...AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH I. Introduction An Inconvenient Truth presents ex vice- president Al Gore and his passion to help save our planet. This documentary attempts to impact citizens through factual evidence about the reality of global warming and that it is caused by the actions of the people. Whether or not we agree with Mr. Gores theories obviously some kind of action must be taken. It is important that we as a people understand our position, so that we can shift the crisis effecting our world. Based upon the main ideas and a “ call to action” plan, Al Gore demonstrates a documentary that was personally informative and life altering. Gore distinguishes between fact and fiction. The accurate warnings and scientific analysis should not be disregarded. Gore focuses on the main issues that affects us as a whole by concentrating on the facts and setting politics aside.. Gore’s explanation of many factors that cause global warming were shocking. The various causes ranged from climate to fuels. Seasonal changes are effecting our gulf and jet streams. According to Al Gore, “the ten hottest years occurred within the last fourteen years,“ as a result we are faced with a climate shift. This shift creates hurricanes, typhoons, droughts and tornadoes to occur in unusual locations. Carbon dioxide and fossil fuel are at high levels. The more carbon dioxide released the warmer temperatures become. The disappearing canals, trees, and animals are key indicators of global warming. The melting...
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...likely to experience. The film features a strong political figure, Al Gore (former Vice President of United States), to unleash the astonishing facts and predictions related to Global Warming, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest societal concerns today. The main purpose of the film is to educate the citizens of the world about the highly severe environmental challenge of global warming by separating the truth from the fiction and the actual connections from the misunderstandings, and to reenergize the environmental movement. It tries to convince people that it is their moral imperative to hear the environmental warnings that are scientifically sound. The film documents a revolutionary slide show by Al Gore that he estimates to have given at least 1000 times across different locations around the world. The documentary contains stark visuals of the recent natural calamities, possible future disasters and the mind-boggling graphs that force the audience to take a deep interest in the issue. It uses small animated clips to explain the phenomenon of global warming, highlight its probable impact on polar ice caps and foresee the likelihood of extinction of the living organisms there. The slide show in the film is interspersed with several anecdotes from Al Gore’s personal life which act as psychological tools aimed at helping the audience realize the importance of this much ignored environmental problem. Al Gore talks about his experience when he almost lost his son and how that...
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...succeeds in making an emotional, and more importantly, a moral case for reducing global warming. I am on Al Gore's side when it comes to the importance of raising awareness about global warming and on the fact that we should act forcefully to change the destructive influence humanity is having on the Earth's environment. The documentary is directed by Davis Guggenheim, an American director and producer, and features former United States Vice President Al Gore. Gore is also an author, businessperson, and environmental activist. He has been involved with environmental issues since 1976, when he was a freshman congressman. This documentary is set to educate, warn and raise international public awareness among viewers about global warming. It also states different solutions to fix this problem. Gore succeeds in doing so by presenting a comprehensive slide show containing real scientific statistics. He appeals to every individual by showing before and after images of our natural habitat, discussing a good number of graphs and diagrams. Quotes from Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, and Winston Churchill underscore Gore's message of taking action, particularly when Gore quotes Churchill who said: "The era of procrastination of half- measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." A good example Gore gives to induce fear in the viewers is the possibility of the collapse of a major ice sheet in Greenland...
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...to information in all forms (text, graphics, audio, video) via a telephone or wireless connection. The term was first used in 1985 by the 45th US Vice President (1993-2001) Al Gore (born 1948) in an American context where every citizen is aimed to be so connected. The global information and communications network that includes the Internet and other networks and switching systems such as telephone networks, cable television networks, and satellite communication networks. | The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved An extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form Definitions There are a number of definitions of this term. Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age defines the term as "the whole digital enchilada - interactive, cable, broadband, 500-channel [...] then-Senator Al Gore Jr. introduced it at a 1978 meeting of computer industry folk, in homage to his father, Senator Albert Gore Sr." (71). The McGraw-Hill Computer Desktop Encyclopedia defines the term as "a proposed high-speed communications system that was touted by the Clinton/Gore administration to enhance education in America in the 21st Century. Its purpose was to help all citizens regardless of their income level. The Internet was originally cited...
