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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

WAS ‘AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH’ A VERY CONVENIENT LIE?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, News

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jefferey looks back at the 20-year legacy of “An Inconvenient Truth” highlighting long-standing factual disputes, court rulings on bias, and how climate narratives have been used to justify sweeping policies. Hear new research on polar bears, natural climate cycles, and the emerging risks of AI-engineered viruses—raising questions about which threats are real and which are manufactured through narrative.

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0:00.0

We're upon an anniversary, just came and went, 20 years of an inconvenient lie.

0:06.0

I guess you want to talk about it when it comes to Al Gore's inconvenient truth.

0:10.0

His documentary won an Oscar for it. It was all over the place.

0:14.0

And at this point, we look back on it now, and here are the headlines.

0:18.0

Two decades of inconvenient inaccuracies. And why are we always

0:23.4

beating this drum here? Because this painted, it's about narratives. I mean, we live through COVID.

0:28.3

We saw how narratives allowed lockdowns, forced vaccination. I mean, all of it. I don't have to go through it.

0:33.4

The narrative of climate change, really Al Gore was the jet fuel.

0:37.7

The inconvenient truth was the jet fuel that drove this home into the minds of children

0:42.3

and into the minds.

0:43.5

I mean, he was a documentary filmmaker.

0:45.0

He made this documentary.

0:46.2

And so a lot of people didn't know, but he was sued by the high court in the UK and lost

0:51.6

because there were so many inaccuracies.

0:53.8

In 2009, here's the headline here,

0:55.7

an inconvenient verdict for Al Gore.

0:58.2

So he lost there because in the UK,

1:00.3

you can't put this forward,

1:01.9

especially the school children and be biased

1:03.9

and basically lied to them.

1:05.4

So of course, schools, this is the headline,

1:07.9

must warn of Gore climate film bias. So they had to, when they

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