Task
Answer the following questions while watching An Inconvenient Truth.
Questions
1. Why does Al Gore believe that "good people on both sides of politics hold this issue at arms length and refuse to acknowledge it"?
2. Analysis of Antarctic ice core samples can give us information from up to how many years ago?
3. The ice gives us information on the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the air and the temperature. What is this relationship?
4. What does the above relationship predict will happen with the current trend in CO2 levels?
5. How much of the sun's rays are reflected by the Arctic ice cap?
6. What will happen as the Arctic ice cap melts?
7. What steps are suggested in the film that would significantly reduce the level of greenhouse gases?
