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Learning tasks: Find a brief documentary (max 15 minutes) about global warming and another that expose a different point of view on the same argumentation.

Tools/resources: Youtube

Duration: 30 minutes

Watch the following video that show a great and renowned brief documentary by Al Gore.

In this second video are highlighted some of Al Gore’s mistakes (or misunderstandings).

Related article or discussion

Al Gore underline the importance of the correlation between the increase of earth temperature surface and carbon dioxide’s atmospheric level: he wants to show how the increasing of carbon dioxide’s level causes the increasing of earth temperature surface.
In the second video, instead, this inference is questioned: some scientists said that this two variables are correlated but there isn’t a direct mechanism cause and effect.

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