Task "3"

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth is a film which was has focus of global warming. The film is talking about Al Gore and his travels to make people about the dangers of climate crisis. It shows Gore's exploration of data and predictions about climate change and its potential for disaster with his own life story. The film moves in events that changed his worldview, such as his college education with an early climate expert at Harvard University, his sister's death from lung cancer and his young son's car accident. Al Gore points out that all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home.

In the slide show Al Gore spot lights the scientific opinion in climate change. He also describes the consequences. In the middle of the film is his examination of the annual temperature and CO2 levels for the past 650,000 years in Antarctic ice core samples.

The film includes parts, which tell that warming will be significant. For example, Gore discusses the possibility of the collapse of a major ice sheet in Greenland or in West Antarctica, either of which could raise global sea levels by approximately 20 feet, flooding coastal areas and resulting in 100 million refugees. Melt water from Greenland, because of its lower salinity, could then halt the currents that keep northern Europe warm and quickly trigger dramatic local cooling there. It also show what is the effect of climate change in animals, like polar bears, who are drowning high rates because they are finding less substantial ice to rest on. The film ends with Gore arguing that the global warming wil successfully reserved if there will be a government movement by releasing less CO2 and planting more vegetation to consume existing CO2.