in the last 2 years?

[yaoster]

How is that related to the fact that you could dig up ice core samples to analyze them for a globally average temperature?

[Gasparilla]

No hurricanes have hit this country in the last two years. But here's a clue, clueless one. We're not the only ones affected. Last season, two category five storms hit Mexico and Nicaraqua.

[RodgerLodger]

Wouldn't it violate the Geneva Conventions against torture to encourage viewing of this?

[BigLib]

Opening Act: A three hundred pound diva will land in her private jet onstage and wail about carbon footprints. Later she will enter her massive mansion (which uses 80% more electricity than the average home) and wag her fat finger about the use of low energy light bulbs.

[mike53]

Butt will she use only one sheet of paper?

[Gasparilla]

Al also uses his home as an office, and he buys electricity only from wind or solar sources, and pays extra for it.