It's a warm night in Greenwich Village, NYC.  Suspiciously....warm.

Along with a lot of other people this weekend, I went to see Al Gore's movie.  You should see it, too.

Although I'd love to see Sen. Gore get involved in the net neutrality debate, he's got this other problem to work on -- global warming.  He's making people see this issue -- visualize it -- in a very persuasive way.

He's got pictures.  He's got film.  He's got charts (and all the lines on all the charts go up and to the right).  He's got animations.  He's got a key prop -- a levitating platform that lets him physically show just how sharply up and to the right some of those lines are going.

Earth Day, and the environmental movement, didn't take off until we saw a picture of the earth from space.  Sen. Gore makes this point at the beginning of "An Inconvenient Truth," and it's clear that he's trying to create the same kind of motivating visualization.  But this time, the picture has a thousand different aspects.  It also has a time element, the key driver for any thriller.  The picture shows us that we're running out of time.