Latest environmental news, features and updates. Pictures, video and more. Fearmongering Climate Control Caped Crusader Al Gores latest offering is a sequel to his famous film, An Inconvenient Truth. Why watch one when you can watch three Empire has the definitive guide to the best trilogies out there, including Back to the Future and The Lord of The Rings. Global Warmings Terrifying New Math. Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe and that make clear who the real enemy is. Thanks to CFACT I was lucky enough to get to see Al Gore in Melbourne yesterday and even luckier to see Climate Hustle the night before and meet some great people. Until very recently, and to all outward appearances, Jared Kushner was just another socially striving young businessman with inoffensively Bloombergian political. An Inconvenient Sequel Truth to Power movie reviews Metacritic score A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popula. The Nothing Is Scarier trope as used in popular culture. This is a Horror trope where fear isnt induced by a traumatic visual element or by a physical. Was that science or gratuitous random weather porn to fuel superstitious belief Jo. Nova. Gores a modern day soothsayer with powerpoint. Thanks to CFACT I was lucky enough to get to see Al Gore in Melbourne yesterday and even luckier to see Climate Hustle the night before and meet some great people. Gore wanted everyone to spread the word, but banned anyone recording him. The staff actively patrolled for wayward cameras. Wed love to have helped share Gores message, but we would have been kicked out for doing so. The intrepid Marc Morano even managed to meet Al in an inconvenient encounter Marc Morano kindly offered Al Gore a copy of Climate Hustle, which might have helped him feel a lot better about the future. Gore refused to take it. Possibly, hes not that interested in climate change. What I saw was nearly a whole hour of primal weather porn gratuitous, non stop, scenes from the apocalypse,  glowing clouds boiled about incandescent forests, and giant drains in the sky emptied massive clouds in a flash. Though the real crimes of Ed Gein did influence Hooper and Henkel in their writing, the idea that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is itself based on a true story is. Glaciers crumbled before our eyes. Poor victims were stuck in boiling tar on hot roads, they crawled out of mud slides, and were dragged in spectacular rescues from cars being swallowed by turbulent floods. Biblical is the word. Gullible, nave devotees gushed, awed, and murmured collective fear as Al spun a story of record doom and disaster with a google hit list of extreme weather snaps. A Terrifying Message From Al Gore Movie OutbreakA Terrifying Message From Al Gore Movie Out NowAl offered almost no graphs, long term data, or paleostudies. Few in the audience seemed to realize it was just a grab bag of the latest disaster fest, and if a million people had had mobile phones in 1. BC, the footage from then might have looked exactly the same or even worse, as Gore milked pretty much every weather event in the news to sell the salvation of renewables. Few seemed to wonder how Gore could know that floods were not worse in 1. BC. But the all seeing, all knowing Al knew. Through tricky double negative convoluted sentences Al effectively sends the message that fossil fuels cause extreme weather but whatever you do, dont quote him Scientists used to say you cannot attribute any single extreme weather event to the climate crisis. But you have to say the odds of extremes increase, but now they are saying it very differently If you have a complex system causing a lot of consequences and you radically change it, every one of the consequences is different. With all this extra water vapour in the sky and all the extra heat energy in the atmosphere, every storm is different now. And they are making advances in how much to attribute to the  climate crisis but increasingly more of it is directly contributed. This is what the reinsurance industry measures with climate related extreme weather events. The only plausible explanation of course is the climate crisis. Al Gore in Melbourne  Thats the full transcript thanks to Tony Thomas writer for Quadrant. Following in the footsteps of a million years of witchdoctors, the message was that the weather is worse than ever and he know how to stop it. His only effort to scientifically connect those dots was to quote a few scientists opinions, while ignoring thousands of others, most historical accounts and 2 billion years of paleohistory. Cherry picked extremes. The long tenous chain of cause and effect was glossed over repeatedly with handwaving. The system was the most complex on earth, yet somehow scientists know what causes what. The chain of influence goes like this fossil fuels make CO2, CO2 makes heat, heat causes droughts and more humidity, which in turn causes floods, intense rain, nastier storms, stickier roads, sliding mud, rising seas, etc etc blah de blah. Has there ever been a year on Earth when there wasnt a drought somewhere and a flood somewhere else  This is a never ending game for Gore. Until we get perfect weather on Earth, on all 1. This video was typical of the scientific depth drowning dogs can be saved I think the message here is that if you use petrol you cause women and dogs to be trapped in sinking cars. If only she had driven a hybrid. Roads are melting in India NDTV shows a video where this mans shoes stick to the