Sunday, June 7, 2009

An Inconvenient Truth



Inconvenient Truth is a movie that talks about global warming. It is presented by Al Gore “the vice president under Clinton”. He shared a noble peace prize in 2007with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this film Al Gore will talk about the greenhouse effect on global warming.
Al Gore shows in his presentation the relation between the increase of the planet temperature and the concentration of the CO2 in the air.

Al Gore emphasizes that one of the consequences of the increase in the ocean temperature is strong stomps can be generated such as Hurricanes Jean, Ivan and Katrina. Moreover, he added that the feedback cycle causes the ice on both pole to melt which can increase the sea levels worldwide up to 20 feet. As result, lands like Beijing, The Netherlands, Bangladesh, Florida and San Francisco will be covered by sea water and millions of people will be homeless. Furthermore, there will be serious shortage in drinking water. As 40% of which flow through rivers and spring systems that produced by the melted water coming off the glaciers. Also, dissertation will increase and more green land will disappear and there will be an expanding in infection diseases range.



At the end of his presentation, he suggest that more efficient power source, using renewable technology energy source, carbon capture, Higher mileage cars and other transport efficiency can reduce the CO2 in the air significantly. He added that the solutions are in our hand but we have to make it happen.

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