An Inconvenient Truth + 20

Al Gore first put together his slide show about what he claimed would be the devastating effects of global warming over 20 years ago.

With the help of Producer Laurie David, the Gore material was made into a documentary in 2006 entitled, "An Inconvenient Truth" for which the film won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In the film Gore claimed that our weather would get increasingly warmer due to man-made effects caused by the use of fossil fuels. 

Our climate would become more severe with more hurricanes, tornadoes, drought and wildfires. 

The Arctic would be ice-free in summers by 2016 and polar bears would become extinct.

Gore stated that the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone within a decade.

Humanity itself would be threatened by climate change.

In his previous book, Earth in the Balance,  published in 1992, Gore predicted that in the next few decades "up to 60 percent of the population of Florida may have to be relocated" due to rising sea levels.

That claim was consistent with this New York Times article from 1995 claiming that by 2020 most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone.

Let's not forget this prediction that Greta Thunberg amplified on social media in 2018 that she subsequently deleted five years later.

I wonder why?

Now that 20 years have passed, how have the predictions of Al Gore and all the other climate alarmists turned out?

There has been a slight increase in global temperatures amounting to about 0.53 deg C since 2006.

Credit: https://x.com/JunkScience/status/2062312556564189292

Global satellite data is only available since 1979.

However, temperatures are still much lower than they were in the 1930's despite massive increases in the amounts of global carbon emissions over the last 100 years.

That is evident in looking at the number of extreme heat days in the United States since 1895.

The extreme heat in the 1930's caused massive drought conditions in the Midwest and resulted in 

2.5 million people leaving their homes in a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions. 

They moved from an area that became known as The Dust Bowl which suffered severe dust conditions during a drought that lasted a decade.

20% of the population of Oklahoma alone was forced to leave the state in the 1930's. 

Can you imagine what would happen today if we had this heat and drought?

It would all be blamed on man-made climate change and billions and billions of dollars would be spent with no effect.

Oklahoma has also been known for its tornado activity.

The number of strong tornadoes (EF2 and higher) has decreased over the years even with increasing carbon emission levels.

The number of hurricanes has also not increased in the last 20 years despite rising CO2 levels.

The same is true with wildfires.

Far less acreage around the world today is being consumed by wildfires than in the past.

Climate-related deaths continue to fall.

Source: https://x.com/RoyPentland/status/2066256166733152701/photo/1

Florida, which Gore predicted would see up to 60% of its population have to relocate due to rising sea levels, has seen its population explode.

Florida's population has increased by over 30% (18 million to an estimated 24 million) in the last 20 years.

That is 4 times the population that Al Gore suggested Florida was heading for due to climate change in his 1992 book.

In 2013, DNC Chairwoman and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was claiming that her South Florida Congressional District would be under water in a few short years.

Over a decade later aren't we beyond a "few short years"?

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who represents the Miami area, warned that unless climate change is addressed “in a few short years,” rising sea levels will force her to represent areas more than two hundred miles away.

“I will eventually represent Orlando if we don’t do something about making sure we can reduce global warming,” she said on Fox News this morning. Wasserman Schultz’s current residence, Weston, Fla., is 224 miles away from Orlando.

Her district is still high and dry and there is still no beachfront property in Orlando.

However, Wasserman Schultz has now seen her south Florida district redistricted and earned the contempt of Black Democrats as she has decided to run for the Democrat nomination for Congress in a majority Black district in the Miami area.

It also makes you wonder why she would want to run for a seat in Congress from a district that will be underwater in a "few short years"?

Source: https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-05-26/wasserman-schultz-dnc-election-black-district

And that ice-free Arctic?

At the end of last summer, Arctic sea ice extent was actually larger than it was in 2012---34% more expansive than 13 years ago.

Credit: https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/2008211253328773506

This is the Arctic sea ice extent as of June 20, 2026.

Source: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_extent_hires.png

It also should be noted that Arctic temperatures since May have been running at record lows.

That ice-free Arctic that Al Gore predicted looks further and further away.

The polar bears are also not going extinct.

Their population is rising.

Credit: https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1596907585084719104

Mount Kilimanjaro still has plenty of snow despite the fact that it is on the equator in Africa.

Source: Google AI

Those "Inconvenient Truths" that Al Gore talked about 20 years ago have mostly been shown to be Untruths.

Projections and predictions do not override real world data.

It should also be noted that even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently recognized that the apocalyptic climate scenarios it has been promoting for the last 15 years are implausible.

Source: https://modernity.news/2026/05/05/ipcc-admits-apocalyptic-climate-scenarios-are-implausible/

Those IPCC scenarios were the ones that fueled the insane climate change agenda and resulted in trillions of dollars in green agenda items promoted by politicians in the United States, Europe and Australia.

At the same time, China, India, Indonesia and others barely paid it any mind.

They carried on because they know that economies and humanity really suffer without affordable and accessible energy..

Source: https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-coal-five-year-plan

Source: https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-coal-plants-hit-10-year-global-high-in-2025-but-power-output-still-fell/

We now find all of the hysteria was implausible as if the last 10-20 years has not already confirmed it 

not to mention thousands of years of climate history before there were any carbon emissions to speak of?

To wit, we know there was an ice age.  We also know the ice melted.  How did it ice up? How did the ice melt?

All of this occurred without the slightest intervention of humans.

Even if the data shows the earth is warming, how do we know it is caused by man when you look at past history? 

Of course, the IPCC  retraction has received almost no mentions in the mainstream media.

I doubt few of you have have even heard about it.

A Google search turned up no mentions of this story in the corporate media other than this headline in The New York Times.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/climate/emissions-worst-case-scenario-rcp.html

Some risks may have been overstated?

You think?

I guess it is also an inconvenient truth to remind everyone that in 2000 Al Gore came within 537 votes in Florida of becoming President of the United States.

I am guessing that Al Gore would not feel too bad if two-thirds of Florida was underwater

Those 537 votes in Florida in 2000 is just another reminder that no matter how bad you think things have been, they could have been much, much worse.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.

And our climate

After all, it is important to remember it is ultimately under HIS control... not ours.