An Oscar for Global Warming

Much is being made of Al Gore's Oscar win for his movie An Inconvenient Truth. Conservatives, such as the always insensitive and narrow-minded Ann Coulter, claim that it's more liberal propaganda from a bloated hypocrite, that Hollywood just can't get enough of something that might kick Bush right in the testicles. Maybe. But it's striking to me how partisan some conservatives made that award, and how neutral those crazy Hollywood lefties kept it. There was no "Bush is a polluting devil" on Melissa Etheridge's slides.

I congratulate Gore. He's genuinely worried about an issue that may dramatically affect the world (granted, generations from now) and he's trying to do his part. When the vast majority of experts in the field of global warming are saying mankind is negatively impacting the environment, who the hell is Ann Coulter to refute that information? It's as if she, and those like her, seized on the few dissenting scientific opinions in order to justify another fight with liberal tree-huggers. Why should we immediately shun the information as liberal propaganda? At the very least, we ought to be acting like global warming is man-made until definitive proof comes out to the contrary. Why is that foolish and unreasonable? This is certainly an issue on which it's better to be safe than sorry.