We got a lot of them on the southern border of Texas and of the U.S. There-last year there were four times as many climate refugees as there were all the refugees from wars and conflicts. And that’s why a lot of them are already migrating. And that is why there are so many areas that are now in danger of becoming literally unlivable, where human beings can’t survive for more than two or three hours outdoors. We’ve seen the heat index reach 165 degrees in some places-the combination of heat and humidity.
We’ve now seen temperatures 125 degrees and above. The hottest seven years were the last seven years. Now, last year was the hottest year ever measured with instruments. And I think it’s one of the reasons for this wave of populist authoritarianism that is threatening democracy and capitalism.Īnd those two lines you saw in that graph, they show the lockstep relationship between CO2 and temperature. But my political experience tells me that too many, too soon can trigger xenophobic reactions. We’re-I’ve talked to and welcomed the refugees, and I think that’s correct.
Think of the destabilizing effect that has on political equilibria around the country. But with its sequel hitting cinemas now, it’s not clear that ‘big issue’ documentaries make a difference in the long term. The United Nations says that we may have 1 billion climate refugees by the middle of this century. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth woke up the world to climate change. The cumulative amount that lingers there, as Alexandria said, now traps as much extra heat every day as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every 24 hours. That’s where all the greenhouse gases congregate. If you could drive a car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds, you’d get to the top of that blue line in about five minutes. You see a picture of the troposphere from the space station behind me, it’s so thin. We are now putting 162 million tons of man-made global warming pollution into the sky as if it’s an open sewer. Do it right now.Job number one is reducing emissions. Go see it, and if you can't, tell your friends to go. 'Chasing Ice' is making its next stops in New York, Boston and Chicago, and you can request a viewing in your town here. It is also one that makes absolutely clear, in terms that anyone can understand, that climate change is urgent, unprecedented, and something that human beings must act on right away.Įvidence of this came from my friend, Gavin, who said to me as we left the theater, "I have to admit that I doubted that global warming was really happening.
#Where can i watch an inconvenient truth movie#
What 'Chasing Ice' offers is an alternative, a movie that is infinitely more interesting to watch than "An Inconvenient Truth." It is a real-life action-adventure movie, complete with explosions and unaltered footage that will leave any moviegoer's mouth hanging open. One starts out with a gripping message but soon gets lost in, on one hand, a depressing tale of rising, poisoned oceans and burning forests, and on the other, a lot of jargon involving probably's and likelihood's and parts-per-million, and the next thing you know your friends are both sad and confused. Climate change is, as anyone who has tried to tell their friends about it knows, is a hard sell. But the most useful route that Balog and his fellow protagonists discover is the one across Communication Gap.