The Sky Is Flying

Since I was in grade school I have heard about global warming, yet I didn't know anything about what global warming really was. For the first time I got to watch the eye, opening film called "An Inconvenient Truth" made in 2006. The documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President ,Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming. And the effects that global warming will have on our mother earth and the effect the further generation will have to deal with. In the essay I will state the following: a brief summary about the film it's self, what some of the effect have already been, and what my thoughts on the film are.

The film opens with a breath taking scene of what seems to be a river surrounded by vegetation. An almost awestruck Gore commenting on the ease in which we forget the beauty of our planet. However, then it shifts to a saddened Gore commenting on the attitudes of many. To accept the potential disaster that is global warming highlighting recent extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina, this ravaged several states in the Southern United States. It is here that he begins a complete break down of the issue of global warming and climate change, criticizing numerous elements in society for their causal relationship with the issue

"What gets us into trouble isn't what we don't know; it's what we know for sure that just ain't so" -Mark Twain

Gore wants the people of this world to know that they shouldn't listen to, the calms that we can't do anything to fix the damage that has been done to our plant. Then Gore goes into present the basic science of global warming, whereby he shows his audience a graphical representation of the increased retention of solar radiation due to increased amounts of greenhouse gases in the thickening atmosphere. Gore uses photographs of various landmarks in different temporal settings, e.g. Mount Kilimanjaro, to show the devastating effects on climate change, particularly on the earth's ice masses. Gore makes a concerted effort to discredit skeptics in the film through the use of temperature data for the last millennium, showing that never before has such extreme warming been experienced, and using additional data dating back 600,000 years to show a clear relationship between CO2 levels and high temperatures.

He then outlines the relationship between warmer oceans, higher temperatures, and extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina. Gore continues his presentation of scientific evidence, showing