The Many Errors of An Inconvenient Truth

This is so interesting, and a great reminder that climate communication need not be sensationalised, as the objective truth is powerful in and of itself.

Perhaps you could do a video examining all of the predictions by climate scientists, and how accurate they have been?

I’m trying to find out how to buy property in Antarctica for when the ice melts and the land becomes fertile in a few years. I want to be ahead of the next pioneer movement.

Al's net worth also increased from $ 6 to $ 26m by 2012.

Great to see you back Dr Simon Clark, official real doctor of science things.

Good to see you back Simon. Hope things are going good.

Regarding the link between CO2 and temperature: The historical record, including that promulgated by the IPCC has temperature peaks BEFORE peaks in CO2, not AFTER. This would imply the causal trigger is rises in global temperature and the effect is rises in CO2. This has to exclude the populist theory that rises in CO2 trigger temperature rises, where the argument is twisted to be the wrong way around. The scientific reason for the link is that global temperature rises trigger warming of the oceans and hence a release of dissolved CO2. The flip side when Earth cools CO2 is captured by the oceans and CO2 levels in the atmosphere decline. If you look at a chart of the Palaeolithic Time Period you can see peaks in temperature occurring roughly 100,000 years apart each followed by a peak of CO2 approximately 800 years later. It’s a simple chicken vs the egg problem. In each case the chicken {Temperature rise} occurs first and the egg {peak in CO2} comes second. This is not the model for global warming in action as the alarmists would have you believe. Source: IPCC report for scientists circa 2006, Patric Moore, one time Chairman of Greenpeace and currently independent Scientist / Commentator.

Polar bears swim very well, in fact. Inuit have observed over decades seeing them well out to sea swimming and hunting, since water in the summer is a fact of life for them. I would also note that there exists lots of data around sea levels, which have changed very little over a hundred or more years.

Nice to see you back, and what a good video to release with, I also watched this film just out of interest during my Ocean Science undergraduate degree, but critically looking at it raised some eyebrows from me, especially the oceanic componants...

Another error of AIT: focus on sea level rise, when what's critical to coastal infrastructure and communities is storm surge rise, which is happening faster and more severely by far.

Greenland has actually been ADDING to its ice mass over the last decade. The summertime Arctic ice extent has been constant since 2007. The CDN has a whole series on sea levels - historic and modern - proving the sea level rise is and has been about 3mm per year. ... next?

In 2022, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reported the highest levels of coral cover across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in over 36 years. 😂

An Inconvenient Truth was a delicate balancing act: make it seem scary enough to finally get conservatives to see the severity of the problem while not sensationalizing it so much that the film’s arguments can be dismissed as hyperbole.

10:23 there is the fact that co2 lags the global temperature rise by about 800 years during the glacial-interglacial transition during an overall ice age, although that was caused by milankovitch cycles rising temperatures first by changing the amount sunlight hitting the polar ice caps in summer which melts the ice, reduces the albedo, and causes the planet to warm up, than co2 is degassed from the oceans (because co2 is less soluble in warmer water, it’s one reason why you store carbonated drinks like Soda cold), than that causes most of the warming after which is why we enter an interglacial period. So while the initial warming is caused by milankovitch cycles during a glacial-interglacial transition, most of the warming comes after co2 is degassed from the oceans which amplifies the warming. The forcing from milankovitch cycles alone isn’t enough to actually stop or start glacial cycles. Just thought I’d mention it because it is a misleading claim many climate “skeptics” make “because if co2 lags temps than it can cause it to rise”.

"Is it a political film? Yes!"

The big companies don't want you to hold them accountable. ever. for anything.

18:45 "content is served to us algorithmically" made me chuckle, the video has conditioned my brain to expect that last word to have something to do with Al Gore

Criticizing An Inconvenient Truth? You're one of them! *grabs pitchfork. Seriously though, I always appreciate it when 'my side' is corrected. That means there's more knowledge to soak up. Thank you for this video.

Am I the only one who noticed the incorrect animation at 4:43? (the ice in the glass--the ice below the waterline would DROP the water level...and only THEN would the ice above the water level begin to fill. Since the volume of the ice above the water level is less than or equal to the space in the glass above the water level, then it is not possible for the water to overflow the glass....

"Taking a complex statement and reducing it down to snappy headlines..." This happens a lot more than should be acceptable... I hate it...