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'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'

Documentary Premieres; 99 minutes.

Global climate change isn't going to fix itself, so Al Gore is back in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," to remind us of the continuing battles — and to also take comfort in some of the small victories.

The new movie picks up where 2006's "An Inconvenient Truth" leaves off, when Gore was presenting his "slideshow" of the alarming facts and figures of climate change. Eleven years later, and Gore has taken that message worldwide, training young "climate leaders" to do the same.

The truth hasn't gotten any better. Gore regularly updates his presentation with fresh news footage of flooding, rain storms and rising ocean levels that bear out what he has said before. He also, occasionally, shows that some of the predictions that were deemed alarmist in 2006 have come to pass.

But it's not all doom and gloom, and it's not all Al talking about it. Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk (who made the cyber-bullying documentary "Audrie & Daisy" that debuted at Sundance last year) follow Gore to places where change is happening, like the conservative Texas town that is nearing the goal of 100-percent renewable energy.

The movie also shows Gore as a behind-the-scenes power broker. The big moment comes at the Paris climate talks in 2015, where Gore negotiates with a solar-energy firm and major banks to give free technology to India — to get the recalcitrant country to sign on to a climate deal.

The film shows Gore both as idealist and realist. He talks about the moral responsibility to stop climate change, but he also will talk to anybody — even President-elect Donald Trump, who bashed the Paris deal on the campaign trail — to make his case. "An Inconvenient Sequel" shows Gore's optimism to be, as he likes to say, a renewable resource in itself.

— Sean P. Means —

Also showing:

"An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" screens again at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival at the following times and venues:

• Friday, Jan. 20, 9 a.m., Eccles Theatre, Park City

• Friday, Jan. 20, 9:15 p.m. , The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City

• Saturday, January 28, 3:30 p.m. , Eccles Theatre, Park City