Thursday 7 April 2011

blogprompt 3 - An inconvenient truth

I recently watched the first half of a documentary created by former vice president Al Gore called An Inconvenient Truth, which highlights all the causes and consequences of climate change and global warming on humanity and the environment. the documentary appears to talk about the comparison between the historical data of global temperature and CO2 levels from up to a few hundred thousand years ago to the data during the last few years. The documentary effectively points out the dramatic changes that have occurred during the past 100-200 years as a result of human activity, such as comparing images of glaciers at different times.

Although the documentary shows the changes that go on, it does not go deep enough into the causes and consequences of these changes. Also the themes that occur in the documentary are mixed. for example one scene features a public awareness meeting and the next scene shows images of the different natural environments. There are a few areas in the documentary that spark humour in the different situations, such as featuring a clip from a Futurama episode described by Al Gore as a "more detailed" analysis of the causes and consequences of global warming

overall the documentary is easy to understand but is a little mixed up  and does not go into the consequences of climate change deeply enough, but it is informative enough to make me aware that climate change and global warming is occurring and will cause dramatic changes/issues in the next 50 to 100 years

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