It’s no understatement to say that the 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” changed the direction of public policy. And in fact, that’s exactly what failed presidential candidate Al Gore intended the film to do. [some emphasis, links added]
Fortunately for him, he found a willing audience of Hollywood celebrities and left-wing media outlets to uncritically promote his ideology and activism.
Unfortunately for him, 2006 is now far enough in the past that we can test some of the predictions, claims, and statements of fact he makes in that film. So that’s exactly what we did.
At the start of 2026, nearly 20 years after the film hit theaters and helped pave the way for Europe’s delusional “net zero” policies, electric car mandates, and low-flow showerheads, OutKick rewatched “An Inconvenient Truth” to see how well it held up over time.
Spoiler alert: not particularly well!
The film starts off as a glowing tribute to Al Gore himself, an unsurprising beginning given his obvious ego and hubris. Almost immediately afterward, it jumps straight into the propaganda.
He references Hurricane Katrina as an example of more extreme weather events in the modern world. There’s a “Simpsons” video with propaganda for “global warming.” Remember, this is pre-rebrand to “climate change,” with a young girl seeing her ice cream cone melt.
Gore talks about what got him into this field, which is one professor who took some measurements of CO2, then made vague predictions of what would happen if we didn’t make changes.
He says we started measuring CO2 in 1958, which, of course, thoroughly discredits his activism. Assuming the latest estimate is accurate, the Earth is billions of years old. It keeps growing by the year, but as of January 2026, it’s 4.54 billion years.
Sure, you can estimate CO2 concentrations for part of that past, but not all of it. Or even a sizable percentage of it. And making predictions and assumptions on such limited data is awful science.
But ignoring the past and focusing on the future, one of his most concrete predictions of doom came regarding Mt. Kilimanjaro.
In his discussion, he shows pictures of snow on the African mountain from decades ago, then images from the early 2000s with much less snow.
He blames this on global warming, then ominously predicts, “Within the decade, there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro.”
How’d that age?
Gore’s Predictions Prove Woefully Wrong
Well, we’re now two decades removed from this claim, and there continues to be snow on Kilimanjaro.
In fact, one story from The Times of London published a few years ago specifically highlighted how wrong Gore’s forecast was.
Methley Swai, the owner of a trekking company for Kilimanjaro excursions, told The Times:
“Many people have made Kilimanjaro a bucket list priority because of the Al Gore deadline, but when they get here, they are pleasantly surprised to find lots of snow.”
Sure enough, the story also reported,
“There were also abnormally high snowfalls in 2018, which led to the highest recorded growth for the total snow depth on Tanzania’s inactive volcano, an aggregated increase of 1.2m.”
Whoops! We’re not done there!
His next example of declining snow is Glacier National Park.
Gore tells a story about how he personally climbed it with his daughter in 1998, then shows pictures of less glacier activity in the mountains. Then, the kicker. A concrete prediction of what would happen to the park.
“Within 15 years, this will be the park formerly known as Glacier,” he says, to oohs and aahs from the crowd.
Here’s how poorly this prediction has aged. Even CNN was forced to report in 2020 that “Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020,” because, unfortunately for Gore and his agenda, there continues to be plenty of glaciers remaining.
Nailed it again, buddy.
He mentions Argentina and Peru as countries where glaciers are in danger of disappearing. Yet, as you’d expect, there are still glaciers in Argentina and Peru in 2026.
In fact, one travelog from 2025 posted photos of the El Pertito Moreno glacier in Argentina, with the comment “Just west of El Calafate, this frozen river is one of the few glaciers in the world still growing.”
Nailed it again, buddy.
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