Al Gore's slideshow

Posted by David Roberts at 10:29 AM on 19 May 2006

Read more about: Al Gore | An Inconvenient Truth | movies | climate

Climate Change Action has unearthed a video of Al Gore's complete climate-change slideshow -- the one An Inconvenient Truth is based on. It's a huge file, but if you're curious, there it is.

Update [2006-5-19 10:42:12 by David Roberts]: Speaking of Gore (do we speak of anything else?), Matthew Nisbet has an interesting post discussing why Gore didn't campaign more heavily on climate change in 2000. It's based on a passage from Joe Klein's new book Politics Lost. Klein's a tool, but I suspect he's more or less right on this subject.

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Exactly slides used for movie? Confirm please?

This was just pointed to by Russell Seitz posting in the comments at RealClimate. Can you all confirm this collection matches the slides used in the movie? I know one point of the movie was that Mr. Gore was changing his slideshow as he was shown doing on his laptop, between presentations.

Question arises because of the recent British court case referring to quote "errors" unquote. Can this collection be used to accurately check what was actually in the movie?

As an aside, it'd also be wonderful to have a difference file, showing what's changed. The movie is an old snapshot, yet it's being circulated as though it were the best available information.

Using the movie to teach from, without a difference file to update it, is falling into the "Founder" trap that's so attractive to those who, for example, attack "Darwinists" -- those who believe science can be argued with by pointing to some founder's early work and claiming everything else is based on some grand original.

by hank at 6:53 AM on 18 Oct 2007

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