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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2006-08-17)
ISBN: 0747589062
EAN: 9780747589068
Paperback: 336 pages
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Customer Reviews
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If this book don't wake people up, nothing will
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-07-02
Al gore has done what many in World goverments are afaird to do and admit that Global Warming is actually happening and he is spot on when he says it's an Inconvenient Truth to many poliltians and companies.
This book might not go into to as much depth as some readers would like but i think Al Gore was attempting to reach out to everyone by not filling the book with lots of scientific jargon.
The photo's and their are many in this book, show what is happening to our world and no amount of written information can change what them photo's are proving, the world as we know it is changing.
If amazes me that people still think global warming is just a myth when their is so many books out their including this one that prove it's not.
This book is a intresting and compelling read and offers a distrubing insight into what awaits us if we fail to protect our only home, Planet Earth.
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Politics makes its own facts
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-10-28
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Not convincing. Hard not to come away with the feeling of a politicians sweaty handshake. I felt bamboozled.
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Good introduction
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-09-20
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having a well known presenter has certainly given the book and DVD access to a huge audience and the information is very good but there are many more in depth books to read that cover the problems and the types of changes we can make in more depth. I found the style a bit simple and would point those who are interested in more depth to The Revenge of Gaia or the Weathermakers. We do need lots of ways to get the message across especially to the politicians and in that area Gore has done a great job for his country and the rest of the world.
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Strong on problems weak on solutions
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-06-13
5 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
I don't know if the debate is different in the US from Europe, maybe many Americans haven't heard of climate change. But somehow I doubt that given the many amazing initiatives and campaigns being run all over the United States despite the blocking actions of President Bush. This book and DVD are slick presentations of the problems, the tricky problem is the solutions, and strangely here Al Gore is very vague.
It needs a follow up, the inconvenient solutions, or better the convenient solution.
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An inconvenient lack of evidence
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-06-06
11 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hardly a day goes by without global warming being in the news, so I bought An Inconvenient Truth to try to get a better understanding of the subject and the issues. And in that respect the book has been an almost complete disappointment.
Al Gore presents no scientific evidence to support his argument beyond the now famous graph of carbon dioxide and temperature (which doesn't actually prove anything at all) and doesn't even tell me where I can go to find any evidence (apart from a very brief footnote at the bottom of page 319 that lists a couple of websites). The vast majority of the book (over 200 pages) is just dramatic photographs of natural, weather-induced disasters, presented as if they are in themselves proof of his argument. Al, as far as I'm aware, no-one disputes that the planet is currently getting warmer. You've won that battle already. It's what we can do to help the people that are being affected by climate change now that's important. In this respect the book successfully draws our attention to the plight of people whose lives are being destroyed today by droughts, floods, etc.
I'm all for being environmentally responsible, reducing enery consumption, etc. but I think it's sad if the only way you can get the masses to follow you on the path to doing the right thing is to bombard them with largely unsubstantiated scaremongering and propoganda, which is what this book does throughout.
If you take the time to read this book from cover to cover, you will realise that it presents not a shred of actual evidence that reducing human carbon dioxide output to zero will make the slightest bit of difference to the changing climate or to the plight of the people that are affected by it. And that really is an Inconvenient Truth.
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Retail Price: £14.99
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