September 3, 2024--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth reached huge audiences, Paul-Revere-ing the announcement of a looming climate emergency requiring drastic and immediate reductions in fossil fuel use. The ultimate goal involved cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to slow the rises in temperature.

Gore's message is credited with a huge leap in energizing the environmental and energy-transition movements, and almost 20 years later, renewable energy use is rising quickly--but so also are fossil fuel use and global carbon dioxide emissions.