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- Condition
- Artist
- Gore, Al
- ISBN
- 9781594865671
- Book Title
- Inconvenient Truth : the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Nature, Science
- Topic
- Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change
- Item Width
- 7.5 in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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An Inconvenient Truth --Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance --is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes--and a leading expert--brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book--written in an accessible, entertaining style--will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.
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Publisher
Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10
1594865671
ISBN-13
9781594865671
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52034658
Product Key Features
Book Title
Inconvenient Truth : the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qc981.8.G56g67 2006
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
New York Times - May 23, 2006 Books of The Times 'An Inconvenient Truth' Al Gore Revisits Global Warming, With Passionate Warnings and Pictures By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Lately, global warming seems to be tiptoeing toward a tipping point in the public consciousness. There has been broad agreement over the fundamentals of global warming in mainstream scientific circles for some time now. And despite efforts by the Bush administration to shrug it off as an incremental threat best dealt with through voluntary emissions controls and technological innovation, the issue has been making inroads in the collective imagination, spurred by new scientific reports pointing to rising temperatures around the world and melting ice fields in Greenland and Antarctica. A year ago, the National Academy of Sciences joined similar groups from other countries in calling for prompt action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A Time magazine cover story in April declared that "the climate is crashing and global warming is to blame," noting that a new Time/ABC News/Stanford University poll showed that 87 percent of respondents believe the government should encourage or require a lowering of power-plant emissions. That same month, a U.S. News & World Report article noted that dozens of evangelical leaders had called for federal legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and that "a growing number of investors are pushing for change from the business community" as well. And even Hollywood movies like the kiddie cartoon "Ice Age: The Meltdown" and the much sillier disaster epic "The Day After Tomorrow" take climate change as a narrative premise. Enter "or rather, re-enter" Al Gore, former vice president, former Democratic candidate for president and longtime champion of the environment, who helped to organize the first Congressional hearings on global warming several decades ago. Fourteen years ago, during the 1992 campaign, the current president's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, dismissed Mr. Gore as "Ozone Man" '€" if the Clinton-Gore ticket were elected, he suggested, "we'll be up to our neck in owls and out of work for every American" '€" but with the emerging consensus on global warming today, Mr. Gore's passionate warnings about climate change seem increasingly prescient. He has revived the slide presentation about global warming that he first began giving in 1990 and taken that slide show on the road, and he has now turned that presentation into a book and a documentary film, both called "An Inconvenient Truth." The movie (which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday) shows a focused and accessible Gore "a funnier, more relaxed and sympathetic character" than he was as a candidate, said The Observer, the British newspaper " and has revived talk in some circles of another possible Gore run for the White House. As for the book, its roots as a slide show are very much in evidence. It does not pretend to grapple with climate change with the sort of minute detail and analysis displayed by three books on the subject that came out earlier this spring ("The Winds of Change" by Eugene Linden, "The Weather Makers" by Tim Flannery and "Field Notes From a Catastrophe" by Elizabeth Kolbert), and yet as a user-friendly introduction to global warming and a succinct summary of many of the central arguments laid out in those other volumes, "An Inconvenient Truth" is lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective. Like Mr. Gore's 1992 book "Earth in the Balance," this volume displays an earnest, teacherly tone, but it's largely free of the New Age psychobabble and A-student grandiosity that rumbled through that earlier book. The author's wonky fascination with policy minutiae has been tamed in these pages, and his love of charts and graphs has been put to good use. Whereas the charts in "Earth in t
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
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Lccn
2006-926537
Dewey Decimal
363.73874
Dewey Edition
22
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