Al Gore Continues to Promote Fear

Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ has been conveniently forgotten 20 years after it made a series of very specific predictions that—to no one’s surprise –have yet to come to pass. Within months, the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz were explaining climate science on chat shows, journalists were treating them like experts, and anyone who raised doubts was waved off as selfish or backwards. ⁽¹⁾

Al Gore's Failed Predictions

Looking back now, it is hard to overstate how much of the early climate movement was driven by this dynamic. Gore provided the script. Celebrities provided the megaphone. The media provided the reverence. And politicians, particularly in Europe, eventually provided the policy.

In the 20 years since Gore accepted his Nobel Prize, not a single apocalyptic climate prediction has come true.

Christopher Moncton itemized 35 ‘inconvenient truths’ in the documentary. As the result of a lawsuit in England, teachers have to make clear that the film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. ⁽²⁾

Here are some examples of Gore’s predictions:

1. Kilimanjaro was meant to lose its snow within a decade. It didn’t.
2. Glacier National Park in Montana was meant to lose its glaciers by 2020. Gore tells a story about how he personally climbed it with his daughter in 1998, then shows pictures of less glacier activity in the mountains. Then, the kicker. A concrete prediction of what would happen to the park. “Within 15 years this will be the park formerly known as Glacier,” he says. Here’s how poorly this prediction has aged. Even CNN was forced to report in 2020 that Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020, because unfortunately for Gore and his agenda, there continues to be plenty of glacier remaining. ⁽³⁾
3. Greenland’s ice sheet was presented as being on the brink of collapse, yet recent years have seen some of its lowest net ice loss thanks to heavier snowfall and lower temperatures.
4. Gore’s most well-known prediction was that the Arctic might be ice-free during the summer of 2014. But at its 2025 summer minimum, the Arctic still had more than 5 million square kilometers of ice—about the same as 2007. His lesser known but equally erroneous predictions relate to global temperature, drought and glaciers, agriculture, wildfires, hurricanes, deforestation and species extinction. ⁽⁴⁾

5. Gore mentions Argentina and Peru as countries where glaciers that were in danger of disappearing. Yet, as you’d expect, there are still glaciers in Argentina and Peru in 2026. In fact, the El Pertito Moreno glacier in Argentina is one of the few glaciers in the world still growing. ⁽³⁾
6. Gore also predicted global sea levels would rise by as much as 6m ‘in the near future,’ despite levels rising by 20cm to 22cm since 1880. It would take about 1,136 years for the world’s sea level to rise 6m at that rate.

None of this really mattered at the time.

Once climate politics shifted from ‘we should be careful with the environment’ to ‘our entire energy system is a moral emergency’, all reason went out the window. Europe began shutting down reliable power, with Germany leading the way and Britain following more quietly.

The planet is doing what it has always done, changing slowly and unevenly. What has changed is the cost of living. Energy is more expensive, industry is less secure, Europe is more exposed, and millions of households are paying for policies that were pushed by people who will never notice the difference on their bank statements. ⁽¹⁾

Hans Rosling was on a program with Al Gore. Gore suggested to Rosling that he should add some fear to his presentation. Rosling rejected this as being against his principles. Not so with Gore who thrives on bad news and fear mongering. ⁽⁵⁾

Here’s how Gore has responded to criticism: “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-presentation of factual presentation on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” ⁽⁶⁾

At you might expect, at present Gore hasn’t lost his rhetoric.

Speaking at the COP 30 climate conference, Gore raised his voice in frustration as he showed images charting record drought in the Amazon, Greenland shedding its ice, huge downpours and storms that have wiped out communities in Vietnam, Jamaica, Brazil, the Philippines and the US in recent times. ⁽⁷⁾

Bill Gates, a founder of Microsoft, made waves around the world when he publicly argued for pushing the climate crisis down the international agenda, in favor of more focus on health issues. Al Gore has speculated that fear of being bullied by Donald Trump may have prompted Bill Gates to row back on the climate crisis. He slammed the billionaire’s new position as silly, and the US president for his anti-climate stance.

Recently Gore may have delivered one of his most tone-deaf comments of 2026. At the World economic Forum in the Swiss Alps he had an opinion on crop insurance programs, saying “In order to qualify for these subsidies, farmers basically have to assure the government that they are not going to engage in regenerative agriculture.” He’s essentially asserting that American farmers are incentivized to be poor stewards of the land. It’s fair to say that some in the agricultural community didn’t take too kindly to Gore’s statements. ⁽⁸⁾

Final Words

January 24 marked the 20^th anniversary of the release of Al Gore’s alarmist global warming movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Gore has surfed the movie and climate alarmism to a net worth estimated at $300 million and a Nobel Peace Prize.

But the rest of the world has been saddled with:

1. A hoax that has debased the field of science,
2. An energy scam that cost the world more than $10-20 trillion dollars and threatens our national security, and
3. A political power grab that has reduced our freedom. (4)

References

1. Esther Krakue, “Two decades too late, the West has finally woken up to the true cost of Al Gore’s climate activism,” skynews.com.au, February 2, 2026
2. Noel Sheppard, “Court identifies eleven inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, newsbusters.org, October 9, 2007
3. Ian Miller, “Twenty years later, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ has been thoroughly debunked,” outkick.com, January 15, 2026
4. Steve Milloy, “Steve Milloy: 20 years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, azfreenews.com, February 4, 2026
5. Hans Rosling, Factfulness, (New York, Flatiron Books, 2018)
6. Climate Change Dispatch, “Revisiting Gore’s grossly misleading ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, principia-scientific.com, December 18, 2021
7. Fiona Harvey and Oliver Milman, “Al Gore wonders if bullying Trump prompted Bill Gates to backtrack on climate,” theguardian.com, accessed February 6, 2026
8. “Texas has forceful rebuttal to Al Gore’s misguided farming comments,”daily.com, January 23, 2026

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