'''An Inconvenient Truth''' is an
Academy Award-winning
documentary film about
climate change, specifically
global warming, presented by former
United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by
Davis Guggenheim.
[1] A companion book authored by Gore has been on the paperback nonfiction
New York Times bestseller list since
June 11 2006, reaching #1 on
July 2 2006.
[2]
The film premiered at the 2006
Sundance Film Festival and opened in
New York and
Los Angeles on
May 24 2006. Earning $49 million at the
box-office, ''An Inconvenient Truth'' is the third highest-grossing documentary film to date in the
United States after
Fahrenheit 9/11 and
March of the Penguins.
[3] The film's distributor,
Paramount Classics, is donating 5% of the box office receipts and Gore is donating all of his proceeds from the film to the
Alliance for Climate Protection (of which Gore is both founder and chairman).
[4] The film was released on
DVD by
Paramount Home Entertainment on
November 21 2006. ''An Inconvenient Truth'' was well received by
film critics, scientists, and politicians and won two
Academy Awards. It is also being used in school science curricula around the world.
[5] Global warming skeptics have criticized the film, calling it "exaggerated and erroneous".
[6][7]
Synopsis
''An Inconvenient Truth'' focuses on Al Gore and his travels in support of his efforts to educate the public about the severity of the climate crisis. Gore says, "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as I've failed to get the message across." The film nearly follows a
Keynote presentation (dubbed "the slideshow") that Gore presented throughout the world. It intersperses Gore's exploration of data and predictions regarding climate change and its potential for disaster with Gore's life story.
It weaves in events that changed his worldview, including his college education with early climate expert
Roger Revelle at
Harvard University, his sister's death from
lung cancer, and his young
son's near-fatal car accident. Throughout the film, Gore makes comments regarding his loss to
George W. Bush in the
2000 United States presidential election. For comic effect, Gore also uses a clip from the ''
Futurama'' episode "
Crimes of the Hot" to explain global warming.
In the slideshow Gore reviews the
scientific opinion on climate change, discusses the
politics and
economics of global warming, and describes the consequences he believes global climate change will produce if the amount of human-generated
greenhouse gases are not significantly reduced in the very near future. A centerpoint of the film is his examination of the annual temperature and CO
2 levels for the past 650,000 years in
Antarctic ice core samples.
The film includes many segments intended to refute
critics who say that global warming is unproven or that warming will be insignificant. 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 (6m), flooding coastal areas and producing 100 million refugees.
Meltwater from Greenland, because of its lower
salinity, could then halt the
Gulf Stream current and quickly trigger dramatic local cooling in Northern Europe. The documentary ends with Gore arguing that if appropriate actions are taken soon, the effects of global warming can be successfully reversed by releasing less
CO2 and planting more vegetation to consume existing CO
2. Gore calls upon his viewers to learn how they can help him in these efforts.
Gore's book of the same title was published concurrently with the theatrical release of the documentary. The book contains additional information, scientific analysis, and Gore's commentary on the issues presented in the documentary. A 2007 documentary entitled ''An Update with Former Vice President Al Gore'' features Gore discussing additional information that came to light after the film was completed, such as
Hurricane Katrina.
[8]
Scientific basis
Main articles: Scientific opinion on climate change,
Global warming
The
Pale Blue Dot, a
Voyager 1 photo showing
Earth ''(circled)'' as a single pixel from 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometres) away, is featured in ''An Inconvenient Truth''. Al Gore points out that all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home.
Gore's claim is that global warming and cooling is real and largely
human-caused. Gore presents specific data that supports the film's thesis, including:
★ The
Keeling curve, measuring CO
2 from the
Mauna Loa Observatory.
★ The retreat of numerous glaciers is shown in before-and-after photographs (see
Retreat of glaciers since 1850).
★ A study by researchers at the
Physics Institute at the
University of Bern and the
European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctic presenting data from Antarctic
ice cores showing carbon dioxide concentrations higher than at any time during the past 650,000 years.
[9]
★
Temperature record since 1880 showing that the ten hottest years ever measured in this atmospheric record have all occurred in the last fourteen years.
★ A 2004 survey by Dr.
Naomi Oreskes of 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003. The survey, published as an editorial in the journal ''
Science'', claimed that every article either supported the human-caused global warming consensus or did not comment on it.
