Global Warming Media

Download or read book Global Warming Media written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Documentary films about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, The Great Global Warming Swindle, The Age of Stupid, Are We Changing Planet Earth?, Climate Audit, Earth 2100, Not Evil Just Wrong, A Green New Deal, Transarctica, Everything's Cool, The Cloud Mystery, Him Ganga Hum, Icecap, Five Ways to Save the World, Cool It, The Greenhouse Conspiracy, Global Warming: The Signs and The Science, Clouds of Smoke. Excerpt: An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate, he has given more than a thousand times. Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the documentary was a critical and box-office success, winning 2 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. The film also earned $49 million at the box office worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing documentary film to date in the United States. The idea to document his efforts came from Laurie David who saw his presentation at a town-hall meeting on global warming which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. David was so inspired by Gore's slide show that she, with Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film. Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy. An Inconvenient Truth focuses on Al Gore and on his travels in support of his efforts to educate the public about the severity of the climate...