20 years ago, former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was released to the masses and became the lightning rod for the rise in climate change activism.
Fueled by fear, doom-and-gloom, and hyperbolic paranoia, the 2006 documentary helped pave the way for controversial policies centered around global warming (soon rebranded to “climate change) — including “net zero” policies, electric car mandates, and even low-flow showerheads.
On the 20th anniversary of Gore’s movie, we recognize that the world is still spinning and debunk some of Gore’s most outlandish “predictions” that completely fell flat.
One of Gore’s most bombastic predictions highlighted in the film centered on something outside of the United States — Mt. Kilimanjaro.
In his discussion in the movie, Gore shows pictures of snow on the African mountain from decades ago, then images from the early 2000’s with much less snow.
Gore blames this on global warming, then eerily predicts, “Within the decade there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro.”
Well past a decade from Gore’s prediction and there continues to be snow on Kilimanjaro.
One story from The Times of London published a few years ago pointed just 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.”
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.”
Speaking of snow, one of Gore’s other predictions centered around one of the United States’ most iconic landmarks — 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. He then makes a shocking prediction of what would happen to the park.
“Within 15 years this will be the park formerly known as Glacier,” he says.
Well, turns out the glaciers are thriving.
CNN even was forced to report in 2020 that “Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020.”
In addition to glaciers here in the US, Gore also mentioned Argentina and Peru as countries where glaciers are in danger of disappearing. However, today in 2026 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.”
Finally, Gore references hurricanes becoming stronger and stronger, highlighting that Hurricane Katrina was the new standard for how hurricanes would impact the United States.
According to Gore, he said these extreme storms will become more frequent, because of warming temperatures.
There were 14 hurricanes that made landfall from 2003-2005 in the United States. But there were only eight that made landfall from 2022-2024 in the United States.
In fact, just this past year, the NOAA predicted an above-average hurricane season in 2025. They were completely wrong, as there was average to below-average activity, with no increase in hurricane strength.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg (no pun intended with the aforementioned glaciers).
If you want more Gore doozy’s from his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” is available to watch on streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.