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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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Rotten Tomatoes:
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PG
Year:
2006
96 min
$23,727,472
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It just keeps going up. It is relentless.

And now we're beginning to see

the impact in the real world.

This is Mount Kilimanjaro

more than 30 years ago

and more recently.

And a friend of mine just came back

from Kilimanjaro

with a picture he took

a couple of months ago.

Another friend, Lonnie Thompson,

studies glaciers.

Here's Lonnie with a last sliver

of one of the once mighty glaciers.

Within the decade there will be

no more snows of Kilimanjaro.

This is happening

in Glacier National Park.

I climbed to the top of this in 1998

with one of my daughters.

Within 15 years, this will be the park

formerly known as Glacier.

Here is what's been happening

year by year to the Columbia Glacier.

It just retreats every single year.

And it's a shame

'cause these glaciers are so beautiful.

But those who go up to see them,

here's what they're seeing every day,

now.

In the Himalayas

there's a particular problem

because 40% of all the people

in the world

get their drinking water

from rivers and spring systems

that are fed more than half

by the melt water

coming off the glaciers.

And within this next half century

those 40% of the people on Earth

are gonna face a very serious shortage

because of this melting.

Italy, the Italian Alps.

Same sight today.

An old postcard from Switzerland.

Throughout the Alps,

we're seeing the same story.

It's also true in South America.

This is Peru 15 years ago.

And the same glacier today.

This is Argentina 20 years ago.

Same glacier today.

Seventy-five years ago in Patagonia

on the tip of South America.

This vast expanse of ice is now gone.

There's a message in this.

There's a message in this.

It is worldwide.

And the ice has stories to tell us.

My friend, Lonnie Thompson,

digs core drills in the ice.

They dig down

and they bring the core drills back up

and they look at the ice

and they study it.

When the snow falls,

it traps little bubbles of atmosphere

and they can go in and measure

how much CO2 was in the atmosphere

the year that that snow fell.

What's even more interesting, I think, is

they can measure

the different isotopes of oxygen

and figure out

a very precise thermometer

and tell you what the temperature was

the year that that bubble was trapped

in the snow as it fell.

When I was in Antarctica,

I saw cores like this.

And a guy looked at it. He said,

"Right here is where the US Congress

passed the Clean Air Act."

And I couldn't believe it.

But you can see the difference

with the naked eye.

Just a couple of years

after that law was passed,

it's very clearly distinguishable.

They can count back year by year

the same way a forester reads

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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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