Is “An Inconvenient Truth” accurate?
There are exaggerations in this movie, but in my view the main messages are important and on target. “An Inconvenient Truth” attributes increased tornadoes, disease, and insurance payouts to recent climate change, which I’m pretty sure is wrong. Cooler heads say the true causes are, respectively: better detection of weather extremes; increasing population density and air travel; and more at-risk property being built. Also Gore was criticised for showing the inundation of Florida without noting that this is expected to take at least two centuries to happen. But the other impacts of climate change cited in this movie are real, and I expect more serious ones are lurking over the horizon.