[10]
The
Associated Press contacted more than 100 climate researchers and questioned them about the film's veracity. All 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie said that Gore conveyed the science correctly.
[11] In contrast, the
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, at the time chaired by
Republican Senator Jim Inhofe issued a press release criticizing this article.
[12] Inhofe's statement that "global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"
[13] appears in the film.
RealClimate, a group blog maintained by eleven climate scientists, lauded the film's science as "remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research."
[14] Michael Shermer, scientific author and founder of
The Skeptics Society, wrote in
Scientific American that ''An Inconvenient Truth'' "shocked me out of my doubting stance".
[15]
Origins
Gore became intrigued by the topic of global warming when he took a course at
Harvard University with Professor
Roger Revelle, one of the first scientists to measure
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
[16]
Later, when Gore was in Congress, he initiated the first congressional hearing on the subject, brought in climate scientists and began talking to politicians about the issue.
[17] He thought that once legislators heard the compelling evidence, they would be driven to action; ultimately, though, the process was a slow one. Gore's 1992 book, ''
Earth in the Balance'', dealing with a number of environmental topics, reached the
New York Times bestseller list.
As Vice President during the
Clinton Administration, Gore pushed for the implementation of a
carbon tax to modify incentives to reduce fossil fuel consumption causing fossil fuel to last longer and thereby decrease emission of greenhouse gases in the short term but not long term; it was partially implemented in
1993. He helped broker the 1997
Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty designed to curb
greenhouse gas emissions. However, it was not ratified in the
United States due to opposition, in the
Senate. The primary objections stemmed from the exemptions the treaty gives to
China and
India, whose industrial base and carbon footprint are growing rapidly, and fears that the exemptions would lead to further trade imbalances and offshoring arrangement with those countries.
Gore also supported the funding of a satellite called
Triana, to increase awareness of environmental issues and to take the first direct measurements of
how much sunlight is reflected from the Earth. During
his 2000 Presidential Campaign, Gore ran, in part, on a pledge to ratify the
Kyoto Protocol.
After his defeat in
the 2000 presidential election to
George W. Bush, Gore returned his focus to the topic. He edited and adapted a slideshow he had compiled years earlier, and began featuring the slideshow in multimedia presentations on global warming across the U.S. and around the world. At the time of the film, Gore estimated he had shown the presentation more than one thousand times.
Producers
Laurie David and
Lawrence Bender saw Gore's slide show in
New York City after the
2004 premiere of ''
The Day After Tomorrow''.
[18] Inspired, they met with director
Davis Guggenheim about the possibility of making the slide show into a movie. Guggenheim, who was skeptical at first, later saw the presentation for himself, stating that he was "blown away," and "left after an hour and a half thinking that global warming [was] the most important issue. . . . I had no idea how you’d make a film out of it, but I wanted to try," he said.
[19]
Reception
Box office
The film opened in
New York City and
Los Angeles on
May 24 2006. On
Memorial Day weekend, it grossed an average of $91,447 per theater, the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary, though it was only playing on four screens at the time.
[20]
At the 2006
Sundance Film Festival, the movie received three
standing ovations. It was also screened at the 2006
Cannes Film Festival and was the opening night film at the 27th
Durban International Film Festival on
June 14 2006.
''An Inconvenient Truth'' was the most popular documentary at the 2006
Brisbane International Film Festival.
[21]
The film has grossed over $24 million in the U.S. and over $49 million worldwide as of
June 3 2007, making it the fourth-highest-grossing documentary in the U.S. to date (after ''
Fahrenheit 9/11'', ''
March of the Penguins'' and ''
Sicko'').
[22]
Al Gore has stated, "
Tipper and I are devoting 100 percent of the profits from the book and the movie to a new bipartisan educational campaign to further spread the message about global warming."
[23] Paramount Classics is committing 5% of their domestic theatrical gross for the film to a new bipartisan climate action group, Alliance for Climate Protection, dedicated to awareness and grassroots organizing.
[24]
Reviews
The film received a positive reaction from critics. It garnered a "certified fresh" 93% rating at
Rotten Tomatoes (as of
May 21 2007), with a 94% rating from the "Cream of the Crop" reviewers. Film critics
Roger Ebert and
Richard Roeper gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert wrote: "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."
