{"id":7043,"date":"2017-09-06T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2017-09-06T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T07:36:02","slug":"als-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/09\/06\/als-new-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Al's new movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Al G's new film,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6322922\/\"><em>An Inconvenient Sequel<\/em><\/a>: <em>truth to power<\/em> is better than the original. \u00a0I certainly trust that it doesn't contain as many errors as the first \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/7037671.stm\">errors<\/a> that led a UK judge to force the DfE to issue guidance to schools which was very inconvenient for all concerned. \u00a0You'll recall (maybe \u2013 it was a long time ago in 2007) that the various UK governments had sent the film to all secondary schools in the country so that students could see it.<\/p>\n<p>There seems little danger of that happening this time around, so maybe the high court won't be troubled. \u00a0I see, however, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6322922\/externalreviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt\">reviews<\/a> are beginning to circulate with some of Al's interpretation of data being challenged yet again.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the first film and was underwhelmed, but it was before the Blog and I can't find what I wrote, although I remember finding it hectoring and too apocalyptic for my delicate tastes. \u00a0I've watched the new film's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/03\/an-inconvenient-sequel-trailer-al-gore-climate-change-donald-trump-1202054336\/\">trailer<\/a> and it does look like more of the same \u2013 with Al still jetting round the planet, giving stirring speeches and doling out moral instruction. \u00a0<em>Where have all the flowers gone?<\/em> came to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/id79029971?i=79029896\">mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Al G's new film,\u00a0An Inconvenient Sequel: truth to power is better than the original. \u00a0I certainly trust that it doesn't contain as many errors as the first \u2013 errors that led a UK judge to force the DfE...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}