Al Gore will premiere new climate change movie. Photo / AP
The Sundance Film Festival will open in January with a new climate-change movie from Al Gore - and the timing, unfortunately, could not be better.
Paramount Pictures and Participant Media announced on Saturday that the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth - in which film-maker Davis Guggenheim
documented Gore's travelling slideshow on global warming - will follow the former vice-president as he travels around the world exploring advances and challenges in the fight against climate change.
In a statement, Gore said: "Now more than ever we must rededicate ourselves to solving the climate crisis. But we have reason to be hopeful; the solutions to the crisis are at hand."
So that's good news, yes? Presumably, Gore said as much to President-Elect Donald Trump when the two met last week for a chat that Gore described, somewhat enigmatically, as an "extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued".
Not so fast. Three days after that meeting, Trump named Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma's attorney general - and a climate change sceptic, who is currently suing the Environmental Protection Agency - to head that agency, provoking outrage from environmentalists.
