Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If what the majority of the scientists are saying is true, then everyone on planet earth have just about ten years before a major catastrophe takes place and makes life on earth endangered or completely extinct. An Inconvenient Truth is essentially an attempt at popularising the critical and consequential issue of global warming. Throughout the movie, Al Gore’s multi-media presentation along with his political campaign is filmed, where he educates us on the various dangers that global warming brings with it and how it has already started to affect the world. This terrifying yet eye-opening documentary galvanises everyone who watches this documentary to do something about global warming.
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When the sun hits the ice, it just reflects back and melts at a slow rate. However, once the heat hits the water around the ice patch, it speeds up the process of melting. This affects the polar bears greatly. People have actually found polar bears that have drowned since they couldn’t find an ice patch to rest on after swimming for long distances. Even penguins and other species that live in cold areas are affected by such problems. Ice shelves are melting in Antarctica and Greenland. Both these countries have two kinds of ice shelves: land-based and sea-based. Sea-based ice shelves will start melting first and therefore cause the land-based ice shelves to melt as well. This causes enormous problems since all the extra water from the melting will increase the sea level. If the entire of Greenland melts, many cities would be submerged underwater. If just the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melts, the water level could increase to up to twenty feet.
Increase in population is one of the main reasons for global warming since it puts pressure on demand for many commodities. Trees get deforested and even burnt in order to make space for buildings and houses. This will lead to increase in carbon dioxide emissions and therefore affect us adversely. People in China and USA still use old technologies in their factories that release a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If they start putting in even a slight effort to change this, it can be a great help to global