A convenient truth for the senior general

After all, science was one subject I flunked at school.
 
It wasn’t a waste of my time though, because I did learn many things from this “by far the most terrifying film you will never see,” such as:

• How the sunbeams visiting Earth are being trapped inside its atmosphere thickened by the man-made greenhouse gases particularly carbon dioxide, that are causing global warming and climate change
• When the ocean gets warmer, we have stronger storms like Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans in 2005
• Greenland and Antarctica in the North Pole and South Pole respectively are melting and if half of each breaks up and melts, all low lying brimlands will go underwater, unless something is done to stop it

But according to Mr Gore, the problem isn’t “too big to do anything about. We already know everything we need to know to effectively address this problem,” such as using:

• More efficient electricity appliances
• Higher-mileage cars
• Renewable technology
• Carbon capture and sequestrations

(Why couldn’t he use easier to pronounce words like ‘control’? The possible answer may be he wanted to rearrange my jaw.)
“And pretty soon we are below our 1970 emissions,” he assures us. “We have everything we need save perhaps a political will.”
 
Therefore, let’s hope we are going to hear good news in 2009, when the world leaders are planning to negotiate a new global warming pact. Else, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, we are in for “a period of consequences,” never to get out of it.
 
But one thing did occur to me while watching the film. Maybe it wasn’t just the counsel by the astrologers or the fear of invasion by the United States that had prompted the Senior General to move in such haste to the new capital in Pyinmana, 244 miles (390km) north of Rangoon.
 
Maybe the good general hopes the rising seas will do the job for him what his followers failed to do at Depayin on 30 May 2003, with himself at a safe distance.