He gives it 2 1/5 stars and according to Kathy, "the hate mail is already flowing in". Didn't Rick get the memo that speaking our betters speaking truth to power is a lecture, not a dialog: no talking back!

The film is basically a filmed version of a lecture Gore claims he claims he’s given over a thousand times since 1989. Near the end of the film, after dire warnings about our addiction to oil and the disastrous effect that we’re having on the environment, he lists all the places where he’s given the lecture; even if you didn’t count his stint as Bill Clinton’s number two, it’s an impressive record of jet fuel and gasoline consumption.

No doubt many viewers might have an occasion to wince about their own energy consumption habits, but they needn’t fear; just as Gore’s personal hydrocarbon tally gets a pass, his film will let you imagine that you can become part of the solution to the global warming crisis by making only the most reasonable sort of sacrifices, while offloading the greater burden onto governments and corporations.

It would require much more space than a movie review to consider Gore’s science. He claims a universal consensus of scientists on manmade climate change that doesn’t exist, and relies on questionable anecdotes to illustrate its effects, such as the one about polar bears drowning as they lose their ice floe habitats – and illustrates it with a cloying cartoon. The lynchpin of his lecture is a graph that shows the earth’s temperature rising exponentially with the levels of greenhouse gases; even if this now-famous graphic weren’t in dispute, he neglects to mention that levels of atmospheric hydrogen have tended to echo temperature, not the other way around.