Climate change movie out just in time

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 Friday that the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" – in which filmmaker Davis Guggenheim documented Gore's traveling slide show 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 skeptic, who is currently suing the Environmental Protection Agency – to head that agency, provoking outrage from environmentalists.

Perhaps Gore can reserve a couple of seats to the screening of his new film for Trump and Pruitt.