Did Al Gore predict that New York City would be underwater by the year 2000 in his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth'?

No, Al Gore did not predict New York City would be underwater by 2000 in 'An Inconvenient Truth'. This claim represents a common misconception about Gore's documentary. As Ginger Zee explains, the film was released in 2006, making it chronologically impossible for Gore to have made predictions about the year 2000 in this documentary. Despite this logical inconsistency, climate change deniers regularly use misrepresentations of the film as supposed evidence that climate change is a hoax. Nearly two decades after the documentary's release, examining what Gore actually predicted versus what has occurred provides a more accurate assessment of climate science rather than relying on these mischaracterizations.