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			{{Short description|2006 film by Davis Guggenheim}}
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			{{Infobox film
	| name = An Inconvenient Truth		| name = An Inconvenient Truth
	| image = Aninconvenienttruth.jpg		| image = An Inconvenient Truth Film Poster.jpg
			| alt = Industrial smoke stacks whose emissions form a hurricane eyewall.
	| caption = Promotional poster for ''An Inconvenient Truth''
			| caption = Theatrical release poster
	| director = ]		| director = ]
			| producer = {{Plainlist|
	| producer = ]<br />]<br />]<br />] (co-producer)
			* ]
	| starring = ]
			* ]
			* ]
			}}
			| writer = ]
			| starring = Al Gore
	| music = ]		| music = ]
			| cinematography = {{Plainlist|
	| editing = ]<br />]
			* Bob Richman
			* ]}}
			| editing = {{Plainlist|
			* ]
			* Dan Swietlik}}
			| studio = {{Plainlist|
			* ]
			* ]
			}}
	| distributor = ]		| distributor = ]
	| released = ]		| released = {{Film date|2006|05|24}}
	| runtime = 94 min		| runtime = 97 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 96:51--><ref name="r__bbfc" />
	| country = ]		| country = United States
	| language = ]		| language = English
			| budget = $1.5 million<ref name="r__grist" />
	| budget = ]+1,000,000<ref>. Grist.org. Retrieved ] ].</ref>
	| gross = ]49,047,567<br /><small>(worldwide)</small>		| gross = $49.8 million<ref name="mojo" />}}
	| website = http://www.climatecrisis.net/
	| amg_id = 1:342290
	| imdb_id = 0497116
	}}
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	'''''An Inconvenient Truth''''' is an ] ]-winning ] about ], specifically ], presented by former ] ] and directed by ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/?pn=detail&nominee=AnInconvenientTruthDocumentaryFeatureNominee
	|title=Winner: Documentary Feature, An Inconvenient Truth |accessdate=2007-03-18
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
	}}</ref> A companion book authored by Gore has been on the paperback nonfiction ] list since ] ], reaching #1 on ] ].<ref>{{cite news
	|title=New York Times Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/books/bestseller/0702bestpapernonfiction.html?ex=1174363200&en=aa0e9c76ef010f5a&ei=5070
	|publisher=]
	|date=July 2, 2006
	|accessdate=2007-03-17
	}}</ref>
			'''''An Inconvenient Truth''''' is a 2006 American ] directed by ] about former ] ]'s campaign to educate people about ]. The film features a ] that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.
	The film premiered at the 2006 ] and opened in ] and ] on ] ]. Earning $49 million at the ] worldwide, ''An Inconvenient Truth'' is the fourth-highest-grossing documentary film to date in the ], after '']'', '']'' and '']''.<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm
	|title=Documentary 1982-Present (film rankings by lifetime gross)
	|publisher=Box Office Mojo
	}}</ref> The film's distributor, ], is donating 5% of the box office receipts and Gore is donating all of his proceeds from the film to the ] (of which Gore is both founder and chairman).<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/?p=29
	|title=Paramount Classics To Donate An Unprecedented One Million Dollars To Fight Global Warming
	|publisher=Climatecrisis.net
	| accessdate=2007-06-01
	|date=]
	}}</ref> The film was released on ] by ] on ] ]. ''An Inconvenient Truth'' was well received by ], scientists, and politicians and won two ]. It is also required viewing in school science curricula in Norway and Sweden.<ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news
	| publisher=]
	| title=Science a la Joe Camel
	| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400789_pf.html
	| first=Laurie
	| last=David
	| date=]
	}}</ref> ] have criticized the film, calling it "exaggerated and erroneous".<ref name="NYT1">{{cite news
	| publisher=]
	| title=From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype
	| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=d615dc2ef256727f&ex=1175832000
	| first=William J.
	| last=Broad
	| date=]
	}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
	|title=Don't believe the Hype
	|first=Richard
	|last=Lindzen
	|authorlink=Richard Lindzen
	|date=]
	|url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-05-31
	}}</ref>
			The idea to document Gore's efforts came from producer ], who saw his presentation at a ] on global warming, which coincided with the opening of '']''. Laurie David was so inspired by his slide show that she, with producer ], met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film. Premiering at the ] and opening in ] and ] on May 24, 2006, the film was a critical and commercial success, winning two ] for ] and ].<ref name="nytimes2009_342290" /> The film grossed $24 million in the US and $26 million in other countries’ ]s, becoming the eleventh highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States.<ref name="mojo-chart" />
	==Synopsis ==
	{{cquote2|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'.|] in the opening monologue of ''An Inconvenient Truth''}}
	''An Inconvenient Truth'' focuses on Al Gore and his travels in support of his efforts to educate the public about the severity of the climate crisis. Gore says, "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as I've failed to get the message across." The film nearly follows a ] presentation (dubbed "the slide show") that Gore presented throughout the world. It intersperses Gore's exploration of data and predictions regarding climate change and its potential for disaster with Gore's life story.
			Since the film's release, ''An Inconvenient Truth'' has been credited for raising ] and reenergizing the ]. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy. A sequel to the film, titled '']'', was released on July 28, 2017.
	It weaves in events that changed his worldview, including his college education with early climate expert ] at ], his sister's death from ], and his young ]'s near-fatal car accident. Throughout the film, Gore makes comments regarding his loss to ] in the ]. For comic effect, Gore also uses a clip from the '']'' episode "]" to explain global warming.
			==Synopsis {{anchor|Synopsis|Plot}}==
	In the slide show Gore reviews the ], discusses the ] and ], and describes the consequences he believes global climate change will produce if the amount of human-generated ] are not significantly reduced in the very near future. A centerpoint of the film is his examination of the annual temperature and CO<sub>2</sub> levels for the past 650,000 years in ] ].
			''An Inconvenient Truth'' presents in film form an illustrated talk on climate by Al Gore, aimed at alerting the public to an increasing "planetary emergency" due to ], and shows re-enacted incidents from his life story which influenced his concerns about environmental issues. He began making these presentations in 1989 with ] illustrations;<ref name="revkin-thefight" /> the film version uses a ], which Gore refers to as "the ]".<ref name="r__arstech2006064392" />
			The vice president opens the film by greeting an audience with his well-known line about ]: "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America."<ref name="CSMonitor" /> He is shown using his laptop to edit his presentation, and pondering the difficulty he has had in awakening public concern: "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as if I've failed to get the message across."<ref name="revkin-thefight" />
	The film includes many segments intended to refute ] who say that global warming is unproven or that warming will be insignificant. For example, Gore discusses the possibility of the collapse of a major ] in ] or in ], either of which could raise global sea levels by approximately 20 feet (6m), flooding coastal areas and producing 100 million refugees. ] from Greenland, because of its lower ], could then halt the ] current and quickly trigger dramatic local cooling in Northern Europe. The documentary ends with Gore arguing that if appropriate actions are taken soon, the effects of global warming can be successfully reversed by releasing less ] and planting more vegetation to consume existing CO<sub>2</sub>. Gore calls upon his viewers to learn how they can help him in these efforts.
			Gore then begins his slide show on Global Warming; a comprehensive presentation replete with detailed graphs, flow charts and stark visuals. Gore shows off several photographs of the Earth taken from multiple space missions, as '']'' and '']''.<ref name="goreplaysleadingman" /> Gore notes that these photos dramatically transformed the way we see the Earth, helping spark modern ].
	Gore's book of the same title was published concurrently with the theatrical release of the documentary. The book contains additional information, scientific analysis, and Gore's commentary on the issues presented in the documentary. A 2007 documentary entitled ''An Update with Former Vice President Al Gore'' features Gore discussing additional information that came to light after the film was completed, such as ].<ref name="Katrina">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978403/</ref>
			Following this, Gore shares anecdotes that inspired his interest in the issue, including his college education with early climate expert ] at ], his sister's death from lung cancer and his young son's near-fatal car accident. Gore recalls a story from his grade-school years, where a fellow student asked his geography teacher about ], whether the coastlines of South America and Africa might fit together; in response, the teacher called the concept the "most ridiculous thing ever heard." Gore ties this conclusion to the assumption that "the Earth is so big, we can't possibly have any lasting, harmful impact on the Earth's environment." For comic effect, Gore uses a clip from the '']'' episode "]" to describe the ]. Gore refers to his loss to ] in the ] as a "hard blow" yet one which subsequently "brought into clear focus, the mission had been pursuing for all these years."
	==Scientific basis==
	{{main|Scientific opinion on climate change|Global warming|Global warming controversy}}
	], a ] photo showing ] ''(circled)'' as a single pixel from 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometres) away, is featured in ''An Inconvenient Truth''. Al Gore points out that all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home.]]
			], a ] photo showing Earth ''(circled)'' as a single pixel from 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometres) away, is featured in the film. Al Gore points out that all of human history has happened on that pixel, which is the only planet where life has been discovered.]]
	Gore's claim is that global warming is real and largely ]. Gore presents specific data that supports the film's thesis, including:
			Throughout the movie, Gore discusses the ], as well as the present and future ] and stresses that global warming "is really not a political issue, so much as a moral one," describing the consequences he believes global warming will produce if the amount of human-generated ]es is not significantly reduced in the very near future. Gore also presents Antarctic ] data showing CO<sub>2</sub> levels higher now than in the past 650,000 years.
	*The ], measuring CO<sub>2</sub> from the ].
	*The retreat of numerous glaciers is shown in before-and-after photographs (see ]).
	*A study by researchers at the ] Institute at the ] and the ] presenting data from Antarctic ] showing carbon dioxide concentrations higher than at any time during the past 650,000 years.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Spahni |first=Renato |coauthors=Chappellaz, Jérôme; et al. |year=] |month=] |title=Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide of the Late Pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores (abstract) |journal=] |volume=310 |issue=5752 |pages=1317-1321 |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/310/5752/1317 |accessdate=2007-03-18 }}</ref>
	*] showing that the ten hottest years ever measured in this atmospheric record have all occurred in the last fourteen years.
	*A 2004 survey by Dr. ] of 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003. The survey, published as an editorial in the journal '']'', claimed that every article either supported the human-caused global warming consensus or did not comment on it.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Oreskes |first=Naomi |authorlink=Naomi Oreskes |year=] |month=] |title=Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change |journal=] |volume=306 |issue=5702 |pages=1686 |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 |accessdate=2007-03-18 }}</ref>
			The film includes segments intended to refute critics who say that global warming is unproven or that warming will be insignificant. For example, Gore cites the ] caused by melting over recent decades, showing nine cases, such as the ] and Boulder Glaciers and Patagonia. He discusses the possibility of the collapse and melting of a major ] in ] or in ], either of which could raise global sea levels by approximately 20 feet (6m), flooding coastal areas and producing 100 million refugees. Melt water from Greenland, because of its lower ], could then halt the currents that keep northern Europe warm and quickly trigger dramatic local cooling there. It also contains various short animated projections of what could happen to different animals more vulnerable to global warming.
	The ] contacted more than 100 climate researchers and questioned them about the film's veracity. All 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie said that Gore conveyed the science correctly.<ref>{{cite news |first=Seth |last=Borenstein
	|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062700780.html
	|title=Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy
	|publisher=]
	|date=], ]
	|accessdate= 2007-03-18
	}}</ref> In contrast, the ], at the time chaired by ] ] ] issued a press release criticizing this article.<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=257909
	|title=AP Incorrectly Claims Scientists Praise Gore’s Movie
	|publisher=]
	|date=], ]
	|accessdate= 2007-03-18
	}}</ref> Inhofe's statement that "global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"<ref>{{cite news |first=Zachary |last=Coile |title=Senator fights the tide, calls warming by humans a hoax |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/11/MNGEJLMT8A1.DTL |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=], ] |accessdate=2007-03-18 }}</ref> appears in the film.
			== Call to action ==
	], a group blog maintained by eleven climate scientists, lauded the film's science as "remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research."<ref>{{cite web
			The documentary ends with Gore arguing that if appropriate actions are taken soon, the effects of global warming can be successfully reversed by releasing less ] and planting more vegetation to consume existing CO<sub>2</sub>. Gore calls upon his viewers to learn how they can help him in these efforts. Gore closes the film by saying:
	|first=Steig |last=Eric
	|url=http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=299
	|title=Al Gore’s movie
	|publisher=RealClimate
	|date=], ]
	|accessdate=2007-03-18
	}}</ref> ], scientific author and founder of ], wrote in '']'' that ''An Inconvenient Truth'' "shocked me out of my doubting stance".<ref>{{cite news
	|first=Shermer |last=Michael |authorlink=Michael Shermer
	|url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=000B557A-71ED-146C-ADB783414B7F0000
	|title= The Flipping Point: How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
	|publisher=]
	|date=June 2006
	|accessdate=2007-03-18
	}}</ref>
			{{blockquote|Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive; we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. The solutions are in our hands, we just have to have the determination to make it happen. We have everything that we need to reduce carbon emissions, everything but political will. But in America, the will to act is a renewable resource.<ref name="r__firethemup_92" />}}
	==Origins==
	Gore became intrigued by the topic of global warming when he took a course at ] with Professor ], one of the first scientists to measure ] in the atmosphere.<ref>{{cite web | last=Voynar | first=Kim | title=Sundance: An Inconvenient Truth Q & A - Al Gore on fire! No, really. | work=Cinematical | date=January 26, 2006 | url=http://www.cinematical.com/2006/01/26/sundance-an-inconvenient-truth-q-and-a-al-gore-on-fire-no-rea/ }}</ref>
	Later, when Gore was in Congress, he initiated the first congressional hearing on the subject, brought in climate scientists and began talking to politicians about the issue.<ref>{{cite web | last=Remnick | first=David | title=The Talk of the Town | work=New Yorker | date=April 14, 2006 | url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060424ta_talk_remnick }}</ref> He thought that once legislators heard the compelling evidence, they would be driven to action; ultimately, though, the process was a slow one. Gore's 1992 book, '']'', dealing with a number of environmental topics, reached the ].
			During the film's end credits, several calls to action pop up on screen suggesting to viewers things at home they can do to combat global warming, including "recycle", "speak up in your community", "try to buy a ]" and "encourage everyone you know to watch this movie."<ref name="r__eogwacc2008_p58" />
	As Vice President during the ], Gore pushed for the implementation of a ] to modify incentives to reduce fossil fuel consumption causing fossil fuel to last longer and thereby decrease emission of greenhouse gases in the short term but not long term; it was partially implemented in ]. He helped broker the 1997 ], an international treaty designed to curb ] emissions. However, it was not ratified in the ] due to opposition, in the ]. The primary objections stemmed from the exemptions the treaty gives to ] and ], whose industrial base and carbon footprint are growing rapidly, and fears that the exemptions would lead to further trade imbalances and offshoring arrangement with those countries.
			== Background ==
	Gore also supported the funding of a satellite called ], to increase awareness of environmental issues and to take the first direct measurements of ]. During ], Gore ran, in part, on a pledge to ratify the ].
			]
			=== Origins ===
	After his defeat in ] by ], Gore returned his focus to the topic. He edited and adapted a slide show he had compiled years earlier, and began featuring the slide show in multimedia presentations on global warming across the U.S. and around the world. At the time of the film, Gore estimated he had shown the presentation more than one thousand times.
			{{See also|Environmental activism of Al Gore}}
			Gore became interested in global warming when he took a course at ] with Professor ], one of the first scientists to measure ] in the atmosphere.<ref name="r__sundance20060126" />
			Later, when Gore was in Congress, he initiated the first congressional hearing on the subject in 1981.<ref name="r__thenewyorker20060414" /> Gore's 1992 book, '']'', dealing with a number of environmental topics, reached the ].<ref name="biosen" />
			As Vice President during the ], Gore pushed for the implementation of a ] to encourage ] and diversify the choices of fuel better reflecting the true environmental costs of ]; it was partially implemented in 1993.<ref name="r__washingtonpost72174989" />
