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.[1]
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."[3]
In a section called "The Politicization of Global Warming", Al Gore stated:
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.
The second part of the statement beginning "... the reason is that the truth about the climate crisis..." was also highlighted and separated from the main writing in that section.
Feedback loops from AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH with page numbers from the 2006 edition.
The 2006 edition of the book has neither a table of contents nor an index, but can be summarized as the presentation of various positive and negative causal links, shown in the graphic with corresponding page numbers. A simplistic summary is that human greenhouse gas emissions drive increases in global temperature that result in changes that are detrimental to human - and many other forms of - life.
Reception
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."[4]
In 2009, the audiobook version, narrated by Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, and Blair Underwood, won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.[5]
References
↑ Al Gore (2006). An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. Rodale, Inc. p.325. ISBN1-59486-567-1. OCLC69249460.
↑ Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (3 Nov 2009), ISBN978-0-7435-7204-0
Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
1950s
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Lincoln Portrait – Carl Sandburg (1959)
1960s
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Humor in Music – Leonard Bernstein (1961)
The Story-Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton – Charles Laughton (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee (playwright) (1963)
BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy – That Was the Week That Was (1964)
John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him – Goddard Lieberson (producer) (1965)
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Gallant Men – Everett Dirksen (1967)
Lonesome Cities – Rod McKuen (1968)
We Love You Call Collect – Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter (1969)
1970s
Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King Jr. (1970)
Desiderata – Les Crane (1971)
Lenny – Bruce Botnick (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1972)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Harris (1973)
Good Evening – Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (1974)
Give 'em Hell, Harry! – James Whitmore (1975)
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The Belle of Amherst – Julie Harris (1977)
Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Orson Welles (1978)
Ages of Man: Readings from Shakespeare – John Gielgud (1979)
1980s
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Donovan's Brain – Orson Welles (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Movie on Record – Tom Voegeli (producer) and Various Artists (1982)
Lincoln Portrait – William Warfield (1983)
The Words of Gandhi – Ben Kingsley (1984)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Mike Berniker (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1985)
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1990s
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It Takes a Village – Hillary Clinton (1996)
Charles Kuralt's Spring – Charles Kuralt (1997)
Still Me – Christopher Reeve (1998)
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. – LeVar Burton (1999)
2000s
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Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones – Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers), and Elisa Shokoff (producer) (2001)
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken and Paul Ruben (producer) (2003)
My Life – Bill Clinton (2004)
Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama (2005)
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The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein (producer) (2007)
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