Director David Guggenheim's, 'An Inconvenient Truth' is a documentary about former American politician Al Gore informing citizens on the causes and effects of Global Warming. He explains that the natural cycle of the Earths climate has been disturbed by noxious gas building up around the atmosphere and will continue to raise if we don't act soon. Gore's way of explaining Global Warming is both enlightening and surreal, as he refers to statistics, sentiment of nature, and the question of our perception and freedom to get his point across to his audience. By using such techniques to show his extensive knowledge on the subject, he can really appeal to the community. Gore states his first point by presenting visuals such as videos and graphs to show the progressive rate of temperature and Carbon Dioxide levels of the Earth's atmosphere. Based on these statistics, the 'Worlds hottest years' in our atmosphere were between years 1990-2005 (2005 being the hottest); meaning the more time has passed, the hotter the world became. To …show more content…
Statistics are shown that America is the major contributer to Global Warming, and has higher Carbon Dioxide levels than many other continents combined. Gore argues that one of the causes of the increase of Carbon levels is combining our old habits with new technology. In this day in age it is easy to be blinded by the mass production of new technology and not pay attention to the consequences it may bring. Technology grows stronger over time, and a huge factor on how far people can take this technology to adapt the earth is awareness. "Do we have to choose between the economy and the environment?". Change begins by being aware of what we as a people are contributing to Global Warming, and from there we can build a better economy, because if we don't; what's at stake is, "Our ability to live on planet Earth; to have a future as a
A similar message that appears in his book that appeared in the aforementioned speech was the impact of the media speculation. The book addresses this in two examples. One was presented with the news of a lawsuit that an island called Vantu would file against the EPA; yet the lawsuit would never move forward due to it only serving a purpose to launder money and raise awareness to global warming that was never proven to affect the island. The other was shown to be environmental scientist who received their funding from environmental organizations, such as NERF in the book. These scientists would often have to go against their findings and report what the organizations wanted them to, or possibly lose their funding. Additionally, the book profoundly took opposition to the claim of global warming. This is presented in the form of the main character, Peter Evans, who has been manipulated into believing everything that the media has told him about global warming. It isn’t until John Kenner is introduced, that Peter begins got learn the truth about global warming. The author uses specific evidence to back his claims, specifically he uses a wide array of resources to verify his claim that Antarctica is not in fact melting, but getting colder and thickening. Furthermore, another essential concept that that book introduces is environmental extremists, or bioterrorism. These characters in the book would stop at nothing to make sure that everyone believed in global warming, and tried to destroy parts of the world to succeed in their mission. Bioterrorists are best represented as a warning of what could happen if people continue to buy into the media’s lies without having conclusive evidence to back up their
In the film, Gore talked about the ice core drills that were taken in Antarctica for studding carbon dioxide levels in preceding years. “When the snow falls it traps little bubbles of atmosphere. They can go in and measure how much CO2 was in the atmosphere the year that snow fell.” Gore’s partner pointed at the specific part of one of the core drills and said “right here is where the US Congress passed the Clean Air Act.” He could see a significant change, “just a couple of years after that law was passed, it 's very clearly distinguishable.” The Clean Air Act was passed in December 17, 1963, and the significant change from pollutants in the atmosphere was obvious. Generation of that time have experienced clean ecosystem. But what about present? The technology and industries have grown since then. Present pollutions contaminating the atmosphere more than ever before. New similar acts must have been passed decades ago. It is disappointing when candidates who are running for president pledge to something’s just to get more votes, and once they are, they would never bother about keeping the promise. Like the Al Gore said “in 2000 my opponent pledged to regulate the CO2 and that was not a pledge that was kept.” This is immoral and unethical concerning society and nature. Today, global warming issue is also politically ignored. When Gore showed the chart with predicted CO2 level in 50 years from 2005, the
His presentation in the documentary was all but dull. He has his audience’s attention and uses graphs, pictures, and actual statistics to support his research. One of the several charts Al Gore uses in his presentation is well presented and accurately depicts the effect of this climate crisis. Carbon Dioxide is at its highest peak as of now according to the chart Al Gore presents and he emphasizes the increased rate by using a mechanical lift that elevates him to the peak of the Co2 level on the chart. This leaves the audience in shock and as a result it allows the audience to understand the reality of the carbon dioxide level and its relationship with temperature as it increases the amount of heat being trapped inside earth’s outer layer. Gore does a great job in emphasizing how literally carbon dioxide is “off the charts” and as a result temperature increases as well. As stated in the film, in the course of 50 years or so if people don’t take action against this issue it will become irreversible. It is not fair to our future generations but as Al Gore states, “This is not a political issue, so much as moral issue, and if we allow this to continue to happen it is deeply
Gore’s book, an inconvenient truth (herein “Inconvenient Truth”), is primarily referenced for the proposition that the totality of human activity (or more broadly, life’s activities) here on Earth, if left unchecked, has and will result in more and greater weather dislocations and disturbances arising from a general warming of the biosphere, and, that the trend to date displays an acceleration forming a rising an asymptotic curve (the first half of a sigmoidal curve).
