Los Angeles — He once gave Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, but mention the US president to Al Gore these days and you’ll get a withering frown. "He’s a catastrophe, of course, but he has effectively isolated himself," the former US vice-president says, his nostrils dilating a few millimetres past scorn but stopping short of open contempt. A decade after his documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006), which re-energised the international environmental movement on its way to winning two Oscars and taking $50m at the box office, sent shockwaves around the world with its dire warnings of environmental disaster, Gore is sounding the alarm on climate change again. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, released by Paramount on Friday, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival a day before the January 20 inauguration. Since then, the new US president has sent out a former CEO of oil giant ExxonMobil to represent America on the world stage and appointed an anti-climate liti...
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