	Producers ] and ] saw Gore's slide show in ] after the ] premiere of '']''.<ref>{{cite web | last=Booth | first=William | title=Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man | work=Washington Post | date=January 26, 2006 | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502230.html }}</ref> Inspired, they met with director ] about the possibility of making the slide show into a movie. Guggenheim, who was skeptical at first, later saw the presentation for himself, stating that he was "blown away," and "left after an hour and a half thinking that global warming the most important issue. . . . I had no idea how you’d make a film out of it, but I wanted to try," he said.<ref>{{cite web
	|author=Alex Steffen
			He helped broker the 1997 ], an international treaty designed to curb ].<ref name="kyotospeech" /><ref name="environinitiative" /> The treaty was not ratified in the United States after a 95 to 0 vote in the ]. The primary objections stemmed from the exemptions the treaty gave to China and India, whose ] and ] have grown rapidly, and fears that the exemptions would lead to further trade imbalances and offshoring arrangement with those countries.<ref name="r__ussenate19970725" /><ref name="r__nationalcenter19970725" />
	|title=Interview: David Guggenheim and An Inconvenient Truth
	|publisher=WorldChanging.com
			Gore also supported the funding of the controversial, and much-delayed satellite called ], which would have provided an image of the Earth 24 hours a day, over the internet and would have acted as a barometer measuring the process of global warming.<ref name="r__nytimes19990601" /> During ], Gore ran, in part, on a pledge to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.<ref name="r__ontheissues_kyototreaty" />
	|date= ] ]
	|url=http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004388.html
			=== The slide show ===
	}}</ref>
			]]]
			Following his defeat in ] by ], Gore returned his focus to the topic. He edited and adapted a slide show he had compiled years earlier, and began featuring the slide show in presentations on global warming across the US and around the world. At the time of the film, Gore estimated he had shown the presentation more than one thousand times.<ref name="r__wiredmag200605" />
			Producer Laurie David saw Gore's slide show in ] at a global warming town-hall meeting after the May 27, 2004 premiere of '']''.<ref name="goreleadingman" /> Gore was one of several panelists and he showed a ten-minute version of his slide show.
			<ref name="r__npr20070507" />
			{{blockquote|I had never seen it before, and I was floored. As soon as the evening's program concluded, I asked him to let me present his full briefing to leaders and friends in New York and Los Angeles. I would do all the organizing if he would commit to the dates. Gore's presentation was the most powerful and clear explanation of global warming I had ever seen. And it became my mission to get everyone I knew to see it too.}}
			Inspired, David assembled a team, including producer Lawrence Bender and former president of ] ], who met with Gore about the possibility of making the slide show into a movie. It took some convincing. The slide show, she says, "was his baby, and he felt proprietary about it and it was hard for him to let go."<ref name="goreleadingman" />
			David said the box office returns were not important to her, and that what was at stake was the planet, saying "none of us are going to make a dime."<ref name="goreleadingman" />
			David and Bender later met with director Davis Guggenheim, to have him direct the film adaptation of his slide show. Guggenheim, who was skeptical at first, later saw the presentation for himself, stating that he was "blown away," and "left after an hour and a half thinking that global warming the most important issue ... I had no idea how you'd make a film out of it, but I wanted to try," he said.<ref name="r__worldchanging004388" />
			In 2004 Gore enlisted Duarte Design to condense and update his material and add video and animation.<ref name="r__latime20080915" /> Ted Boda described the tools that went into designing the project: "Gore's presentation was in fact using Apple's ] presentation software (the same software ] presents from) and did so for a number of reasons. As a designer for the presentation, Keynote was the first choice to help create such an engaging presentation."<ref name="r__presentationzen20060601" />
			Initially reluctant of the film adaptation, Gore said after he and the crew were into the production of the movie, the director, Guggenheim, earned his trust.<ref name="accidental-movie-star" />
			{{blockquote|I had seen enough to gain a tremendous respect for his skill and sensitivity. And he said that one of the huge differences between a live stage performance and a movie is that when you're in the same room with a live person who's on stage speaking — even if it's me — there's an element of dramatic tension and human connection that keeps your attention. And in a movie, that element is just not present. He explained to me that you have to create that element on screen, by supplying a narrative thread that allows the audience to make a connection with one or more characters. He said, "You've got to be that character." So we talked about it, and as I say, by then he had earned such a high level of trust from me that he convinced me.}}
			=== Production ===
			When Bender first saw Gore's visual presentation he had concerns about connection with viewers, citing a "need to find a personal way in." In the string of interviews with Gore that followed, Gore himself felt like they "were making ''Kill Al Vol. 3''".<ref name="lawrencebendertruthdig" /> Bender had other issues including a time frame that was "grueling" and needed to be done in "a very short period of time" despite many filming locations planned. These included many locations throughout the United States and also included China. "It was a lot of travel in a very short period of time. And they had to get this thing edited and cut starting in January, and ready to screen in May. That's like a seriously tight schedule. So the logistics of pulling it off with a low budget were really difficult, and if there's one person who gets credit, it's Leslie Chilcott, because she really pulled it together."<ref name="lawrencebendertruthdig" />
			"Most of my movies take a year and a half, if not two and a half," Guggenheim said. "We all felt like we were on a mission from God just to make it as fast as we could. We just felt like it was urgent. The clock was ticking, and people had to see it."<ref name="grist2016" />
			====Title====
			The producers struggled to find an effective title for the film. "We had a lot of really bad titles," Guggenheim recalled. "One was ''The Rising''. I remember Al talking about whether he should give ] a call, because he had an album out called '']''. It had a great triple-entendre, because it was like the sea-level rising and the idea of people rising. So we got excited about that for a while."<ref name="grist2016"/> "There were also some really bad ones like ''Too Hot to Handle,''" he added. "Maybe that's not right, but it was something with 'hot,' ya know? We had a lot of hot puns."<ref name="grist2016"/>
			Guggenheim said that he asked Gore why climate change was "so hard for people to grasp," to which Gore replied, "Because it's an inconvenient truth, ya know." " In the back of my head, I go, that's the title of our movie," Guggenheim said.<ref name="grist2016"/>
			Initially, the title was not a popular choice. Gore recalled saying "Nah, I don't think so" but Guggenheim "defended it vigorously against other titles." "People thought it was hard to say, people thought it wasn't fun, it wasn't sexy," Guggenheim remembered. "Days before we went to Sundance and had to decide, there was a large group of people who did not like the title."<ref name="grist2016"/>
			====Technical aspects====
			The majority of the movie shows Gore delivering his lecture to an audience at a relatively small theater in Los Angeles. Gore's presentation was delivered on a 70-foot (21 m) digital screen that Bender commissioned specifically for the movie.<ref name="lawrencebendertruthdig" />
			While the bulk of the film was shot on 4:4:4 ], according to director Guggenheim, a vast array of different film formats were used: "There's ] and ]. A lot of the stuff on the farm I just shot myself on ]. We used four ] HDCAMs for the presentation. We shot three different kinds of ] HD, both 30 and 24. There's MiniDV, there's 3200 black-and-white stills, there's digital stills, some of them emailed on the day they were taken from as far off as Greenland. There was three or four different types of animation. One of the animators is from New Zealand and emailed me his work. There's JPEG stuff."<ref name="sheddinglight" />
			Guggenheim said that while it would have been a lot easier to use one format, it would not have had the same impact. "Each format has its own feel and texture and touch. For the storytelling of what Gore's memory was like of growing up on the farm, some of this 8mm stuff that I shot is very impressionistic. And for some of his memories of his son's accident, these grainy black-and-white stills ... have a feel that contrasted very beautifully with the crisp hi-def HD that we shot. Every format was used to its best potential. Some of the footage of Katrina has this blown-out video, where the chroma is just blasted, and it looks real muddy, but that too has its own kind of powerful, impactful feeling."<ref name="sheddinglight" />
			==Scientific basis==
			{{further|Scientific consensus on climate change}}
			], which shows a pattern of steadily increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.]]
			The film lays out the scientific consensus that global warming is real, potentially catastrophic, and ]. Gore presents specific
			data to support this, including:
			* The ], which depicts the long-term increase in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentration as measured from the ].
			* The ] is shown with before-and-after photographs.
			* A study by researchers at the Physics Institute of the ] and the ] (EPICA) presenting data from Antarctic ]s showing carbon dioxide concentrations higher than at any time during the past 650,000 years.<ref name="r__sciencejnl_v310_i5752_p1313_1317" />
			* Data from the atmospheric ] showing that the ten hottest years ever measured had all occurred in the previous fourteen years.
			* A 2004 survey by ] of 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003. The survey, published as an editorial in the journal '']'', found that every article either supported the human-caused global warming consensus or did not comment on it.<ref name="r__sciencejnl_v306_i5702_p1686" /> Gore also presents a 2004 study by Max and ] showing 53% of articles that appeared in major US newspapers over a fourteen-year period gave roughly equal attention to scientists who expressed views that global warming was caused by humans as they did to ] (many of them funded by carbon-based industry interests), creating a ].<ref name="r__fairorg200411_p1978" />
			The ] contacted more than 100 climate researchers and questioned them about the film's veracity. All 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or had read the ] said that Gore accurately conveyed the science, with few errors.<ref name="scientistsokmovieforaccuracy" />
			], dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at ], said " got all the important material and got it right." ], chairman of the ], was also impressed. "I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate. After the presentation I said, 'Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a lot of details you could get wrong.'...I could find no error."<ref name="scientistsokmovieforaccuracy" /> ], scientific author and founder of ], wrote in '']'' that Gore's slide show "shocked me out of my doubting stance."<ref name="r__sciam200606" /> Eric Steig, a climate scientist writing on ], lauded the film's science as "remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research."<ref name="gore-steig" /> Ted Scambos, lead scientist from the ], said the film "does an excellent job of outlining the science behind global warming and the challenges society faces in the coming century because of it."<ref name="r__nsidc20100403" />
			One concern among scientists in the film was the ], which at the time was contentious in the scientific community. Gore cited five recent scientific studies to support his view.<ref name="scientistsokmovieforaccuracy" /> "I thought the use of imagery from ] was inappropriate and unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific consensus," said Brian Soden, professor of meteorology and oceanography at the University of Miami.<ref name="scientistsokmovieforaccuracy" /> ], climate modeler for NASA, thought Gore appropriately addressed the issue.<ref name="did-al-get-the-science-right" /> "Gore talked about 2005 and 2004 being very strong seasons, and if you weren't paying attention, you could be left with the impression that there was a direct cause and effect, but he was very careful to not say there's a direct correlation," Schmidt said.<ref name="did-al-get-the-science-right" /> "There is a difference between saying 'we are confident that they will increase' and 'we are confident that they have increased due to this effect,'" added Steig. "Never in the movie does he say: 'This particular event is caused by global warming.'"<ref name="did-al-get-the-science-right" />
			] and ] ice cores display the relationship between temperature and level of CO<sub>2</sub> for the last 650,000 years. ("Current CO<sub>2</sub> level" is as of 2006.)]]
			Gore's use of long ice core records of CO<sub>2</sub> and temperature (from oxygen isotope measurements) in Antarctic ice cores to illustrate the correlation between the two drew some scrutiny; Schmidt, Steig and ] back up Gore's data. "Gore stated that the greenhouse gas levels and temperature changes over ice age signals had a complex relationship but that they 'fit'. Both of these statements are true," said Schmidt and Mann.<ref name="convenient-untruths" /> "The complexity though is actually quite fascinating ... a full understanding of why CO<sub>2</sub> changes in precisely the pattern that it does during ice ages is elusive, but among the most plausible explanations is that increased received ] in the southern hemisphere due to changes in Earth's orbital geometry warms the southern ocean, releasing CO<sub>2</sub> into the atmosphere, which then leads to further warming through an enhanced greenhouse effect. Gore's terse explanation does not delve into such complexities, but the crux of his point—that the observed long-term relationship between CO<sub>2</sub> and temperature in Antarctica supports our understanding of the warming impact of increased CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations—is correct. Moreover, our knowledge of why CO<sub>2</sub> is changing now (fossil fuel burning) is solid. We also know that CO<sub>2</sub> is a greenhouse gas, and that the ] feedback is positive (increasing temperatures lead to increasing CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub>), implying that future changes in CO<sub>2</sub> will be larger than we might anticipate."<ref name="convenient-untruths" /> "Gore is careful not to state what the temperature/CO<sub>2</sub> scaling is," said Steig. "He is making a qualitative point, which is entirely accurate. The fact is that it would be difficult or impossible to explain past changes in temperature during the ice age cycles without CO<sub>2</sub> changes. In that sense, the ice core CO<sub>2</sub>-temperature correlation remains an appropriate demonstration of the influence of CO<sub>2</sub> on climate."<ref name="gore-steig" />
			Steig disputed Gore's statement that one can visibly see the effect that the ] has had on ice cores in Antarctica. "One can neither see, nor even detect using sensitive chemical methods any evidence in Antarctica of the Clean Air Act," he said, but did note that they are "clearly recorded in ice core records from Greenland."<ref name="another-look" /> Despite these flaws, Steig said that the film got the fundamental science right and the minor factual errors did not undermine the main message of the film,<ref name="another-look" /> adding "''An Inconvenient Truth'' rests on a solid scientific foundation."<ref name="another-look" />
			], Earth Science professor at ], whose work on retreating glaciers was featured in the film, was pleased with how his research was presented. "It's so hard given the breadth of this topic to be factually correct, and make sure you don't lose your audience," Thompson said. <blockquote>"As scientists, we publish our papers in ''Science'' and ''Nature'', but very few people read those. Here's another way to get this message out. To me, it's an excellent overview for an introductory class at a university. What are the issues and what are the possible consequences of not doing anything about those changes? To me, it has tremendous value. It will reach people that scientists will never reach."<ref name="did-al-get-the-science-right"/></blockquote>
			] from ] said the "main scientific argument presented in the movie is for the most part consistent with the weight of scientific evidence, but with some of the main points needing updating, correction, or qualification."<ref name="ait-the-scientific-argument" /> Nielsen-Gammon thought the film neglected information gained from computer models, and instead relied entirely on past and current observational evidence, "perhaps because such information would be difficult for a
			lay audience to grasp, believe, or connect with emotionally."<ref name="ait-the-scientific-argument" />
			Steven Quiring, a climatologist from Texas A&M University, added that "whether scientists like it or not, ''An Inconvenient Truth'' has had a much greater impact on public opinion and public awareness of global climate change than any scientific paper or report."<ref name="r__geojnl2008_v70_p1_3" />
			==Reception==
	== Reception ==
	===Box office===		===Box office===
	The film opened in ] and ] on ] ]. On ] weekend, it grossed an average of $91,447 per theater, the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary, though it was only playing on four screens at the time.<ref> ''IMDb'', ], accessed ]</ref>		The film opened in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006.<ref name="r__deadline201605" /> On ] weekend, it grossed an average of $91,447 per theater, the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary, though it was only playing on four screens at the time.<ref name="r__imdbnews20060530" />
	At the 2006 ], the movie received three ]s. It was also screened at the 2006 ] and was the opening night film at the 27th ] on ] ].		At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the movie received three ]s.<ref name="r__onfireatsundance20060126" /> It was also screened at the ]<ref name="r__cannesff4320887" /> and was the opening night film at the 27th ] on June 14, 2006.<ref name="r__ukzn" />
	''An Inconvenient Truth'' was the most popular documentary at the 2006 ].<ref> accessed ]</ref>		''An Inconvenient Truth'' was the most popular documentary at the 2006 ].<ref name="r__brisbaneff2006" />
