PowerPoint Politics

Abstract

ABSTRACT:“In An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 documentary about Al Gore’s PowerPoint presentation on climate change, there is a computer-generated visualization of water spilling into the streets of Manhattan and covering the 9/11 Memorial. If a certain proportion of ice around Greenland and Antarctica melted, Gore says, citing “Tony Blair’s scientific advisor,” the world’s sea level would rise, covering large swaths of the Financial District, along with places like Florida and Bangladesh.”