1. Emphasis added, quoted from An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning, directed by David Guggenheim and released by Paramount Classics in 2006. This film was an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Academy Award in 2007 for Best Documentary. The printed companion is Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (New York: Rodale, 2006). Al Gore shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for his leadership on global warming.
2. Bjorn Lomborg, e.g., emphasized the differences between Gore and the IPCC in “Ignore Gore—But Not His Nobel Friends,” The Sunday Telegraph (London) (11 November 2007), 24. On the scientific consensus in the United States, see Jane A. Leggett, Climate Change: Science and Policy Implications, CRS Report for Congress RL33849 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Updated 2 May 2007). On the scientific consensus in the international community, see the widely publicized assessments of the IPCC that are introduced below and summarized in later chapters.
3. CRS Report for Congress RL 33836;S. R. Fletcher,2007
4. David A. King, “Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?” Science 303 (9 January 2004), 176–177. At the time King was science advisor to her Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom. For details on the Kyoto Protocol, see http:// unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/background.php.
5. However, some data are starting to be analyzed. Michael R. Raupach, Gregg Marland, Philippe Ciais, Corinne Le Quéré, Josep G. Canadell, Gernot Klepper, and Christopher B. Field, “Global and Regional Drivers of Accelerating CO2 Emissions,” Proc. National Academy of Sciences 104(24) (12 June 2007), 10,288–10,293 (DOI 10.1073/pnas.0700609104), “Together, the developing and least-developed economies (forming 80% of the world’s population) accounted for 73% of global emissions growth in 2004 but only 41% of global emissions and only 23% of global cumulative emissions since the mid-18th century.”