Last night the Save Happy Halley Coalition Wellington showed a fundrasing premier showing of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

We had approximately 150 people attend which we were stoked with, and earlier in the day were really apprehensive that no-one would show. So we've made a little cash to keep up our judicial review of Chris Carters decision to move the threatened snails of Mt Augustus.

The film was a great oportunity to discuss climate change in relation to the save Happy Valley campaign, because lately we've done an awlful lot of talking about Powelliphanta. Lynley pulled out a great stat: that the amount of coal planned to be mined at Mt Augustus was the carbon equivalent of running NZ's passenger vehicle fleet for 2 years! Incredible!

I really enjoyed the film, and despite the excessive Gore (you know...long lingering shots of Gore staring out a window complatatively), and thought it was produced pretty well and made the issue entertaining. I actually felt scarred for the future watching the film, and if he did one thing, he stressed climate changes immediacecy.

Interestingly I found out that the below image of the Earth was taken by the last Apollo missions and is the most widely used photograph in all of history. It is so special because it is one of the only shots ever taken with the sun behind the photographer meaning the earth is fully illuminated with no shadow.