Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system int...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 21, 2006
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September 30, 2009A good informative slide-show. The documentary side was really about Al Gore though which I found a little strange but I guess there are a lot of people out there who don't believe in Global Warming and will think he has an ulterior motive. I personally believe something should b...( read more)
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March 19, 2009The point is that all of us, as individuals, need to change how we think and how we act if we want to stop global warming.
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June 5, 2008fascinating, the scariest film you'll see because its true. because its happening right now and because we're doing nothing substantial to stop it
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April 23, 2008"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics...( read more)
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November 11, 2009Everyone should see this. An important documentary to educate each of us to take care of our environment
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November 10, 2009Scared! I'm so scared...no..wait...that's boredom I feel. If you want a great documentary that shows how fucked the world is, just watch Planet Earth. Al Gore is toooooo boring.
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Critic Reviews
November 24, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
June 9, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
A film that invests hard science with impassioned moral drive. full review
June 2, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Regardless of how you may feel about Gore the politician, this film is an important one, and its ultimate message of hope (it's not too late) and duty (as humans, we need to do the right thing by the ... full review
June 2, 2006
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Much of this material is familiar, but presented in total, over the course of 100 minutes, the impact is frightening. full review
June 2, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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 y... full review
May 23, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
What could have been mired in political rhetoric or techno-speak is instead illuminating, fascinating and sometimes frightening. full review
May 23, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
An Inconvenient Truth is one of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen -- and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications. full review
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June 9, 2008I think that Al Gore did an awesome thing...He took some action at least when other people say yes it is a ig deal but what have they done about it?? Al Gore inspired many people to be more aware of our crisis we are having with global warming and pollution and the matter with people not caring about Earth our home. Idc wut his intention were to make the documentary maybe he did it for the publicity which i dont think but i hear alot he still imformed many people so i say well done Al Gore and if i may say i think you did a great job because ur documentary inspired me to be more environmentally aware and i even started a club in school called Going Green :]
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March 8, 2008Just read the latest IPCC reports if anybody wants to cite it. Otherwise, don't mention it only when it helps your cause and ignore it when it hurts your cause.
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December 29, 2007Line up like the rest of the sheep and buy into this hollywood agenda based crap. "Oh, its the best film I've ever seen" "Oh the earth is doomed" - give me a break.
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October 25, 200720. Gore says that West Nile virus spread throughout the US in just two years, implicitly because of “global warming.” It did not. The climate in the US ranges from some of the world’s hottest deserts to some of its iciest tundra. West Nile virus flourishes in any climate. Warming of the climate, however caused, does not affect its incidence or prevalence.
21. Gore describes carbon dioxide as “global warming pollution.” It is not. It is food for plants and trees. Tests have shown that even at concentrations 30 times those of the present day even the most delicate plants flourish. Well-managed forests, such as those of the United States, are growing at record rates because the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is feeding the trees. Carbon dioxide, in geological timescale, is at a very low concentration at present. Half a billion years ago it was at 7000 parts per million by volume, about 18 times today’s concentration. -
October 25, 2007
18. Gore says that, because of “global warming”, mosquitoes are climbing to higher altitudes. They are not. Most recent outbreaks have been at lower levels than those of a century and more ago.
19. Gore says that, as well as malaria, “global warming” is spreading dengue fever, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, arena virus, avian flu, Ebola virus, E. Coli 0157:H7, Hanta virus, legionella, leptospirosis, multi-drug-resistant TB, Nipah virus, SARS and Vibrio Cholerae 0139. It is doing no such thing. Only the first four diseases are insect-borne, but none is tropical. Of the other diseases named by Gore either in his film or in the accompanying book, not one is sensitive to increasing temperature. They are spread not by warmer weather but by rats, chickens, primates, pigs, poor hygiene, ill-maintained air conditioning, or cold weather. -
October 25, 2007
16. Gore says that “the ice has a story to tell, and it is worldwide.” He shows several before-and-after pictures of glaciers disappearing. However, the glacial melt began in the 1820s, long before humankind could have had any effect, and has continued at a uniform rate since, showing no acceleration since humankind began increasing the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere. Total ice volumes in three of the last four Ice Ages were lower than they are today, and “global warming” had nothing to do with that.
17. Gore says terrible tragedies are occurring in the southern Sahara because of drought which he blames on “global warming.” There is no drought caused by “global warming.” In 2007 there were record rains across the whole of the southern Sahara. In the past 25 years the Sahara has shrunk by some 300,000 square kilometers because of additional rainfall. -
October 25, 2007
14. Gore says 40% of the world’s population get their water supply from Himalayan glacial melt waters that are failing because of “global warming.” They don’t and they are not. The water comes almost entirely from snow-melt, not from ice-melt. Over the past 40 years there has been no decline in the amount of snow-melt in Eurasia.
15. Gore says that a Peruvian glacier is less extensive now than it was in the 1940s, implying that “global warming” is the cause. It is not. Except for the very highest peaks, the normal state of the Peruvian cordilleras has been ice-free throughout most of the past 10,000 years. -
October 25, 2007
13. Gore says “global warming” is making the Greenland ice sheet unstable. It is not. Greenland ice grows 2in a year. The Greenland ice sheet survived each of the previous three interglacial periods, each of which was 5 degrees Celsius warmer than the present. It survived atmospheric CO2 concentrations of up to 1000 ppmv (compared with today’s 400 ppmv). It last melted 850,000 years ago, when humankind did not exist and could not have caused the melting. There is a close correlation between variations in Solar activity and temperature anomalies in Greenland, but there is no correlation between variations in CO2 concentration and temperature changes in Greenland. The IPCC (2001) says that to melt even half the Greenland ice sheet would require temperature to rise by 5.5 degrees C and remain that high for several thousand years.
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October 25, 2007
12. Gore says the Arctic has been warming faster than the rest of the planet. It is not. While it is in general true that during periods of warming (whether natural or anthropogenic) the Arctic will warm faster than other regions, Gore does not mention that the Arctic has been cooling over the past 60 years, and is now one degree Celsius cooler than it was in the 1940s. There was a record amount of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere in 2001. Several vessels were icebound in the Arctic in the spring of 2007, but few newspapers reported this. The newspapers reported that the North-West Passage was free of ice in 2007, and said that this was for the first time since records began: but the records, taken by satellites, had only begun 29 years previously. The North-West Passage had also been open for shipping in 1945, and, in 1903, the great Norwegian explorer Amundsen had passed through it in a sailing ship.
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