[25]
Journalist
Ronald Bailey argued in the
libertarian magazine ''
Reason'' that although "Gore gets [the science] more right than wrong," he exaggerates the risks.
[26]
Awards
The film has received a number of various awards worldwide.
Al Gore during the acceptance speech for "An Inconvenient Truth" with other members of the crew
★ The film won the 2006
Academy Award for Documentary Feature[27] and
Best Original Song for
Melissa Etheridge's "
I Need to Wake Up".
[28] It is the first documentary to win a best original song Oscar.
★ The film received special recognition from the
Humanitas Prize, the first time the organization had handed out a Special Award in over 10 years.
[29]
★ 2007 Stanley Kramer Award - The Producers Guild of America; recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues".
[30]
★ The President’s Award 2007 - The
Society for Technical Communication "for demonstrating that effective and understandable technical communication, when coupled with passion and vision, has the power to educate—and change—the world."
[31]
★ For his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming including the Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore has been nominated with Canadian Inuit activist
Sheila Watt-Cloutier for the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize.
[32]
'Best Documentary':
[33]
★ Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007
★ Chicago Film Critics Association
[34] -
2006-12-28
★ Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
[35][36] -
2006-12-18
★ Florida Film Critics 2006 -
2006-12-22
★ Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006
★ Las Vegas Film Critics Circle 2006
★ National Board of Review
[37] -
2006-12-06
★ New York Film Critics Online
[38] -
2006-12-10
★ New York Film Critics Society -
2006-12-12
★ Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006
[39] -
2007-1-11
★ Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006
★ Online Film Critics 2006
★ Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006
★ Satellite Awards (Nominated) 2006
★ St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006
★ Toronto Film Critics Circle (Nominated) 2006
★ Utah Film Critics Awards 2006
★ Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006
'Best Non-Fiction':
★ National Society of Film Critics
[40] -
2007-01-06
Political response
The documentary has been generally well-received politically in many parts of the world and is credited for raising further awareness of global warming internationally, prompting calls for more government action in regard to the climate. Despite its success, some political leaders are less keen on embracing the film as a matter-of-fact necessity. Several colleges and high schools have begun to use the film in science curricula,
[41] though at least one US school district has put restrictions on its use in the classroom.
[42]
Government
★ President Bush, when asked whether he would watch the film, responded: "Doubt it." He later stated that "And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects, and focus on the
technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment."
[ Bush gives thumbs down to Gore's new movie ] Gore responded that "The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming and he [Bush] has today again expressed personal doubt that that is true."
[ White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino stated that “The president noted in 2001 the increase in temperatures over the past 100 years and that the increase in greenhouse gases was due to certain extent to human activity”.]
★ In September 2006, Gore traveled to Sydney, Australia to promote the film. Australian Prime Minister, John Howard said he would not meet with Gore or agree to Kyoto because of the movie: "I don't take policy advice from films." Former Opposition Leader Kim Beazley joined Gore for a viewing and other MPs attended a special screening at Parliament House earlier in the week.[43]
★ In the United Kingdom, Conservative Leader of the Opposition David Cameron has urged people to see the film in order to understand climate change.[44]
★ In Belgium, Margaretha Guidone successfully persuaded the entire Belgian government to see the film.[45]
★ In Costa Rica, Al Gore met with president Oscar Arias, and was well received by other politicians and the local media.
★ In Spain, after a meeting with Gore, prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said the government will make ''An Inconvenient Truth'' available to schools. Gore has received this year's Prince of Asturias Prize for international cooperation [46][47].
Education
★ Following the issuing of the IPCC report into Climate Change on February 2 2007 and following on from the The Stern Review into the economic effects to the UK from climate change, the UK Government announced that it would be issuing a copy of the DVD of ''An Inconvenient Truth'' together with further reading material on this subject to every secondary school in England and Wales to increase educational awareness of the issues raised in the movie.[48] This is currently subject to a challenge in the High Court [4] on the basis that schools are legally required to provide a balanced presentation of political issues.