			The film has grossed over $24 million in the US, making it the eleventh-highest-grossing documentary in the US (from 1982 to the present).<ref name="r__mojo_11th_grossing" /> It grossed nearly $26 million in foreign countries, the highest being France, where it grossed $5 million.<ref name="r__mojo_countries" /> According to Gore, "] and I are devoting 100 percent of the profits from the book and the movie to a new bipartisan educational campaign to further spread the message about global warming."<ref name="r__treehugger" /> ] committed 5% of their domestic theatrical gross from the film to form a new bipartisan climate action group, ], dedicated to awareness and grassroots organizing.<ref name="r__afcp20070110" />
	The film has grossed over $24 million in the U.S. and over $49 million worldwide as of ] ], making it the fourth-highest-grossing documentary in the U.S. to date (after '']'', '']'' and '']'').<ref> ''Box Office Mojo'', accessed ]</ref>
			===Critical response===
	Al Gore has stated, "] and I are devoting 100 percent of the profits from the book and the movie to a new bipartisan educational campaign to further spread the message about global warming."<ref> ''Flanders News'', dated ], accessed ]</ref> ] is committing 5% of their domestic theatrical gross for the film to a new bipartisan climate action group, Alliance for Climate Protection, dedicated to awareness and grassroots organizing.<ref> ''The Alliance for Climate Protection'', accessed ]</ref>
			The film received a positive reaction from film critics and audiences. It has a 93% rating at ], based on 166 reviews, and an average rating of 7.74/10. The website's critical consensus states, "This candid, powerful and informative documentary illuminates some of the myths surrounding its dual subjects: global warming and Al Gore".<ref name="r__metacritic" /> At '']'', which assigns a ] score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 75, based on 32 reviews.<ref name="meta" />
			Film critics ] and ] gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert said, "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to,"<ref name="r__rogerebertsuntimes" /> calling the film "horrifying, enthralling and the potential, I believe, to actually change public policy and begin a process which could save the Earth".<ref name="goreplaysleadingman" />
	=== Reviews ===
	The film received a positive reaction from critics. It garnered a "certified fresh" 93% rating at ] (as of ] ]), with a 94% rating from the "Cream of the Crop" reviewers. Film critics ] and ] gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert wrote: "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."<ref>] ''Chicago Sunday Times'', accessed ]</ref>
			'']'' critic ] called the film "One of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen—and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications."<ref name="r__nymag_rv52847" /> '']''{{'s}} ] added that while it was "not the most entertaining film of the year ... it might be the most important" and a "brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide."<ref name="r__newyorker20060524_060424" />
	Journalist ] argued in the ] magazine '']'' that although "Gore gets more right than wrong," he exaggerates the risks.<ref>Ronald Bailey ''Reason'', dated ], accessed ]</ref>
			'']'' reviewer ] thought the film was "edited crisply enough to keep it from feeling like 90 minutes of ] and shaped to give Mr. Gore's argument a real sense of drama," and "as unsettling as it can be," Scott continued, "it is also intellectually exhilarating, and, like any good piece of pedagogy, whets the appetite for further study."<ref name="r__nytimes20100616" />
			'']'' critic Jayson Harsin declared the film's aesthetic qualities groundbreaking, as a new genre of slideshow film.<ref name="r__brightlightsfilmjnl201608" />
			] climatologist ] described the film as powerful, complemented by detail in the book. Hansen said that "Gore has put together a coherent account of a complex topic that Americans desperately need to understand. The story is scientifically accurate and yet should be understandable to the public, a public that is less and less drawn to science." He added that with ''An Inconvenient Truth'', "Al Gore may have done for global warming what '']'' did for pesticides. He will be attacked, but the public will have the information needed to distinguish our long-term well-being from short-term special interests."<ref name="r__nybooks20060713_19131" />
			In "extensive exit polling" of ''An Inconvenient Truth'' in "conservative suburban markets like Plano and Irvine (Orange County), as well as Dallas and Long Island", 92 percent rated "Truth" highly and 87 percent of the respondents said they'd recommend the film to a friend.<ref name="r__sfchronical20090225" /> ] professor Michele Poff argued that Gore was successful in communicating to conservative-leaning audiences by framing the ] as apolitical.<ref name="poff" /> "Gore's and the environment's identification with the Democratic Party posed a significant challenge to reaching Republicans and conservatives, as well as those disgruntled with politics in general," Poff wrote. <blockquote>"To appeal to such individuals, Gore framed the matter as distinctly apolitical – as an issue both outside politics and one that was crucial regardless of one's ideological leanings. These explicit attempts to frame the issue as apolitical take on further gravitas when we consider how Gore infused the film with reflections of conservative values. Indeed, Gore reached deeply into the value structure of American conservatives to highlight ideals that suggested his cause was not liberal, but rather was beyond politics, beyond ideology."<ref name="poff"/></blockquote>
	=== Awards ===
	The film has received a number of various awards worldwide.
	]
	* The film won the 2006 ]<ref name="2007_Oscar">{{cite news
	|url=http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/?pn=detail&nominee=AnInconvenientTruthDocumentaryFeatureNominee
	|title= Hudson wins supporting actress Oscar
	|publisher=CNN
	|date=] ]
	}}</ref> and ] for ]'s "]".<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/?pn=detail&nominee=AnInconvenientTruthMusicSongNominee
	|title=Oscar Night: Winner: Music (Song)
	|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science
	|date=] ]
	}}</ref> It is the first documentary to win a best original song Oscar{{Fact|date=2007-10-08}}.
			A small number of reviews criticized the film on scientific and political grounds. Journalist ] argued in the ] magazine '']'' that although "Gore gets more right than wrong," he exaggerates the risks.<ref name="r__reason_rb061606" /> ] atmospheric physicist ] was vocally critical of the film, writing in a June 26, 2006 op-ed in ''The Wall Street Journal'' that Gore was using a biased presentation to exploit the fears of the public for his own political gain.<ref name="r__ussenate20060626" />
	* The film received special recognition from the ], the first time the organization had handed out a Special Award in over 10 years.<ref name="thehumanitasprize">{{cite web
	| url = http://www.humanitasprize.org/pdf/2006%20HUMANITAS%20Winners.pdf
	| title = 2006 HUMANITAS Prize Winners
	| accessdate = 16 January
	| accessyear = 2007
	| date = 2006-06-28
	| publisher = the HUMANITAS prize
	}}</ref>
			A few other reviewers were also skeptical of Gore's intent, wondering whether he was setting himself for another Presidential run. '']'' writer Peter Canellos criticized the "gauzy biographical material that seems to have been culled from old Gore campaign commercials."<ref name="r__bostonglobe20060626" /> ] of '']'' gave the film a negative review, saying "''An Inconvenient Truth'' is something you rarely see in movies today: a blatant intellectual fraud."<ref name="r__filmthreat_rev8451" />
	* 2007 Stanley Kramer Award - The Producers Guild of America; recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues".<ref name="stanleykramer">{{cite web
	| url = http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957742.html?categoryid=2474&cs=1
	| title = Stanley Kramer Award: An Inconvenient Truth
	| accessdate = 18 January
	| accessyear = 2007
	| date = 2007-01-18
	| publisher = Variety.com
	}}</ref>
			Others felt that Gore did not go far enough in depicting the threat ] faced with the dire consequences of climate change. "''An Inconvenient Truth'' completely ignores the plight of Arctic indigenous peoples whose cultures and landscapes are facing profound changes produced by melting polar ice," argued environmental historian Finis Dunaway.<ref name="r__seeinggreen_2015_9780226169903" />
	* The President’s Award 2007 - The ] "for demonstrating that effective and understandable technical communication, when coupled with passion and vision, has the power to educate—and change—the world."<ref name="presidentsaward">{{cite web
	| url = http://www.stc.org/recog/awards01_President_winners.asp
	| title = President’s Award
	| accessdate = 18 July
	| accessyear = 2007
	| date = 2007-07-18
	| publisher = stc.com
	}}</ref>
			==Accolades {{anchor|Awards}}==
	* For his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming including ''An Inconvenient Truth'', Al Gore, along with the ] (IPCC), has won the 2007 ].<ref name="nobelpeaceprize">{{cite web
			''An Inconvenient Truth'' has received many different awards worldwide. The film won two awards at the ]: ]<ref name="2006_Oscar" /> and ] for ]'s "]".<ref name="r__oscars20070225" /> It is the first documentary to win 2 Oscars and the first to win a best original song Oscar.<ref name="r__postgazette20080122_08022_851177_331" /><ref name="r__latimes2802194_20070225" /> After winning the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature,<ref name="79thOscar" /> the Oscar was awarded to director Guggenheim, who asked Gore to join him and other members of the crew on stage. Gore then gave a brief speech, saying:
	| url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
	| title = 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
			{{blockquote|text=My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue; it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it.<ref name="landslide-gore"/>}}
	| accessdate = 11 October
	| accessyear = 2007
			For Gore's wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming which is centerpieced in the film, Al Gore, along with the ] (IPCC), won the 2007 ].<ref name="nobelpeaceprize" /> Gore also received the ] in 2007 for international cooperation.<ref name="r__fundacionprincipedeasturias2007" /><ref name="r__expatica_81_36238" /> The related album, which featured the voices of ], ] and ], also won ] at the ].<ref name="r__grammy2009" />
			The film received numerous other accolades, including a special recognition from the ], the first time the organization had handed out a Special Award in over 10 years,<ref name="thehumanitasprize" /> the 2007 ] from The Producers Guild of America, which recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues"<ref name="stanleykramer" /> and the President's Award 2007 from the ] "for demonstrating that effective and understandable technical communication, when coupled with passion and vision, has the power to educate—and change—the world."<ref name="presidentsaward" />
			The film won many other awards for ''Best Documentary'':<ref name="r__yahoomovies1809257809" />
			{|
	|		|
			* Chicago Film Critics Association 2006<ref name="r__chicagofilmcritics_id48_item58" />
	}}</ref>
			* Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2006<ref name="r__dfwfilmcritics2006" /><ref name="r__imdb_dfwfcaa20061218" />
			* Florida Film Critics 2006<ref name="r__altfg_ffcca2006" />
			* Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006<ref name="r__kcfilmcritics" />
			* Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2006<ref name="r__lvfcs" />
			* National Board of Review 2006<ref name="r__edendaletypepad200612" />
			* National Society of Film Critics 2006<ref name="r__indiewire200701" />
			* New York Film Critics Online 2006<ref name="r__nyfco20061210" />
			|
			* Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006<ref name="r__cofca2006" />
			* Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006<ref name="r__oklahomafilm200612" />
			* Online Film Critics Society 2006<ref name="r__altfg_ofcsa2006" />
			* Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006<ref name="r__pfcca2006" />
			* Satellite Awards 2006 ''(Nominated)''<ref name="r__pressacademy_satelliteawards2006" />
			* St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006<ref name="r__moviecitynews_lsgfca2007" />
			* Utah Film Critics Awards 2006<ref name="r__moviecitynews_ufca2006" />
			* Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006<ref name="r__sceneone20061211_298_2" />
			|}
			== Impact ==
	'''Best Documentary''':<ref> ], accessed ] ]</ref>
			] data shows that, following the 2006 release of ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' there was an increase in the number of ] for the term ''],'' which Gore often used instead of the more neutral ''climate change.''<ref name="Medium_20181218" /> Also graphed: searches for ''].]]
	* Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007<ref name="2007_Oscar"/> ] ]
			]
	* Chicago Film Critics Association<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/ | title=Winners Announced for the 2006 Chicago Film Critics Awards | date=] | accessdate=2007-06-01 | publisher=] }}</ref> - ]
	* Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.dfwfilmcritics.com
	|title=DFWFilmCritics
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-06-01
	}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Dallas-Fort_Worth_Film_Critics_Association_Awards/2006 | title=Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards: 2006 | publisher=] | date=] | accessdate=2007-06-01 }}</ref> - ]
	* Florida Film Critics 2006 - ]<ref>{{cite web
	| title =Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006
	| url =http://www.altfg.com/awards/2006/florida-film-critics-circle.htm
	| accessdate =2007-10-08 }}</ref>
	* Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006<ref>{{cite web
	| title =Film Critic's Circle of Kansas City
	| url =http://www.kcfilmcritics.com/
	| accessdate =2007-10-08 }}</ref> ] ]
	* Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2006 <ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.lvfcs.org/awards_listing/index.html
	|title=LVFCS Sierra Award winners:
	|publisher=Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2006
	}}</ref> - ]
	* National Board of Review<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.nbrmp.org/search/?search=An%20Inconvenient%20Truth
	|title=NBR page on ''An Inconvenient Truth''
	|publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
	}}</ref> - ]
	* New York Film Critics Online<ref>{{cite web
	|url=http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2007/critic_awards/NYOFC.html
	|title=New York Film Critics Online
	|publisher=Movie City News
	|date=]
	}}</ref> - ]
	* New York Film Critics Society - ]
	* Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006<ref>http://www.cofca.org/awards.php?year=2006</ref> - ]
	* Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 <ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://oklahomafilm.blogspot.com/2006/12/oklahoma-film-critics-circle-announces.html
	| title =Oklahoma Film Critics Circle: Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Announces 2006 Awards
	| accessdate =2007-10-08}}</ref>
	* Online Film Critics Society 2006<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://www.altfg.com/awards/2006/online-film-critics-society.htm
	| title =Online Film Critics Society Awards - 2006
	| accessdate =2007-10-08}}</ref>
	* Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://www.altfg.com/awards/2006/phoenix-film-critics-society.htm
	| title =Phoenix Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006
	| accessdate =2007-10-30}}</ref>
	* Satellite Awards 2006 ''(Nominated)''<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2006.shtml
	| title =11th Annual SATELLITE™ Awards - 2006
	| accessdate =2007-10-30}}</ref> ] ]
	* St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2007/critic_awards/st-louis.html
	| title =St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
	| accessdate =2007-10-30}}</ref> ] ]
	* Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006 ''(Nominated)''<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://www.altfg.com/awards/2006/toronto-film-critics-association.htm
	| title =Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006
	| accessdate =2007-10-30}}</ref> ] ]
	* Utah Film Critics Awards 2006<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2007/critic_awards/utah.htm
	| title =Utah Film Critics Awards 2006
	| accessdate =2007-10-30}}</ref> ] ]
	* Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006<ref>{{cite web
	| url =http://sceneone.org/joomla/content/view/398/2/
	| title =Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006
	| accessdate =2007-10-30}}</ref> ] ]
			The documentary has been generally well-received politically in many parts of the world and is credited for raising further awareness of global warming internationally.<ref name="globalsurvey" /> The film inspired producer ] to conceive the 2007 '']'' festival<ref name="r__usatoday20070628" /> and influenced Italian composer ] to write an operatic adaptation, entitled "]," premiering at ] in ] in 2015.<ref name="r__eenews1060019537" />
	'''Best Non-Fiction''':
	* National Society of Film Critics<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.indiewire.com/movies/2007/01/the_critics_hav.html | title=The Critics Have Spoken (Again); National Society Chooses "Pan's Labyrinth" As Best Film of 2006 | first=Eugene | last=Hernandez | date=] | accessdate=2007-06-01 }}</ref> - ]
			According to the '']'', in response to the documentary, <blockquote>"Pro-industry conservative politicians and their supporters (many of whom saw global warming as a hoax designed to bilk taxpayers out of their money) lined up on one side, while scientists and more-liberal politicians (who pressed that global warming was among the most important issues humanity would face) teamed up on the other",</blockquote> adding that "Most remember the film as part motivational science lecture with slick graphics and part self-reflection."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rafferty |first=John P. |date=2016 |title=An Inconvenient Truth: 10 Years Hence |url=https://www.britannica.com/story/an-inconvenient-truth-10-years-hence |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
	==Political response==
	The documentary has been generally well-received politically in many parts of the world and is credited for raising further awareness of global warming internationally, prompting calls for more government action in regard to the climate. Despite its success, some political leaders are less keen on embracing the film as a matter-of-fact necessity. Several colleges and high schools have begun to use the film in science curricula,
	<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=27a24986-008e-4a55-a18c-fb3fb7acf0e9&k=0
	|title=Gore's Inconvenient Truth required classroom viewing?
	|first=Kevin
	|last=Libin
	|publisher=]
	|date=], ]
	}}</ref> though at least one US school district put temporary restrictions on its use in the classroom.<ref name="FedWayBan"/><ref name="FedWayLift"/>
	===Government===		=== Activism ===
