Issue date: 3/26/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Megan Dunn / Daily Vidette Staff

"An Inconvenient Truth" was shown at the Global Review session Thursday, hosted by Normal resident Carolyn Treadway, who was trained by Al Gore and others from the Climate Project to take the story and film to the grassroots level.

"I saw the film last summer and I was very impacted," Treadway began. "It left me wanting to act."

She said the immediate goal for the Climate Project was to get one million people to see the film before the end of 2007. "This is your world and if things keep going the way they are until 2050, it will be a completely different world," she said.

An Inconvenient Truth, Academy Award winner of Best Documentary, depicts one out of nearly 3,500 presentations ex-Vice President Al Gore has delivered about the immediate dangers of global warming.

Sarah Jome, coordinator for Global Review, said the cost in gaining the rights to present the film to an audience outside of a classroom was $271.

In the film, Gore presents photographs of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Himalayas, a Columbian glacier and Argentina, all showing signs of severe melting of the mountain snows and glaciers. Gore said that this is big concern, considering 40 percent of people in the Himalayas get their drinking water from the melted snow off glaciers. Also, 10 of the hottest years recorded of atmospheric temperatures have been in the last fourteen years.

The United States is responsible for contributing to global warming more than any other country, but Gore also contends that once people in this country and others take the necessary actions, carbon dioxide emissions can actually be reduced to zero.

Benjamin Schmeiser, a professor in the languages, literatures, and cultures department, commented following the film, that we should not just combat global warming on a daily basis.

"We must also ask the local government to require that all citizens do their part," he said.





"Global warming doesn't mean just hotter, but means there will be changes in the climate in all directions," Treadway said after the film.

She said the climates can change to being warmer or cooler, and there will be more droughts, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes.

"The important thing, in which I ask you, is to remember what you've heard," she said.

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