An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Ex Vice-President of the United States, Al Gore, tackles the issue of global warming in this film that explains how real and how bad our situation is on earth. Despite his political undertones Gore does a great job presenting the facts from his point of view. According to Gore the issue of global warming has never been an issue of disagreement between scientists. The scientific world has always agreed that the world was on a path to increases in global warming, they just had disagreements on how it was occurring. This information is contradictory to what we have been told as a populous. According to Gore, the Bush administration was purposely misleading the public to believe that global warming wasn't a sure thing and that many scientists disagreed on it.

Even though Gore seems to be pitching for a presidential election in the near future as an environmental savior, he does present some pretty hard facts. He explains that according to 600,000 year old ice samples the earth's temperature has increased and decreased in cycles causing ice age events etc. This is a normal pattern; however the striking news is that the earth now is a lot hotter than any other hot period the earth has ever been in. Gore proves his point by showing a graph of the earth's history of heating and cooling and the heating for this period is a lot more than ever before, but what is phenomenal is that this temperature increase won't be decreasing, and is projected to go off the charts within the next 50 years.

The reasons for these extreme temperature increases is due to many things, but one in particular is the carbon dioxide gases that collect in the atmosphere and don't allow the suns rays to escape thus causing the earth to heat up even more. These gasses come a lot from car emissions, industrial plants, and various other fossil fuel sources. Gore pointed out that the US is one of the greatest polluters of all and yet we are not willing to reduce emissions as much as other countries have. The US not signing the Kyoto bill, and the high emissions of US made cars are just some of his examples. He explains that car companies such as Ford, Chevy and GM are doing horribly in sales because they can't be sold over seas to most other countries because they have such high emissions and these countries have laws that don't permit cars with high emissions.

So after one gets past all the Bush bashing by Gore one can see that there is a serious problem with our pollutions in the world and that to say the least we need to be changing our habits and finding more efficient and safer ways to do things.