German film offers answers to Gore climate concerns (bad headline)

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE62U1TR20100331

German film offers answers to Gore climate concerns

(Reuters) - Al Gore raised some alarming questions about climate change in his Oscar-winning 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth" that a German filmmaker has now tried to provide some answers for in a new documentary.

Carl Fechner's "The Fourth Revolution - Energy Autonomy" is an attempt to show how the world could be getting all its energy from renewable sources in 30 years -- and help slow the climate change that Gore warned about in his blockbuster film.

An unabashedly provocative look at renewable energy in countries from the United States, Germany, Denmark, China, Mali and Bangladesh, Fechner's new film has attracted rave reviews and fierce criticism in Germany since it opened last week.

It has been lauded by some newspapers for spelling out a fossil fuel-free route the world could follow but denounced by others as political propaganda for suggesting powerful special interests are blocking wider use of renewable energy.

"The film takes a clear-cut position that it would be possible for the world to rely on renewable energy for 100 percent of its energy needs," Fechner told Reuters. "But it is still nevertheless a piece of solid journalism."

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[joshcryer]

1. I hope it doesn't hold any punches with regards to how much political will is necessary...

...to prevent catastrophic climate change. It's all well and good to do math and indicate possibilities, but those possibilities cannot be realized without a grounding in reality.

[xchrom]

2. Very interesting. Nt