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Did An Inconvenient Truth Change Your Mind?

By vhughes on May 12, 2008.

Despite An Inconvenient Truth's Oscar win and Al Gore's Nobel, public opinion of global warming has changed little since the film's release in 2006.

As Matt Nisbet recently pointed out: "Conventional wisdom pegged Gore's film and media campaign as changing the nature of the debate in the public's mind, but unfortunately this interpretation doesn't hold up to the data." Even more surprising is that apparently the debate is most heated among the college educated.

What about you guys? Did the film only tell you what you already knew? Did it change your mind? Did it bore you to tears?



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I voted "no" as well but for the reason listed above - I already believed that global warming was a serious issue before seeing the film.