Al Gore and Climate Change

Al Gore Brags About Climate Claims, Then Critics Pull Up Old Receipts

Former Vice President Al Gore went on ABC News this week to talk about the 20th anniversary of his film An Inconvenient Truth and his long-running warnings about climate change. The interview was supposed to be a look back.

Instead, it turned into another round of debate over what Gore got right, what he missed, and what critics say never came close to happening.

Gore said the scientists behind the film were on target. When the host pressed him on the backlash, he answered, “Uh, well, they cherry-picked a few little…About how many years the Arctic is ice-free, the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro,” Gore replied. “The main elements the scientific community has confirmed are right.”

The ABC host then went along with that view. But online, plenty of people were not buying it. Social media users quickly pulled up old clips and long-standing claims from the film and Gore’s public appearances. The point was simple: some of the biggest predictions were never supposed to be small details. They were the core of the alarm.

Among the claims critics highlighted were predictions about Arctic summer sea ice disappearing, snow vanishing from Mount Kilimanjaro, Glacier National Park losing its glaciers, major sea-level rise, and polar bears drowning in large numbers.

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Those are the kinds of statements that stick with people. And once they miss, they are hard to shake.