by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
An Inconvenient Truth is almost certainly worth seeing, even if you're alreay a dyed-in-the-wool supporter of the Kyoto protocol. Matt Yglesias gets the movie's impact more or less right: "issue films" like this one will only cause political change if they fundamentally alter the current political landscape, by pushing the issue to the forefront such that political pain comes to any candidate who doesn't take global warming seriously. Whether Al Gore's vehicle can propel climate change to the top of the issue pile all on its own is unclear. To reach tens of millions of viewers, Truth will have to find its way into full-scale release in thousands of theaters across the cuntry; it's currently slated to reach about 300 theaters by the end of June.
