Al Gore Is Back With A Sequel To 'An Inconvenient Truth.' Here Were The 9 Biggest Lies From That Film.
The sequel, titled An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, will be shown in theaters on July 28. The trailer shows President Donald Trump downplaying climate change and pledging to cut back on funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and then Gore animatedly telling audiences of their need to fight against climate change.
The inconvenient truth about An Inconvenient Truth is that a judge – despite thinking that overall the film made a "powerful" argument that man-made climate change needs to be addressed – ruled in Britain that the film can only be shown in schools if students are aware of the nine major lies in the movie. Here are those nine lies, as reported by the UK Telegraph.
1. The melting of Greenland or West Antarctica would soon cause sea levels to increase as much as 20 feet. The judge ruled that the science suggests that Gore's prediction could happen in over a thousand years, but not in the "near future," as Gore claimed in the movie.
It has been over a decade since An Inconvenient Truth came out and there is still ice in Greenland; there has also been little change in Antarctica's ice levels in the past 100 years. Sea level rises have also temporarily slowed by 20 percent; as a whole, sea levels have typically risen by roughly one to three millimeters per year, which is not abnormal.
None of these facts have stopped Gore and his supporters from claiming that Gore was proven correct on this point due to Hurricane Sandy. But there is no evidence that climate change caused the storm:
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8. Climate change is killing the polar bears.[/B]
Gore claimed that polar bears were drowning because they were unable to find ice, but the judge couldn't find any evidence to support this assertion. The polar bear population has actually increased from 20,000 to 25,000 bears in 2005 to 22,633 to 32,257 bears in 2016.
The sequel, titled An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, will be shown in theaters on July 28. The trailer shows President Donald Trump downplaying climate change and pledging to cut back on funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and then Gore animatedly telling audiences of their need to fight against climate change.
The inconvenient truth about An Inconvenient Truth is that a judge – despite thinking that overall the film made a "powerful" argument that man-made climate change needs to be addressed – ruled in Britain that the film can only be shown in schools if students are aware of the nine major lies in the movie. Here are those nine lies, as reported by the UK Telegraph.
1. The melting of Greenland or West Antarctica would soon cause sea levels to increase as much as 20 feet. The judge ruled that the science suggests that Gore's prediction could happen in over a thousand years, but not in the "near future," as Gore claimed in the movie.
It has been over a decade since An Inconvenient Truth came out and there is still ice in Greenland; there has also been little change in Antarctica's ice levels in the past 100 years. Sea level rises have also temporarily slowed by 20 percent; as a whole, sea levels have typically risen by roughly one to three millimeters per year, which is not abnormal.
None of these facts have stopped Gore and his supporters from claiming that Gore was proven correct on this point due to Hurricane Sandy. But there is no evidence that climate change caused the storm:
Even The Washington Post admitted, “Climate change does not cause storms and did not cause Superstorm Sandy. The historic record shows violent storms, some even more severe than Sandy, have struck the Northeast repeatedly.” The article quoted multiple scientists who disputed such attempts to place blame on “climate change.”
As for climate change-induced sea level rise, the Post said there had been roughly 6 to 8 inches of increase which “somewhat worsened the coastal flooding.”
Climatologist Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama Huntsville said, “Hurricane Sandy was a minimal hurricane. So, it is in no way indicative of a rising trend in hurricanes that might be attributed to global warming.” In addition, Colorado State University researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach told National Geographic that human activity on the formation and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes “is likely to be negligible.”
As for climate change-induced sea level rise, the Post said there had been roughly 6 to 8 inches of increase which “somewhat worsened the coastal flooding.”
Climatologist Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama Huntsville said, “Hurricane Sandy was a minimal hurricane. So, it is in no way indicative of a rising trend in hurricanes that might be attributed to global warming.” In addition, Colorado State University researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach told National Geographic that human activity on the formation and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes “is likely to be negligible.”
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8. Climate change is killing the polar bears.[/B]
Gore claimed that polar bears were drowning because they were unable to find ice, but the judge couldn't find any evidence to support this assertion. The polar bear population has actually increased from 20,000 to 25,000 bears in 2005 to 22,633 to 32,257 bears in 2016.