Title: An Inconvenient Truth
Author: Al Gore
Pages: 328
Genre: Science (or is it science fiction?)
Grade: A-
Synopsis: This book is about "the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it." The book is a companion piece to the documentary by the same name. The contents within the book are pulled from a series of multimedia presentations that Al Gore has been giving to groups and governments for many years.
My Review: [Disclaimer: I fully subscribe to the science of human caused global warming...] I was excited to come across this book at the DI or a garage sale (I don't remember which). This book was an easy read with lots of photographs, graphs and diagrams outlining the global warming crisis. I have not seen the documentary, but the book felt like it was rushed to print in order to be a companion piece to the film. The material in the book is quite convincing and presented in an easy-to-digest way, I find it very unfortunate that such a topic has been twisted into a political discussion, when the science should be able to stand on its own.
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