Nearly 20 years after Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee investigates the science from the film to see how much holds up today.While I replaced An Inconvenient Truth with Chasing Ice during the pandemic five years ago, I think it's worth looking back at its predictions. As Zee said, most of what Gore said either was and still is true or became true since 2006. The rest are still likely to come true, although a bit later than he thought when he was giving the slide show 20 years ago.
If I were still showing the documentary to my students as a required exercise, I'd go over the answers to the questions Zee touched on. I'm not, although my students can still watch it for extra credit. I won't go to that much effort for extra credit. Instead, I will close by noting that An Inconvenient Truth is still the only documentary to win two Oscars, Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. That will definitely hold true through at least next year, as none of this year's nominated documentaries are also nominated for Original Song.
Stay tuned for another entry worth sharing next month tomorrow.
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