An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Page #2

Synopsis: A sequel to The Inconvenient Truth, the follow-up documentary addresses the progress made to tackle the problem of climate change and Al Gore's global efforts to persuade governmental leaders to invest in renewable energy, culminating in the landmark signing of 2016's Paris Climate Agreement.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Actors: Al Gore, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Laurent Fabius
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 12 nominations.
 
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2017
98 min
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An engineer on one of

the helicopters took a video

during this temperature spike.

Those are parts of the glacier

just exploding

with the high temperatures.

Hey, Eric. How you doing?

Good to see you again.

So, you see the line

on the ridge here?

Yes.

That grey line is

where the ice surface was

back in the '80s.

- Not so long ago.

- Not long ago at all.

It's amazing to think

that just 30 years ago,

where we are right now,

it was all covered

by the big ice sheet.

- You ready for me?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I'll hold the ladder.

- Thank you, Bianca.

- Yeah, no problem, Al.

Welcome to Swiss Camp!

We have 20

automatic weather stations

measuring the climate.

Swiss Camp is just one of them.

This is the cumulative

height change of melt.

Yes. I see.

Since 2000 to now,

we lost 12 meters

- of ice at that elevation.

- Wow.

That was our former station,

level with the surface.

- Yes.

- Very deep pillars.

We came back next season.

That's where we are now.

This is okay here?

- Around there?

- Yes. Yeah.

That would be a hole you don't

- want to step in, right?

- Yes.

So, it's going

straight down there?

So the water rushes down.

And since it's heavier than ice,

it pushes its way

underneath the ice sheet.

And we can measure

how the ice is lifted up

a few millimeters

to a centimeter.

And then the ice moves fast

and you reduce the friction.

And, in effect, the ice sheet

starts speeding up

in its flow toward the ocean.

That's correct.

So this makes the ice mass

like Swiss cheese.

It is frustrating that

for many years,

I've tried to communicate

that we've got to act

on the climate crisis.

But it's not happening

fast enough.

If I said

there weren't times when

I felt this was

a personal failure on my part,

I'd be lying.

So where

is all that water going?

I'll tell you

where some of it's going.

It's going into the streets

of Miami Beach, Florida.

High tides continue

to bring a flood of frustration.

Fort Lauderdale gets the award

for the "something you don't

see every day" video.

Fish swimming on Cordova Road.

Experts say in 30 years or so,

a drive along Ocean Drive

could be a drive in the ocean.

Downtown Miami could be awash.

We're showing you

an area that hasn't been

actually fixed at all,

as you can tell.

And then, on Wednesday,

we're gonna show you

some of the areas

that used to be like this,

but now we raised the road

and put in pumps.

We've seen dramatic results.

It's so much better.

So you raised the road with

saltwater-resistant materials?

Yes.

And what level of sea level rise

is this designed

to protect against?

We are building in about

a foot of sea level rise.

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992, and the pair was re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in a very close race after a Florida recount. After his term as vice-president ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a Representative from Tennessee (1977–85) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state's Senators. He served as Vice President during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. The 2000 presidential election was one of the closest presidential races in history. Gore won the popular vote, but after a controversial election dispute over a Florida recount (settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5–4 in favor of Bush), he lost the election to Republican opponent George W. Bush in the Electoral College. Gore is the founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management and the now-defunct Current TV network, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading its climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.Gore has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. In 2007, he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year. more…

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