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An Inconvenient Truth is an Oscar winning documentary film about global warming, presented by former US Vice-President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore and directed by David Guggenheim.
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, An Inconvenient Truth, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point - and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective, to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most important cause of his life - convinced that there is still time to make a difference.
With wit, smarts and hope, An Inconvenient Truth ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.
Earning $49 million at the box office worldwide, An Inconvenient Truth is the fourth-highest-grossing documentary film to date. A companion book authored by Gore reached #1 on the paperback non-fiction bestseller list of NY Times in July 2006.

Bali, 13^th Dec 2007 - In a speech likely to go down in history as an oratorical milestone in the fight against global warming, Al Gore, former US vice-president and co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, electrified the 3^rd to 14^th Dec 2007, UN conference on climate change on its penultimate evening Thursday.
Clearly speaking from his heart, Gore exhorted the nearly 11,000 delegates from 187 countries gathered here for the summit to bypass the US government delegation that is threatening to derail the entire Bali roadmap to start global negotiations that will help fight global warming.
Pointing out that climate change was already here, that it was no longer a matter that would affect future generations but was affecting the present one, Gore quoted the famous lines from the Nazi era: 'First they came for the Jews and I did not do anything; then they came for the gypsies and I did not do anything; then they came for the neighbours and I did not do anything; when they came for me there was nobody to do anything for me.'
Gore said a population growth that had seen world population move from 2 billion to 6.5 billion in a little over a hundred years and would soon become nine billion and a technology so powerful that it overwhelmed everything were the reasons for the state of the earth.
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,' Gore quoted from the opening lines of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'. 'Now it is a tale of two planets,' he said. 'Earth and Venus. 'They are identical in every other way. But on the earth, over millions of years plant life has pulled the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and has kept it underground in the form of coal and oil. That is what makes life on earth possible.
'Now we are evaporating our coal mines. It's the CO₂,' Gore said in a line reminiscent of the famous Bill Clinton election slogan - 'It's the economy, stupid'.
In repeated and strong criticism of the Bush administration of the US, Gore said: 'the earth's fever is rising and it won't heal itself. What do you do when your child has fever and the doctor says he needs treatment? Perhaps you go for a second opinion, then a third and a fourth. When the fourth opinion says the problem is very serious, do we still withhold treatment?'
He was referring to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), the global coalition of scientists that have now proved beyond doubt the seriousness of the climate change challenge.
Gore told the assembled delegates: 'My country is not the only one that can move forward. You can do one of two things. You can feel anger and frustration and direct it at the US.
'Or you can move forward and keep a large blank space in your mandate, saying our mandate is incomplete but we are moving forward in the hope that it will be filled in by the time we have a treaty in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.'
Gore illustrated his point through a quote from a famous ice-hockey player, who had said: 'I pass the puck not where they are but where they are going to be.'
- Joydeep Gupta, Earth Times, December 13, 2007
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/158236.html