Gore’s purpose in his essay is to convince America of the dangers of global warming and prompt the world to take measures to prevent the advancement of this dangerous event. Gore promotes his purpose by appealing to his audience’s emotions. He references the countless hurricanes that have impacted millions of Americans on the Gulf Coast and appeals to Americans’ morals as human beings.
Pollan recalls that the “really dark moment [of the lecture] came during the closing credits , we [they] were asked to...change [their] light bulbs.” He remarks that this minute gesture seemed punitive in comparison to the “magnitude of the problem Gore had described” stating that it is “drop-in-the-bucket” issues like this that cause people to ask the question “why bother?” Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry also influenced Pollan’s thoughts on climate change when he wrote an analysis describing global warming as a “crisis of character” meaning that the everyday acts of humans- such as using computers and other forms of technology- have “real-world consequences” that aid in the destruction of the environment. The analyses of these two environmental specialists are what taught Pollan the importance of beginning the fight against climate change at
Alleged Global Warming has been a hot topic and been widely reported in the American media since the 1970s. In March 2014, TED, a nonprofit committed to expanding ideas with short talks, gave a powerful presentation of the alleged current consequences of Global Warming in Gavin Schmidt’s (2014) talk: The emergent patterns of climate change. His claims are stark and he implores his audience to take the grave predictions of Global Warming seriously and not just write it off as insignificant. While Google Trends (2014) shows (graph 1) that search terms for global warming in the United States (red) have decreased while worldwide (blue) interest (image 1) fluctuates with India showing the most curiosity. Yet, not everyone agrees that Global Warming is real just as not everyone agrees that cigarette smoking is hazardous to your health when scientific studies show otherwise. By defining Global Warming, giving the major arguments on both sides of the topic, and offering an overview of scientific studies, this paper will help one think critically and thoughtfully about Global Warming.
Gore wants to intrude on the audience’s emotional mindset and make it work in his favor. Gore starts off with a story of a typical day as a kid, playing in the sun, and sitting in the grass. He goes on to explain his childhood, and how it was wonderful. He then asks the audience if they want this for his kids, and of course they all did. He states that this won’t be so if the world continues to worsen. He intended his audience to think of their children and think their life if the world did raise sea levels and changes in temperature, it wouldn’t be a pretty image. Next he moves onto the emotional appeals of the worsening storms. Nobody wants to see the horrible damage that hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, and other storms can do, yet Gore shows them anyways. He shows pictures of destroyed houses, sunken buildings, people swimming in 7 feet of water, piles of dead bodies found under buildings, and much more. All these images have an immediate impact on the audience. They want to know what they can do to help and stop these events from ever happening again. Later, he moves on to the impact of the melting ice caps and how that hurts the world. Gore makes good use of emotional appeals when he shows the video of the cute, cuddly polar bear. However, the video was of a polar bear that swam in the ocean for miles not being able to find land therefore eventually dying. It wasn’t one that made the audience feel all fuzzy and warm, it made them feel despair and sadness. It made them want to help the world so they could help the polar bears. Finally, towards the end, he states “You see that pale, blue dot? That 's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it 's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet
Global warming and climate change in general is one of those subjects that I hold very close to my heart; not because I go around in my spare time hugging trees and gathering vegans in Toyota Priuses to form a peaceful protest against big oil, but because climate change is a subject that everyone and their mom likes to chime in on without really knowing that much about. If you even mention that term “global warming” in a group of people, even the person who you wouldn’t believe can even form a sentence has an opinion. People must feel like it makes them better than others because they can regurgitate whatever CNN and Fox tells them. I’ve done about two or three papers on climate change and global warming in my highschool career, and even though I was lucky enough to get to not talk about the subject since my freshman year, I guess this is the direction I chose to take for myself. Hopefully by the end of this I’ll convince you that there’s no reason to ever bring it up again and we’ll put the issue aside and worry about the real problems like getting the homeless jobs or deciding if we should just pass Marijuana and tax it until our economy stimulates.
