“Conference” and “boring” are two words that are often synonymous. A conference will frequently feature a deluge of scientific data, fair facts, well-supported inferences, unbiased jargon, tables, graphs and statistics. And a bored audience. Although a conference can pave the way for new scientific explorations and showcase phenomenal achievements, it is of little value if it cannot inspire its audience. For a lecture to be of interest to the ordinary person, it must make a clear connection to the everyday world. First, the speaker must deliver his or her data in a discussion format that the audience can understand. Next, the speaker must excite the audience with powerful emotional appeals. An effective conference – now truly a presentation – appeals to the audience by emphasizing a necessity and generating enthusiasm. Audiences find immediate and personal meaning in the vast data. In his 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore uses a combination of appeals to logic and emotion to emphasize the urgency of the global warming crisis to an audience of ordinary individuals. Gore's logical appeals highlight the danger and importance of global warming in a compelling way. , engaging multimedia platform. Rather than monotonously laying out detail after detail, he uses interactive visual aids to clarify his assertions. As Stefan Lovgren summarizes in “Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth': Fact or Hype? »: “the documentary handles science well”. Gore is confident in conveying his information; he speaks to his audience with ease and precision. He says: “[t]he relationships are actually very complicated, but there is one relationship that is much more powerful than all the others and it is this: When there is more carbon dioxide... middle of paper... ....speaking to an audience of ordinary individuals. Without the emotional connection rooted in Gore's scientific data, the documentary would not have as great an impact on its audience. Data and statistics convey important facts, but without emotional appeal, they do not inspire the desire to act. Lecturing an audience is easy; engaging and inspiring an audience is not. Powerful emotional appeals connect audiences to information by highlighting a need and evoking an energy. Works Cited An inconvenient truth. Real. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. Paramount Classics, 2006. DVD. Lovgren, Stefan. "Al Gore's 'The Inconvenient Truth': Reality or Hype?" » National Geographic News. National Geographic Society, May 25, 2006. Web. February 7, 2014. Nielsen-Gammon, John W. “An Inconvenient Truth: The Scientific Argument.” GeoJournal 70.1 (2007): 1-12. Springer link. Internet. February 11. 2014.