No Exit from An Inconvenient Truth

The film An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary featuring the former United States Vice-president Al Gore giving a lecture about global warming. Released in 2006 it is possibly the most up to date review of current global warming issues, his message is simple, scientists agree that global warming is definitely happening and it is caused by humans activities and not a natural occurrence. The science quoted is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was set up in 1988 by two United Nations organizations to assess the risk of human-induced climate change.
Al Gore is a politician who ran for president in 2000 but was defeated by the Republican George W Bush. It is the Republican government that has been most resistant to the scientific evidence of climate change by way of avoiding the pressure of the environmental lobby to legislate against the root causes such as industry, farming and car emissions. Moreover it refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions which was an amendment to an international agreement masterminded by the United Nations. It also offered money to any scientist that could successfully undermine the credibility of research work used by the
IPCC to make its conclusions on climate change.
On the one hand there is scientific evidence showing climate change is happening, on the other a government that is doing its best to avoid the issue in order to protect the commercial interests of its grass roots political support. It is similar to the debate over wether or not smoking was harmful to health when scientific evidence first linked smoking to lung cancer. Science threatened the tobacco business and they attempted to undermine the evidence to protect profits, it now seems ridiculous to say that smoking is not harmful to health.
Al Gore’s film spreads the message of the causes of climate change worldwide quoting evidence derived indirectly from the United Nations via the IPCC. The United Nations is a reformist institution that protects the human rights of one world order. The UN and IPCC has enabled him to continue the environmental lobby against the Republican government in spite of having lost the election.

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