An Inconvenient Truth (book)

An Inconvenient Truth

Author	Al Gore
Subject	Global warming
Publisher	Rodale Press
Publication date	2006
ISBN
OCLC	69249460
Dewey Decimal	363.73874 22
LC Class	QC981.8.G56 G67 2006
Followed by	Our Choice

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It is a 2006 book by Al Gore released in conjunction with the film An Inconvenient Truth. It is published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Based on Gore's lecture tour on the topic of global warming this book elaborates upon points offered in the film. The publisher of the text states that the book, "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."^[1] Michiko Kakutani argues in the New York Times that the book's "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" given by other books on the topic "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."^[2]

In a section called "The Politicization of Global Warming", Al Gore said this statement:

As for why so many people still resist what the facts clearly show, I think, in part, the reason is that the truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives.

A highlighted statement separated from the main writing in that section was:

The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives.

In 2009, the audiobook version, narrated by Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, and Blair Underwood, won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Sequel 1
See also 2
References 3
External links 4

Sequel

The sequel is Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.^[3]

References

^ Oprah's Books
^ Al Gore Revisits Global Warming, With Passionate Warnings and Pictures
^ Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (3 Nov 2009), ISBN 978-0-7435-7204-0

External links

Amazon.com's book reviews and description
Barnes & Noble's editorial reviews and overview
OnTheIssues.org's book review and excerpts

Rodale Inc.

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Al Gore

45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1985–1993) U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1977–1985) Born (1948-03-31)March 31, 1948

Family	Tipper Gore (wife, separated) Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter) Kristin Gore (daughter) Albert Gore Sr. (father) Pauline LaFon Gore (mother)

Politics	Electoral history Atari Democrat United States Senate elections, 1984 1990 Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988 1988 presidential campaign 1992 Democratic National Convention 1992 presidential election Vice Presidency 2000 presidential campaign Bush v. Gore

Environment	Global Marshall Plan Environmental activism Alliance for Climate Protection An Inconvenient Truth (film) I Need to Wake Up Live Earth

Technology	Role in information technology High Performance Computing Act of 1991 National Information Infrastructure Information superhighway The Superhighway Summit 24 Hours in Cyberspace NetDay Digital Earth Current TV

Recognition	Awards and honors

Books	Earth in the Balance An Inconvenient Truth The Assault on Reason Our Choice

Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2000s)

2000 LeVar Burton - The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2001 Sidney Poitier, Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) - The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography 2002 Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers), Elisa Shokoff]] (producer) - Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones 2003 Maya Angelou, Charles B. Potter (producer) - A Song Flung Up to Heaven / Robin Williams, Nathaniel Kunkel (engineer/mixer), Peter Asher (producer) - Live 2002 2004 Al Franken, Paul Ruben (producer)- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them 2005 Bill Clinton - My Life 2006 Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father 2007 Jimmy Carter - Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis / Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee - With Ossie and Ruby 2008 Barack Obama, Jacob Bronstein (producer) - The Audacity of Hope 2009 Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood - An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

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