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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

20 years ago, Al Gore released the documentary an inconvenient truth.

After premiering to a standing ovation at Sundance and earning $25 million at the box office,

it earned an Oscar for Best Documentary. Well, today, 20 years

later, Gore still stands behind the film. Quote, from my perspective, the movie's even more

relevant today than when it first came out. He recently stated at an anniversary ceremony for the

film, adding that global warming is not yet solved. And Gore's primary claims today are the same as they were a generation ago.

The climate change is happening, that it is human caused, and that it presents an existential

threat to the human race.

Unless the nations of the world took immediate and drastic steps to alter economic and

political structures, he argued then, the runaway effects of warming

would doom us all. In the documentary, Gore evoked a line from Mark Twain, saying, quote,

what gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't

so. In other words, the world was not too big for humanity to mess up as so many believed. Maybe that was

true at one time, he said, but it's not anymore. An inconvenient truth is the most consequential

documentary of the last half century. Gore's prophecies had a profound impact on Western

culture, from Hollywood to D.C. to the sciences, even the humanities in most universities. And for quite a while

to even question his claims was the same as being a flat earther. But not so much anymore. A recent

article in National Review outlined Gorsefield prophecies. He promised, and I quote,

a world besieged by floods, droughts, storms, wildfires, wrote author Beyond

Lamborg. The data, however, tell a different story. Over the past century, as the global

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