Thursday 6 November 2008

Summary about “An Inconvenient truth”

The movie shows Al Gore and his travels in support of his efforts to educate the public about the severity of the climate crisis. Al Gore who was the vice president of the USA and a famous politician is a long time advocate for the environment and he says that he has been trying for years but he failed to deliver the message but this documentary show the opposite.

The movie begins with Al Gore sitting down talking in a calm voice and showing the beautiful scenery. Also, Al Gore’s personal history his sister's death from lung cancer and his young son's near fatal car accident, also, his long time commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. He presents a wide number of facts and information in a thoughtful and a compelling way from charts and numbers of what had happened, what is happing now and what will happen if we don’t act. An Inconvenient truth is a presentation presented by Al Gore in which he discusses the scientific facts behind global warming like the main point of the film is his and the study by reseachers presenting data examination of the yearly temperature and the CO2 levels of the Antarctic over the years and ice core samples, the retreat of numerous glaciers is shown before and after pictures of them. Temperature record since 1880 showing that the ten hottest years ever measured in this atmospheric record have all occurred in the last 14 years. A survey of 928 peers reviewed scientific on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003.and those surveys were found that every article either supported the causes of global warming consensus or didn’t support it.

He also explains how it has already begun to affect our environment, talks about the disastrous consequences if the world governments and the people do not act, and shares what each individual can do to help protect the earth for this and future generation. Then he says the effects of global warming can be successfully reversed by releasing les CO2 and planting more vegetation to consume existing CO2.



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