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...An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth is a focuses on Al Gore’s concerns and travel of global warming. According to him he has put many efforts into getting the message across for years and for years its been ignored. His biggest concern now is how far we’re going to let it go and it might be too late then. It is a PowerPoint presentation with many visuals and clips that Al Gore has traveled worldwide with. He starts off the document with some humor and includes personal events of his life. He discusses the climate change and the changes that truly have been going on, many that we can see with our own eyes. He uses studies and statistics to argue his debate. There are three main points he makes and they include the CO2 that is affecting climate change, animal extinction and rising sea levels. Al Gore shows data that show our CO2 levels are the highest they have been in the past 650,000 years. It is causing our atmosphere to thicken and keep more sunrays locked in than necessary. This causes the Earth to heat up changing its climate. This is most evident during our hurricane season. Hurricanes over the years have become larger and more dangerous over the years. There has even been more hurricanes in a season. Hurricanes gain power over the ocean and with heat, since the Earth is warming up so is the water therefore they’ve become more destructive. With the waters heating up and climates rising the glaciers are melting. So far its helped maintain the water however...
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...Alexis Brown Mrs. Persichetti Chemistry 02 May 2011 Global Warming The Earth is warming and human activity is the primary cause. Climate disruptions put our food and water supply at risk, endanger our health, jeopardize our national security, and threaten other basic human needs. Impacts such as: record high temperatures, melting glaciers, and severe flooding and droughts, are becoming increasingly common around the world. In the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore discusses his efforts to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide. Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President, clearly states the current issues with the planet and explains if no changes are made soon, it will lead to disaster. In the beginning of Al Gore’s presentation, he displays one of the first pictures of earth from space; the moonlight provided enough light to be able to see a crisp and distinct picture of earth’s spherical shape. Topics such as: Infrared radiation, high temperatures and Carbon Dioxide remained the key points throughout the documentary. Infrared radiation, above average temperatures, and Carbon Dioxide are all causes or effects of global warming. Not only is infrared radiation harmful to the earth, but it can be beneficial as well. The same infrared radiation that destroys the beautiful ice caps in the artic is also responsible for keeping the earth's temperature relatively constant over time. The amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) intake has literally topped the charts....
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...An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, begins with a general description of the process of global warming. Essentially, sunlight enters the earth’s atmosphere (which comparatively is as thick a classroom globe layered with a coat of varnish). The majority of what entered is reflected off of the earth’s surface in the form of UV rays and is projected back into space. A small amount of sunlight is trapped inside of the earth’s atmosphere and helps to heat the earth and keep it at a constant temperature. What is happening is that as we release more and more CO2 into the air, the earth’s atmosphere is thickening, trapping more and more UV rays, causing an increase in the atmospheric temperature. Roger Revelle, an old professor of Gore’s, was the first to suggest measuring the CO2 levels in the atmosphere. What researchers have found is that in a cyclical pattern (patterns of steadily increasing up and down movements), the atmospheric levels are on a constant increase. These patterns are cyclical in nature because in the spring, when the northern hemisphere is facing the sun (the northern hemisphere being where the largest amount of vegetation is located), the plant life absorbs the majority of the CO2 levels, reducing the levels of CO2 in the air. In the fall, when the northern hemisphere is facing away from the sun, the CO2 is released into the air, increasing the CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Evidence of an increasing atmospheric temperature is everywhere;...
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...In 2006, former senator Al Gore created an academy award winning documentary on global warming entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” . The movie earned several awards including an academy award for best documentary and gore later received a noble peace prize. The movie discussed several different topics of great concern to global warming; such as permafrost, climbs in temperature, extinction of species, drought, and fatigue to name a few. Four writers in five different articles discussed the three topics of greenhouse gases, climate change, and causes of global warming. These writers are writer and scholar Bill McKibben in “Think Again: Climate Change” and “How Close to catastrophe”; William J. Broad, writer for the New York Times in “From a Rapt audience, a call to cool the hype”; writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kevin O’Brien, in “Global Warming? I won’t be losing any sleep over it”; and Alan Zarembo, staff writer for the the Los Angeles Times, in “Game over on global warming?” All though the articles explain some different topics from one another, only one of them disagree with gore on the causes for global warming being humans, they all agree that there will be impacts to the environment, and all of them believe that greenhouse gases are one of the primary causes for global warming. First, all the articles discussed about who was to blame for the raising temperatures of the planet. The issue may be serious but O’Brien states that is just the media using another topic of...
