The film brings us to that fateful moment on June 1 when Trump announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. William Spencer, a Suffolk County legislator, and Marisol Maddox, a climate security research fellow at Wright Thomas International, a Washington think tank. 4 at the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre because there was a panel discussion afterward, featuring Dr. I watched “An Inconvenient Sequel” on Aug. Tens of thousands of homes along our coastline could be vulnerable to flooding sometime between 20 -perhaps sooner, at the rate we’re going. Therein lies the problem for Long Island. So, as it melts and streams into the oceans, it raises sea level. But Greenland and Antarctic ice is land-based. The greatest warming, NASA scientists tell us, has occurred at the north and south poles, so the mountains of ice there - as well as in Greenland - have been melting and breaking apart at an increasingly alarming rate.Īrctic ice surrounding the North Pole is sea-based, so it doesn’t raise the level of the oceans when it melts. The trouble is this: The difference in mean temperature tells us what’s happening across the entirety of the planet, but not what is taking place in specific locales. You might ask, so what? What’s a one-degree difference in temperature over a decade?

In 2016 (the hottest year on record), it was 58.69, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When Gore produced “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006, the earth’s average temperature was about 57.5 degrees Fahrenheit. As is so often the case, however, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.Īs carbon dioxide and methane build up in the atmosphere, they trap increasingly greater amounts of heat.

Without heat-trapping gases, our planet would be a frozen wasteland. These “heat-trapping” gases allow ultraviolet light from the sun to pass through the atmosphere, but when that light is re-radiated back into space as infrared heat, the gases trap it, warming the earth. In doing so, we release carbon dioxide and, to a lesser extent, methane into the atmosphere. We burn fossil fuels - coal, oil, natural gas. (The first scientist to identify global warming as a phenomenon was the Swede Svante Arrhenius, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, in 1896.) So here’s a climate-change primer, based on 121 years of real science. Gore speaks about the phenomenon at length in “An Inconvenient Sequel.” The ultra-conservatives, á la Trump & Co., have so sowed the seeds of doubt and misunderstanding about climate change that many people have no idea what to really think. It’s not that people are incapable of understanding, and it’s not that they don’t care.

He appears to assume people know what global warming is by now. Essentially, the world is going to hell in a handbasket because of global warming. Writing library : x264 core 152 r2851 ba24899Įncoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4880 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.“An Inconvenient Sequel” picks up where “An Inconvenient Truth” left off. Writing library : libebml v1.3.5 + libmatroska v1.4.8 Writing application : mkvmerge v17.0.0 ('Be Ur Friend') 64-bit An.x264-BRMPĬomplete name : an.x264-brmp.mkv

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