The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore’s Climate Alarmism
21st May 2026
Two decades ago, Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth thrust climate change into the spotlight. With dramatic imagery and dire warnings, it transformed a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists.
Twenty years affords distance to reflect not just on the film’s impact, but also its accuracy. Many of Gore’s most alarming predictions have failed to materialise, while the policy response it helped inspire has proved extraordinarily flawed.
The documentary’s core narrative was that climate change was driving worsening disasters, such as floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.