"An Inconvenient Truth" Notes

Biographical

• Teacher measured oxygen in atmosphere
• Son hit by a car
• Son motivated US president
• Wiston Churchill—“In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.”
• Father grew up on a farm
• 8 months in New York
• 4 months in farm

Earth Science

• How earth changed
• Pangea
• Atmosphere thickened
• Greenhouse gases keep sunrays in earth’s atmosphere
• Earth breathes in and out
• More CO2 coming out
• Kilimanjaro used to have no snow
• Snow retreats
• 40
• 40% of people drink water from mountains
• Argentina vast amount of ice now gone
• CO2 and temperature levels rose sharply
• More CO2, temperature warmer
• Goes way up (fossil fuel burning)
• 10 hottest years on record in last 14 years, hottest is 2005
• India-122 degrees Fahrenheit
• 200 cities in the west set highest temp. record
• Ocean warm, more storms
• Lots typhoons in Japan
• Global warming: precipitation
• Relocates precipitation
• Niger, Darfur: lack of rainfall
• Lake Chad dried up
• Sucks moisture from soil
• Ice shelf split in half
• Within next 50 years, icecap would be completely gone

Geography

• South America fit into Africa
• Earth distributes heat from equator to poles
• +1 degrees in equator, +12 degrees in poles
• Pine beetles haven’t been killed
• Mosquitoes warming land on high altitudes
• Lots of diseases cam out
• SARS
• Different types of tuberculosis

Opinions

• We can degrease global warming if we put our mind to it
• The whole earth is more important than the economy
• www.climatecrisis.net
• Buy energy efficient appliances
• Hybrid car
• Switch to renewable energy
• Green energy
• Trees
• Pray people to find change

Visuals

• Picture of Kilimanjaro
• Picture of icecaps
• Picture of river in Amazon
• Picture of dried riverbed with horse on it
• Hurricane Katrina
• Ice shelf split in half
• Beetle-infested pine trees
• A satellite image of the earth between August 9^th – August 18^th showing the amount of forest fires that took place

Bias

Sorry, I have no notes for bias because in most non-fictional movies, people try to make the information as unbiased as possible.

Predictions

• Coral reefs die
• Bleached
• 70 million tops put out into air
• 25 million tons absorbed into sea
• CO2 makes muscles etc. hard to make shells
• Jellyfish population will soar
• Giant jellyfish in Japan
• Relationship between earth and humans changed
• Humans emerged 160-195 million years ago
• Took long time for people to emerge
• 10 000 generations 2 billion people
• 1 generation 2 billion people to 9 billion people
• People produce less children now
• Slowing down
• Stabilize at 9 or 9.1 billion in the next years
• Greenland melts (experiences largest change from global warming)
• 50 cubic miles melted off Greenland
• Glacial earthquakes double
• Earthquakes rated 5 on Greenland
• Melting of ice causes earthquakes
• Rerepresent warning of global warming
• Major wildfire increase
• Increase of area burned, damage caused
• Soil, vegetation dries out
• Lightning increase temperature
• More wildfires = more CO2
• August 9^th – August 18^th at least 1 fire in each continent
• Soil moisture evaporation
• Double CO2 in next 50 years
• Soil moisture 60% loses in next 50 years if business continues
• Amazon dries out
• Some parts of Amazon bed dried
• Permafrost melting and thawing
• Causing buildings to fall
• CO2 and methane unfrozen can cause diseases
• 70 million tons of methane thawing
• 730 trillion tons of CO2
• Unfreeze permafrost, CO2 level goes up
• Positive changes:
• Opinion changed in US
• Prominent leaders changed point of view
• Business leaders also changed point of view

Personal

Sorry, I have no notes for personal either.