Although Al Gore has proven to be both a capable politician and philanthropist, he has no credibility in regards to the scientific field he seems so concerned to inform the public about. Interestingly enough, some of the mistakes our esteemed presenter made were crucial details that weaken the anthropogenic global warming argument. In the film, Gore mistakenly asserts “that in each of the last four interglacial warm periods, changes in carbon dioxide concentration caused changes in temperature” (35 Inconvenient Truths: The Errors in Al Gore's Movie) . In reality it’s the opposite, because temperature is the factor that affects carbon dioxide levels. “Carbon dioxide,” Gore asserted, “is pollution.” That statement not only proves to be misleading, but also ignorant. Carbon dioxide is a food source for plants and a source of natural nutrition. Plants take in this carbon dioxide and in turn release oxygen, a component that all living species, including humans, breathe. In fact, “well-managed forests, such as those of the United States, are growing at record rates [due to] the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [, which] is feeding the trees” (35 Inconvenient Truths: The Errors in Al Gore's Movie). If one were to look at the concentration of carbon dioxide throughout the span of Geological Time, one would notice that carbon dioxide levels were significantly higher than present levels. Notably, the University of California estimates carbon dioxide levels to be approximately twenty times greater in concentration than present levels. This further strengthens the idea that carbon dioxide levels have existed at higher rates than before, so there is nothing “unnatural” or “man-made” in regards to carbon dioxide levels rising to higher l...
At the opening of the film, Gore introduces the concept of global warming and its complex relationship with carbon dioxide. He claims that “the most vulnerable part of the earth’s ecological system is the earth’s atmosphere.” According to Gore’s own interpretation, when
There are many things we need to change in society to become sustainable for future generations. One thing is for certain, we all need to do our part to contribute to this effort, and there is no time like the present to change our ways.
People say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Truth is, you know what you had, you just never thought you would lose it. The theme for the documentary “The Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore and the article “Warm, Warmer, Warmest” by Kristof, revolves around trying to bring awareness on global warming and how it is human responsibility to act in attempt to stop global warming as much as they are provoking it. The purpose for both is to attempt to wake up the people about global issues. Both of their audiences involve everyone considering that humans are responsible for the on-going issue. For “The Inconvenient Truth” the tone tends to be serious but not as aggressive as it was for “Warm, Warmer, Warmest”. Al Gore in his presentation
Subpoint A: Not long ago, a documentary film called “An Inconvenient truth” came out in 2006. This film raised international public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. A former U.S Vice president Al Gore campaigned to educate citizens about global warming through a simp...
The Documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” take us around the world and makes us realize what harm we are to our doing to our mother planet. The movie starts with the voice-over of Al Gore explaining the nature around us. The first concept explained in this documentary is Global Warming. Al Gore explains with the help of animation how the ozone layer is thickening and leading to increase in the temperature. Global warming leads to extreme increase and decrease in the temperature causing ecological imbalance in the environment. The reason of global warming are we and not the animals but due to global warming they are also affected. The documentary also states that out of the 15 hottest years, 14 hottest years are from the 21st century