The Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

This movie has good points in it and it delivers a message to everyone about the dangers of global warming relying on facts and strong evidence. Although this movie has many good points there is disagreement about how this message was delivered by Al Gore and the real intention of this movie.

A Favorable Review:
Brandon Fibbs’s Review http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth/#more-130

The movie has a lot of facts that are supported by much evidence. As Brandon Fibbs said the way Al Gore presented was very good and having a little humor while sending this message helped to attract attention. Al Gore was supported by the fact that a lot of scientists agreed about global warming and he had so much evidence and studies that could convince even the most ardent skeptic. It also provided shocking photographs about the fact that the global warming is affecting the earth. Another good part of the movie is that it shows other studies supported by older records to let people know about what might happen in the future if it kept going the way it is now. On top of all these good points, Brandon says that the movie had a very positive note in the end when Al Gore mentioned that it is a moral issue not a political issue.

Unfavorable Review:
Scott’s Review http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth/#more-130

Although there are a lot of good points in this movie Scott and Eric think that Al Gore has made the movie politically biased and doesn’t support his fact with better references. They think that Al Gore is a really good speaker but he has made some mistakes that would make almost half of the people forget about what they heard in this lecture. One of the bad points that showed was when Al Gore talked about his personal life and about his family members to convince people emotionally. Scott also said that this movie looks as if it was presented to sell Al Gore as a saint and possibly future presidential candidate. Another good point that Scott has noted is when he heard Al Gore telling jokes against Bush and other republicans which might have made half of the people angry since they are republicans.

My Opinion:

In my opinion, I think this movie was well presented and it will surely help to deliver the global warming message. There might be a lot of people who aren’t convinced yet, but after watching this movie, whether it has political or moral intentions, I’m sure that it has increased the numbers of people who became aware of this problem and maybe even made them take action to help solve this dramatic fact.

Riches await as Earth’s icy north melts

There might be a war, there might not be. With the global warming affecting the Arctic, many countries race to the north to take claims on oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes. They are waiting for the ice in the north to melt and give them access to the resoursces that have been hidden in the frozen waters. There has been a survey estimating that the Arctic has 25 percent of the world’s oil and gas that hasn’t been discovered yet, while there have been reports about the potential of minerals in a part of the Arctic sector reaching $2 trillion. These are more than enough reasons to bring a war to the Arctic to decide the countries ownership in the north forgetting there are people who have been living there for years.


Main Ideas:

- Global warming speeds the ice melting in the Arctic while some countries try to take advantage of this fact.
- The discovery of resources in the Arctic is worth trillions of dollars.
- Countries race to claim ownership of the frozen seas in the north.

Comments:

- I think in time if these countries don’t get to a solution for these claims about owning parts of the Arctic they will make global warming's effects even worse in the Arctic by starting wars over it.

Dangers of Global Warming

Global warming has started to take a serious effect on our planet yet many people decide to turn their backs and be ignorant about this fact. It affects the climate which made it become more aggressive and if it keeps on going this way the climate may enter a critical state.

There are many different causes that will lead to global warming; some of them are natural causes and the others, which are the worst, are the human causes. The main cause comes from production of greenhouse gases that can change the ability of the atmosphere to absorb and reflect the heat. It will also have an effect in the long term for the rise of sea level and arctic shrinkage which may lead to a disaster.

Even though there are a lot of negative effects on the globe, there are some organizations that work hard to help reduce these effects and send a message to the people around the world to participate in their campaigns to work out a solution for this problem.