hot road and fall off. Watch the video at the link. Call me a skeptic. Ive bounded across searing bitumen roads here in Australia, and this man is not behaving as if the pavement is blisteringly hot. Would you put your hand down Note the Highlights in the NDTV story Tar on roads melts in Valsad, Gujarat, temperature was only 3. Yeah. yeah. Thats body temperature. Terrifying. Most likely the melting roads are due to sloppy road construction and cheap materials instead of our fossil fuel emissions. Tar was melting at just 4. C in India, according to the Times of India, due to improper mixing of bituminous materials. According to the UK based Road Surfaces Treatment Association, most roads will start melting at a temperature of 5. Roads in the United Arab Emirates are made of special polymer modified binders which keep them solid up until around 8. Watch as floods wash away cars in Spain I bet that didnt happen 3. Gore has a talent for finding spectacular footage and uses it to argue for renewable power because mudslides are not about building codes or land management, and preindustrial mudslides were much nicer, right. Remember one piece of extreme weather he couldnt get Gore asked for the Firenado footage of a mini tornado sucking up a bushfire, but photographer Chris Tangney wouldnt give him a licence to use it. Thank you Chris. There was a spirit of salvation. All ye peasants gather hither, for ye are the leaders, the chosen ones who see the light, only you can save the poor and downtrodden from the evils of fossil fuels. Unless we build enough windfarms we will never stop mudslides. Hail for a mudslide free future Your house will be washed away, unless you give up air conditioning. Gore had so many images, the onslaught ran at subliminal pace. He spoke of storm surges north of Sydney. Im pretty sure I saw the infamous lost swimming pool at Collaroy. Collaroy 2. 01. 6, a storm surge washes away houses in NSW. ABC News. At the same beach in 1. Collaroy houses were washed out to sea. Al didnt mention that. The speech finished by telling the world how renewables are cheap, competitive, and are taking over, which, if it were true, pretty much neutralizes the need for Al to do these tours, right And who need subsidies. Gore made much of closing coal fired stations, but unlike yours truly who showed the same maps, Gore didnt show the massive number of new coal stations to his audience. The lies by omission tell you all you need to know about his interest in the climate. Gore argues that renewables creates jobs, but Jo asks whether we want our electricity grids to provide electricity instead. If the aim was jobs first, we would create more if we shut down all the renewables, let industry go wild with cheap electricity and then use the savings to bury bottles of cash for the unemployed to dig up. Craig, Marc, Chris, Tony and Debbie, what a great trip. VN F 1. 9. 2. 21. Rating 9. 51. 0 1. Al Gore 2. 01. 7 Was that science or gratuitous random weather porn to fuel superstitious belief, 9. Al Gore Is Getting. Hotter. April 2. 9, 2. Climate change has sent an emissary to the 2. Peoples Climate March on Washington a freakish, one day heat wave. The temperature is 9. Trump hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, on to the White House. Advertisement Continue Reading Below. Al Gore, the unofficial Moses of this march, is dressed in black jeans, black boots, a black polo style shirt. Hes carrying not a staff but a banner for his Climate Reality Project. He can barely progress up the avenue, because every few paces people stop him to get a selfie, to hug him and shake his hand, or to tell him that theyre among the 1. An Inconvenient Truth. Loosely flanking Gore are his oldest child, Karenna, the director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary his youngest child, Albert, who works for Tesla and about a dozen of the brainiac millennials who work for him at Climate Reality Project, the nonprofit he started in 2. An Inconvenient Truth and the best selling book of the same name. The former vice presidents Johnny Cash ensemble is just absorbing sun his face is alarmingly red. One of his staffers, a tall guy, is standing right behind Gore, angling a protest sign over his bosss schvitzing head and neck, trying to give him some shade in the beating sunwhen pushing into our midst is a little old lady from Long Island, brandishing her i. 2010 Blockbuster Movies The Smurfs 2. Phone. Youre in my way, she jabs at the young man. Then, to me Al Gore should have been the president, you know. Im trying to shade him from the sun, maam, the staffer says. She is unmoved But I cant see. Theres so much to say about Al Gore and our relationship to him and his message over the last decade. A lot has happenedis happeningin the realms of political will and climate change. A lot hasnt. And in this window during which we have to choose between saving ourselves from the worst effects of the most challenging crisis of our timeor notwere given a koan in the form of the lady from Long Island. Shes made the trip all the way from New York to DC. She voted for the VP in 2. Shes here in the hot sun. But in the balance between a greater good and her, uh, needs, its no contest. She wants her picture. Advertisement Continue Reading Below. After the march, we retreat to the DC Climate Reality Project offices Gore is based in Nashville, though he travels frequently all over the globe. Al is one of the greatest guys in the world. Hes genuine, smart, emotional, says