AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH is not only inconvenient – it’s an outright anomaly. The movie’s average per-screen box office earnings beat the recent romantic comedy blockbuster The Break-up starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Its companion book has reached number three on The New York Times bestseller list. And it stars “the former next president of the United States”, Al Gore, talking about global warming with the help of a slideshow.
Gore has been lecturing on the dangers posed by global warming for 35 years. In that time he has honed an impeccable slideshow, with just the right balance of gut-wrenching photographs,…
