After watching the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, I have a much better understanding of global warming and its effects. Before watching this, I had heard everything that everyone else has heard. I never realized how big this problem is until now. Global warming isn’t just affecting the United States, but the whole world.

One thing that I noticed in this movie was the use of visual aides. Al Gore used these in many ways to get his point across, that global warming is a problem, to many different audiences. Even if you weren’t an expert on global warming, you could still get his point about the problem. One of the visuals that I liked was the one with the frog in boiling water. This was used to show that many people do not recognize the problem of global warming because it has been gradually increasing. If the temperature of the earth would have suddenly jumped up five degrees, people would notice the problem. The temperature of the earth has been gradually increasing over the years because we have been gradually putting more carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

I thought that Gore also did a good job of establishing credibility. There were many instances where he talked about going places all over the world and talking to experts on global warming. He also showed various scenes of himself walking through an airport or sitting at home, trying to show the audience that he is just like us.

Overall, I thought this was a very effective piece of risk communication. The facts were presented in a manner so that anybody could understand the problem with global warming, not just the experts. Gore also gave many different ways for everyday people to help alleviate this problem before it jeopardizes our future.