★ 50,000 free copies of the film were offered to the National Science Teachers Association, which declined to take them. Laurie David, one of the film's producers, said in a Washington Post op-ed piece that the NSTA wrote her in an E-mail that the DVDs would place "unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters." Supporters of the NSTA include companies like ExxonMobil.[49] In public, the NSTA argued that distributing this film to its members would have been contrary to a long-standing NSTA policy against distributing unsolicited materials to its members.[50]
★ After a father had complained that the movie only showed one point of view, the Federal Way School Board in Federal Way, Washington voted 3 to 0 requiring an approval by the principal and the superintendent for teachers to show the film to students. The teachers must include the presentation of an approved "opposing view". [51] After two weeks of being derided in the national and local press, the moratorium was repealed at the subsequent meeting on January 23. [52]
★ Following Federal Way's lead, the Environmental Club of Eisenhower High School in Yakima, Washington was prevented from showing the film until it could be reviewed by the school board, teachers, principal, and parents. The school board called the film a "controversial issue" and indicated it would require presentation of an opposing viewpoint if it approved the showing.[53]
★ In Burlington, Ontario, Canada, the Halton District School Board has made ''An Inconvenient Truth'' available at schools and as an educational resource.[54]
★ The film will be science curriculum for fourth and sixth-year students in Scotland, as a joint initiative between Learning and Teaching Scotland and ScottishPower.[55]
Other
★ In August 2006, the Wall Street Journal[56][57] revealed that a YouTube video lampooning Gore and the movie, titled ''Al Gore's Penguin Army'', appeared to be astroturfing by DCI Group, a Washington PR firm with ties to ExxonMobil as well as the Republican Party.
Criticism
Academia
Richard S. Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist at MIT and anthropogenic global warming skeptic, wrote in a June 26 2006 op-ed in the ''Wall Street Journal'' that Gore was using a biased presentation to exploit the fears of the public for his own political gain. [58] Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the Earth System Science Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, wrote an open letter to Gore criticizing his presentation of climate science in the film, asserting that the Arctic had a similar temperature in the 1930s before the mass emissions of carbon dioxide began.[59] Former University of Winnipeg geography professor Dr. Timothy F. Ball rejected Gore’s claim that there has been a sharp drop-off in the thickness of the Arctic ice cap since 1970, stating that the data was taken only from an isolated area of the Arctic and during a specific cooling period.[60]
Media
A March 13 2007 article in ''The New York Times'' reported on concerns among some scientists about the tone and the accuracy of the film, noting that they "argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous". Gore's discussion of a rise in sea level of up to 20 feet is contrasted with a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which predicts a maximum rise of 23 inches excluding non-linear effects on ice sheets; although that too discusses the possibilities of higher rises if the ice sheets melt. The article also states that "a report last June by the National Academies seemed to contradict Mr. Gore’s portrayal of recent temperatures as the highest in the past millennium."
The article quotes both defenders and critics of the film; Gore responds that scientists may disagree with him on some details, "but we do agree on the fundamentals."
An April 19 2007 article in Telegraph.co.uk reported on concerns among parents who claim that the film is "inaccurate and politically motivated" and are "threatening a legal challenge over the Government's decision to send it to every secondary school." Parents claim that "the circulation of the film by the Government amounts to political indoctrination and is in breach of the Education Act 2002."[61]
The Great Global Warming Swindle
The documentary film ''The Great Global Warming Swindle'', broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on March 8 2007, brought together skeptical scientists who disagree with the consensus regarding human-caused global warming. Among other claims, the film states that Gore has misrepresented the data in ''An Inconvenient Truth'', and that the actual relationship between carbon dioxide and the temperature is the other way round (that is, rise in temperature preceded an increase in carbon dioxide in the ice core samples). Several of the film's claims have been disputed by scientists and scientific bodies such as John T. Houghton [ The Great Global Warming Swindle ], the British Antarctic Survey [62], Eigil Friis-Christensen [5] and the Royal Society[63]. Global warming skeptic Fred Singer wrote that the documentary is "devastating" to Gore's movie: "...''The Great Global Warming Swindle'' is based on sound science by recording the statements of real climate scientists. ''An Inconvenient Truth'' mainly records a politician."[64]
