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Notes on An Inconvenient Truth
By Alex | July 18, 2008
About the time I started working on my M.A., Al Gore released his excellent film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. As I was studying climate change, I wrote a set of extensive notes about the content of the movie. The notes are focused on the scientific and political material rather than his personal anecdotes. In fact, I was so inspired by his work that I made my own slide show called ‘Cause and Effect‘. You can view this on the Media page.
Chanel 4 produced a documentary called ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle‘ shortly after the release of Al Gore’s film. The principal argument was that more radiation is emitted when solar activity increases. This activity can be seen as solar flares and sun spots. It was suggested that variations in the sun’s energy output cause changes in the Earth’s temperature and that atmospheric CO2 concentration follows these changes rather than leading as the greenhouse effect theory suggests.
Personally, I am inclined to side with the vastly greater weight of scientific opinion supporting the theory that the climate change we are experiencing is a direct result of man’s activities, and the enormous volumes of ‘greenhouse gases’ that we release every day. However it does sound like a reasonable suggestion that variations in solar activity might also play a significant role.
If your school or college has set you the task of writing about ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, please feel free to read my notes. But no cheating or copying! 
Notes on an Inconvenient Truth
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