ABSTRACT
Just a few years into the current millennium, popular movements to address the emerging global climate crisis appeared to be at an impasse. Although scientific evidence was rapidly converging with respect to the nature and consequences of human-derived climate changes, public attention to the issue lagged far behind, especially in the United States. Efforts to engage the public were most often limited to explaining the science of global warming and emphatically making the case that the phenomenon was real. This limitation was most apparent in Al Gore’s popular documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, but appeared endemic to the movement as a whole.
