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An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
In the harrowing, fact-based Best Documentary Feature
Academy Award winner about the threat of global warming:
- former Vice President Al Gore's (Himself) opening
line: "I used to be the next President of the United States
of America"
- his masterful use of slides, computer graphs and
photos - a multimedia lecture that he had delivered hundreds of times,
to illustrate the disastrous results of global warming
- his poignant recounting of the tragic lung-cancer
death of his sister Nancy in their tobacco-growing Southern family
- explaining how he wished that we could "connect the dots" more
quickly
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"Global Warming or: None Like It Hot"
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- the short clip "Global Warming or: None
Like It Hot" from the animated TV show Futurama, from
a 2002 episode in which he guest-starred, about the effects of
greenhouse gases
- his descriptions, illustrated by before-and-after
photographs of the effects of global warming on various landmarks,
such as the mountain peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and on glaciers at
the poles
- the famous scene in which he used a scissors-style
fork lift to raise himself up on the right side of a mammoth graphic
to examine annual temperature and the drastically high, rising rate
of CO2 emissions levels for the past 650,000 years, measured by Antarctic
ice core samples
- his ultimate conclusion: "I don't really consider
this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue"; the
closing credits included recommendations in answer to the question: "Are
you ready to change the way you live?"
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Al Gore: "I used to be the next President of the
United States of America"
Use of Slides and Graphics
Recounting of Sister's Death
Effects of Global Warming
Use of Fork Lift to Show Mammoth Graphic
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