			Following the film, Gore founded ] in 2006 which trained 1,000 activists to give Gore's presentation in their communities. Presently, the group has 3,500 presenters worldwide.<ref name="inconvenient-youth" /> An additional initiative was launched in 2010, called ]. "'Inconvenient Youth' is built on the belief that teens can help lead efforts to solve the climate crisis," said Gore. The project was inspired by Mary Doerr, a 16-year-old who trained as presenter for the organization.<ref name="inconvenient-youth"/>
	* President Bush, when asked whether he would watch the film, responded: "Doubt it." He later stated that "And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects, and focus on the ] that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment."<ref name=APBush>{{cite web | title=Bush gives thumbs down to Gore's new movie | date=] | url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12930351/ | publisher=] | accessdate=2007-05-31}}</ref> Gore responded that "The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming and he has today again expressed personal doubt that that is true."<ref name=APBush/> White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino stated that “The president noted in 2001 the increase in temperatures over the past 100 years and that the increase in greenhouse gases was due to certain extent to human activity”.<ref name=APBush/>
	*In September 2006, Gore traveled to ] to promote the film. Australian Prime Minister, ] said he would not meet with Gore or agree to Kyoto because of the movie: "I don't take policy advice from films." Former Opposition Leader ] joined Gore for a viewing and other ]s attended a special screening at ] earlier in the week.<ref>{{cite web | title=Howard isolated on climate change: Gore | url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=143315 | date=] | accessdate=2007-05-31 | publisher=] }}</ref>
			] professor Jessica Nolan found in a 2010 study published for '']'' that people became more informed and concerned about climate change right after seeing the film but that these concerns did not translate into changed behavior a month later.<ref name="r__environmentandbehavior2010_v42_i5_p643_658" /> On the contrary, in a 2011 paper published in the '']'', ] professor Grant Jacobsen found in the two months following the release of the film, zip codes within a 10-mile (16&nbsp;km) radius of a zip code where the film was shown experienced a 50 percent relative increase in the purchase of voluntary ]s.<ref name="r__uoregon2011_v61_i1_p67_68" />
	* In the ], ] ] ] has urged people to see the film in order to understand climate change.<ref>, ''Guardian Unlimited'', ] ], accessed ] ]</ref>
			===Public opinion===
	* In ], ] successfully persuaded the entire Belgian government to see the film.<ref>{{cite web | title=Spitzenpolitiker sehen Gore-Film | url=http://www2.vrtnieuws.net/cm/flanderninfo.be/Nachrichten/1.22085 | date=] | accessdate=2007-05-31 | publisher=Flanderninfo.be }}</ref>
			In a July 2007 47-country Internet survey conducted by ] and ], 66% of those respondents who said they had seen ''An Inconvenient Truth'' stated that it had "changed their mind" about global warming and 89% said it had made them more aware of the problem. Three out of four (74%) said they had changed some of their habits because of seeing the film.<ref name="globalsurvey"/>
			===Governmental reactions===
	* In ], Al Gore met with president ], and was well received by other politicians and the local media.{{Fact|date=August 2007}}
			Then-President ], when asked whether he would watch the film, responded: "Doubt it." "New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment," Bush said. "And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects and focus on the technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment". Gore responded that "The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming and he has today again expressed personal doubt that that is true." White House deputy press secretary ] stated that "The president noted in 2001 the increase in temperatures over the past 100 years and that the increase in greenhouse gases was due to a certain extent to human activity".<ref name="APBush" />
			] screened the film. ] Democratic Senator ] and ] Democratic Senator ] saw the movie at its Washington premiere at the National Geographic Society.<ref name="r__cbsnews20060518_1628199" /><ref name="republicans-not-warming" /> ] Democratic Senator ] planned to see the film saying "It's such a powerful statement because of the way the movie is put together, I tell everybody, Democrat or Republican, they've got to go see this movie."<ref name="republicans-not-warming"/> Former ] Republican Senator ] thought Gore's prominence on the global warming issue made it more difficult to get a consensus in Congress. Bingaman disputed this saying, "It seems to me we were having great difficulty recruiting Republican members of Congress to support a bill before Al Gore came up with this movie."<ref name="republicans-not-warming"/>
	* In ], after a meeting with Gore, prime minister ] said the government will make ''An Inconvenient Truth'' available to schools. Gore has received this year's ] for international cooperation <ref>http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04/premiados/trayectorias/trayectoria815.html </ref><ref>, ''Expatica'', ] ], accessed ] ]</ref>.
			] Republican Senator ], then-chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that he did not plan to see the film (which he appears in), and compared it to ]'s book '']''. "If you say the same lie over and over again, and particularly if you have the media's support, people will believe it," Inhofe said, adding that he thought Gore was trying to use the issue to run for president again in 2008.<ref name="republicans-not-warming"/> In contrast to Inhofe, Arizona Republican Senator ], did not criticize Gore's efforts or the movie, which he planned to see.<ref name="republicans-not-warming"/> ] Republican Senator ], said "Because (Gore) was a former vice president and presidential nominee, he brings a lot of visibility to (the issue)," Alexander said. "On the other hand it may be seen as political by some, and they may be less eager to be a part of it." Alexander also criticized the omission of nuclear power in the film. "Maybe it needs a sequel: 'An Inconvenient Truth 2: Nuclear Power.'"<ref name="republicans-not-warming"/>
	===Education===
	* In ], ], ], the ] has made ''An Inconvenient Truth'' available at schools and as an educational resource.<ref>{{cite pressrelease
	|title=Screening of An Inconvenient Truth set to educate students on climate change
	|publisher=Halton District School Board
	|date=]
	|accessdate=2007-05-05
	}}</ref>
			In September 2006, Gore traveled to ], ], to promote the film. Then-Australian Prime Minister ] said he would not meet with Gore or agree to ] because of the movie: "I don't take policy advice from films." Former Opposition Leader ] joined Gore for a viewing and other ] attended a special screening at ] earlier in the week.<ref name="Howard-isolated" /> After winning the general election a year later, Prime Minister ] ratified Kyoto in his first week of office, leaving the United States the only industrialized nation in the world not to have signed the treaty.<ref name="Howard-isolated"/>
	*The film will be science curriculum for fourth and sixth-year students in ], as a joint initiative between Learning and Teaching Scotland and ScottishPower.<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1126957.0.0.php
	|title=All secondary schools to see Gore climate film
	|author=David Leask
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-01-26
	}}</ref>
			In the United Kingdom, ] party leader and future Prime Minister ] urged people to watch the film in order to understand climate change.<ref name="r__guardian20061004_0__1887540_00" /> In ], activist ] persuaded the entire Belgian government to see the film.<ref name="r__vrtnieuws20061031_1_22085" />
	===Other===
			200 politicians and political staff accepted her invitation, among whom were Belgian prime minister ] and Minister-President of Flanders, ].<ref name="standaard-200" /> In ], the film was screened by president ].<ref name="r__ticotimes20061027" /> Arias's subsequent championing of the climate change issue was greatly influenced by the film.<ref name="r__timemag_0_8599_1927452_00" />
	*In August 2006, the ]<ref>{{cite web | title=Where did that video spoofing Gore's film come from? | url=http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115457177198425388-0TpYE6bU6EGvfSqtP8_hHjJJ77I_20060810.html | date=2006-08-03 | publisher=] | accessdate=2007-06-01 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Slick lobbying is behind penguin spoof of Al Gore | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article700813.ece | publisher=] | date=2006-08-05 | accessdate=2007-06-01 }}</ref> revealed that a ] video lampooning Gore and the movie, titled '']'', appeared to be ] by ], a Washington PR firm with ties to ] as well as the ].
			===Industry and business===
	==Controversy==
			The ] released pro-] television ads in preparation for the film's release in May 2006. The ads featured a little girl blowing a dandelion with the tagline, "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."<ref name="GristCEI" />
	===English High Court case===
	{{further|]}}
	As part of a nationwide "Sustainable Schools Year of Action" launched in late 2006, the ], ] and ] announced between January-March 2007 that copies of ''An Inconvenient Truth'' would be sent to all ]s in ], ] and ]. In May 2007, the UK Government's decision was challenged in the ]. An ] preventing the screening of the film in English schools was sought on the basis that schools are legally forbidden to promote partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in school and are required to, when dealing with political issues, provide a balanced presentation of opposing views.
			In August 2006, '']'' revealed that a ] video lampooning Gore and the movie, titled '']'', appeared to be "]" by ], a Washington ] firm.<ref name="GoreSpoof" /><ref name="r__timesonline_700813" />
	On 10 October 2007, Justice Michael Burton, after explaining that the requirement for a balanced presentation does not warrant that equal weight be given to alternative views of a mainstream view, that it was clear that the film was substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science is used, in the hands of a talented politician and communicator, to make a political statement and to support a political programme. The film could thus continue to be shown, but there was a political bias such that teachers would be required to explain the context and certain other elements via guidance notes issued to schools along with the film.
			==Use in education==
	The judge concluded "I have no doubt that Dr Stott, the Defendant's expert, is right when he says that: 'Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate.'" On the basis of testimony from Dr. ] and the arguments put forth by the claimant's lawyers, the judge also pointed to nine 'errors', i.e. statements that he found were departing from the ]. He also found that some of these 'errors' arose in the context of alarmism and exaggeration in support of Al Gore's political thesis. The judge required that the guidance notes address these 'errors'. A spokesman for Gore said that, "Of the thousands of facts in the film, the judge only took issue with just a handful. And of that handful, we have the studies to back those pieces up."<ref>{{cite news
			Several colleges and high schools have featured the film in science ].<ref name="r__canada_nationalpost_27a24986008e4a55a18cfb3fb7acf0e9" /> In Germany, German Environment Minister ] bought 6,000 DVDs of ''An Inconvenient Truth'' to make it available to German schools.<ref name="r__spiegel20071013_0_1518_511325_00" /> Prime Minister ] distributed 30000 copies to the ] schools in October 2007.<ref name="r__elpias20071015_1192399203_850215" /> In ], ], Canada, the ] made ''An Inconvenient Truth'' available at schools and as an educational resource.<ref name="r__hdsb20070424" />
	|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Breaking_News_US/0,,6990521,00.html
	|title=U.K. Judge Finds Problems in Gore Film
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=Associated Press/Guardian
	|accessdate=2007-10-15}}</ref>
			===In the United Kingdom===
	Since the government had already accepted to amend the guidance notes as required by the judge, no order was made on the application. The plaintiff declared victory but expressed dissatisfaction that the film will continue to be shown in schools.
			As part of a nationwide "Sustainable Schools Year of Action" launched in late 2006, the ], ] and ] announced between January–March 2007 that copies of ''An Inconvenient Truth'' would be sent to all their ]s. The film was placed into the science curriculum for fourth and sixth-year students in ] as a joint initiative between ] and ].<ref name="r__theheralduk_var_1126957_0_0" />
			====Dimmock case====
	===National Science Teachers Association===
			{{further|Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills}}
	50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth were offered to the ], which declined to take them. Laurie David, one of the film's producers, provided an email correspondence from the NSTA detailing that their reasoning was that the DVDs would place "unnecessary risk upon the capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters," and that they saw "little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members" in accepting the free DVDs.
			In May 2007, Stewart Dimmock—a school governor from ], ], and member of the right-wing ]—challenged the UK Government's distribution of the film in a lawsuit, '']'', with help from political ally and New Party founder ],<ref name="r__newpartyuk200705" /><ref name="Leake" /> who notably pointed out "35 serious scientific errors".<ref name="r__scienceandpublicpolicy20151012" /> The plaintiffs sought an ] preventing the screening of the film in English schools, arguing that by law schools are forbidden to promote partisan political views and, when dealing with political issues, are required to provide a balanced presentation of opposing views.
	<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/1%20NSTA%20-%20Paramount%20Emails%20-%20redacted.pdf
	|title=Conversation: Al Gore/An Inconvenient Truth
	|author=Laurie David
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=The Huffington Post
	|accessdate=2007-11-04}}
	</ref>
	<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400789_pf.html
	|title=Science a la Joe Camel
	|author=Laurie David
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=The Washington Post
	|accessdate=2006-11-26}}</ref>
	In public, the NSTA argued that distributing this film to its members would have been contrary to a long-standing NSTA policy against distributing unsolicited materials to its members. The NSTA also said that they had offered several other options for distributing the film but ultimately " appears that these alternative distribution mechanisms were unsatisfactory."<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.nsta.org/about/pressroom.aspx?id=52977
	|title=NSTA Statement on November 26 Washington Post Op-ed "Science à la Joe Camel"
	|author=Gerald Wheeler
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-01-09
	}}</ref> Laurie David has stated that Dr. Gerry Wheeler promised in a telephone conversation to explore alternatives with NSTA's board for advertising the film but she had not yet received an alternative offer at the time of NSTA's public claim, and that she rejected their subsequent offers because they were nothing more than offers to sell their "commercially available member mailing list" and advertising space in their magazine and newsletter, which are available to anyone. She also noted that in the past, NSTA had shipped out 20,000 copies of a 10-part video funded by ConocoPhillips in 2003.
	<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david/crooked-curriculum-oil-c_b_35829.html
	|title=Crooked Curriculum: Oil Company Money Scandal at Nat'l Science Teachers Association Deepens
	|author=Laurie David
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-11-04
	}}</ref>
			On October 10, 2007, ] Justice Michael Burton, after explaining that the requirement for a balanced presentation does not warrant that equal weight be given to alternative views of a mainstream view, ruled that it was clear that the film was substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science had been used, in the hands of a "talented politician and communicator", to make a political statement and to support a political program.<ref name="dimmock" /> The judge ruled that ''An Inconvenient Truth'' contained nine scientific errors and thus must be accompanied by an explanation of those errors before being shown to school children. The judge said that showing the film without the explanations of error would be a violation of education laws.<ref name="BBC" />
	], a website operated by several climate scientists, was critical of the NSTA actions, stating that of the very little "useful educational material" on global warming available on their website, one of the books promoted in their recommendations section is one by Kenneth Green, a global warming skeptic.
	<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/01/calling-all-science-teachers/
	|title=Calling All Science Teachers
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=RealClimate
	|accessdate=2007-01-15
	}}</ref>
	The ] publication ''ScienceNOW'' published an assessment discussing both sides of the NSTA decision in which it was reported that "David says NSTA's imprimatur was essential and that buying a mailing list is a nonstarter. 'You don't want to send out a cold letter, and it costs a lot of money,' she says. 'There are a thousand reasons why that wouldn't work.'."
	<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1130/3
	|title=An Inconvenient DVD
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=ScienceNOW Daily News
	|accessdate=2007-11-05
	}}</ref>
			The judge concluded "I have no doubt that Dr Stott, the Defendant's expert, is right when he says that: 'Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely ] in the film was broadly accurate.'" On the basis of testimony from ] and the arguments put forth by the claimant's lawyers, the judge also pointed to ], i.e. statements the truth of which he did not rule on, but that he found to depart from the ].<ref name="BBC"/><ref name="Smith" /><ref name="r__telegraphuk20071011_3310137" /> He also found that some of these departures from the mainstream arose in the context of alarmism and exaggeration in support of political theses.<ref name="r__thisislondon20071011_23416151" /><ref name="r__foxnews20091121" /> Since the government had already accepted to amend the guidance notes to address these along with other points in a fashion that the judge found satisfactory, no order was made on the application.
	===Federal Way School District, WA===
	After a father had complained that the movie only showed one point of view, the Federal Way School Board in ] voted 3 to 0 requiring an approval by the principal and the superintendent for teachers to show the film to students. The teachers must include the presentation of an approved "opposing view". <ref name="FedWayBan">{{cite news
	|url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html
	|title=Federal Way schools restrict Gore film
	|author=Robert McClure & Lisa Stiffler
