Trailer released for Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel

  • 29/03/2017

Just hours after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo a slew of climate change regulations set up by the Obama administration, former Vice-President Al Gore has unveiled the trailer for his new film on global warming.

Titled An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the movie will fill in the gaps on the fight against climate change since the original film was released in 2006 - and it looks likely to centre around the effect a Trump presidency will have on global efforts to stop it from occurring.

The trailer shows a snippet of a speech Mr Trump gave on the campaign trail, in which he joked about how climate change could exist when it was so cold outside.

"It's supposed to be 70 degrees today - it's freezing here!" he can be heard saying.

"Speaking of global warming - where is it? We need some global warming! It's freezing!"

It also harks back to a claim former politician Mr Gore, now a diehard environmentalist, made in the last film, when he controversially claimed that a combination of sea level rise and storm surge would see the 9/11 memorial site flooded.

While that received plenty of criticism and was branded "a terrible exaggeration", that's exactly what happened when the deadly Hurricane Sandy struck the US in late 2012.

The trailer then goes on to show the positive attempts of governments and societies around the world to counter climate change, and hints at the ways in which the Trump administration may affect those efforts.

On Tuesday (local time), Mr Trump announced that he was "putting an end to the war on coal" and removing carbon emission restrictions at power plants, in an attempt to bring jobs back to the oil drilling, gas production and coal mining industries.

The documentary was the first film to play at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in January, where it received two standing ovations and mostly positive reviews. It will be released in the US on July 28.

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