The Threat of Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

at young adult audiences. Now with the release of the film, an inconvenient truth, the former vice president has found a new platform for one of his old passions, the threat posed by global warming. The film's launch has landed Gore on red carpets, as well as on magazine covers, New York, Wired, Vanity Fair, with Al Gore in the role of exorter in chief, the full-length feature film focuses on the science and the politics of global warming, and on Gore himself. If you look at the 10 hottest years ever measured, they've all occurred in the last 14 years, and the hottest of all was 2005. Gore's multimedia presentation, which he has toted around the world on his laptop, grabbed Hollywood's attention last year. But it is not Gore's first foray into the topic. His 1992 book, Earth in the Balance, was the best seller. If we listen carefully and clearly to what the scientific community of the entire world is saying, not just saying, they're shouting it now, they're saying, hey, wake up.

We're facing a planetary emergency here, and we're not used to hearing phrases like that, or encountering alarming messages like that. We have to tear the mask away. Labeling this a political issue is just another way of saying it's insignificant. This is the most crucial challenge that any of us have ever faced, and it's happening in our lifetimes. Some critics have called Gore alarmist as in this ad, released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank. Carbon dioxide, they call it pollution, we call it life. But the critics have not slowed Al Gore's big comeback, appearing this morning on NBC's today's show, Katie Couricass, the inevitable question, what will Gore do in 2008? I don't intend to be a candidate ever again.

Never, never, never. Well, look, I know plans to be a candidate and no intention of being a candidate. I've said that I'm not at the stage of my life where I'm going to say never in the rest of my life will ever think about such a thing. An inconvenient truth opens in select cities today.