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-01-11
	}}</ref> The moratorium was repealed after broad public condemnation at the subsequent meeting on January 23. <ref name="FedWayLift">{{cite news
	|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003538775_federalfilm.html
	|title =Federal Way School Board lifts brief moratorium on Gore film
	|author=Cara Solomon
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-04-16
	}}</ref>
			Government Minister of Children, Young People and Families, ] stated: "We have updated the accompanying guidance, as requested by the judge to make it clearer for teachers as to the stated ] position on a number of scientific points raised in the film."<ref name="r__guardian20071010" /> Plaintiff Dimmock complained that "no amount of turgid guidance" could change his view that the film was unsuitable for the classroom.<ref name="r__telegraph20071002" /><ref name="r__guardian20071015" />
	===Yakima, Washington===
	Following Federal Way's lead, the Environmental Club of Eisenhower High School in ] was prevented from showing the film until it could be reviewed by the school board, teachers, principal, and parents. The school board called the film a "controversial issue".<ref>{{cite news
	|url=http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=5986566&nav=menu484_2
	|title=School Delays Viewing of Global Warming Documentary
	|author=KNDO
	|date=] ]
	|publisher=]
	|accessdate=2007-01-24}}</ref> This stay was lifted a month later, following the approval by a review panel. <ref>{{cite web | title=Wash. high school club cleared to watch Gore film | publisher=] | date=] ] | accessdate=2007-10-12 | url=http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/%5Cnews.aspx?id=18089 }}</ref>
			===In the United States===
	== Criticism ==
			In January 2007, the ] voted to require an approval by the principal and the superintendent for teachers to show the film to students and that the teachers must include the presentation of an approved "opposing view".<ref name="FedWayBan" /> The moratorium was repealed, at a meeting on January 23, after a predominantly negative community reaction.<ref name="FedWayLift" /> Shortly thereafter, the school board in ], calling the film a "controversial issue", prevented the Environmental Club of ] from showing it, pending review by the school board, teachers, principal, and parents.<ref name="r__kndo20070124" /> It lifted the stay a month later, upon the approval by a review panel.<ref name="r__firstamendmentcenter20070203" />
	{{further|]}}
	<!-- This section is for criticism of the movie, not global warming in general. General GW criticism belongs at Global Warming controversy -->
			==== National Science Teachers Association ====
	===Academia===
	], an atmospheric physicist at ] and anthropogenic global warming skeptic, wrote in a ] ] op-ed in the ''Wall Street Journal'' that Gore was using a biased presentation to exploit the fears of the public for his own political gain. <ref>Richard S. Lindzen ''Wall Street Journal'', accessed ]</ref> ], a principal research scientist at the of the ], wrote an open letter to Gore criticizing his presentation of climate science in the film, asserting that the Arctic had a similar temperature in the 1930s before the mass emissions of carbon dioxide began.<ref> ''TCS Daily - Questions for Al Gore'', ], accessed ]</ref> Former University of Winnipeg geography professor ] rejected Gore’s claim that there has been a sharp drop-off in the thickness of the Arctic ice cap since 1970, stating that the data was taken only from an isolated area of the Arctic and during a specific cooling period.<ref>http://www.epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=257909</ref></blockquote>
			In the United States, 50,000 free copies of ''An Inconvenient Truth'' were offered to the ] (NSTA), which declined to take them. Producer David provided an email correspondence from the NSTA detailing that their reasoning was that the DVDs would place "unnecessary risk upon the capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters," and that they saw "little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members" in accepting the free DVDs.<ref name="r__huffpost20061012" /> In public, the NSTA argued that distributing this film to its members would have been contrary to a long-standing NSTA policy against distributing unsolicited materials to its members. The NSTA also said that they had offered several other options for distributing the film but ultimately " appears that these alternative distribution mechanisms were unsatisfactory."<ref name="r__nsta20061128_52977" />
	Showing the film in schools has proven to be controversial. In December of 2006 the ], which is made up of over 53,000 educators, declined 50,000 free DVDs of the film.<ref name="decline">{{cite web |url=http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00049&segmentID=1 |title= AN INCONVENIENT CONTROVERSY |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> The school board in ] schools voted to restrict the film, calling it "too controversial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html |title=Federal Way schools restrict Gore film; 'Inconvenient Truth' called too controversial |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> Two weeks later, after broad public condemnation, the board lifted the ban.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003538775_federalfilm.html |title=Federal Way School Board lifts brief moratorium on Gore film |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref>
			David has said that NSTA Executive Director Gerry Wheeler promised in a telephone conversation to explore alternatives with NSTA's board for advertising the film but she had not yet received an alternative offer at the time of NSTA's public claim. She also said that she rejected their subsequent offers because they were nothing more than offers to sell their "commercially available member mailing list" and advertising space in their magazine and newsletter, which are available to anyone.<ref name="crooked" /> The ] publication ''ScienceNOW'' published an assessment discussing both sides of the NSTA decision in which it was reported that "David says NSTA's imprimatur was essential and that buying a mailing list is a nonstarter. 'You don't want to send out a cold letter, and it costs a lot of money,' she says. 'There are a thousand reasons why that wouldn't work.'"<ref name="r__sciencenews20061130_2006_1130_3" />
	===Media===
	A ] ] article in '']'' reported on concerns among some scientists about the tone and the accuracy of the film, noting that they "argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous". Gore's discussion of a rise in sea level of up to 20 feet is contrasted with a report from the ] (IPCC), which predicts a maximum rise of 23 inches excluding non-linear effects on ice sheets; although that too discusses the possibilities of higher rises if the ice sheets melt. The article also states that "a report last June by the National Academies seemed to contradict Mr. Gore’s portrayal of recent temperatures as the highest in the past millennium."<ref name = "NYT1"/>
	The article quotes both defenders and critics of the film; Gore responds that scientists may disagree with him on some details, "but we do agree on the fundamentals."<ref name="NYT1"/>
			A '']'' editorial called the decision "Science ''a la'' ]", citing for example that the NSTA had received $6 million since 1996 from ], which had a representative on the organization's corporate board.<ref name="r__washingtonpost20061124_00789" /> David noted that in the past, NSTA had shipped out 20,000 copies of a 10-part video produced by Wheeler with funding provided by ] in 2003. NSTA indicated that they retained editorial control over the content, which David questioned based on the point of view portrayed in the global warming section of the video.<ref name="crooked" />
	A ] ] commentary in '']'' opines that the film took advantage of growing interest in the use of the ] in fictional works such as ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/11/01/al-gore-stars-in-death-of-the-documentary/ |title=Al Gore Stars in Death of the Documentary |accessdate=2007-11-01}}</ref> Given the backlash against the film the article laments, "It may be generations before anyone can believe, even in real documentaries."
	===Livestock Issue===		===In New Zealand===
			Former ] Member of Parliament ] filed a petition to have New Zealand schoolchildren be protected from political indoctrination by putting provisions that resembled those in the UK to the Education Act. The petition was in response to concerned parents who talked with Newman after ''An Inconvenient Truth'' was shown in schools in 2007. The parents were apparently worried that teachers were not pointing out supposed inaccuracies in the film and were not explaining differing viewpoints.<ref name="r__dompostnz20100422" />
	The movie completely fails to mention the issue of livestock industry which, according to the 2006 ] report, ], "generates 65 per cent of human-related ], which has 296 times the ] Potential (GWP) of ]"<ref>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20772&Cr=global&Cr1=environment</ref> and "that livestock are responsible for 18 percent of ] emissions, a bigger share than that of transport."<ref>http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm</ref>
			== Music ==
	As a result of this failure, ] was challenged by ] in a letter dated ], ] to become a ], citing the ''Livestock's Long Shadow'' report as evidence that a change to a vegan diet was the single biggest change an individual could make to counter the effects of climate change.<ref>http://www.peta.org/MC/NewsItem.asp?id=10297</ref> In its letter, PETA noted that Gore's '']'', which outlines the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming, failed to mention either the effects of diet or the meat industry on climate change.<ref>http://www.peta.org/MC/NewsItem.asp?id=10297</ref> ] have since referred to the issue of livestock and climate change as a "truth too inconvenient for Al Gore"<ref>http://blog.peta.org/archives/2007/03/clearing_a_few.php</ref>.
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			''An Inconvenient Truth'' was ] by ] with an accompanying theme song played during the end credits by ]. Brook explained that he wanted to bring out the emotion expressed in the film: "... in An Inconvenient Truth, there's a lot of information and it's kind of a lecture, in a way, and very well organized and very well presented, but it's a lot to absorb. And the director, Guggenheim, wanted to have – sort of give people a little break every once in a while and say, okay, you don't have to absorb this information, you can just sort of – and it was more the personal side of Al Gore's life or how it connected to the theme of the film. And that's when there's music."<ref name="michaelbrooknpr" />
	===The Great Global Warming Swindle===
	{{Main|The Great Global Warming Swindle}}
	The ] ''The Great Global Warming Swindle'', broadcast on ] in the UK on ] ], brought together skeptical scientists who disagree with the consensus regarding human-caused global warming. Among other claims, the film states that Gore has misrepresented the data in ''An Inconvenient Truth'', and that the actual ] is the other way round (that is, rise in temperature preceded an increase in carbon dioxide in the ] samples and therefore does so today).
			Etheridge agreed to write ''An Inconvenient Truth''{{'s}} theme song, "]" after viewing Gore's slide show.<ref name="melissaetheridgelatimes" /> "I was so honored he would ask me to contribute to a project that is so powerful and so important, I felt such a huge responsibility," she said. "Then I went, 'What am I going to write? What am I going to say?' " Etheridge's former partner, ], told her: "Write what you feel, because that's what people are going to feel."<ref name="melissaetheridgelatimes" /> Of Etheridge's commitment to the project, Gore said, "Melissa is a rare soul who gives a lot of time and effort to causes in which she strongly believes."<ref name="melissaetheridgelatimes" /> Etheridge received the 2006 ] for "I Need to Wake Up." Upon receiving the award, she noted in her acceptance speech:
	Most of ''The Great Global Warming Swindle'''s claims have been disputed by scientists and scientific bodies such as ] <ref name=Houghton>{{cite web | last = Houghton| first = John| coauthors = | title = The Great Global Warming Swindle| publisher = The John Ray Initiative| date = | url = http://www.jri.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=83 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2007-03-12}}</ref>, the ] <ref></ref>, ] <ref></ref> and the ]<ref>{{cite web|title = The Royal Society’s response to the documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle"| url=http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=6089 | publisher = ] | date= 11 March 2007 | accessdate = 2007-04-03}}</ref>. Global warming skeptic ] supported The Great Global Warming Swindle <ref>{{cite web | last = Singer| first = Fred| title = The Great Global Warming Swindle| publisher = ] | date = 19 March 2007 | url = http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1945 | accessdate = 2007-07-08}}</ref>, and appeared in the film <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle#Contributors_to_the_programme</ref>
			{{blockquote|text=Mostly I have to thank Al Gore, for inspiring us, for inspiring me, showing that caring about the Earth is not ] or ]; it's not red or blue, it's all green.<ref name="landslide-gore" />}}
	== Influences on popular culture ==
	]
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	* Prior to ''An Inconvenient Truth'' being released, Al Gore was parodied in the '']'' episode "]", which ends with Al Gore exclaiming his intention to make a film starring himself in which he will try to save the world from something else (than the manbearpig). Gore laughed off this sensationalized depiction of him, saying "Their comic sensibility is aimed at a different demographic than the one I inhabit, but I still find a lot of what they do hilarious."<ref>{{ cite news | url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060505/ai_n16358218 | title = Gore promotes his 'ultimate action movie' | publisher = Chicago Sun-Times | date = ] ] }}</ref>
			|title1=Main Title (River View)
	* During the movie, Al Gore shows a clip from the '']'' episode "]" dealing with global warming; Al Gore was a guest star in that episode, though he was not present in the clip. While not the credited author of this episode, his daughter, ], was on the '']'' writing staff and worked as a story editor. In addition, Gore stars in a faux trailer made by the ''Futurama'' cast and crew titled, ''A Terrifying Message from Al Gore''.<ref>{{ cite web | url = http://www.ifilm.com/video/2748863 | publisher = www.ifilm.com | title = A Terrifying Message from Al Gore }}</ref>
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	* '']'' had a skit called ''An Inconvenient Youth'' where Al Gore tells you to kill children to stop "global warming"
			|title2=Science
	* '']'' also made fun of the film.
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	* In "]", "An Inconvenient Truth" is parodied when ], presenting dangers of global warming to Springfield's residents in a style similar to Al Gore, fails to properly operate a crane intended to lift her up in order to show a spike of data on a projected graph regarding global warming. The title of her presentation is "An Irritating Truth".
			|title3=Prof. Revelle
	* ], on '']'', also parodied ''An Inconvenient Truth'' on ] ]. Entitled "The Convenientest Truth", Colbert created his own presentation that argued for the positive effects of global warming, using his signature humor tactics to satirize the conservative response to Gore's presentation.<ref>{{ cite web | url = http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=71953 | publisher = ComedyCentral.com | title = The Convenientest Truth }}</ref>
			|length3=2:07
			|title4=How Could I Spend My Time?
			|length4=2:40
			|title5=Katrina
			|length5=1:36
			|title6=Election
			|length6=2:58
			|title7=Farm, Pt. 1
			|length7=1:43
			|title8=Farm, Pt. 2
			|length8=3:04
			|title9=Airport
			|length9=2:14
			|title10=Flood
			|length10=2:15
			|title11=Beijing
			|length11=1:21
			|title12=Tobacco
			|length12=2:11
			|title13=1000 Slide Shows
			|length13=2:19
			|title14=Earth Alone
			|length14=3:30
			|title15=Best Unsaid
			|length15=2:40
			|title16=Boom
			|length16=1:58
			|title17=Carte Noir
			|length17=3:09
			}}
	== See also ==		== Book and documentary ==
			Gore's ] was published concurrently with the theatrical release of the documentary. The book contains additional information, scientific analysis, and Gore's commentary on the issues presented in the documentary.<ref name="r__nytimes20060523" /><ref name="r__nybooks20060713" /> A 2007 documentary entitled ''An Update with Former Vice President Al Gore'' features Gore discussing additional information that came to light after the film was completed, such as ], ] depletion, glacial earthquake activity on the ], ]s, and trapped methane gas release associated with ] melting.<ref name="algoreupdate" />
			==Sequel==
	* ]
			{{Main|An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power}}
	* ]
			] during the ].]]
	* ]
			When asked during a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" in October 2013 whether there were plans for a follow-up film, Guggenheim said, "I think about it a lot – I think we need one right now."<ref name="RedditAMA" /> In 2014, '']'' reported that the producers of the film were in talks over a possible sequel.<ref name="sequel" /> "We have had conversations," co-producer Bender said. "We've met; we've discussed. If we are going to make a movie, we want it to have an impact."<ref name="sequel"/> Co-producer David also believed a sequel was needed. "God, do we need one," David said. "Everything in that movie has come to pass. At the time we did the movie, there was ]; now we have ] events every other week. The update has to be incredible and shocking."<ref name="sequel"/>
	* ]
	* ]
			In December 2016, Al Gore announced that a follow-up to ''An Inconvenient Truth'' would open at the 2017 ]. The film was screened in the ''Climate'' section, a new section for films featuring themes of climate and the environment.<ref name="guardian-2016" /> It was released by ] on July 28, 2017.<ref name="r__aninconvenientsequel20170728" />
	* ]
	* ]
			== See also ==
			* '']''
			* ]
			* ]
			* ]
			* '']''
			* '']''
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			| date=September 2007
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			<ref name="r__moviecitynews_ufca2006">{{cite web
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			| df=mdy
			}}</ref>
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			| archive-date=24 May 2014
			| title=Durban International Film Festival
			| access-date=10 January 2007
			| publisher=Artsmart
			| url-status=dead
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			| title=BIFF exceeds all expectations
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			| archive-date=18 February 2007
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			| journal=GeoJournal
			| year=2008
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2006 film by Davis Guggenheim For other uses, see An Inconvenient Truth (disambiguation).

