Fresh
Jam-packed but never disorienting, Cool It will definitely get your head spinning.
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
Cool It
A light bulb won't solve global warming. This guy's bright ideas just might.
2010 · 1h 27m · PG
Documentary
Directed by
Ondi Timoner
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Cool It
Overview
A documentary that takes an alternative approach to dealing with the global warming crisis.
Director and cast
- Ondi Timoner Director
- Bjørn Lomborg as Self - Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center
- Hashem Akbari as Self - Head of Heat Island Group, Berkeley Lab
- Al Gore as Self (archive footage)
- James Hansen as Self - Director, NASA Institute for Space Studies
- Barack Obama as Self (archive footage)
- Barry Glassner as Self - Sociologist, USC and Author, 'The Culture of Fear'
- Richard Lindzen as Self - Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT
- Nathan Myhrvold as Self - Founder, Intellectual Ventures
- Daniel Nocera as Self - Professor of Energy and Chemistry, MIT
- Thomas Schelling as Self- Economist, Nobel Laureate
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Blond, boyish and with an irrepressible faith in human adaptability, Mr. Lomborg is the anti-Gore.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
It can be a little hard to digest so many ideas, especially in such rapid succession. The movie is never boring, but there may be some information overload for laymen in the audience.
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
Fresh
It's been five years since Gore warned us that we only have 10 years to fix global warming -- hey, Al, my apartment is near the Hudson River. Wanna bet it's still above water in 2015?
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Fresh
Some of it sounds, quite frankly, nuts. And a few of Lomborg's enemies have said as much. But throwing tons of money at the problem with little result? That also sounds kind of crazy.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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