An inconvenient fact-check of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth on its 20th anniversary

Washington Examiner ^ | January 31, 2026 8:00 am | Joe Concha

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Summary of Article's Inconvenient Truth Comments

Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, warning of imminent catastrophic climate impacts requiring massive global investment to avert planetary disaster. The film premiered to acclaim at Sundance with a standing ovation, won two Oscars (including Best Documentary), and earned Gore the Nobel Peace Prize.

Twenty years later (in 2026), key claims include:

• Bronze: Gore stated Mt. Kilimanjaro would lose all snow by 2016. Glaciers have shrunk dramatically (~90% since early 20th century, down to ~1 km² or less by recent estimates), with projections of near-total loss by 2030–2050. Seasonal snow persists, but permanent ice fields continue retreating rapidly.

• Silver: Gore cited a 75% chance of ice-free North Polar summer within 5–7 years, per Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski, who disavowed the precise figure. Arctic sea ice reached its lowest winter maximum on record in March 2025 (14.33 million km²) and 10th-lowest September minimum in 2025 (4.60 million km²); long-term decline persists (~12% per decade), with no full summer ice-free event, though variability includes some gains in interim years like 2021–2023.

• Gold: Gore warned that melting Greenland and parts of West Antarctica could raise sea levels 20 feet each, flooding areas like Florida, San Francisco, the Netherlands, Beijing, Shanghai, and displacing millions to hundreds of millions. No such rapid collapse or mass displacement has occurred; sea-level rise continues gradually (3–4 mm/year globally).

Gore has not apologized or returned awards, maintaining climate advocacy. At the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, he reportedly booed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick during a dinner speech; Lutnick described it as the "greatest honor," mocking Gore's past predictions (e.g., ice caps gone by 2025, Greenland green). (248 words)

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: algore; climate; goron; inconvenientfraud; inconvenienttruth; scam

[The Great RJ]

The 20 ft rise in sea level would be an inconvenient truth for Gore’s seaside mansion. Ditto for Obama’s mansion that is barely above sea level

[BipolarBob]

Not funny. Weve lost Miami, the Hawaiian Islands and Greenland and both coasts devestated5. We owe Algore thanks for warning us. We just didn’t listen.

[BradyLS]

Not to mention our base on Diego Garcia.

[frank ballenger]

I remember the outside talk on global warming that had to be cancelled because it was so unseasonably cold that people pressured them to re-schedule it indoors. Brrrrrrr.

And I really wish I could find the printed source I distinctly remember when Al Gore said: (close paraphrase) “We are about to experience a string of ‘years without a winter.’ The calendar will show winter but the weather will have a few brief freezes off and on but unseasonably warm all year round
even in the northern and northeastern states.”

Never happened.

I remember the Detroit Tigers TV announcer who lived in Arizona asking his partner on a cold, windy late May day in Detroit: “You come from Michigan. Tell me, does it ever get warm here?” Cold records were broken many times that year and the next.

Opening day photo in April had snow on the seats and the caption “There was supposed to be a ball game but snow on the field brought a postponement.”

[Leaning Right]

Is Al Gore a dumb guy who got away with saying dumb things?
Or is he a clever guy who got away with saying dumb things?

I still can’t decide. Wouldn’t put any money on it either way.
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[Fungi]

A dumbass pothead who got lucky.

[rellic]

Al Gore is a Democrat.
Nearly half of America are idiots,
they are known as Democrats and under
our system idiots can vote.
So we get Al Gores, Clinton’s, Kennedy’s and
Roosevelt’s to ruin our lives.

[kawhill]

“Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, warning of imminent catastrophic climate impacts requiring massive global investment to avert planetary disaster. The film premiered to acclaim at Sundance with a standing ovation, won two Oscars (including Best Documentary), and earned Gore the Nobel Peace Prize.” Pretty much same o same o here algore.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

A Bob Rivers classic -

 

 

Al Gore's Travelin' Global Warming Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E42mIvjzRw

 

 

[bigbob]

Denmark needs to unload Greenland quickly before it’s gone…won’t Trump loook silly then!

[ealgeone]

It was 1* last night here in the deep south.

[Ditto]

Is Al Gore a dumb guy who got away with saying dumb things? Or is he a clever guy who got away with saying dumb things?

Pick one… it doesn’t matter either way. Gore never gave a rats ass about the climate… it was all about the money for him. He got paid very well for his BS.

[Tell It Right]

When my kids said that they watched An Inconvenient Truth in school, I told them that when I was in school I watched The Coming Ice Age. We got a good laugh out of it. LOL

[wally_bert]

The amazing manbearpig.

[bray]

Where did they find these studies since other studies show just the opposite. Glaciers are not shrinking and ice caps are not retreating.

[Libloather]

U.K. judge: Gore’s climate film has 9 problems

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21259069

[AZJeep]

Oh, he is very smart!
He made millions of $$$ out of simple hoax!
That’s very smart!

[Deaf Smith]

Years ago (2006?) ManBearPig organized concerts on all continents during the northern hemisphere summer for something (global warming?). ManBearPig could not understand why a out outdoor concert could not be held in Antarctica.

[Retain Mike]

I am always skeptical when I see terms like “experts say” or “latest research proves”. I have first learned to wonder who paid for the study and how do they profit.

Turn a blank sheet of paper sideways. On the left write “weather event” in small letters, draw a circle around the words, and then draw a small arrow pointing to the right side. On the far right, write the words "manmade climate change” in small letters, draw a circle around the words, and then draw a small arrow pointing to the circle.

Is there not a large blank space in the middle? Have you ever seen a story which fills in this area? Have you ever read a story that uses words like sun and ocean, which are the two enormous engines determining temperature? Cannot the stories that you have seen be inserted into one or the other circles? Consider the research of Michael Mann, et al enshrining to this day his speculation the results were “highly suggestive of man-made global warming”, which lead to endless breathtaking fantasies freed from the rigors of scientific standards.

I will submit there is no evidence of man-made global warming because no adherent to the popular mythology will acknowledge the existence of the sun and oceans, nor will they employ mathematical and scientific concepts like open system, closed system, correlation, and causation. All I have ever seen are fraudulent to accurate comments on weather events or physical phenomenon involving temperature followed by an assertion man-made global warming as the cause. I have yet to find any article which attempts to measure the influence of the sun and ocean and then ascribe an increment to human activity.