Blog #3 An Inconvenient Truth

The former Vice President Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" deals with Global warming from high Carbon Dioxide levels, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, and other effects to the atmosphere from human disturbances. Al Gore shows a lot of different data like Carbon Dioxide increases and temperature increases. Both these levels have spiked in the past few years, and Gore is right in trying to get people to act when it comes to helping the Earth. National Geographic News asked earth scientist Eric Steig about the claims Gore was making and the data he was giving. Steig watched the documentary and claimed that Gore wasn't many crazy accusations. Apparently Gore's data and claims were actually pretty accurate.

       I thought the documentary was not only inspiring, but it had facts, pictures and data to back up Gore's claims about global warming. Gore also shows that global warming is effecting the weather. Hurricanes have doubled in the past few years, and studies indicate that they've been getting stronger too as they enter the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Katrina was a perfect example, as it grew in size exponentially as it hit the now warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico. So I believe that the tragedy in Louisiana wasn't entirely a natural disaster because we helped those waters get warmer by poisoning our atmosphere with toxious gases. What is even worse about these facts is that disasters like this are more likely to happen more often if we don't get our act together. Al Gore is trying to get the whole world to understand that, and he deserves a lot more credit. Some people think he is doing all this to get attention, and that doesn't make much sense to me. Al Gore has done a lot of research and presentations around the world on this topic, and that seems like a little drastic if he was just trying to get attention. Paris Hilton is trying to get attention, not Al Gore. Al Gore is trying to save the only planet we live on, and like he said, he's doing it the only way he knows how, by doing these presentations all over the world one city at a time.

Pictures like this show what global warming is doing.

      Some of the picture comparisons of glaciers from now and back in the twenties shows that global warming is a real threat, because these glaciers and the ice near the poles are very important to this world.