Essay on "An Unconveniant Truth"?

Question

We had to watch the documentary by Al Gore in our science class. I thought the movie was very interesting. I was just curious to what you guys thought of the whole concept, so I could put that in my essay.

Answer 1

global warming is caused by too much carbon dioxide trapped into the ozone layer. fossil fuels are bad for the ozone layer and make it thicker. that traps more heat in the atmosphere and makes the earth warmer. the earth gets warmer and that makes glaciers melt. the glaciers melt onto low lands like richmond and could cause floods.

Answer 2

it was mostly accurate there were a few flaws in it but it was still a great doco.

Answer 3

Al Gore may not have invented the Internet, but he did invent global warming.

Answer 4

he is a liar and a con-artist

Answer 5

You'll hate yourself for driving home. Where you stand on environmentalism, the oil industry, Al Gore or melting ice caps — whether you drive a gas-glugging suburbomobile or a peapod hybrid — none of that matters.

If you climb into a car after watching An Inconvenient Truth, you will feel like the scourge of the Earth. Literally.

But that's the idea. Gore's riveting essay on global warming and the fate of the planet has one purpose, and that's to convince everyone who watches it to change first their minds, then their habits. "The only way I know how to do this is city by city, person by person, family by family," he explains in narration. "Pretty soon, enough minds are changed that we cross a threshold."

If that sounds baldly proselytizing, just wait. Trickled through the closing credits are exhortations to recycle, walk, use mass transit, buy energy-efficient appliances, "pray that people find the strength to change," visit the official Web site and — yes — tell everyone they know to see the movie. Such barking cheek might seem out of place in the realm of documentaries, but An Inconvenient Truth isn't, strictly speaking, a documentary. It's a soap-box oration delivered with such brimstone apocalyptic conviction it'll singe your eyebrows.

And it's based on that least dramatic of platforms, a slide show. The film's director Davis Guggenheim has essentially plopped his camera crew in front of Gore on one of his globe-hopping lecture tours as the former senator, vice president and presidential candidate bombarded his audience with scientific research and damning photos. Receding glaciers. Collapsing ice sheets. Cataclysmic flooding, cataclysmic droughts. Carbon-dioxide levels that soar above anything in the ice-bore record going back 650,000 years.

The sight of Gore on a motorized platform — whirring slowly up a wall-size chart, toward a skyrocketing spike in CO2 — is one of the scariest things I've seen in years. It's an emotional ploy, one of many in a film that invests hard science with impassioned moral drive. Detractors will call it a political ploy, too, but aside from a few swipes at the current administration, Gore pretty much sticks to the mission at hand: to draw a link between carbon-dioxide emissions (much of them American in origin) and a soon-to-be-superheated Earth. Presidential aspirations or no, his one clear ambition is to save the planet.

That he comes across as a looser, more likable and confident fellow than the stiff plank who lost in 2000 is one of the movie's offhand revelations. Along with the slide-show excerpts, Guggenheim weaves in clips of Gore on his boyhood farm, flashbacks to formative tragedies and poetic reflections on the ethics of being green. Nowhere in this devastating jeremiad will you find a voice that disagrees with Gore's (unless you count bite-size footage of naysayers). Or any other voice, for that matter: This is his holy crusade, his "nature hike through the book of Revelation."

So he suggests the sea level could rise 20 feet in 50 or 60 years. He ponders shorelines altered, people homeless, a World Trade Center memorial submerged in water. He says the 10 hottest years on record all occurred in the past 14, and the hottest of all was 2005. He screens animations of drowning polar bears, boiling frogs — a metaphor for us, if we don't change.

HUMANS MADE THIS MESS AND WE HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP FAST!

Answer 6

I felt that movie was an excillent tribute to the problems of Global Warming and The Earth. Seriously that movie really opened my eyes even wider to the awareness of how important it is to be resousfull, to not pullute, and to not be so neglective to the environment, I honestly can say that An inconveniant truth was so touching so POWERFUL!

I mean its sooo true, buy a hybrid, ride a bike or jog more, stop cutting down trees and wasting water, just plain take care of the environment, then again i always do.

But I seriously felt that An Inconveniant Truth just made me feel so well how do I put it........Shocked!!!

When I saw the glaciers in Antartica, just crashing down...OMG and the whole scenario of what its doing to our Northern continents and areas, the trees everything, But to meaningfully say I really found entertainment in the Simpson looking charecter like cartoon section of the movie, that kind of shone a slight amount of light on the movie, made me smile while watching.......

I hope this helped its my personal oppinion, well you can use it to help you write if you want,

Best regards and

Good Luck! :)

"Courtney D....."