Dive Into An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It By Al Gore Published As Leaflet

enjoyed reading Mr. Gore's slide show about global warming, the causes, and seeing the before and after pictures of various parts of the world was truly amazing, I would like to have seen a month with the years that the pictures were taken, though, I thought the information was presented in a clear, concise manner, I learned a lot more about global warming, The presentation clearly shows "we" have a problem and if "we" don't wake up real quick and do something about the planet "we" will be leaving a mess for our future generations.


This is a quick book to read, a lot of full color before and after pictures of various parts of the world, satellite imagery, etc.
There are a few short stories about Mr, Gore's life: when he was younger, with his wife as newlywed's, about his dad Al Gore, Sr, the accident involving his son when he was young and I enjoyed reading them.


There is a section involving hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones with lots of pictures and information showing how the warmer oceans are generating more powerful and frequent storms.
Pictures explaining the ocean currents, heavy salt in the Atlantic that acts as a pump now slowing down, corral reefs, ice caps on mountains before and after, homes up north built on permafrostnow melted.
Extinction. At the end, there are suggestions and websites for alternative sources of energy, Clearly, we have the ability to use the alternative energy sources: wind, hydro, geothermal, corn oil, sewage, etc and we need to encourage our leaders to shift to these before it is too late.


Numerous quotes by Winston Churchill and Mark Twain that I enjoyed,

Here's one: "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, " by Mark Twain



I've just finished reading Al Gore's book on climate change, and I have to say that I was not particularly impressed.
I hadn't expected a great piece of literature, and I wasn't wrong, But I'm not going to pick holes Gore's turgid prose style though I do wonder if the text was even looked at by an editor.
My problem is with Gore's representation of the scientific data on global warming,

It's clear that the temperature of the earth has been increasing in recent decades, And it's also clear that human activities, in particular the production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, have contributed to this increase in temperature.
It is not entirely clear how much of this change in temperature can be attributed to human activity, Gore however, never mentions that natural, nonanthropogenic factors may contributing to climate change, He leaves the reader with the impression that the increase in global temperature is entirely anthropogenic see pagesand, for example,

This is not the scientific consensus, The scientific consensus, as cited in Naomi Oreskes sitelinksurvey study mentioned approvingly by Gore, is:

"Human activities, . . are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents, . . that absorb or scatter radiant energy, Most of the observed warming over the lastyears is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, "

So, not "all" but "most" climate change is attributable to human causes, A substantial portion may well be due to natural causes, That's not entirely surprising given that there were substantial shifts in global climate well before the appearance of mammals, let alone Homo sapiens.
I think this is an important distinction, and one that Gore should not have omitted,

Don't get me wrong, I'm generally in agreement with taking steps to ameliorate climate change, People who buy Porsche SUVs are not especially bright tasteless idiots who drives off the lot with a sitelinkCayenne rather than a sitelinkBoxster.
Counterclimatic airconditioning the thermostat set to "Fires of Hell" in winter and "Everest Base Camp" in summer is a massive waste of energy, Quite apart from their effects on climate change these types of wasteful energy use offend my sense of frugality, and also result in oldfashioned environmental pollution.


But I do think that if we are ever to take significant steps toward ending or slowing climate change an honest accounting of the scientific evidence is necessary.
And I don't think An Inconvenient Truth provides that,

Finally, a quick note to Al: New Zealand isn't part of Australia can you fix up pagein the second edition Thanks, Al Gore is perhaps the best know American politicians that people still respect around the world, What he said and wrote inis not only proven today but we find that he underestimated the severity of the affects on this world.
In this new book he demonstrates using the most simplistic method of cause and effect that it is used today inth andgrade classrooms.
He clearly demonstrates that the only time that our earth has seen this kind of dieoff we are experiencing today wasmillion years ago, And again he explains the difference between normal long term global warming that takes thousand of years, and the fifty to one hundred year time span that we have now.
Volcanic activity impacts our world for only a few years, What he is saying is that most species will not have enough time to move to more favorable environments, that krill the base of the ocean food chain are no longer abundant as our ice shelves disappear.


And conservatives still make fun of him Unbloody believable!
The Importance of being Inconvenient

A good test of truth is to see if an idea/opinion/economic suggestion is an "Inconvenient Truth", especially if it is inconvenient for the speaker.


If it is not, chances are that the expounder is just playing to his own and his audience's biases,

"Because economic and social phenomena are so forbidding, or at least so seem, and because they yield few hard tests of what exists and what does not, they afford to the individual a luxury not given by physical phenomena.
Within a considerable range, he is permit ted to believe what he pleases, He may hold whatever view of this world he finds most agreeable or otherwise to his taste,

Numerous factors contribute to the acceptability of ideas, To a very large extent, of course, we associate truth with convenience with what most closely accords with selfinterest and personal wellbeing or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life.
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John Kenneth Galbraith, commenting on "Conventional Wisdom"



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Not as well compiled as theDocumentary, but still very exhaustive and informative.
Does get repetitive and preachy at times and is an almost exclusively US oriented book, but inspite of all that this is still a must read for the concerned.
i really dont know if the book came bthe movie or vice versa, all i know is that everything al gore said on screen was similar if not little compared to the book, though the movie was much more louder because of the animations, the book was good too becase it had the stuff that al gore might have went through too fast, or i dint catch a lot of stuff.


however, running through this book actually made me think about things again, because the first time i heard it, i was like yeah i know this, and then i continued to watch the movie, and i was like damn i did not know this stuff.

