One of my own preferred science voices is Richard Dawkins, who has a "title" I support and trust, too:

"Professor Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford."

"Data" should be reliable, replicable, reviewable by non-specialists of course, but then a non-specialist --one like me at least-- needs power of story about all the data, story that can be trusted as "truth" to give meaning and purpose to the facts after they've been found and accepted as factual.

I think that's what Dawkins does brilliantly to advance "the public understanding of science," so I was wondering if that's what Gore is doing too and if he's got good help?
I still need to see the movie, but I guess I've been putting it off not knowing what to expect, a Michael Moore-type propaganda-style passionate POV piece, or a factual but stuffy, pedantic lecture, OR a true story with real power, maybe animated enough to move the whole earth.

At the Academy Awards the fawning celebrities seemed so much in his thrall that I thought it might be the first, but then hearing the song (with written conservation tips projected above) made it seem more like school. But I hold out hope for the third! Having seen it, what do y'all think?

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Not to get off-topic but here's just a quick example of how I see Dawkins go far beyond data, making us come alive as characters in our own true story:

Dawkins has opened a global conference of big thinkers warning that our Universe may be just "too queer" to understand.

Professor Dawkins, the renowned Selfish Gene author from Oxford University, said we were living in a "middle world" reality that we have created.

Experts in design, technology, and entertainment have gathered in Oxford to share their ideas about our futures.

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is already a top US event. It is the first time the event, TED Global, has been held in Europe.

Professor Dawkins' opening talk, in a session called Meme Power, explored the ways in which humans invent their own realities to make sense of the infinitely complex worlds they are in; worlds made more complex by ideas such as quantum physics which is beyond most human understanding.

"Are there things about the Universe that will be forever beyond our grasp, in principle, ungraspable in any mind, however superior?" he asked.

"Successive generations have come to terms with the increasing queerness of the Universe."

Each species, in fact, has a different "reality". They work with different "software" to make them feel comfortable, he suggested.

Because different species live in different models of the world, there was a discomfiting variety of real worlds, he suggested.

"Middle world is like the narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum that we see," he said.

"Middle world is the narrow range of reality that we judge to be normal as opposed to the queerness that we judge to be very small or very large."

He mused that perhaps children should be given computer games to play with that familiarise them with quantum physics concepts.

"It would make an interesting experiment," he told the BBC News website.