Released hard on the heels of the Canadian documentary THE GREAT WARMING (2006), this 95-minute lecture also warns that the fate of the Earth has never been less certain. Which is not to say that its star, former Vice President Al Gore, is a Johnny-come-lately: Gore, who sardonically introduces himself as the man who "used to be the next president of the United States," was introduced to the disturbing relationship between increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature as a Harvard student in the late 1960s by geochemist Roger Revelle, whose pioneering research laid the groundwork for current thinking on the subject. Gore has been lecturing about the...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG
Length:
100 mins