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...the producer, Denis Carot, "Home is a film with a message that sets out to shift people's perceptions, make us aware of the tectonic movements at work and incite us to act. Although there is a general trend in our societies towards an awareness of ecological issues, concrete action is still too little, too slow—which constitutes in some ways the creed of the movie: It's too late to be a pessimist". Find out more details on the movie and about the events around the world for the premiere in the extended.Foundations and Idea behind Home Although famous for its Earth from Above pictures, this is the first movie by French photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand. He got the idea of making it moved by the impact Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth had since its release. "When I invited Al Gore to show his film, An Inconvenient Truth, to the French Parliament, I realized just how much impact a movie could have, even more than a TV program. I saw how moved the audience was—to tears in some cases—and I said to myself that a feature film was an excellent way of reaching people," he said in an interview at the press release brochure. Great Prismatic springs at the Yellowstone Park, United States. ©Film "Home", a coproduction by Elzevir Films/Europacorp. A movie from above Following his tradition of aerial photography, Arthus Bertrand set off to make a movie entirely shot from above. Why is a movie from above necessary? Producer Denis Carot explains in the same release: "I was convinced that the...
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...those parents. If we watch these shows carefully and look into all those dirty jokes, violence action, and inappropriate language, actually the show is full of morality and everyday knowledge. Although the jokes seem neither appropriate nor polite, they serve to give education to kids at the end. These shows allow us to look at things at different angles and different aspects, and they also allow us to think more about the differences between moral and immoral. One of my most favorite episodes of South Park is “Manbearpig”. The show is about a lonely and attention-desperate Al Gore goes to the South Park Elementary and explains to kids the earth’s biggest threat is Manbearpig, the half man, half bear, and half pig monster as Al Gore describes. Nobody cares about what he says, and nobody trusts him, he has no friend. It spoofs Al Gore and his Globe Warming speech. Although the kids know Al Gore uses manbearpig to gain attention from people, they decide to help him hunt the...
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...Americans living abroad, or from members of the military. At midnight, the deadline passed for receipt of overseas absentee ballots. There were an estimated 2,300 of these ballots for Florida (over 25,000 overall), which were expected to have an impact on the final results. After counting the overseas absentee ballots, Bush's lead over Gore increased to 930 votes in Florida. Bush picked up 1,380 of them and Gore received 750 votes. Democrats sued Seminole County Canvassing Board for including certain absentee ballots in the vote totals that did not satisfy the legal requirement that the person requesting the absentee ballot provide the elector's registration number on their application. Although the Democrats could make a valid legal argument for challenging these ballots (and thereby likely stopping Bush from padding his vote lead), this move left the impression among many that Al Gore was a hypocrite. The Bush team dropped its lawsuit intended to force Florida counties to reconsider overseas military ballots that were rejected for technical reasons. Presumably, they wanted to avoid criticisms of hypocrisy similar to those made against Al Gore. On November 27th, Another lawsuit arose. Apparently, Republican volunteers in Seminole County corrected mistakes made by overseas ballot applicants that should have made those ballots invalid. This lawsuit sought to throw out 4,700 of these ballots. This case was moved to the state court in Leon County, which was also hearing Gore's...