Influences on popular culture
South Park parody of An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore
★ Prior to being released, the film was parodied in the ''South Park'' episode "Manbearpig"." Gore laughed off this sensationalized depiction of him, saying "Their comic sensibility is aimed at a different demographic than the one I inhabit, but I still find a lot of what they do hilarious."[65]
★ Stephen Colbert, on ''The Colbert Report'', also parodied ''An Inconvenient Truth'' on July 17 2006. Entitled "The Convenientest Truth", Colbert created his own presentation that argued for the positive effects of global warming, using his signature humor tactics to satirize the conservative response to Gore's presentation.[66]
★ During the movie, Al Gore shows a clip from the ''Futurama'' episode "Crimes of the Hot" dealing with global warming; Al Gore was a guest star in that episode, though he was not present in the clip. While not the credited author of this episode, his daughter, Kristin Gore Cusack, was on the ''Futurama'' writing staff and worked as a story editor. In addition, Gore stars in a faux trailer made by the ''Futurama'' cast and crew titled, ''A Terrifying Message from Al Gore''.[67]
★ The Competitive Enterprise Institute ran two television advertisements to "counter global warming alarmism" in apparent reply to ''An Inconvenient Truth''. Both used the tagline "Carbon Dioxide—They call it pollution; We call it life."[68]
★ Comedian Jon Stewart mocked the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other critics of the movie on ''The Daily Show'':[69]
★ The television show X-Play did two separate parody sketches as promotions for G4's award show, G-Phoria. One sketch showed an Al Gore impersonator warning about temperature increases in Middle-earth due to the Eye of Sauron.
★ San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore's nickname is "The Inconvenient Truth", coined by NFL Network host Rich Eisen in 2006 in reference to the film.
★ A citizens advocacy group released a video on video sharing sites about problems with mathematics education reform that was viewed over 70,000 times in a few weeks.[70]
★ In the 2007 movie, The Simpsons Movie, Lisa and her friend Colin do a presentation called "An Irritating Truth" focusing on pollution in Lake Springfield, parodying "An Inconvenient Truth."
★ The movie is referenced in the Ozzy Osbourne song "The Almighty Dollar".
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See also
★ Global warming
★ Ice age
★ Timeline of environmental events
★ United Kingdom Climate Change Bill
★ Live Earth
★ Paramount Classics
★ Participant Productions
External links
★ Official Website
★ Official German Website
★ The Climate Project Climate Crisis Presenters' Website
★
★ ''An Inconvenient Truth'' trailer (Apple.com)
★ Al Gore's book
★ ''An Inconvenient Truth'' Full Length Slide Show Presentation 230MB
★ Participant Productions - ''An Inconvenient Truth''
★
★ ''An Inconvenient Truth'' at Filmaffinity
★ ''An Inconvenient Truth'', book signing in Washington DC
★ ShareTheTruth.us Interesting phenomenon of "people-to-people" action, to spread the movie
★ Speech by Al Gore, February 2006 in Monterey, CA. at TEDTalks This talk is a follow-up to his now-famous presentation, featured in the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." In it, he outlines what we can do to avert a global climate crisis.
★ Convenient Truths - Video contest based on ''An Inconvenient Truth'', trying to find solutions to global warming.
★ Alternatives to Valium Gore's remarks from the film's UK premiere.
Reviews
★ New Yorker: Ozone Man
★ Washington Post: Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man
★ The Threat to the Planet by climatologist James Hansen in The New York Review of Books
★ Extensive list of critical and popular reviews at Rotten Tomatoes
★ cbalz.vox.com: Movie Review, a.k.a. "inconvenient truths": An Inconvenient Truth
Skeptical critiques
★ A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth, a Competitive Enterprise Institute working paper by Marlo Lewis. ()
★ Inconvenient Truths, a critique of the movie by Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick J. Michaels.
★ National Review
★ A Convenient Fiction, a movie issued by the Pacific Research Institute which questions the claims made in ''An Inconvenient Truth''
Interviews
★ Al Gore interviewed by Charlie Rose
★ Al Gore interviewed in ''Grist Magazine''
★ Al Gore interviewed in ''retroCRUSH''
★ Al Gore interviewed by J. Freedland, BBC 4
★ Producer Laurie David and Al Gore interviews on NOW on PBS
★ Watch Director Davis Guggenheim's video interview by Corey Boutilier of IndependentFilm.com
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