Thursday 6 November 2008


Summary of an Inconvenient Truth Movie

An Inconvenient Truth is an American documentary film about global warming, presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth is the fourth-highest-grossing documentary film to date in the United States. The film's thesis is that global warming is real, potentially catastrophic, and human-caused. Gore presents specific data that supports the thesis which i will show it in this essay.

In the slide show 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 is not significantly reduced in the very near future. Gore discusses the possibility of the collapse of a major ice sheet in Greenland or in West Antarctica. In Greenland, glacier retreat has been observed in outlet glaciers, resulting in an increase of the ice flow rate and destabilization of the mass balance of the ice sheet that is their source. The climate of Antarctica is one of intense cold and great aridity. Most of the world's freshwater ice is contained in the great ice sheets that cover the continent of Antarctica. The retreat of glaciers, worldwide and rapid, affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and in the longer term, the level of the oceans.

In conclusion, the film shows that we faced big problem which is global warming. Al Gore advises us to find solution for this problem.

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