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Sierra Club Showing Inconvenient Sequel in Vermillion Sept. 18

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2017-09-04

The Sierra Club of South Dakota is hosting a free(!)* screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power at the Coyote Twin in Vermillion on September 18 at 7 p.m. The film is Al Gore’s diplomacy-wonky follow-up to his landmark 2006 film on climate change, which the current White House is not just ignoring but promoting even as it doles out food to people swamped by climate change’s worsening effects.

Here’s how Paramount pitched Al Gore’s 2006 documentary:

And here’s the trailer for the new show:

Monday, September 18, Vermillion—bring your friends, and stick around afterward to talk about what you’re going to do about an anti-science government failing to respond to real science, real risk, and real national interest.

Update 2017.09.05 18:36 CDT: As noted by Clarence below, the public can watch this movie in Vermillion for free! Whoo-hoo!

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11 Comments

  1. Mark Winegar 2017-09-04 19:33

    Thank you Cory. We hope to fill the house with guests for this important film.

    It should be noted that the local Sierra Club, the Living River Group, initiated this event and is partnering with Greening Vermillion and the Sustainability program at USD. Interested parties can contact Clarence Pederson or I for more information.

  2. Clarence Pederson 2017-09-05 07:02

    Please add note that this film is FREE Admission.

  3. Steve Pearson 2017-09-05 10:51

    Important film??? How about the fact that the first one has been shown to have multiple lies and what a joke! All the while Al Gore keeps flying around in his environment killing plane. WOW

  4. Darin Larson 2017-09-05 11:58

    Ya, Steve, Al Gore should walk wherever he wants to go while holding his breath so as not to emit any CO2 until an electric plane is invented. He should also avoid eating any bean-based dishes lest he contribute to gaseous emissions while walking.

    Ideally, Cory could set Al Gore up with a podcast interview that he could broadcast over short-wave radio from an in-ground bunker house that is heated and cooled by the earth and doesn’t have any modern amenities that would contribute to climate change except an adjacent two-hole outhouse. Because if you are not living like a caveman, you are a hypocrite, right Steve?

  5. Porter Lansing 2017-09-05 12:20

    Good one, Darin.

  6. Robert McTaggart 2017-09-05 16:39

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wind-energy-california-20170905-story,amp.html

    There seems to be more interest in solar now in California than wind.
    ”
    “You want to go with renewables but then you get down to the county level and people say it’s a disturbance, it lowers our land value and we don’t want to see it,” said Gary Ackerman, executive director of the Western Power Trading Forum, an organization based in Sacramento whose 90 members in the West buy and sell power.

    “It’s fascinating that a state that most people see as the leader in renewable energy development has counties that are saying, not in our backyards, not in our front yards and not in the side yard.”
    ”

    Even Wyoming wind farms are facing competition from California Solar. As a result, less money is coming into the Wyoming coffers from the purchase of their wind energy by Californians.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2017-09-05/solar-competition-clouding-wyoming-to-california-wind-plans

  7. Cory Allen Heidelberger Post author | 2017-09-05 17:59

    Hey hey! Steve is back with a quick slam and no evidence!

    Shortwave radio powered by a bicycle generator, of course.

    Let’s make a deal: Gore stops flying when Ivanka stops flying.

  9. Robert McTaggart 2017-09-06 08:52

    However, the showing of the movie will not be carbon free.

    Everybody will drive to the theater in a gas powered vehicle. You’d think they would power up the batteries with wind or solar to provide the electricity during the movie at least.

    Or do without air conditioning. That’s just what we need, a full theater with no air conditioning when it is 90 degrees outside….

  10. Darin Larson 2017-09-06 13:07

    I wonder if two major Atlantic hurricanes in two weeks with devastating consequences for the US will cause some climate change deniers to rethink their position. Probably not.

    Part of the problem is so much of the effects of climate change are either far-off or not staring us right in the face. Our country and our politicians especially are too short-sighted. But when you are staring down a category 5 hurricane you have to wonder if there is something to this climate change thing.

  11. Cory Allen Heidelberger Post author | 2017-09-07 21:10

    O.K., Vermillion, prove the good professor wrong: send me pictures of someone, anyone, any good Vermillionian walking to the movie!

    Curious: are movies less carbon-costly now cinemas download digital files instead of shipping heavy reels of film back and forth?

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