re: #288 Walter L. Newton

None, and nobody did question the film maker. Not one soul on this thread. There was simply a point being made using the film maker as an example. Go up thread to see what Six Degrees was talking about.

I saw, and I didn’t accuse anyone of anything. It’s perhaps a poor analogy because I think Mr. Balog makes for a compelling figure for this issue. He’d be a better spokesman than Al Gore- less politicized and more sympathetic. A nature lover, photographer, former-skeptic going out on his own to make a documentary and coming back with some jaw dropping images.

I went back and watched the video from last night about the glacier in the Andes… That was really gut wrenching because those people are not going to be able to stay where there is no water. This is coming quickly for them, and it will be repeated around the world in countless villages, towns and cites who will no longer have water on the mountains to supply their rivers. What will happen in the United States if the Colorado goes dry? These are real changes in our climate that we are going to have to start dealing with and sooner than we may think.

So you and Six Degrees will hopefully forgive me for speaking up for this gentleman going out and immortalizing in film this moment in time. It was not meant to be a defense from a stated accusation, but in general. After watching the two videos Charles linked, this looks like an important film and adds real weight to the evidence; it provides us with a chance to visualize what exactly this whole issue means. I wanted to speak up not because a defense was needed, but because I wanted to give one. Hope that makes sense.