Gore's Inconvenient Truth
2007-02-26 11:26
Hollywood - An Inconvenient Truth, former US vice president Al Gore's dire warning about the threat of climate change, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday.
"We are so inspired, we share this with you," director Davis Guggenheim said to Gore as the film's team received the award.
Gore, whose win was likely to stir more speculation about the possibility of his running for president next year, used the award to call for more attention to global warming.
"My fellow Americans ... people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis," he said.
"It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource."
Making use of a vast body of scientific data, the film represents a stinging rebuttal to the dwindling and increasingly discredited band of skeptics who refuse to acknowledge the extent of climate change.
Though the film is directed by Guggenheim, Gore is the undisputed star, interspersing persuasive presentations about the environment with personal recollections from his life.
The central thrust of Gore's claims is that global warming is a genuine threat and largely man-made, an assertion that is backed by recent research.
Gore, vice president under Bill Clinton, narrowly lost the 2000 presidential race to now-President George W. Bush.
Despite the speculation, the Democrat has repeatedly denied he intends to run for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 race.