Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” is an Academy Award winning documentary film; aims to call attention to the dangers of climate change, and suggest urgent actions that need to be taken immediately. Al Gore’s campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show was presented worldwide. The movie is an advocacy piece that is part documentary and part biography. Al Gore took college courses in the late 1960s from Harvard’s Dr. Roger Revelle. Dr. Charles Keeling and Revelle were the pioneers in the measurement of atmospheric CO2, and there Gore got an early exposure to the now called “Keeling Curve”, showing the build-up of atmospheric CO2. This deeply affected Gore, and back in the 1970s, he made an effort …show more content…
He said that more events like heat wave would be likely to occur in the future, making reference to the extreme heat wave that affected Europe during the summer of 2004. He also discussed the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, that it grew stronger as it passed over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Gore also pointed to some unprecedented events in 2004 as evidence of increasing severe weather events worldwide such as the occurrence of a record 10 typhoons in Japan, increased number of tornadoes in the U.S., and the appearance of Brazil’s first hurricane. He presented other important aspects of climate change, such as the threat of abrupt climate change leading to a shut-off of the Gulf Stream current, the increase in damaging insect infestations and tropical diseases, loss of coral reefs, loss of ice in the polar ice cap, and melting of permafrost in the …show more content…
Liu. The focus of the film is on the Loess Plateau in China, before, it was renowned for flood, mudslide and famine. It was the poorest region in the country where overgrazing has devastated the local environment by causing desertification, air and water pollution, and a cycle of unproductive subsistence agriculture. But over the span of 15 years, a government program of tree planting and economic incentives for farmers to preserve the land has returned nutrients to the soil and transformed the region back to its historical ecological balance. At the same time, this program tripled farmers’
An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film in which basis are put long-term researches of changes of climate, level of carbonic gas in the atmosphere, and conditions of polar ices. In this film, El Gore, a presidential candidate of 2000 and former vice president of the United States, explains the scientific and political view of global warming and its serious consequences that we already observe on Earth, and other more tragic consequences that are still to come in the near future if we do not reduce emissions of exhaust gas in the atmosphere. Nothing especially new about the global warning is presented in the film, but what made this film effective is, firs of all, the fact that El Gore, a public and well known figure in the United States, is the main protagonist of the film. Another effective point in the film is that El Gore put all the scientific work together and showed that the problem is real, it is not a myth, and it should not be ignored any longer.
To promote a viable campaign, the issue needs to be made real to your audience. McKibben expresses the difficulty in doing that for this issue, because carbon dioxide is insubstantial, direct effects are in gradual widespread changes that aren't easily noticed. He raises the point that the average American is so far detached that even the increasingly severe weather systems created by global warming wouldn't bother him, because he lives a life going from
As Wang Lung gains his wealth, through hard work of the land, he becomes increasingly dissatisfied. Whereas before Wang Lung is happy to h...
Mr. Gore’s speech was given in New York University on September 18, 2006 to bring awareness to the issue. Al Gore uses scientific background and research to persuade the audience by appealing to pathos, logos, and ethos used by his esoteric diction that contributes to the consequential tone to create an effective argument for global warming.
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
This video successfully uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos to support its claims on climate change. The way National Geographic uses ethos, or credibility, for this video is strong and thought out. The main speaker is none other than Bill Nye, who most students grew up watching in elementary school; to learn different aspects of science; and is a very respectable and credible speaker for this topic, of climate change. Nye graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering, then moved to Seattle, Washington to work as an engineer for Boeing and ultimately became a science educator, winning educational awards for his famous program, “Bill Nye the Science Guy”(Biography.com). Nye has extremely credible credentials to be able to speak about this topic of science, who speaks in a serious, concerned and informative manner to grab the attention of the viewer and explain that climate change is a serious affair that needs to be acted upon.
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 is amongst the most frightening environmental issues the modern world faces; it’s adverse effects have become significantly more prevalent since the dawn of the 20th century taking the forms of powerful
There are many causes and consequences of climate change discussed throughout this Encyclical. One of the most important would be the extreme weather. “In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientifically determined cause
diverse change in weather patterns caused by the jump in temperature worldwide, as well as
Al Gore also notices that the ten hottest years on record have occurred in the last 14 years. He gives many examples such as the massive heat wave in Europe, the dramatic high temperature in India and a lot of cities in America. The temperature increases are occupied in the whole world, not only the land but also the oceans. When the oceans get warmer, that causes stronger storms. In the last couple years, there are a lot of big hurricanes. These catastrophic disasters did a lot of damages. They lead to more flooding, heavy rain. However, they also lead to more drought. The spring comes earlier and the fall comes later, the temperature keeps on going up. Many explorers found that the ice is less thick than before. Mr. Al Gore uses a lot of scientific and geographic knowledge to explain the cause and the consequence about the global warming. Ecological environment has been influenced and many rare animals are endangered. Many mosquitos change their habitats and expand their range owning to the change of temperature. Also, it causes a lot of vectors for infectious diseases. It is often said that human should save water and water is a necessary. However, most people never notice that many droughts were caused by global warming. The explanation in the movie is very convince and persuasive. When I was a senior high school student, our geography teacher told us global warming not only makes the temperature high, but also makes many potential dangers. As I was a child, there is a catastrophic disease named SARS, my mother told me that the disease was very serious and led a lot of people to die. If we have to go out, we should be well-armed. We need to use masks to keep us from the virus. From this case, SARS is a disaster and from this movie, global warming is also a
Humans have been destroying the planet since we were able to stand on two legs. As a society, we need to work to reverse these terrible effects that our existence has on the planet. Sustainability is one way to begin reversing these effects, while still living our daily lives. In 2006, Al Gore presented his documentary, “ An Inconvenient Truth”, as a way to show the world the evidence behind global warming, climate change and the destruction of our planet. This documentary shocked the world. It was clear that changes needed to be made, but the destruction was more intense than previously thought. SInce this revelation in 2006, companies have tried to cut down on their greenhouse emissions, as well as offered sustainable products to their customers. Through a debate of morals and
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...
Climate change has been an extremely controversial topic in recent history and continues to create much debate today. Many questions concerning climate change’s origins and its potential affect on the globe are not fully understood and remain unanswered. What is climate change? Is climate change happening? Is it a natural cycle of the world or are there other catalysts involved such as human activity? What proof is there? What data correlations show climate change is accelerated by humans? How serious is climate change and how will it affect the future of our globe? What are we doing to address climate change? Should we really be concerned about climate change? Questions such as these have made climate change a very serious issue in today’s world and created the ideology of climatism. The issue of climate change has affected many different aspects of our lives and the world we live in. Policymaking, human activism, technologies, emission control, global warming, alternative energy sources and many other things have been greatly affected by the mania of climate change. This research report will present climate change in a light of common sense and rationality that will take a grounded discussion of the science behind climate change, global warming, human activity, and how the ideology of climatism has corrupted and driven the actions to combat climate change.
I have watched a documentary called “The Truth About Climate Change” which provide great information and evidence about the facts and consequences of climate change. “The Truth About Climate Change” is talking about the effect, fact and solution to the climate change. It is produced by the BBC, which is a famous television channel all over the world. The documentary takes part everywhere, such as the Arctic region, Amazon rainforest or the desert in China. “The Truth About Climate Change” provides very powerful argument and data to persuade the audience about how the climate change affects