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...was written and presented by former Vice President Al Gore. In his documentary, Al Gore discusses many global issues as well as the personal relevance they bear in his and all of our lives today and in our futures. The book, as a whole, is a huge success. It also raises public awareness of global climate change and tells the truth that lies behind global warming. It is a very daring book. However, some critiques have been made of Al Gore’s approach. The criticism is not whether global warming is true, or whether or not An Inconvenient Truth should have won an Academy Award for best documentary, but whether Al Gore has presented the information correctly and honestly. Many people argue that he has exaggerated, and he wrote the book because he wanted to gain popularity and money. Conservatives even use Gore’s mistakes to discredit his whole book. Even though Gore has made some mistakes, his central ideas are broadly accurate, and his use of good strategies makes his argument really convincing. Since the book An Inconvenient Truth got published, many people have become nervous, and they attacked Gore personally, such as people from polluting firms and organizations that were funded by polluters. Sean Hannity reports on Fox News channel’s Hannity & Colmes when Gore was running his campaign. He says that Gore’s use of a jet from New Hampshire back to Washington emitted more than 22,000 pounds of CO2 per trip. He is arguing if Gore advocates the idea of reducing global warming, then...
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...Apple Corporation is governed by a Board of Directors, a CEO and a standard Executive Board. Their Board of Directors includes such names as former Vice-President Al Gore, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, Robert Iger, and Andrea Jung, Chairman of the Avon Corporation. Tim Cook took over CEO duties following the passing of Apple founder, Steve Jobs, last year. I studied both their Business Conduct documents and articles on employee satisfaction for this assignment (Apple, 2012). What immediately struck me were their basic principles of how they conduct their business. They are very focused on creating high-quality products and services and have four basic standards: * Honesty – demonstrate honesty and high ethical standards in all business dealings. * Respect – treat customers, suppliers, employees, and others with respect and courtesy. * Confidentiality – protect the confidentiality of Apple’s information and the information of our customers, suppliers and employees. * Compliance – ensure that business decisions comply with all applicable laws and regulations. (Apple, 2012). Second was the “Retaliation is Not Tolerated” policy, which states “Apple will not retaliate, and will not tolerate retaliation, against any individual for filing a good-faith complaint with management, HR, Legal, Internal Audit, Finance, or the Business Conduct Helpline, or for participating in the investigation of any such complaint” (Apple, 2012). Third, their Customer...
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...INTEREST GROUPS AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON AMERICAN POLITICS Interest Groups (IGs) over the years have had more influence on American Politics than the average American citizen who votes in an election. These groups Lobby to get funding for what they believe is true; whether it’s one program or several programs they put together a solid organization to make sure they get their point across when election time comes around. These groups influence State and Government policy collectively on all levels. It can be the average citizen who goes around asking for you to sign petitions, it can be your own State Politician or Government Official who’s trying to birth a new program into existence. Interest Groups have very strong beliefs about what they are advocating. These groups at times feel so strong in their beliefs that sometimes they start protesting and even sometimes start riots. These groups come into fruition when people get together and start pulling their resources together. An individual can be highly educated, wealthy, or have a little socio-economic background to help further along their cause. Support and money goes along way when you have it to give and make things happen. Lobbying is a really big issue to these groups, because that’s how they are able to maneuver through the “red tape “ of Politics in any social realm. The lobbying starts when IGs are fighting to protect their respective turfs; meaning each Group is trying to get some kind of program...
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...biggest problems. Some examples of worsening condition are the higher and higher temperatures all over the world, the poisoning of the water and air on the Earth, and another one “the unprecedented loss of living species at a rate that has not taken place on this planet since the disappearance of the dinosaurs so many tens of millions of years ago” (Gore). This is very shocking and unimaginable because without animals we neither the Earth won't be able to survive. Al Gore was preparing this speech very much, since he thought through the details about where it would take it's place or to what will make him look convincing and more trustworthy for his audience. He chose to preform it in Washington DC “at a first green university”, and he begins with thanking all the significant people who are there listening to him. Even through there is more young adults than “high positioned" people listening to his speech, there is at that moment most of our “next generation” science students that he wanted to inspire from beginning of their careers. Through his speech, he mentions that “soon 120 countries will have a meeting in Berlin” (Gore) where he will show that other countries are starting to deal with this problem all over the world too. A rhetorical situation in Lloyd Bitzer's essay "The Rhetorical Situation" is defined as: “as a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse...
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