Out of this came Project Medea, focused on climate change. In the early 90's the CIA changed its charter from monitoring the Soviets to looking at all serious threats to the nation. If, because of this film, people drive slower and use less electricity, then the effect of the film is not bad overall, but to make those statements with such ignorant smugness is irresponsible. In short, Gore oversimplified a global phenomenon that he does not understand, and tried to scare the world. Those are facts, but as I have seen dozens of times in my career as a chemical engineer, two variables trending does not define the dependence of one on the other, nor if there is a dependence, it does not define which variable is dependent. And, it's true that the CO2 is increasing at this moment. It is probable that the global temperature is increasing, just like the temperatures increased before all of the other ice ages. He barely acknowledges that those are absolute worst case scenario predictions.
Then he shows the World Trade Center memorial being flooded from Greenland ice melting. He shows pictures of the Antarctic glaciers melting, and follows up with a CGI polar bear swimming and drowning. Maybe they are permanently iced, maybe they aren't Then he tugs on heartstrings. Then there were tons of pictures showing the earth is getting warmer by the melting (see how beautiful they are) glaciers however, there are no timestamps on them showing what season they are. Subsequent analysis had shown the data are sharply skewed to reflect a stronger contribution from recent temperatures. The 'hockey stick' graph-Gore neglects to mention that the authors of that figure did not release their methods for analysis, nor did they release the raw data to others for critical analysis. Then he gets on a scissor lift to show the change in CO2 spiraling out of control, without acknowledging the zero of the concentration axis would be ten feet below the floor. Read that carefully, it is just as likely the temperature change over the known history caused a change in CO2, not the reverse. He does not mention the possibility, or probability, that the changing ocean temperatures affected the gaseous solubility of the carbon dioxide in the ocean water and resulted in varied CO2 concentrations. Gore smugly states the obvious 'fact' that the changing carbon dioxide is what changed the temperatures over the seven ice ages. Okay, first, about the 'facts': -The graph of the 300,000 years of carbon dioxide and temperatures. His tactics are scaring us into believing that he will save us however, he doesn't even acknowledge the one technology that would actually reduce carbon emissions (nuclear power), except for showing the bomb.
He says he's retired, and opens with a comment of how he used to be the next president of the United States and continuously makes comments about his opponents administration. He's on a mission to get elected president. Al Gore is on a mission however, it's not to save the environment. Too bad the film isn't about that topic until the final credits are rolling. Let me start by saying that energy conservation and incentives to stop pollution are A Good Thing.
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