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Analysis of: An Inconvenient Truth
Objective: Analyze, evaluate, and critique explanations of global warming using evidence, reasoning, experimental and observational techniques.
Analyze/Evaluate:
1. What do you understand by the phrase, “global warming”? Is it a correct or misleading phrase?
2. Which parts of the documentary effectively add strength to Gore’s argument?
3. Which parts of the film do you feel weaken Gore’s argument?
4. Gore makes use of animation at two points in the documentary. Discuss these two animations, explaining the purpose of each, and also stating if it is effective or not.
5. Including personal events in a documentary about global warming is gratuitous and unnecessary. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
6. Gore might be concerned about global warming, but it is clear that he has other agendas, too. What do you think these agendas are, and do they make the message any less effective?
7. Which African lake does Gore refer to in the documentary to convince skeptics of the very real threat and danger of global warming? Is his example suitable or not? Explain.
8. Why should the vanishing glaciers be of great concern to all of us?
9. How is America depicted as being largely responsible for global warming?
10. What solutions does Gore offer to viewers to combat global warming?
11. Explain why the statistics and graphs Gore presents in the documentary could be a weakness, and could cause his audience to lose interest.
12. The “red jagged line” is also known as the Keeling curve. Charles David Keeling, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, was the first person to make frequent regular measurements of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, taking readings at the South Pole and in Hawaii from 1958 onwards. Why is the “red jagged line” so extremely important to Gore’s argument?