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[[Image:Capitalistexploitation.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Al Gore has made a way to [[profit]] from [[global catastrophe]].<ref>''New Mexico Daily Lobo'', September 28, 2007, pg. 8.</ref>]]
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[[Image:Capitalistexploitation.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Al Gore has found a way to [[profit]] from [[global catastrophe]].<ref>''New Mexico Daily Lobo'', September 28, 2007, pg. 8.</ref>]]
    
'''"An Inconvenient Truth"''' is a documentary about [[global warming]] by former Vice President [[Al Gore]]. It is an entirely one-sided account which gives all the left's arguments in favor of supporting the sort of "[[greenhouse gas]]" reductions required by the [[Kyoto Protocol]].  
 
'''"An Inconvenient Truth"''' is a documentary about [[global warming]] by former Vice President [[Al Gore]]. It is an entirely one-sided account which gives all the left's arguments in favor of supporting the sort of "[[greenhouse gas]]" reductions required by the [[Kyoto Protocol]].  
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Though the film acknowledges that global warming is a cyclical phenomenon occurring throughout the planet's existence (see [[climate cycles]]), it argues that human-caused global warming is a modern issue beyond the scale of previous global cycles.
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The film ignores the evidence that atmospheric temperature is cyclical in nature and has gone up and down hundreds of times in the last million years (see [[climate cycles]]).  
    
According to the Madison, Wisconsin ''Capital Times'', [[Reid Bryson]], founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the [[Gaylord Nelson]] Institute for Environmental Studies and also known as the father of scientific climatology considers global warming a bunch of hooey. Reid said, "Don't make me throw up...it's not science..."  <ref>[http://robertsteely.townhall.com/Default.aspx?mode=post&g=abc72f45-f361-42a9-b73c-c01a506f1437 Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'], Noel Sheppard, June 18, 2007. Retrieved from Townhall.com June 20, 2007.</ref>
 
According to the Madison, Wisconsin ''Capital Times'', [[Reid Bryson]], founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] and of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the [[Gaylord Nelson]] Institute for Environmental Studies and also known as the father of scientific climatology considers global warming a bunch of hooey. Reid said, "Don't make me throw up...it's not science..."  <ref>[http://robertsteely.townhall.com/Default.aspx?mode=post&g=abc72f45-f361-42a9-b73c-c01a506f1437 Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'], Noel Sheppard, June 18, 2007. Retrieved from Townhall.com June 20, 2007.</ref>
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== Awards ==
 
== Awards ==
The film has received several awards:
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Despite its many scientific inaccuracies, the film has received several awards:
    
<small>*Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007  
 
<small>*Academy Awards (The Oscars) 2007  
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