An Inconvenient Truth
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Davis Guggenheim
Written by	Al Gore
Produced by	Laurie David Lawrence Bender Scott Z. Burns
Starring	Al Gore
Cinematography	Bob Richman Davis Guggenheim
Edited by	Jay Cassidy Dan Swietlik
Music by	Michael Brook
Production companies	Participant Productions Lawrence Bender Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Classics
Release date	May 24, 2006 (2006-05-24)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million
Box office	$49.8 million

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former vice president of the United States Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.

The idea to document Gore's efforts came from producer Laurie David, who saw his presentation at a town hall meeting on global warming, which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. Laurie David was so inspired by his slide show that she, with producer Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film. Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the film was a critical and commercial success, winning two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. The film grossed $24 million in the US and $26 million in other countries’ box offices, becoming the eleventh highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States.

Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of global warming and reenergizing the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy. A sequel to the film, titled An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, was released on July 28, 2017.

Synopsis

An Inconvenient Truth presents in film form an illustrated talk on climate by Al Gore, aimed at alerting the public to an increasing "planetary emergency" due to global warming, and shows re-enacted incidents from his life story which influenced his concerns about environmental issues. He began making these presentations in 1989 with flip chart illustrations; the film version uses a Keynote presentation, which Gore refers to as "the slide show".

The vice president opens the film by greeting an audience with his well-known line about his campaign in 2000: "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America." He is shown using his laptop to edit his presentation, and pondering the difficulty he has had in awakening public concern: "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as if I've failed to get the message across."

Gore then begins his slide show on Global Warming; a comprehensive presentation replete with detailed graphs, flow charts and stark visuals. Gore shows off several photographs of the Earth taken from multiple space missions, as Earthrise and The Blue Marble. Gore notes that these photos dramatically transformed the way we see the Earth, helping spark modern environmentalism.

Following this, Gore shares anecdotes that inspired his interest in the issue, including his college education with early climate expert Roger Revelle at Harvard University, his sister's death from lung cancer and his young son's near-fatal car accident. Gore recalls a story from his grade-school years, where a fellow student asked his geography teacher about continental drift, whether the coastlines of South America and Africa might fit together; in response, the teacher called the concept the "most ridiculous thing ever heard." Gore ties this conclusion to the assumption that "the Earth is so big, we can't possibly have any lasting, harmful impact on the Earth's environment." For comic effect, Gore uses a clip from the Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot" to describe the greenhouse effect. Gore refers to his loss to George W. Bush in the 2000 United States presidential election as a "hard blow" yet one which subsequently "brought into clear focus, the mission had been pursuing for all these years."

Throughout the movie, Gore discusses the scientific consensus on global warming, as well as the present and future effects of global warming and stresses that global warming "is really not a political issue, so much as a moral one," describing the consequences he believes global warming will produce if the amount of human-generated greenhouse gases is not significantly reduced in the very near future. Gore also presents Antarctic ice coring data showing CO₂ levels higher now than in the past 650,000 years.

The film includes segments intended to refute critics who say that global warming is unproven or that warming will be insignificant. For example, Gore cites the retreat of nearly all glaciers caused by melting over recent decades, showing nine cases, such as the Grinnel and Boulder Glaciers and Patagonia. He discusses the possibility of the collapse and melting of a major ice sheet in Greenland or in West Antarctica, either of which could raise global sea levels by approximately 20 feet (6m), flooding coastal areas and producing 100 million refugees. Melt water from Greenland, because of its lower salinity, could then halt the currents that keep northern Europe warm and quickly trigger dramatic local cooling there. It also contains various short animated projections of what could happen to different animals more vulnerable to global warming.

Call to action

The documentary ends with Gore arguing that if appropriate actions are taken soon, the effects of global warming can be successfully reversed by releasing less CO₂ and planting more vegetation to consume existing CO₂. Gore calls upon his viewers to learn how they can help him in these efforts. Gore closes the film by saying:

Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive; we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. The solutions are in our hands, we just have to have the determination to make it happen. We have everything that we need to reduce carbon emissions, everything but political will. But in America, the will to act is a renewable resource.

During the film's end credits, several calls to action pop up on screen suggesting to viewers things at home they can do to combat global warming, including "recycle", "speak up in your community", "try to buy a hybrid vehicle" and "encourage everyone you know to watch this movie."

Background

Origins

See also: Environmental activism of Al Gore

Gore became interested in global warming when he took a course at Harvard University with Professor Roger Revelle, one of the first scientists to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Later, when Gore was in Congress, he initiated the first congressional hearing on the subject in 1981. Gore's 1992 book, Earth in the Balance, dealing with a number of environmental topics, reached the New York Times bestseller list.

As Vice President during the Clinton Administration, Gore pushed for the implementation of a carbon tax to encourage energy efficiency and diversify the choices of fuel better reflecting the true environmental costs of energy use; it was partially implemented in 1993.

He helped broker the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The treaty was not ratified in the United States after a 95 to 0 vote in the Senate. The primary objections stemmed from the exemptions the treaty gave to China and India, whose industrial base and carbon footprint have grown rapidly, and fears that the exemptions would lead to further trade imbalances and offshoring arrangement with those countries.

Gore also supported the funding of the controversial, and much-delayed satellite called Triana, which would have provided an image of the Earth 24 hours a day, over the internet and would have acted as a barometer measuring the process of global warming. During his 2000 presidential campaign, Gore ran, in part, on a pledge to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

The slide show

Following his defeat in the 2000 presidential election by George W. Bush, Gore returned his focus to the topic. He edited and adapted a slide show he had compiled years earlier, and began featuring the slide show in presentations on global warming across the US and around the world. At the time of the film, Gore estimated he had shown the presentation more than one thousand times.

Producer Laurie David saw Gore's slide show in New York City at a global warming town-hall meeting after the May 27, 2004 premiere of The Day After Tomorrow. Gore was one of several panelists and he showed a ten-minute version of his slide show.

I had never seen it before, and I was floored. As soon as the evening's program concluded, I asked him to let me present his full briefing to leaders and friends in New York and Los Angeles. I would do all the organizing if he would commit to the dates. Gore's presentation was the most powerful and clear explanation of global warming I had ever seen. And it became my mission to get everyone I knew to see it too.

Inspired, David assembled a team, including producer Lawrence Bender and former president of eBay Jeffrey Skoll, who met with Gore about the possibility of making the slide show into a movie. It took some convincing. The slide show, she says, "was his baby, and he felt proprietary about it and it was hard for him to let go."

David said the box office returns were not important to her, and that what was at stake was the planet, saying "none of us are going to make a dime."

David and Bender later met with director Davis Guggenheim, to have him direct the film adaptation of his slide show. Guggenheim, who was skeptical at first, later saw the presentation for himself, stating that he was "blown away," and "left after an hour and a half thinking that global warming the most important issue ... I had no idea how you'd make a film out of it, but I wanted to try," he said.

In 2004 Gore enlisted Duarte Design to condense and update his material and add video and animation. Ted Boda described the tools that went into designing the project: "Gore's presentation was in fact using Apple's Keynote presentation software (the same software Steve Jobs presents from) and did so for a number of reasons. As a designer for the presentation, Keynote was the first choice to help create such an engaging presentation."

Initially reluctant of the film adaptation, Gore said after he and the crew were into the production of the movie, the director, Guggenheim, earned his trust.

I had seen enough to gain a tremendous respect for his skill and sensitivity. And he said that one of the huge differences between a live stage performance and a movie is that when you're in the same room with a live person who's on stage speaking — even if it's me — there's an element of dramatic tension and human connection that keeps your attention. And in a movie, that element is just not present. He explained to me that you have to create that element on screen, by supplying a narrative thread that allows the audience to make a connection with one or more characters. He said, "You've got to be that character." So we talked about it, and as I say, by then he had earned such a high level of trust from me that he convinced me.

Production

When Bender first saw Gore's visual presentation he had concerns about connection with viewers, citing a "need to find a personal way in." In the string of interviews with Gore that followed, Gore himself felt like they "were making Kill Al Vol. 3". Bender had other issues including a time frame that was "grueling" and needed to be done in "a very short period of time" despite many filming locations planned. These included many locations throughout the United States and also included China. "It was a lot of travel in a very short period of time. And they had to get this thing edited and cut starting in January, and ready to screen in May. That's like a seriously tight schedule. So the logistics of pulling it off with a low budget were really difficult, and if there's one person who gets credit, it's Leslie Chilcott, because she really pulled it together."

"Most of my movies take a year and a half, if not two and a half," Guggenheim said. "We all felt like we were on a mission from God just to make it as fast as we could. We just felt like it was urgent. The clock was ticking, and people had to see it."

Title

The producers struggled to find an effective title for the film. "We had a lot of really bad titles," Guggenheim recalled. "One was The Rising. I remember Al talking about whether he should give Bruce Springsteen a call, because he had an album out called The Rising. It had a great triple-entendre, because it was like the sea-level rising and the idea of people rising. So we got excited about that for a while." "There were also some really bad ones like Too Hot to Handle," he added. "Maybe that's not right, but it was something with 'hot,' ya know? We had a lot of hot puns."

Guggenheim said that he asked Gore why climate change was "so hard for people to grasp," to which Gore replied, "Because it's an inconvenient truth, ya know." " In the back of my head, I go, that's the title of our movie," Guggenheim said.

Initially, the title was not a popular choice. Gore recalled saying "Nah, I don't think so" but Guggenheim "defended it vigorously against other titles." "People thought it was hard to say, people thought it wasn't fun, it wasn't sexy," Guggenheim remembered. "Days before we went to Sundance and had to decide, there was a large group of people who did not like the title."

Technical aspects

The majority of the movie shows Gore delivering his lecture to an audience at a relatively small theater in Los Angeles. Gore's presentation was delivered on a 70-foot (21 m) digital screen that Bender commissioned specifically for the movie.

While the bulk of the film was shot on 4:4:4 HDCAM, according to director Guggenheim, a vast array of different film formats were used: "There's 35mm and 16mm. A lot of the stuff on the farm I just shot myself on 8mm film. We used four Sony F950 HDCAMs for the presentation. We shot three different kinds of prosumer HD, both 30 and 24. There's MiniDV, there's 3200 black-and-white stills, there's digital stills, some of them emailed on the day they were taken from as far off as Greenland. There was three or four different types of animation. One of the animators is from New Zealand and emailed me his work. There's JPEG stuff."

Guggenheim said that while it would have been a lot easier to use one format, it would not have had the same impact. "Each format has its own feel and texture and touch. For the storytelling of what Gore's memory was like of growing up on the farm, some of this 8mm stuff that I shot is very impressionistic. And for some of his memories of his son's accident, these grainy black-and-white stills ... have a feel that contrasted very beautifully with the crisp hi-def HD that we shot. Every format was used to its best potential. Some of the footage of Katrina has this blown-out video, where the chroma is just blasted, and it looks real muddy, but that too has its own kind of powerful, impactful feeling."

Scientific basis

Further information: Scientific consensus on climate change

The film lays out the scientific consensus that global warming is real, potentially catastrophic, and human-caused. Gore presents specific data to support this, including:

• The Keeling Curve, which depicts the long-term increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration as measured from the Mauna Loa Observatory.
• The retreat of numerous glaciers is shown with before-and-after photographs.
• A study by researchers at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern and the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) presenting data from Antarctic ice cores showing carbon dioxide concentrations higher than at any time during the past 650,000 years.
• Data from the atmospheric instrumental temperature record showing that the ten hottest years ever measured had all occurred in the previous fourteen years.
• A 2004 survey by Naomi Oreskes of 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003. The survey, published as an editorial in the journal Science, found that every article either supported the human-caused global warming consensus or did not comment on it. Gore also presents a 2004 study by Max and Jules Boykoff showing 53% of articles that appeared in major US newspapers over a fourteen-year period gave roughly equal attention to scientists who expressed views that global warming was caused by humans as they did to climate change deniers (many of them funded by carbon-based industry interests), creating a false balance.

The Associated Press contacted more than 100 climate researchers and questioned them about the film's veracity. All 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or had read the homonymous book said that Gore accurately conveyed the science, with few errors.

William H. Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, said " got all the important material and got it right." Robert Corell, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, was also impressed. "I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate. After the presentation I said, 'Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a lot of details you could get wrong.'...I could find no error." Michael Shermer, scientific author and founder of The Skeptics Society, wrote in Scientific American that Gore's slide show "shocked me out of my doubting stance." Eric Steig, a climate scientist writing on RealClimate, lauded the film's science as "remarkably up to date, with reference to some of the very latest research." Ted Scambos, lead scientist from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said the film "does an excellent job of outlining the science behind global warming and the challenges society faces in the coming century because of it."

One concern among scientists in the film was the connection between hurricanes and global warming, which at the time was contentious in the scientific community. Gore cited five recent scientific studies to support his view. "I thought the use of imagery from Hurricane Katrina was inappropriate and unnecessary in this regard, as there are plenty of disturbing impacts associated with global warming for which there is much greater scientific consensus," said Brian Soden, professor of meteorology and oceanography at the University of Miami. Gavin Schmidt, climate modeler for NASA, thought Gore appropriately addressed the issue. "Gore talked about 2005 and 2004 being very strong seasons, and if you weren't paying attention, you could be left with the impression that there was a direct cause and effect, but he was very careful to not say there's a direct correlation," Schmidt said. "There is a difference between saying 'we are confident that they will increase' and 'we are confident that they have increased due to this effect,'" added Steig. "Never in the movie does he say: 'This particular event is caused by global warming.'"

