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Synopsis: A documentary on the threat that climate change poses to the Earth - it's causes, effects and history and potential solutions to it. Presented by Al Gore through a lecture that he has given to audiences across the globe, plus through more introspective moments.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Davis Guggenheim
Actors: Al Gore, Billy West
Production: Paramount Classics
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 31 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
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PG
Year:
2006
96 min
$23,727,472
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I came into contact

with intellectual ferment,

ideas that I'd never considered

in my wildest dreams before.

And he showed our class

the results of his measurements

after only a few years.

It was startling to me.

Now he was startled

and made it clear to our class

what he felt the significance of it was.

And I just soaked it up like a sponge.

He drew the connections

between the larger changes

in our civilization

and this pattern that was now visible

in the atmosphere of the entire planet.

And then he projected into the future

where this was headed

unless we made some adjustments.

And it was just as clear as day.

After the first seven, eight, nine years,

you could see the pattern

that was developing.

But I asked a question.

Why is it that it goes up and down

once each year?

And he explained that if you look

at the land mass of the Earth,

very little of it is south of the equator.

The vast majority of it is

north of the equator,

and most of the vegetation is

north of the equator.

And so, when the Northern Hemisphere

is tilted toward the sun,

as it is in our spring and summer,

the leaves come out

and they breathe in carbon dioxide,

and the amount in the atmosphere

goes down.

But when the Northern Hemisphere is

tilted away from the sun,

as it is in our fall and winter,

the leaves fall

and exhale carbon dioxide,

and the amount in the atmosphere

goes back up again.

And so, it's as if the entire Earth

once each year breathes in and out.

So we started measuring

carbon dioxide in 1958.

And you can see

that by the middle '60s,

when he showed my class this image,

it was already clear that it was going up.

I respected him and learned from him

so much, I followed this.

And when I went to the Congress

in the middle 1970s,

I helped to organize the first hearings

on global warming

and asked my professor to come

and be the leadoff witness.

And I thought that would have

such a big impact,

we'd be on the way to solving

this problem, but it didn't work that way.

But I kept having hearings.

And in 1984 I went to the Senate

and really dug deeply into this issue

with science roundtables and the like.

I wrote a book about it,

ran for President in 1988,

partly to try to gain some visibility

for that issue.

And in 1992 went to the White House.

We passed a version of a carbon tax

and some other measures

to try to address this.

Went to Kyoto in 1997

to help get a treaty

that's so controversial,

in the US at least.

In 2000,

my opponent pledged to regulate CO2

and then...

That was not a pledge that was kept.

But the point of this is

all this time you can see

what I have seen all these years.

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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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