It is certainly what we have learned to take for granted about our planet. "I am Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the United States," and there is laughter in the audience. So far, no science, but emotional and political emotions are played upon. The scene goes to the view of the planet Earth from the moon, "Earth Rise." Now Gore has appealed to the Apollo space generation - but there remains no science. Time lapsed images of the rotation of the Earth, but no science. Then, as Al Gore talks about his experiences in school, not college, but high school, there is science. It is the science of a sixth grade student who points out the west coast of Africa and the east coast of America,...

In fact, Gore says, "That brings up the basic science of global warming, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, because you know it well." And then he briefly mentions infrared radiation, and global warming "pollution," whatever that is - because he never defines it. Then he shows a cartoon, which invokes images of America's favorite cartoon people from the Simpsons. This is the "preferred" explanation of global warming by Mr. Gore.
Mr. Gore does not spend a lot of time on the science of his ideas on global warming - and he is good to his promise, because there is none in the documentary. No science; and no chemistry to prove his allegations on carbon, or that mankind is the generator of the carbon dioxide (even though basic science suggests that water vapor is 97% of global warming. The viewer is left asking the question - Where is the science in this Oscar winning documentary?

Works Cited

Guggenhiem, Davis (Dir). 2006, an Inconvenient Truth, film documentary. Lawrence Bender Productions, United…