Jeff Skoll, a philanthropist, a sustainability investor, and the chairman of Participant Media, which produced An Inconvenient Truth as well as Gores new film, An Inconvenient Sequel Truth to Power. Skoll has known Gore well for about 1. When he first meets people, he might be awkward and standoffish. When you get to know him, hes the opposite. I dont know which Al youll meet, he says. Gore and his staff are pretty spent from the day and the heat. But he settles into a chair in an ascetic, blissfully air conditioned conference room and starts talking about how, at the urging of producer and environmental activist Laurie David, he shortened his slide show from two hours to 2. David pressed on him that he had to have a version to share over social media. Heres a mind bender Twitter and Facebook were newbielaunches at the time of An Inconvenient Truth. And Donald Trump was running The Apprentice, Gore notes dryly. I had to kill my darlings, he says of the slide show cuts. Im sure youve heard that phrase. Why, yes. And thats the conundrum, in trying to pick which of the Al Gore threads to unspool. Hes a Zelig, at the center of pivotal events in late twentieth centuryearly twenty first century American politics, history, and environmental concerns. He at once cuts a melancholy figure, schlepping his carry on roller bag through airport security, and that of a man full of hope and optimism, with the powerful connections to world leaders and business titans to make things happen. Advertisement Continue Reading Below. Heres an Al Gore time line, in which many darlings have been killed 1. As the lady from Long Island would have it, Gore should have become the president in 2. Hillary Clinton, he won the popular vote. But when the Electoral College win came down to Florida and a few hundred contested votes there, a majority conservative Supreme Court ruled in favor of George W. Bush. 2. For a time, Gore sported an impressive beard known as either an achievement beard, per the New Yorker, or a failure beard, per the Internet, that seemed emblematic of his movement from politics into postpolitics. While the following should not necessarily be viewed as cause and effect, Gore shaved the beard, and Laurie David talked him into turning his climate change slide show into An Inconvenient Truth. It all started, oddly enough, with the global warming disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, which twigged peoples fears about how real the climate calamity might actually be. The producers wanted to do a town hall with Al Gore and asked me to host it, David remembers. Al presented a four minute version of his slide show. I was floored by how simple it was, how hed communicated it. After that event, I said, Just give me two dates, and I will present this to opinion leaders. I booked hotel ballrooms in L. A. and New York. It was very hard to get interest at first, because people were still pissed at him for losing the election. At both events, he got standing ovations. That was the moment David knew that Gore had to do more than a slide show. The movie won two Oscars in 2. Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2. Hundreds of thousandsmaybe millionsof us were moved to change our ways, reduce our emissions, recycle, even compost. Advertisement Continue Reading Below. Meanwhile, Gore had become a savvy investor, having cofounded the managed asset fund Generation Investment Management in 2. To borrow from the Atlantic, Generation is a demonstration of a new version of capitalism, one that will shift the incentives of financial and business operations to reduce the environmental, social, political, and long term economic damage being caused by unsustainable commercial excesses. Between 2. Generations global equity fund was 1. In 2. 01. 0, Al and Tipper Gore separated after 4. Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert. That was sad. Theyd seemed like Paul and Linda, Goldie and Kurt. A few years ago, the vice president began dating a politically connected environmental activist named Elizabeth Keadle. He took her to Cannes in May See number 8. He sold his Current TV cable channel to Al Jazeera in 2. Al Jazeera then used the frequency to launch the now shuttered Al Jazeera America, which fed animus against Gore hes also been a lightning rod for animus from the likes of Oklahoma senator James Inhofe, former vice president Dick Cheney, and the Koch brothers. He can get Teslas Elon Musk on the phone anytime, including evenings and weekends. An Inconvenient Sequel Truth to Power,which screened in Cannes in May and is out this month, is both more hopeful and scarier than the first film. It dwells on Gores many climate change triumphs and setbacks since losing the 2. Its directed by documentarians Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, who filmed Gore for more than a year on multiple continents. Advertisement Continue Reading Below. A sequence early in Truth to Power finds Gore in a helicopter flying over Greenlands ice sheet, geopolitical thriller music in the background, as we watch giant chunks of glacier seem to smoke and then explode, almost as if theyre being bombed. The exploding part of it was dramatic, Gore says, and then a couple of minutes later, when its kind of crumbling, in real time, its like a computer generated image. Except its not computer generated this is really happening. There are other moments in the sequel that are real, and terrifying the footage of the destructive force of the 1.