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Five years of research by several hundred scientists on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tell a different story. Global temperatures have increased by approximately 0.5 degrees Celsius in the last half-century. And according to the IPCC’s 2001 report, “most of the warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human activities...
...Indeed, one supple irony is that even those who liked ?Fahrenhype? and ?Celsius? were obliged to see Moore?s film in order to bury it. The Swift Boat commercials may have brought down John Kerry; the anti-Moore movies simply enriched Moore. As the director realized. The week ?Fahrenheit? opened, he was on Jon Stewart?s ?The Daily Show? and said, ?If there?s any right-wing groups listening tonight, please keep doing this...
...haven?t seen the third broadside, ?Celsius 41/11: The Temperature at Which the Brain...Begins to Die,? made by Lionel Chetwynd, a documentarian whose work isn?t exclusively right-wing (one of his films is sympathetic to blacklisted Communist screenwriter Carl Foreman). I did research its box office take...
Michael Moore, of course, is not alone. The recently released conservative rejoinder, Celsius 41.11, Robert Greenwald’s Uncovered: The War on Iraq, and George Butler’s Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry have all thrown their support firmly behind one of the two major candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Political documentary filmmaking bears increasing resemblance to partisan advertising...
...wall-size ovens using a quirky rolling contraption, then check and turn and recheck the breads until they were done, deftly wielding his peel (the paddle used to take bread in and out of an oven) like an extended arm. The ovens were heated to more than 200 degrees Celsius, and, as I dodged the racks of rising breads, I quickly began to sweat. Paolo called me over to smell the sourdough sponge (the mixture which gives the bread its flavor) that’s been growing for years. “Not very sour, though...