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Nature 454, 279 (17 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454279a; Published online 16 July 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

Climate comedy falls flat

Emma Marris1

ARTS REVIEWED: Sizzle

Premieres 19 July at Outfest Film Festival, California; screens on 26 July at Woods Hole Film Festival, Massachusetts.
Showing at US universities thereafter.

After watching Al Gore's straight-faced presentation in the 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, director Randy Olson turned to humour to tackle the issue of climate change. "I really liked it," he says of Gore's documentary in the opening to Sizzle, Olson's new film that premieres in Hollywood on 19 July, "but I kept thinking 'where are all the scientists?