ABSTRACT
In 2006 former Vice-President Al Gore helped to develop and narrated a documentary film entitled An Inconvenient Truth and followed up the book with a movie by the same title. Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was basically a sophisticated slide show on the impact of global warming on the planet. Gore took viewers on a tour of regions of the world that had been dramatically affected by the warming of the earth. Gore’s slide presentation, for example, showed how many of the arctic glaciers had shrunk significantly within a relatively short period of time (twenty to thirty years), and a disturbing environmental trend that if allowed to continue without major changes in economic activity and consumer lifestyle would lead to devastating consequences for human and animal life, sea levels and climate change. The slide show was an immediate box office success (Gore along with his collaborators on the project
eventually won an Academy Award), and he later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work alerting the world to the dangers of global warming.1