Gore's use of long ice core records of CO₂ and temperature (from oxygen isotope measurements) in Antarctic ice cores to illustrate the correlation between the two drew some scrutiny; Schmidt, Steig and Michael E. Mann back up Gore's data. "Gore stated that the greenhouse gas levels and temperature changes over ice age signals had a complex relationship but that they 'fit'. Both of these statements are true," said Schmidt and Mann. "The complexity though is actually quite fascinating ... a full understanding of why CO₂ changes in precisely the pattern that it does during ice ages is elusive, but among the most plausible explanations is that increased received solar radiation in the southern hemisphere due to changes in Earth's orbital geometry warms the southern ocean, releasing CO₂ into the atmosphere, which then leads to further warming through an enhanced greenhouse effect. Gore's terse explanation does not delve into such complexities, but the crux of his point—that the observed long-term relationship between CO₂ and temperature in Antarctica supports our understanding of the warming impact of increased CO₂ concentrations—is correct. Moreover, our knowledge of why CO₂ is changing now (fossil fuel burning) is solid. We also know that CO₂ is a greenhouse gas, and that the carbon cycle feedback is positive (increasing temperatures lead to increasing CO₂ and CH₄), implying that future changes in CO₂ will be larger than we might anticipate." "Gore is careful not to state what the temperature/CO₂ scaling is," said Steig. "He is making a qualitative point, which is entirely accurate. The fact is that it would be difficult or impossible to explain past changes in temperature during the ice age cycles without CO₂ changes. In that sense, the ice core CO₂-temperature correlation remains an appropriate demonstration of the influence of CO₂ on climate."

Steig disputed Gore's statement that one can visibly see the effect that the United States Clean Air Act has had on ice cores in Antarctica. "One can neither see, nor even detect using sensitive chemical methods any evidence in Antarctica of the Clean Air Act," he said, but did note that they are "clearly recorded in ice core records from Greenland." Despite these flaws, Steig said that the film got the fundamental science right and the minor factual errors did not undermine the main message of the film, adding "An Inconvenient Truth rests on a solid scientific foundation."

Lonnie Thompson, Earth Science professor at Ohio State University, whose work on retreating glaciers was featured in the film, was pleased with how his research was presented. "It's so hard given the breadth of this topic to be factually correct, and make sure you don't lose your audience," Thompson said.

"As scientists, we publish our papers in Science and Nature, but very few people read those. Here's another way to get this message out. To me, it's an excellent overview for an introductory class at a university. What are the issues and what are the possible consequences of not doing anything about those changes? To me, it has tremendous value. It will reach people that scientists will never reach."

John Nielsen-Gammon from Texas A&M University said the "main scientific argument presented in the movie is for the most part consistent with the weight of scientific evidence, but with some of the main points needing updating, correction, or qualification." Nielsen-Gammon thought the film neglected information gained from computer models, and instead relied entirely on past and current observational evidence, "perhaps because such information would be difficult for a lay audience to grasp, believe, or connect with emotionally."

Steven Quiring, a climatologist from Texas A&M University, added that "whether scientists like it or not, An Inconvenient Truth has had a much greater impact on public opinion and public awareness of global climate change than any scientific paper or report."

Reception

Box office

The film opened in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. On Memorial Day weekend, it grossed an average of $91,447 per theater, the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary, though it was only playing on four screens at the time.

At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the movie received three standing ovations. It was also screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and was the opening night film at the 27th Durban International Film Festival on June 14, 2006. An Inconvenient Truth was the most popular documentary at the 2006 Brisbane International Film Festival.

The film has grossed over $24 million in the US, making it the eleventh-highest-grossing documentary in the US (from 1982 to the present). It grossed nearly $26 million in foreign countries, the highest being France, where it grossed $5 million. According to Gore, "Tipper and I are devoting 100 percent of the profits from the book and the movie to a new bipartisan educational campaign to further spread the message about global warming." Paramount Classics committed 5% of their domestic theatrical gross from the film to form a new bipartisan climate action group, Alliance for Climate Protection, dedicated to awareness and grassroots organizing.

Critical response

The film received a positive reaction from film critics and audiences. It has a 93% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 166 reviews, and an average rating of 7.74/10. The website's critical consensus states, "This candid, powerful and informative documentary illuminates some of the myths surrounding its dual subjects: global warming and Al Gore". At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 75, based on 32 reviews.

Film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert said, "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to," calling the film "horrifying, enthralling and the potential, I believe, to actually change public policy and begin a process which could save the Earth".

New York Magazine critic David Edelstein called the film "One of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen—and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications." The New Yorker's David Remnick added that while it was "not the most entertaining film of the year ... it might be the most important" and a "brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide." The New York Times reviewer A. O. Scott thought the film was "edited crisply enough to keep it from feeling like 90 minutes of C-SPAN and shaped to give Mr. Gore's argument a real sense of drama," and "as unsettling as it can be," Scott continued, "it is also intellectually exhilarating, and, like any good piece of pedagogy, whets the appetite for further study." Bright Lights Film Journal critic Jayson Harsin declared the film's aesthetic qualities groundbreaking, as a new genre of slideshow film. NASA climatologist James Hansen described the film as powerful, complemented by detail in the book. Hansen said that "Gore has put together a coherent account of a complex topic that Americans desperately need to understand. The story is scientifically accurate and yet should be understandable to the public, a public that is less and less drawn to science." He added that with An Inconvenient Truth, "Al Gore may have done for global warming what Silent Spring did for pesticides. He will be attacked, but the public will have the information needed to distinguish our long-term well-being from short-term special interests."

In "extensive exit polling" of An Inconvenient Truth in "conservative suburban markets like Plano and Irvine (Orange County), as well as Dallas and Long Island", 92 percent rated "Truth" highly and 87 percent of the respondents said they'd recommend the film to a friend. University of Washington professor Michele Poff argued that Gore was successful in communicating to conservative-leaning audiences by framing the climate crisis as apolitical. "Gore's and the environment's identification with the Democratic Party posed a significant challenge to reaching Republicans and conservatives, as well as those disgruntled with politics in general," Poff wrote.

"To appeal to such individuals, Gore framed the matter as distinctly apolitical – as an issue both outside politics and one that was crucial regardless of one's ideological leanings. These explicit attempts to frame the issue as apolitical take on further gravitas when we consider how Gore infused the film with reflections of conservative values. Indeed, Gore reached deeply into the value structure of American conservatives to highlight ideals that suggested his cause was not liberal, but rather was beyond politics, beyond ideology."

A small number of reviews criticized the film on scientific and political grounds. Journalist Ronald Bailey argued in the libertarian magazine Reason that although "Gore gets more right than wrong," he exaggerates the risks. MIT atmospheric physicist Richard S. Lindzen was vocally critical of the film, writing in a June 26, 2006 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that Gore was using a biased presentation to exploit the fears of the public for his own political gain.

A few other reviewers were also skeptical of Gore's intent, wondering whether he was setting himself for another Presidential run. The Boston Globe writer Peter Canellos criticized the "gauzy biographical material that seems to have been culled from old Gore campaign commercials." Phil Hall of Film Threat gave the film a negative review, saying "An Inconvenient Truth is something you rarely see in movies today: a blatant intellectual fraud."

Others felt that Gore did not go far enough in depicting the threat Indigenous peoples faced with the dire consequences of climate change. "An Inconvenient Truth completely ignores the plight of Arctic indigenous peoples whose cultures and landscapes are facing profound changes produced by melting polar ice," argued environmental historian Finis Dunaway.

Accolades

An Inconvenient Truth has received many different awards worldwide. The film won two awards at the 79th Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song for Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up". It is the first documentary to win 2 Oscars and the first to win a best original song Oscar. After winning the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, the Oscar was awarded to director Guggenheim, who asked Gore to join him and other members of the crew on stage. Gore then gave a brief speech, saying:

My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue; it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it.

For Gore's wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming which is centerpieced in the film, Al Gore, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Gore also received the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2007 for international cooperation. The related album, which featured the voices of Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood, also won Best Spoken Word Album at the 51st Grammy Awards.

The film received numerous other accolades, including a special recognition from the Humanitas Prize, the first time the organization had handed out a Special Award in over 10 years, the 2007 Stanley Kramer Award from The Producers Guild of America, which recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues" and the President's Award 2007 from the Society for Technical Communication "for demonstrating that effective and understandable technical communication, when coupled with passion and vision, has the power to educate—and change—the world."

The film won many other awards for Best Documentary:

Chicago Film Critics Association 2006 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2006 Florida Film Critics 2006 Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2006 Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2006 National Board of Review 2006 National Society of Film Critics 2006 New York Film Critics Online 2006

Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 Online Film Critics Society 2006 Phoenix Film Critics Circle 2006 Satellite Awards 2006 (Nominated) St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006 Utah Film Critics Awards 2006 Washington D.C. Film Critics Association 2006

Impact

The documentary has been generally well-received politically in many parts of the world and is credited for raising further awareness of global warming internationally. The film inspired producer Kevin Wall to conceive the 2007 Live Earth festival and influenced Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli to write an operatic adaptation, entitled "CO2," premiering at La Scala in Milan in 2015.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, in response to the documentary,

"Pro-industry conservative politicians and their supporters (many of whom saw global warming as a hoax designed to bilk taxpayers out of their money) lined up on one side, while scientists and more-liberal politicians (who pressed that global warming was among the most important issues humanity would face) teamed up on the other",

adding that "Most remember the film as part motivational science lecture with slick graphics and part self-reflection."

Activism

Following the film, Gore founded The Climate Reality Project in 2006 which trained 1,000 activists to give Gore's presentation in their communities. Presently, the group has 3,500 presenters worldwide. An additional initiative was launched in 2010, called "Inconvenient Youth". "'Inconvenient Youth' is built on the belief that teens can help lead efforts to solve the climate crisis," said Gore. The project was inspired by Mary Doerr, a 16-year-old who trained as presenter for the organization.

University of Scranton professor Jessica Nolan found in a 2010 study published for Environment and Behavior that people became more informed and concerned about climate change right after seeing the film but that these concerns did not translate into changed behavior a month later. On the contrary, in a 2011 paper published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, University of Oregon professor Grant Jacobsen found in the two months following the release of the film, zip codes within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of a zip code where the film was shown experienced a 50 percent relative increase in the purchase of voluntary carbon offsets.

Public opinion

In a July 2007 47-country Internet survey conducted by The Nielsen Company and Oxford University, 66% of those respondents who said they had seen An Inconvenient Truth stated that it had "changed their mind" about global warming and 89% said it had made them more aware of the problem. Three out of four (74%) said they had changed some of their habits because of seeing the film.

Governmental reactions

Then-President George W. Bush, when asked whether he would watch the film, responded: "Doubt it." "New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment," Bush said. "And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects and focus on the technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment". Gore responded that "The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming and he has today again expressed personal doubt that that is true." White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino stated that "The president noted in 2001 the increase in temperatures over the past 100 years and that the increase in greenhouse gases was due to a certain extent to human activity".

Several United States Senators screened the film. New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman and Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid saw the movie at its Washington premiere at the National Geographic Society. New Mexico Democratic Senator Tom Udall planned to see the film saying "It's such a powerful statement because of the way the movie is put together, I tell everybody, Democrat or Republican, they've got to go see this movie." Former New Mexico Republican Senator Pete Domenici thought Gore's prominence on the global warming issue made it more difficult to get a consensus in Congress. Bingaman disputed this saying, "It seems to me we were having great difficulty recruiting Republican members of Congress to support a bill before Al Gore came up with this movie."

Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, then-chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that he did not plan to see the film (which he appears in), and compared it to Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf. "If you say the same lie over and over again, and particularly if you have the media's support, people will believe it," Inhofe said, adding that he thought Gore was trying to use the issue to run for president again in 2008. In contrast to Inhofe, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, did not criticize Gore's efforts or the movie, which he planned to see. Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, said "Because (Gore) was a former vice president and presidential nominee, he brings a lot of visibility to (the issue)," Alexander said. "On the other hand it may be seen as political by some, and they may be less eager to be a part of it." Alexander also criticized the omission of nuclear power in the film. "Maybe it needs a sequel: 'An Inconvenient Truth 2: Nuclear Power.'"

In September 2006, Gore traveled to Sydney, Australia, to promote the film. Then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard said he would not meet with Gore or agree to Kyoto because of the movie: "I don't take policy advice from films." Former Opposition Leader Kim Beazley joined Gore for a viewing and other MPs attended a special screening at Parliament House earlier in the week. After winning the general election a year later, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd ratified Kyoto in his first week of office, leaving the United States the only industrialized nation in the world not to have signed the treaty.

In the United Kingdom, Conservative party leader and future Prime Minister David Cameron urged people to watch the film in order to understand climate change. In Belgium, activist Margaretha Guidone persuaded the entire Belgian government to see the film. 200 politicians and political staff accepted her invitation, among whom were Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt and Minister-President of Flanders, Yves Leterme. In Costa Rica, the film was screened by president Óscar Arias. Arias's subsequent championing of the climate change issue was greatly influenced by the film.

Industry and business

The Competitive Enterprise Institute released pro-carbon dioxide television ads in preparation for the film's release in May 2006. The ads featured a little girl blowing a dandelion with the tagline, "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."

In August 2006, The Wall Street Journal revealed that a YouTube video lampooning Gore and the movie, titled Al Gore's Penguin Army, appeared to be "astroturfing" by DCI Group, a Washington public relations firm.

Use in education

Several colleges and high schools have featured the film in science curricula. In Germany, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel bought 6,000 DVDs of An Inconvenient Truth to make it available to German schools. Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero distributed 30000 copies to the Spanish schools in October 2007. In Burlington, Ontario, Canada, the Halton District School Board made An Inconvenient Truth available at schools and as an educational resource.

In the United Kingdom

As part of a nationwide "Sustainable Schools Year of Action" launched in late 2006, the UK Government, Welsh Assembly Government and Scottish Executive announced between January–March 2007 that copies of An Inconvenient Truth would be sent to all their secondary schools. The film was placed into the science curriculum for fourth and sixth-year students in Scotland as a joint initiative between Learning and Teaching Scotland and ScottishPower.

Dimmock case

Further information: Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills

In May 2007, Stewart Dimmock—a school governor from Kent, England, and member of the right-wing New Party—challenged the UK Government's distribution of the film in a lawsuit, Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills, with help from political ally and New Party founder Viscount Monckton, who notably pointed out "35 serious scientific errors". The plaintiffs sought an injunction preventing the screening of the film in English schools, arguing that by law schools are forbidden to promote partisan political views and, when dealing with political issues, are required to provide a balanced presentation of opposing views.

On October 10, 2007, High Court Justice Michael Burton, after explaining that the requirement for a balanced presentation does not warrant that equal weight be given to alternative views of a mainstream view, ruled that it was clear that the film was substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science had been used, in the hands of a "talented politician and communicator", to make a political statement and to support a political program. The judge ruled that An Inconvenient Truth contained nine scientific errors and thus must be accompanied by an explanation of those errors before being shown to school children. The judge said that showing the film without the explanations of error would be a violation of education laws.

