An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

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Al Gore's movie

An Inconvenient Truth

won him an Oscar, and yet,

much of the movie is nonsense.

"Sea levels may rise 20 feet"

is absurd!

But this is Al Gore.

He always goes down the road

of hyperbole.

Not only is he losing

the argument

on climate change,

but he's losing the science

as well.

You don't go

see Joseph Goebbels' films

to see the truth

about Nazi Germany.

You don't want

to go see Al Gore's film

to see the truth

about global warming.

And it's the most severe

winter storm in years,

which would seem to contradict

Al Gore's hysterical

global warming theories.

Donald Trump says

he's had it up to here

with Al Gore

and is calling for the

Nobel Peace Prize committee

to take the prize away.

Yes or no, do you believe

that human-caused global warming

is a moral,

ethical, and spiritual issue

affecting our survival?

Yes, I do.

Yes or no,

do you believe that reducing

fossil fuel-based energy usage

will lead to lower

greenhouse gas emissions?

Basically, yes.

I don't think we...

That's... That's good.

Senator Gore...

If I could just, uh, continue...

Well, you can't.

Now, it seems

that everything is blamed

on global warming.

Last summer, we had a

heat wave, and everyone said,

"Oh, that's proof

it's global warming."

Then we had a mild December.

"Oh, that's proof"

"it's global warming

that's taking place."

Now, I wonder how come you guys

never seem to notice it

when it gets cold?

The National Academy of Sciences

here in this country

and in the 16

largest or most-developed

countries in the world

agrees with the consensus

that I've stated.

Senator Gore, my time

is almost expired completely.

Are you aware of that?

It seems that everybody...

I would like to respond.

May I respond?

...global warming in

the media joined the chorus...

Excuse me, Senator Imhofe.

How can you ask a question

and not give the man

a minute to answer?

Please.

Senator, thank you. Um...

I've been sitting here

trying to think

what I could do or say

that, uh...

That might make it possible

to reach out to you.

And I'm serious about this.

I'd love to, um,

talk with you

without the cameras

and without the lights and...

And tell you, uh,

why I feel so strongly

about this.

And we've got to call the other,

I think, three or four speakers

for the Generation Client

Conference, too.

All right, so now back to

the Paris conference.

I'd like a briefing on

the must-do meetings in Paris.

And I'll circle back

to Christiana

well before then

on how I can best help her.

I need to talk to

Secretary Kerry

- about the long-term goal.

- Mmm-hmm.

I want to schedule

the China climate training

during the first three months

of the year.

I think it would be good

to lock that down.

Yeah, definitely.

Morning. Morning.

Thank you for your help.

Since An Inconvenient Truth

came out ten years ago,

climate-related

extreme weather events

have gotten so much worse.

And so I've continued

to give my slideshow

all around the world.

Now, I want to add

the latest images

of the flooding going on

right now in Louisiana.

Okay, I think both of those'll

fit really well there.

I mean, every week now

this stuff

just keeps getting worse

and more of it.

But...

Actually, there were times when

it really looked bleak and dark

because the forces trying

to stop the change regrouped

and poured tons of money

in trying to paralyze

the political system

in the U.S.

and in other countries.

I got really discouraged.

And there came a time for me

when I felt, wow, we could

lose this struggle.

We need to recruit more people.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

I hope you're having

a productive

and enjoyable, wonderful time

at this training session.

I've been doing this

a long time.

And I was reminded recently

of how long it's been

since I started this.

I was sitting in a restaurant.

A woman came walking by

in front of my table,

just staring at me.

And I didn't think

anything of it until,

a few moments later,

I saw the same woman

coming from

the opposite direction,

just staring at me.

So I looked up and I said,

"How do you do?"

And she took one step forward

and she said,

"You know,

if you dyed your hair black,"

"you would look

just like Al Gore."

And so I said, "Thank you."

And she said,

"You sound like him, too."

But anyway...

One of the comedians on TV

said recently,

"The way you know

global warming is real"

"is if the hottest year ever"

"is the year

you're currently in."

Fourteen of the 15

hottest years ever measured

have been since 2001.

The hottest of all was 2016.

This graph shows

average temperatures

from 1951 through 1980.

The white are the normal days,

the blue are

the cooler-than-average days,

and the red are

warmer-than-average days.

And in the 1980s,

the entire curve

shifted to the warm side.

And we saw, for the first time,

the appearance of

a statistically significant

number of extremely

hot days in the lower right.

In the 1990s,

the curve shifted further.

And in the last ten years,

the extremely hot days

have become more numerous

than the

cooler-than-average days.

We still have cool days.

We still have cold days.

But these extremely hot days

are becoming much more numerous.

In April of this year,

the temperature over Greenland

was much higher than normal.

An engineer on one of

the helicopters took a video

during this temperature spike.

Those are parts of the glacier

just exploding

with the high temperatures.

Hey, Eric. How you doing?

Good to see you again.

So, you see the line

on the ridge here?

Yes.

That grey line is

where the ice surface was

back in the '80s.

- Not so long ago.

- Not long ago at all.

It's amazing to think

that just 30 years ago,

where we are right now,

it was all covered

by the big ice sheet.

- You ready for me?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I'll hold the ladder.

- Thank you, Bianca.

- Yeah, no problem, Al.

Welcome to Swiss Camp!

We have 20

automatic weather stations

measuring the climate.

Swiss Camp is just one of them.

This is the cumulative

height change of melt.

Yes. I see.

Since 2000 to now,

we lost 12 meters

- of ice at that elevation.

- Wow.

That was our former station,

level with the surface.

- Yes.

- Very deep pillars.

We came back next season.

That's where we are now.

This is okay here?

- Around there?

- Yes. Yeah.

That would be a hole you don't

- want to step in, right?

- Yes.

So, it's going

straight down there?

So the water rushes down.

And since it's heavier than ice,

it pushes its way

underneath the ice sheet.

And we can measure

how the ice is lifted up

a few millimeters

to a centimeter.

And then the ice moves fast

and you reduce the friction.

And, in effect, the ice sheet

starts speeding up

in its flow toward the ocean.

That's correct.

So this makes the ice mass

like Swiss cheese.

It is frustrating that

for many years,

I've tried to communicate

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