| SolveYourProblem
Article Series: Global Warming
Global Warming & Climate Change -
What Do I Need To Know?
Al
Gore’s Global Warming Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
You
have probably heard of An
Inconvenient Truth, the award-winning documentary
presented by former Vice President Al Gore. Even though
you probably
think that watching a documentary
starring former Vice President Al Gore talking about the environment
sounds like a definitely dull affair, you will be glad to hear
that An Inconvenient Truth is not as dull as it might sound
to you. So what
can you learn about An Inconvenient Truth that you may
not
already
know.
In
other
words, why
should
you care
about this popular documentary, and why should you listen to
what Al Gore has to say?
In Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the truth
about global warming comes to a head. The documentary
An Inconvenient Truth offers a dangerous picture of what the
future holds for
us if our governments continue their current policy. According
to the information provided in An Inconvenient Truth, our planet
may eventually reach a tipping point that can be the beginning
of Earth's decline, and according to the information provided
in the documentary, this tipping point could happen in as soon
as ten years. According to Gore and the panel of scientists
that testify in An Inconvenient Truth, once Earth has reached
this tipping point, our planet will begin its gradual decline
that will lead to the complete destruction of the world as
we know it.
But even though these facts alone are compelling, does this
documentary make compelling viewing? Although it may not seem
like a compelling documentary based purely face value, it turns
out that the documentary actually does make very compelling
viewing. An Inconvenient Truth shows Al Gore standing on a
large stage before a very large screen in front of an audience.
The information presented by Al Gore is based on a speech he
has been constantly revising over the past ten years or so.
According to the information presented by Al Gore in An Inconvenient
Truth, in recent years almost one thousand peer-reviewed journals
have been written and published that deal with global warming.
According to Gore, among the mainstream scientific community,
there is no controversy over the urgency and existence of climate
change. One of the most dramatic and striking moments of An
Inconvenient Truth is the picture known as Earthwise. The picture
is essentially a photograph of planet Earth taken from space
by the first group of American astronauts. Then Gore presents
a series of photographs taken of Earth by in later times. These
pictures show the signs of global warming: the melted ice caps,
the retreating shorelines, and the melting snows. In short,
the earth is changing, and it is clear that climate change
is responsible.
Gore also provides many convincing statistics, including the
fact that the ten warmest years in history have occurred in
the previous fourteen years. Another scary statistic: the first
hurricane to ever hit South America struck last year. The weather
has begun to be brutal in other areas of the world as well.
For instance, the Pacific and Japan have recently experienced
a surge of typhoons. And who could forget the disaster wrought
by Hurricane Katrina?
More evidence can be seen at the cores of polar ice, which
demonstrate a much higher rate of carbon dioxide. Gore shows
a graph that shows how carbon dioxide patterns has operated
in cycles over the years, but that now it shows a definite
increasing pattern. As Gore explains, the primary explanation
for global warming can be traced to the burning of fossil fuels.
All the coal, oil, and gas being released into the atmosphere
are causing global climate change, Gore warns, and he has the
scientific evidence to prove it.
# # # # #
SolveYourProblem.com
: 2007
> Home > Global
Warming
Articles : Main Page
|
