
Although the main precepts underlying the notion of global warming were known and accepted by science at that time, Gore and his film added fuel to a simmering political debate. We humans were changing the atmosphere, and most of the effects of this change would be bad-bringing more misery to the poor, uncertainty to our crop harvests, and death to many other species we share the planet with. The “inconvenient truth” of the film was that because of our efforts to increase our affluence and comfort, the world was warming quicker than would be expected under natural conditions. vice president Al Gore that attempted to convince the moviegoing public that the problem of global warming was indeed happening. It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years since the cinematic release of An Inconvenient Truth (2006), the controversial film featuring former U.S.


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