THE FILM

The film talking about the global warming. It's interesting because it explain the consequences.


WHO'S CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING?
The industrialised countries such as the USA, some European countries and the developing countries like China and India.

BY FAR THE MOST TERRIFYING TRAILER YOU WILL EVER SEE

What are Gore's main ideas?

He thinks that global warming of the planet will destroy the life we know. For example it causes too many natural disasters: tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, floods. He talks about CO2 emissions that pollute the atmosphere.

GLOBAL WARMING

What's global warming?
Global warming is the increase in the temperature of the Earth: in the air, the seas, the land.

What's causing it?
It is caused by the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.

A SLIDESHOW INTO A MOVIE

What's the movie based on?
It's based on information from investigations by important scientists from different countryes.

What's President Bush's reaction to it? Is it just a political issue?
He says it is an exaggeration and nothing bad will happen.
No, it is a fact.

Are the book and documentary based on scientific basis?
Yes, they are both based on scientific basis.

AWARDS

Can you name some of the most important awards it received?

He won the following a Awards: Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Best Original Song, Humanitas Prize, 2007 Stanley Kramer Award, the President’s Award 2007 and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

Which one is the most important?
The most important is the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

TAKE ACTION!

Enumerate five things you can do to save the planet.

• Buy Products Locally
  Buy locally and reduce the amount of energy required to drive your products to your store.
• Carpool When You Can
  Own a big vehicle? Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs. of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.
• Reduce Garbage
  Buy products with less packaging and recycle paper, plastic and glass. Save 1,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year.
• Unplug Un-Used Electronics
  Even when electronic devices are turned off, they use energy. Save over 1,000 lbs of carbon dioxide and $256 per year.
• Take Shorter Showers
  Showers account for 2/3 of all water heating costs. Save 350 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $99 per year.
  

Stop and think...

"You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It’s quiet; it’s peaceful. And all of a sudden, it’s a gear shift inside you. And it’s like taking a deep breath and going, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about this'. ”— Al Gore in the opening monologue of An Inconvenient Truth
Some of the sentences you've read or listened to are really striking.

Choose one that you specially liked.
We can resolve the problem, if we do all together.

THE BIG QUESTIONS

IS IT REALLY SO IMPORTANT TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING?
Yes, because if we don't stop the planet will be destroyed in a few years.

DID WE BETRAY THE PLANET OR DID THE PLANET BETRAY US?
We betray the planet because we produce too much pollution and we not careful with nature.

Learn More About Global Warming

If you're not already convinced that global warming is an issue that you need to care about, click here to learn why.

Global warming isn’t opinion. It’s a scientific reality. And the science tells us that human activity has made enormous impacts to our planet that affect our well-being and even our survival as a species and it affects our public health and national security.