10 years on – did this film achieve what it set out to do – raise public awareness and change people’s behaviour in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? While the direct effect of the original screening of the film may have dissipated, the impact of those inspired to communicate realities of climate change persists. For me, the film precipitated a series of events that ultimately redirected the course of my life. An Inconvenient Truth wasn’t just behaviour-changing, it was life-changing. No lab experiment can quantify that level of impact.
This precipitated the founding of Skeptical Science, which led to me becoming a researcher in climate communication at the University of Queensland – John Cook.
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…mining pollution has become so severe that last week Peru declared a 60-day emergency to curtail mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining. “Forty-one percent of the population of Madre de Dios is exposed to mercury pollution,” On a good day, a mining team of about 10 people in Madre de Dios can get about 45 grams (just over an ounce and a half). Some 87 percent of Peruvian gold goes to Switzerland and Canada, while the rest goes to the United States and Italy.
<Prof Will Steffen> “reviewed case study on Great Barrier Reef, focussing on increasing risks to tourism from climate change…report released Friday — mysteriously, Great Barrier Reef was cut completely…However, our community banded together to get the word out far and wide.
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