Posted on 06/18/2026 6:38:54 PM PDT by Libloather
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Oscar-winning documentary about Gore's campaign to educate people about climate change.
When asked by ABC News chief meteorologist and chief climate correspondent Ginger Zee whether the film and its predictions on global warming hold up, Gore responded, "Unfortunately, yes."
"The scientists were dead right on all the important elements of it, and it really is insane that we are continuing to use the sky as an open sewer and we're trapping so much heat every day it's equal to the amount that would be released by 800,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day on the earth," Gore said during an interview with ABC News at his family farm in Tennessee.
In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in "An Inconvenient Truth" have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come. The last 11 years -- from 2015 to 2025 -- have been the hottest on record, according to scientific data from NOAA and the Copernicus Climate Change Service and summarized in a report released earlier this year by the World Meteorological Organization.
In the film, Gore also discussed how warming oceans would cause hurricanes to be more destructive. Climate scientists over the last decade have contributed to a growing body of evidence that human-amplified warming is leading to more intense storms and allowing for the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones as they approach land.
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“it’s equal to the amount that would be released by 800,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day on the earth,”
According to AI 800,000 Hiroshima bombs in one day (not every day) would: Based on calculations: 100 Hiroshima bombs could destroy ~2 billion lives �. So 800,000 bombs could theoretically kill all 8 billion people
Yes - but did Ginger Zee release his second chakra?
But...but...but...it’s a dry heat.
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How far back due the records go? About 175 years ago.
Blah, blah, blah, blah!
But somehow those beach front mansions are still in high demand by the elites.
Except for the ocean rising 6’ by 2020 and no snow in the Sierras after 2020 records in last 5 years. Draughts never happened or the no glaciers never happening and on and on.
All the scientists we funded through government money gave us the results we desired.
There, fixed it
In 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Al Gore’s climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, could only be shown in public secondary schools if accompanied by guidance notes. The judge identified nine significant scientific inaccuracies, exaggerations, and “one-sided” claims in the film.
I found an insight from an article with a map showing 173 individual hurricanes hitting land on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from 1850 to present. I decided to see if the upward sloping curve caused by warming ocean temperatures I have always heard about from the climate change people would show more extreme weather. Like everything else they say, it did not make sense.
173 Years of US Hurricane Strikes
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4285273/posts
1851-60: 17
1861-70: 17
1871-80: 20
1881-90: 20
1891-00: 28
1901-10: 23
1911-20: 21
1921-30: 17
1931-40: 24
1941-50: 31
1951-60: 35
1961-70: 17
1971-80: 15
1981-90: 18
1991-00: 15
2001-10: 23
2011-20: 19
2021-24: 12
Concerning a single event, I had the 20:00 to 24:00 OOD watch on the bridge on our ship as Typhoon Rose passed over Hong Kong in 1971. The eye was six miles from us. The measuring device at the British weather station broke as the winds exceeded 175 miles per hour.
He says that even as the scientists are backing off on this nonsense.
From where I type in the upper Midwest only about 100 great-grandmothers ago ice was a mile thick in the Laurentide sheet that covered this part of the continent and consequently formed the very young Great Lakes upon melting. Must have been all those campfires around the world that saved us.
one of the funniest things I ever saw was his famous up and down speech during the 1992 campaign. I was only ever able to find one recording of it and it was very hard to find.
What a buffoon.
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