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  • 2010
  • PG
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2010
  • PG
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner trains her camera on Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who takes on the issue of climate change, challenging the status quo, and pointing toward new science and technology that might hold the solutions for our future. (Roadside Attractions)

Directed By: Ondi Timoner

Written By: Terry Botwick, Sarah Gibson, Bjørn Lomborg, Ondi Timoner

  • 2010
  • PG
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2010
  • PG
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 27 m

Cool It

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Summary Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner trains her camera on Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who takes on the issue of climate change, challenging the status quo, and pointing toward new science and technology that might hold the solutions for our future. (Roadside Attractions)

Directed By: Ondi Timoner

Written By: Terry Botwick, Sarah Gibson, Bjørn Lomborg, Ondi Timoner

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Bjørn Lomborg

Self - Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center

Hashem Akbari

Self - Head of Heat Island Group, Berkeley Lab

Joe Barton

Self - Representative, Texas

Ed Begley Jr.

Self

Jagdish Bhagwati

Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University

John Boehner

Self - Representative, Ohio

Larry David

Self

Leonardo DiCaprio

Self

John Dingell

Self - Representative, Michigan

David Duchovny

Self

Freeman Dyson

Self - Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Myron Ebell

Self - Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy, CEI

Kerry Emanuel

Self - Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT

Tom Foreman

Self

Newt Gingrich

Self

Barry Glassner

Self - Sociologist, USC and Author, 'The Culture of Fear'

Al Gore

Self

James Hansen

Self - Director, NASA Institute for Space Studies

Zsuzsa Horvath

Self - Bjorn Lomborg's Assistant

Jay Inslee

Self - Representative, Washington

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
61
57% Positive
13 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
61
57% Positive
13 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review

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88
Dec 14, 2010
Cool It -- complete with its own slide show and witty graphics -- amounts to a devastating rebuttal to Gore-ism.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 14, 2010
It will mightily preach to the choirs of concerned citizens, and be ignored by anyone else.
By Steve Persall FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 14, 2010
Timoner attempts - with talking heads, travelogues, and a little alarmist flair of her own - to articulate Lomborg's central idea that not doing enough good might be the same as doing harm.
By Michelle Orange FULL REVIEW
63
Dec 14, 2010
It is at its best when examining alternative sources of energy and how their development has consistently been thwarted by the energy industry.
FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 14, 2010
While Lomborg is an engaging though sometimes smug subject, director Ondi Timoner allows a coterie of scientists to spend too much time puncturing Gore than propping up Lomborg - who comes off as charismatic and engaged but, ultimately, merely a contrarian.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 14, 2010
Here's a man who's doing to environmental science what the Atkins Diet did to weight loss, and Timoner isn't looking for anyone to call his conclusions into question? Nonsense.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
30
Dec 14, 2010
The nitty-gritty science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard-sell Ondi Timoner pushes on behalf of her subject, Bjørn Lomborg.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 1019 Entertainment, Interloper Films, Larson Studios
Release Date Nov 12, 2010
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline A light bulb won't solve global warming. This guy's bright ideas just might.
Website http://www.coolit-themovie.com/
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Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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