It's out in most secondary theaters now, so if you haven't already, go see it. If you don't know much about anthropogenic climate change (aka, "global warming" - which is a bit of a misnomer, actually, since not all places are warming or warming equally), you'll see the evidence and learn about the mechanisms and catastrophic effects of human hydrocarbon technology on the planetary climate. If you're someone who has been following the evidence and already knows a fair amount about anthropogenic climate change, I can practically guarantee that you'll still learn something, and seeing everything packed into 2 hours, from the specific to the general, will almost certainly awaken you to the visceral horror of implications and the fact that it's already happening and we haven't much time to back-paddle before we reach the tipping point (although we've doubtless already passed some).

This film isn't preachy. It isn't pedantic. It won't make you feel like a total shit for driving your car. But hopefully, it'll make you more fully aware of this global problem and what we must do to slow this self-created skid into a world of famine, drought, floods, the potential return of Europe into an ice age while large portions of the rest of the world wilt under unrelenting heat waves, increased natural disasters, the spread of fatal diseases born on several different vectors, and the reclamation of densely-populated land by rising oceans.

Leaders will only change in their complacent, blind march of denial toward irreparable planetary damage if an informed populace refuses to stand for it, refuses to join in the denial until it’s too late. So educate yourself. Get informed. Open your eyes and tell your leaders that you will not let them gamble your future so that corporate interests don’t have to invest in better, newer technology and individuals don’t have to change their old, comfortable habits. Tell them we refuse to stagnate in ignorance until it kills us. Besides, that old technology won’t be viable for much longer, and those old habits won’t be comfortable for much longer, anyway. It’s just that once we finally begin to feel the discomfort in those areas sharply enough to take action, it will probably be too late.

You probably think I’m exaggerating here, and are rolling your eyes and silently assuring me that hyperbole won’t work with you. But I’m not exaggerating. Sadly, I’m not. Go spend your $6, see An Inconvenient Truth, and find out for yourself.