An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It [Paperback]

Al Gore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 26, 2006

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.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The much-discussed and highly regarded 2006 book and film by Gore arrives on audio two years later. While the material and central focus on global warming is clearly the most important aspect of the book, Beau Bridges is the only truly captivating reader here. Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood tend to drone on in monotone voices that take some of the impact out of Gore's findings. Bridges, however, reads with a stern and commanding tone that grips readers from the very start, never failing to relate the information with sheer honesty and true grit. As a whole, the audio is still as important and poignant as the original, and though certain aspects have been left out, the listener is still met with the same urgency to act. A Rodale paperback.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Blair Underwood is an author and award-winning actor, director, and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Visit his website at www.BlairUnderwood.com --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; First Printing edition (May 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594865671
• ISBN-13: 978-1594865671
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (338 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Former Vice President Al Gore is currently the chairman of both
Current TV and Generational Investment Management. He was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990,
and served eight years as vice president of the United States, from 1993 to
2000. He is the author of the 1992 bestseller Earth in the Balance:
Ecology and the Human Spirit. He lives with his wife, Tipper, in
Nashville, Tennessee.

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118 of 145 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Factual Evidence is Devastating, June 1, 2006

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True Hawk Patriot (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)

OK, I'm a lifelong Republican. And for the longest time I resisted the 'global warming' stuff as "hogwash" as Rush says. But for the first time, the actual facts in this book changed my mind. I'm somewhat embarrassed by the overwhelming evidence submitted by Gore, but hey, when you're right, you're right. Congratulations, you've got to hand it to someone who sticks with an issue until the truth comes out.

91 of 114 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pay attention to who attacks this book, June 29, 2006

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J. Callahan "tastemaker" (Flat Rock, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)

If you read the customer reviews of this book closely, you'll notice two things:

1. The majority of the one and two star reviews are written by people who apparently haven't read the book or seen the movie and are just using this space to promote their own, or somebody else's, book.

2. These same people, many of whom describe An Inconvenient Truth as "political propaganda," are also overwhelmingly promoting a right wing political agenda that has NOTHING to do with mainsteam science.

As both the book and the movie point out in careful detail, over 900 peer-reviewed, independent, international scientific studies have all reached the same conclusion: Global warming is real, it is being exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels, and it constitutes a clear and present danger to human health and safety and the global economy.

It's time for America to stop shirking its responsibility as the dominant superpower in the face of a global climate crisis. We need more leaders like the former vice president with the guts to challenge American business and technology to come up with job-creating innovations that will help reduce CO2 emissions so our children can inherit a planet that is as habitable as the one we were born to.

Let's show the world America hasn't lost its can-do spirit!

100 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth, June 14, 2006

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This review is from: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)

As a former climate scientist I was one of the global warming naysayers. However, the wealth of new scientific information that has arisen in the past 15 years has convinced myself and many others that humanity is on the verge of a major climate catastrophe if action is not taken. Al Gore does an excellent job of distilling the science into what matters to the general public. He does for global warming what Stephen Hawking did for physics by making the concepts and data accessable and understandable to everyone. I am a political moderate, but I can't help but wonder how much better off this country would have been if this intellectually curious and thoughtful gentleman would have been our President.