The judge concluded "I have no doubt that Dr Stott, the Defendant's expert, is right when he says that: 'Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate.'" On the basis of testimony from Robert M. Carter and the arguments put forth by the claimant's lawyers, the judge also pointed to nine "errors", i.e. statements the truth of which he did not rule on, but that he found to depart from the mainstream scientific positions on global warming. He also found that some of these departures from the mainstream arose in the context of alarmism and exaggeration in support of political theses. Since the government had already accepted to amend the guidance notes to address these along with other points in a fashion that the judge found satisfactory, no order was made on the application.

Government Minister of Children, Young People and Families, Kevin Brennan stated: "We have updated the accompanying guidance, as requested by the judge to make it clearer for teachers as to the stated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change position on a number of scientific points raised in the film." Plaintiff Dimmock complained that "no amount of turgid guidance" could change his view that the film was unsuitable for the classroom.

In the United States

In January 2007, the Federal Way (Washington State) School Board voted to require an approval by the principal and the superintendent for teachers to show the film to students and that the teachers must include the presentation of an approved "opposing view". The moratorium was repealed, at a meeting on January 23, after a predominantly negative community reaction. Shortly thereafter, the school board in Yakima, Washington, calling the film a "controversial issue", prevented the Environmental Club of Eisenhower High School from showing it, pending review by the school board, teachers, principal, and parents. It lifted the stay a month later, upon the approval by a review panel.

National Science Teachers Association

In the United States, 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth were offered to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), which declined to take them. Producer David provided an email correspondence from the NSTA detailing that their reasoning was that the DVDs would place "unnecessary risk upon the capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters," and that they saw "little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members" in accepting the free DVDs. In public, the NSTA argued that distributing this film to its members would have been contrary to a long-standing NSTA policy against distributing unsolicited materials to its members. The NSTA also said that they had offered several other options for distributing the film but ultimately " appears that these alternative distribution mechanisms were unsatisfactory."

David has said that NSTA Executive Director Gerry Wheeler promised in a telephone conversation to explore alternatives with NSTA's board for advertising the film but she had not yet received an alternative offer at the time of NSTA's public claim. She also said that she rejected their subsequent offers because they were nothing more than offers to sell their "commercially available member mailing list" and advertising space in their magazine and newsletter, which are available to anyone. The American Association for the Advancement of Science publication ScienceNOW published an assessment discussing both sides of the NSTA decision in which it was reported that "David says NSTA's imprimatur was essential and that buying a mailing list is a nonstarter. 'You don't want to send out a cold letter, and it costs a lot of money,' she says. 'There are a thousand reasons why that wouldn't work.'"

A The Washington Post editorial called the decision "Science a la Joe Camel", citing for example that the NSTA had received $6 million since 1996 from ExxonMobil, which had a representative on the organization's corporate board. David noted that in the past, NSTA had shipped out 20,000 copies of a 10-part video produced by Wheeler with funding provided by ConocoPhillips in 2003. NSTA indicated that they retained editorial control over the content, which David questioned based on the point of view portrayed in the global warming section of the video.

In New Zealand

Former ACT New Zealand Member of Parliament Muriel Newman filed a petition to have New Zealand schoolchildren be protected from political indoctrination by putting provisions that resembled those in the UK to the Education Act. The petition was in response to concerned parents who talked with Newman after An Inconvenient Truth was shown in schools in 2007. The parents were apparently worried that teachers were not pointing out supposed inaccuracies in the film and were not explaining differing viewpoints.

Music

An Inconvenient Truth: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Michael Brook
Released	September 26, 2006 (2006-09-26)
Length	44:43
Label	High Wire Music
Producer	Michael Brook

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

An Inconvenient Truth was scored by Michael Brook with an accompanying theme song played during the end credits by Melissa Etheridge. Brook explained that he wanted to bring out the emotion expressed in the film: "... in An Inconvenient Truth, there's a lot of information and it's kind of a lecture, in a way, and very well organized and very well presented, but it's a lot to absorb. And the director, Guggenheim, wanted to have – sort of give people a little break every once in a while and say, okay, you don't have to absorb this information, you can just sort of – and it was more the personal side of Al Gore's life or how it connected to the theme of the film. And that's when there's music."

Etheridge agreed to write An Inconvenient Truth's theme song, "I Need to Wake Up" after viewing Gore's slide show. "I was so honored he would ask me to contribute to a project that is so powerful and so important, I felt such a huge responsibility," she said. "Then I went, 'What am I going to write? What am I going to say?' " Etheridge's former partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, told her: "Write what you feel, because that's what people are going to feel." Of Etheridge's commitment to the project, Gore said, "Melissa is a rare soul who gives a lot of time and effort to causes in which she strongly believes." Etheridge received the 2006 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up." Upon receiving the award, she noted in her acceptance speech:

Mostly I have to thank Al Gore, for inspiring us, for inspiring me, showing that caring about the Earth is not Republican or Democrat; it's not red or blue, it's all green.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Main Title (River View)"	1:23
2.	"Science"	2:54
3.	"Prof. Revelle"	2:07
4.	"How Could I Spend My Time?"	2:40
5.	"Katrina"	1:36
6.	"Election"	2:58
7.	"Farm, Pt. 1"	1:43
8.	"Farm, Pt. 2"	3:04
9.	"Airport"	2:14
10.	"Flood"	2:15
11.	"Beijing"	1:21
12.	"Tobacco"	2:11
13.	"1000 Slide Shows"	2:19
14.	"Earth Alone"	3:30
15.	"Best Unsaid"	2:40
16.	"Boom"	1:58
17.	"Carte Noir"	3:09

Book and documentary

Gore's book of the same title was published concurrently with the theatrical release of the documentary. The book contains additional information, scientific analysis, and Gore's commentary on the issues presented in the documentary. A 2007 documentary entitled An Update with Former Vice President Al Gore features Gore discussing additional information that came to light after the film was completed, such as Hurricane Katrina, coral reef depletion, glacial earthquake activity on the Greenland ice sheet, wildfires, and trapped methane gas release associated with permafrost melting.

Sequel

Main article: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

When asked during a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" in October 2013 whether there were plans for a follow-up film, Guggenheim said, "I think about it a lot – I think we need one right now." In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the producers of the film were in talks over a possible sequel. "We have had conversations," co-producer Bender said. "We've met; we've discussed. If we are going to make a movie, we want it to have an impact." Co-producer David also believed a sequel was needed. "God, do we need one," David said. "Everything in that movie has come to pass. At the time we did the movie, there was Hurricane Katrina; now we have extreme weather events every other week. The update has to be incredible and shocking."

In December 2016, Al Gore announced that a follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth would open at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film was screened in the Climate section, a new section for films featuring themes of climate and the environment. It was released by Paramount on July 28, 2017.

See also

• CO2 (opera)
• Human impact on the environment
• Hurricane Katrina
• Extinction risk from climate change
• Racing Extinction
• Catching the Sun

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v t e Al Gore
45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) U.S. Representative for TN–4 and TN–6 (1977–1985)
Politics	Atari Democrat Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 Vice presidency
Electoral History	U.S. House 1976 1978 1980 1982 U.S. Senate 1984 1990 Vice presidential 1992 campaign selection convention debate election transition 1996 campaign convention debate election Presidential 1988 campaign primaries 2000 campaign primaries running mate selection convention debates election Bush v. Gore Bush transition
Environment	Global Marshall Plan Environmental activism Alliance for Climate Protection An Inconvenient Truth "I Need to Wake Up" Live Earth The Climate Reality Project An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power "Truth to Power"
Technology	Role in information technology High Performance Computing Act of 1991 National Information Infrastructure Information superhighway The Superhighway Summit Deep Space Climate Observatory 24 Hours in Cyberspace NetDay Digital Earth Current TV
Recognition	Awards and honors
Books	Earth in the Balance An Inconvenient Truth The Assault on Reason Our Choice The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change An Inconvenient Sequel
Family	Tipper Gore (wife, separated) Karenna Gore (daughter) Kristin Gore (daughter) Albert Gore Sr. (father) Pauline LaFon Gore (mother)
Category

v t e Davis Guggenheim
Films	Gossip (2000) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Gracie (2007) It Might Get Loud (2008) Waiting for "Superman" (2010) From the Sky Down (2011) The Road We've Traveled (2012) He Named Me Malala (2015) Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
Television	Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019)

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v t e Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 1942–1975 The Battle of Midway / Kokoda Front Line! / Moscow Strikes Back / Prelude to War (1942) Desert Victory (1943) The Fighting Lady (1944) The True Glory (1945) No Award (1946) Design for Death (1947) The Secret Land (1948) Daybreak in Udi (1949) The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Kon-Tiki (1951) The Sea Around Us (1952) The Living Desert (1953) The Vanishing Prairie (1954) Helen Keller in Her Story (1955) The Silent World (1956) Albert Schweitzer (1957) White Wilderness (1958) Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959) The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1961) Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962) Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) World Without Sun (1964) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) The War Game (1966) The Anderson Platoon (1967) Journey into Self (1968) Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (1969) Woodstock (1970) The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) Marjoe (1972) The Great American Cowboy (1973) Hearts and Minds (1974) The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975) 1976–2000 Harlan County, USA (1976) Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977) Scared Straight! (1978) Best Boy (1979) From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980) Genocide (1981) Just Another Missing Kid (1982) He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983) The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Broken Rainbow (1985) Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got / Down and Out in America (1986) The Ten-Year Lunch (1987) Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) American Dream (1990) In the Shadow of the Stars (1991) The Panama Deception (1992) I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993) Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) Anne Frank Remembered (1995) When We Were Kings (1996) The Long Way Home (1997) The Last Days (1998) One Day in September (1999) Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) 2001–present Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Born into Brothels (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) Inside Job (2010) Undefeated (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Citizenfour‎ (2014) Amy (2015) O.J.: Made in America (2016) Icarus (2017) Free Solo (2018) American Factory (2019) My Octopus Teacher (2020) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Navalny (2022) 20 Days in Mariupol (2023) v t e Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary The Filth and the Fury / The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Sicko (2007) Man on Wire (2008) Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) The Interrupters (2011) The Invisible War (2012) The Act of Killing (2013) Life Itself (2014) Amy (2015) O.J.: Made in America (2016) Jane (2017) Minding the Gap (2018) Apollo 11 (2019) Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) Summer of Soul (2021) Fire of Love (2022) Kokomo City (2023) No Other Land (2024) v t e Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature Crumb (1995) When We Were Kings (1996) 4 Little Girls (1997) Wild Man Blues (1998) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) n/a (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Sicko (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) Waiting for "Superman" (2010) George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Life Itself (2014) Amy (2015) v t e Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film 2000s Bowling for Columbine (2002) Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Murderball (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) 2010s Waiting for "Superman" (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Citizenfour (2014) Amy (2015) Tower (2016) City of Ghosts (2017) Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Apollo 11 (2019) 2020s Time (2020) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Good Night Oppy (2022) American Symphony (2023) Sugarcane (2024) v t e Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) No Award (1998) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) Startup.com (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) No End in Sight (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) The Tillman Story (2010) Project Nim (2011) The Queen of Versailles (2012) The Act of Killing (2013) Life Itself (2014) Amy (2015) Cameraperson (2016) Jane (2017) Shirkers (2018) Apollo 11 (2019) You Don't Nomi (2020) Summer of Soul (2021) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023) Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024) v t e Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) Roger & Me (1989) Paris Is Burning (1990) American Dream (1991) Black Harvest (1992) It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993) Hoop Dreams (1994) Crumb (1995) When We Were Kings (1996) Riding the Rails (1997) The Farm: Angola, USA (1998) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) Dark Days (2000) The Gleaners and I (2001) The Cockettes (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Born into Brothels (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) No End in Sight (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Beaches of Agnès / The Cove (2009) Last Train Home (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) The Gatekeepers (2012) Stories We Tell (2013) Citizenfour (2014) Amy (2015) I Am Not Your Negro (2016) Faces Places (2017) Shirkers (2018) American Factory (2019) Time (2020) Summer of Soul (2021) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023) No Other Land (2024) v t e NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture 2000s Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) The Boys of Baraka (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Honeydripper (2007) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Precious (2009) 2010s Frankie & Alice (2010) Pariah (2011) Red Tails / Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Fruitvale Station (2013) Belle (2014) Beasts of No Nation (2015) Moonlight (2016) Detroit (2017) If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 2020s The Banker (2020) CODA (2021) The Inspection (2022) Brother (2023) v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987) The Thin Blue Line (1988) Roger & Me (1989) No Award (1990) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) Brother’s Keeper (1992) The War Room (1993) Hoop Dreams (1994) Crumb (1995) Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) Wild Man Blues (1998) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) The Endurance (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Born into Brothels (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Body of War (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Cove (2009) Waiting for "Superman" (2010) Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) Stories We Tell (2013) Life Itself (2014) Amy (2015) O.J.: Made in America (2016) Jane (2017) RBG (2018) Maiden (2019) Time (2020) Summer of Soul (2021) "Sr." (2022) Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) Sugarcane (2024) v t e National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film Stop Making Sense (1984) Shoah (1985) Marlene (1986) No Award (1987) The Thin Blue Line (1988) Roger & Me (1989) Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) Paris Is Burning (1991) American Dream (1992) Visions of Light (1993) Hoop Dreams (1994) Crumb (1995) When We Were Kings (1996) Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) The Farm: Angola, USA (1998) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) The Gleaners and I (2001) Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) To Be and to Have (2003) Tarnation (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) No End in Sight (2007) Man on Wire (2008) The Beaches of Agnès (2009) Inside Job (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) The Gatekeepers (2012) The Act of Killing / At Berkeley (2013) Citizenfour (2014) Amy (2015) O.J.: Made in America (2016) Faces Places (2017) Minding the Gap (2018) Honeyland (2019) Time (2020) Flee (2021) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023) No Other Land (2024) v t e Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Documentary Film 4 Little Girls (1997) The Big One (1998) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) The Filth and the Fury (2000) Startup.com (2001) Bowling for Columbine (2002) Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) Man on Wire (2008) Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) This Is Not a Film (2012) The Act of Killing (2013) Life Itself (2014) The Look of Silence (2015) O.J.: Made in America (2016) Faces Places (2017) Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Apollo 11 (2019) Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Fire of Love (2022) 20 Days in Mariupol (2023) v t e Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award I Am Sam (2001) Antwone Fisher (2002) In America (2003) Hotel Rwanda / Innocent Voices (2004) Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) The Great Debaters (2007) Milk (2008) Precious (2009) Sean Penn (2010) In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) Bully (2012) Fruitvale Station (2013) The Normal Heart (2014) The Hunting Ground (2015) Loving (2016) Get Out (2017) Jane Fonda (2018) Bombshell (2019) No award (2020) Rita Moreno (2021) Till (2022) No award (2023) v t e San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary Film Rivers and Tides (2002) Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) No End in Sight (2007) My Winnipeg (2008) Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) The Tillman Story (2010) Tabloid (2011) The Waiting Room (2012) The Act of Killing (2013) Citizenfour (2014) Listen to Me Marlon (2015) I Am Not Your Negro (2016) Faces Places (2017) Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Apollo 11 (2019) Collective (2020) Summer of Soul (2021) All That Breathes (2022) 20 Days in Mariupol (2023) Sugarcane (2024) v t e Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Sicko (2007) Man on Wire (2008) Food, Inc. (2009) Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) Bully (2012) Blackfish (2013) Life Itself (2014) Amy (2015) 13th (2016) Jane (2017) Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Apollo 11 (2019) Boys State (2020) Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Good Night Oppy (2022) American Symphony (2023) Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

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