Every instinct I have tells me he's not running either. He had a perfect opportunity to run in 2004 and he chose not to. Plus, as you say, he'd have to moderate his views and broaden his focus to other issues. Unless a tragedy happens--i.e., we end up with a Dem frontrunner bound to do even more damage--he won't run.

Thanks, Andrew; I had been hoping for some time to learn something like this about the AIC phenomenon, beyond movie and book.

Have the contents of the slide show progressed or changed much?  Surely there have been new and interesting data published since the movie's release: have they been included in these live presentations in any way?

On Gore as president: The Washington punditry likes to joke that the only known cure for a failed run for president is embalming fluid.  But you may very well be right, of course, that Gore is not going to run, and understands he would have little hope of winning if he does.  Still, as impressed as you are by his command of climate science, including details of climate history, I would be surprised if he is so tightly focused on that subject as to allow himself to become ill-informed on such matters of presidential concern as current foreign affairs.

Dennis Kucinich is married?!  How did that news item ever slip by?  The wife is English, according to the Wikipedia article -- presumably the Irish-American mother did not object.  Is the wife vegan?  What a wonderful dream: vegans in control of the White House kitchen!  A golden age of vegan cuisine dawns!

I also love the sentence in Wikipedia, "He is a Catholic and an environmentalist."  My hero!

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

>> Surely there have been new and interesting data published since the movie's release >>

LOL, how about a complete about face.

The scientific world has fallen in a hole, and I am told the only way to get out without having egg all over their faces, is to dig deeper !!

The world is polluted to its eyeballs, and therefore the quality of thought and analysis by the end of the food chain has sunk to incredibly low levels, IMO.

See my website omegafour.com for a continuing up-to-date UNBIASED analysis.

Yes, Dennis K. is married, and she is quite striking in appearance. Tall, with long red hair, and extremely articulate too. I think she is vegan, but I'm not sure. I saw a film clip of them in Lebanan after the recent bombings there.

 What I most wished for when I saw the movie was footnotes and cites -- not 'proof' (this isn't math), but as hints, often updated I'd hope, for more reading.

Is the slideshow being updated incrementally?

Does a 'presenter' mention differences when showing slides with which he or she has knowledge and is prepared to differ?

Cute site, Eli Rabett.

I loved this comment, from one of your readers, regarding the Frosty Hardison Inquisition:

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As a teacher, I've worked with lots of high school students over the years and many if not most of them seem quite capable of rational thought.

So my question is this:

At what point do potentially rational high school students become the idiotic adults who seem so prevalaent in this country?
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As a teacher myself, I can definitely support his/her observations on students in their teens.  They do not know very much about the world, whether locally or distantly; but they are reasoning as well as. if not better than, the majority of so-called adults.  

Hank, you ask exactly the kind of questions that I am asking.  The issue is so far not serious, but a certain amount of history and transparency would be in order.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

Hank-

Yes, they issue updates to the presentation every so often through their web site.  I have not been involved long enough to know how often, but my sense is they stay on top of it.

You can personalize your talk by taking out or adding slides as you see fit.  I am uncomfortable with much of the hurricane section, for example, so I'll probably take that out.  And I'll probably add some slides on climate change and Texas, in order to bring the debate close to home.  So the answer is that you have quite a bit of latitude in customizing the talk to fit your tastes.

The only thing they ask you NOT to do is change the order of the presentation.  Apparently, they feel that's really important.

Thanks!