so then i borrowed the book form of the movie, and i really read it through, i mihgt not know every single detail, but i know enough to stop instigating bad behavior such as littering or even recycling in my building.
UGH! Not much more to say, If you like situation ethics, flawed logic and reading, and quasiscience, . . this is your read . I don't even know what to say about this except, . . Al Gore owns a jet, . . Since when I read this I had only a basic knowledge of the entirety of global warming, it was an eye opener for me, Obviously not meant to be a literary masterpiece, So I was the target audience and it revved me up and got me angry and involved, Thanks Mr V. P. I am currently going to school for environmental science therefore, I try and read as much as possible on global warming and on the environment in general.
This book though was a complete waste of my time, It took me only a few hours to get through, as it reads like a middleschool child's book however, in that time, I learned that "cities are getting bigger" and "glaciers are melting", all from huge oneliners that take up an entire page.
No way right So unless you are living under a rock, which you probably wouldn't be reading this then, this is all common knowledge, It is ironic how in the introduction Al Gore writes pharaphrased "Imagine that you have traveledyears ahead to yearand are talking with your children.
Will they be angry and ask why we didn't do anything, when we had the facts and tools" Living in this future, I see that the kids are angry and disappointed that still nothing more than promises and discussions are held, and still there is so little action outside outreach which has also been done ins,s,s and more.


This is more of a picture book of the world and how our actions are changing it, A book you show to your kids or grandparents to explain, what is happening, It is simple, factual and makes you feel the doom, And it was written inso the doom didn't even feel so bad at that time, Also, it is written for the Americans, but what can you expect from ex VP, Excellent book. A good starter for the climate debate,

In closing, I would like to say ManBearPig, It's scary folks. Gore's Magnum Opus on the reality of global warning, how he came to his position and the key changes in his life that influenced his stance.
Great book if you haven't read it you should!out of,
I did not expect to like this book very much, I had heard all the bad press about Gore being preachy and hypocritical and just plain wrong, Well, I actually liked his tone, I enjoyed the short personal vignettes that came sparingly with the material from his famous "slide show, " I believe that he loves the earth and that he did his best in trying to do his part to make the world a better place.
He took a lot of heat for doing so, I didn't find him preachy, I found his material human and relatable and accessible, I'm not a scientist, so I can't judge his science, He may well indeed travel by jet and limo and have a big house, but I'm not in the business of judging that either, I liked the book. It read easy, went down easy, and gave me practical ideas and inspiration for being a better person, موضوع الكتاب مهم جدا طريقة عرضه جميله لوجود الكثير من الصور والألوان
يحتوي على نتائج اخر الدراسات والاحصاءات الخاصة بموضوع الاحتباس الحراري.
أعجبني اهتمام الكاتب الواضح بالموضوع والقسم المخصص بالحلول التي يمكن للفرد العادي أن يفعلها ليسهم بدوره في المحافظة على البيئة ووجود الكثير من الروابط الالكترونية ليطلع القارئ على المزيد من المعلومات.
لم يعجبني عدم وجود فهرس للكتاب !
وهدر الكثير من الصفحات لعرض الصور بحجم كبير والتي كان من الممكن تصغيرها لتؤدي نفس الغرض لا سيما وأن من ضمن ما ينصح به في الكتاب تقليل الهدر من الموارد الطبيعية ومن ضمنها الورق المصنع من الأشجار.
وأيضا يحتوي الكتاب على العديد من الصفحات السوداء والكتابة عليها باللون الأبيض وهذا يؤدي الى صعوبة التخطيط على الورق للرجوع الى النقاط المهمه والرئيسية.
فيما عدا ذلك كمحتوى ومادة أجده شيق وأنصح به لنستطيع اتخاذ مجموعة من الخطوات لننقذ به عالمنا وكوكبنا. . الأرض I really wish I hadn't used the F word so much last week so I could say, "I can't Fing believe this" and it would have some umpf to it!
When i see this book i imagine someone grabbing it off the shelf at Borders, paying for it, slipping it into a corn biproduct plastic bag, heading out to their car with it happily swinging from their arm as their free hand cracks open another water bottle.

ugh! ugh! ugh! on the same day Gore was announced to receive is big woopintodo award i read an article in the paper about a woman and her ecologically friendly house.
She was siting there in her living room that was probably big enough to fit my entire house, talking about all her environmentally friendly products, from the place mats that were made from recycled bags, to the cork floors that were made from tennis shoe scraps found on Nike factory floors, to mahogany wood harvested in parts of the rain forest specifically designated for cutting, to her vintage jewelry.

so I'm getting this picture of these little bloated bellied kids running into the Nike factory after their parents have finished theirhour shift and they're on their hands and knees picking up all the little scraps so that they can be bundled up and flown to some other factory that can then glue them all together and then fly it to this woman's house where her kids can walk around bare foot bare food by choice, not necessity on their lovely, recycled cork floor.

and I'm wondering if they had some super strength birds that flew those mahogany boards to her ecolovin abode or if maybe, just maybe she utilized a few more resources than would have been necessary if she'd stuck with the wood floors that were already in her house
Possibly my favorite part of the article was where she congratulated herself on not throwing out her plasma t.
v. or her stove even though she doesn't cook or watch t, v. because she doesn't want to contribute to land fills, Perfect!!! don't stop purchasing, just don't throw out what you purchase and certainly don't give it to someone else, because while you may be OK with getting all your meals made by someone else you may want to, at some point, drop something out from that Styrofoam container you got your left overs in and heat them up for breakfast.

what does all this have to do with Al Gores book well when i see his book, i am reminded of him standing up at the Oscars in front ofkazillion light bulbs telling us to change our light bulbs and i think him and her would get along fabulously.
I think he could take her for a ride in his limo, maybe Mr, DiCaprio could follow in his Prius and he could show her where all his mines used to be and how he's changed his ways and they could

swap ideas on how to save the world without actually compromising their lifestyles in any way shape of form.
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