20 years later, An Inconvenient Truth is turning out to be an inconvenient lie. Al Gore’s film shaped an entire generation’s view of climate change. It won awards, filled classrooms, and fueled sweeping policies. But what many never heard is that a UK High Court ruled the documentary contained major factual inaccuracies and bias. Claims about polar bears drowning, Kilimanjaro melting, and Antarctic ice disappearing were all debunked. Courts forced schools to present official guidance notes to ba

Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth did more harm than good. It misrepresented the science, exaggerated the impacts of climate change, made people fear CO2, and pushed an alarmist narrative. Overall I think we would be better off today if it had never been made. | Lucy Biggers