His recollection of it, reinforced by the misery he himself knew in his early days in Paris (where he had to burn his drawings to keep warm), produced the pathetic, socially conscious pictures of his brief Blue Period, such as the portraits of "The Mistletoe Vender" and "Woman Ironing," and the etching of the bitter-faced, semi-starved couple in "The Frugal Repast".
Growing local can slow global warming, produce food with more vitamins, create jobs, and give people a deep sense of satisfaction.
He also was the senior associate producer last year on "Too Hot Not to Handle," a documentary about global warming produced by HBO and shown in April.
The fantastic conceit of "The Day After Tomorrow" is that global warming produces global freezing.
Rapid cooling causes transient increases in discharge frequency, whereas rapid warming produces transient discharge inhibition.
Rapid cooling causes a steep transient response, and rapid warming produces a temporary inhibition of discharge.
The festival, opened last night by Mr Gore, also features films on the theme of global warming produced by the Save Our Selves campaign, which is organising the Live Earth concerts around the world.
It is only in summer, when temperatures hover around freezing, that the gradual warming produced by greenhouse gases can have an effect – and that is precisely what we are seeing now, albeit with an occasional blip in our graphs".
A broader lesson to be drawn from the findings, he said, is that irrespective of any human impact on the world's climate, there is great natural variability in rainfall, and this variability may swamp the effects of any global warming produced by industrial emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
In the model simulations, that warming produced broadly similar cloud patterns to warming caused by greenhouse gases.
