WE APPROVE

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH wins Oscar

The documentary, An Inconvenient Truth has received further acclaim by winning, as expected, an Oscar at the Academy Awards.

There is considerable consternation among the deniers about this, although the global warming skeptics are inclined to excuse this award by saying that Hollywood is full of of gauzy-eyed lefties who fall for any ninny's nonsense. I heard some of those folks rattling on about it last night on the radio.


Here's the thing that, from ARBORETUM's point of view, must be kept in mind. Whether or not Inconvenient Truth wins an award is basically irrelevant. The world is either warming or it is not. This warming is either a danger to us all, or it is not. Oscar has nothing to do with it.

It seems that Inconvenient Truth has won world-wide approval, quite apart from the approval given by Hollywood. So, let the nay-sayers keep neighing. People of good will amongst us will keep trying to improve things despite them. And not because of the Oscar.