An Inconvenient Truth
by Al Gore · first published 2006
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This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating changes in temperature and precipitation patterns worldwide. Using easy-to-grasp graphics and revealing before-and-after photos, he shows how glaci
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…formed from the environmental portions of the UN. If the face of climate change was a scientist, I'd be more apt to believe it, and so would millions of other people of a conservative political bent. An Inconvenient Truth is the seminal work on climate change meant to inform the general population, and a substantial bit of the movie is spent on the 2000 presidential election controversy. Why in the world would anyone…
on “Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans” ↗He does not mention bombs. I'm certainly no expert here, but I think I read in the book An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore a long time ago, that if you have the ability to build a nuclear power plant, then building a bomb is not very hard. I'm not terribly keen on living in a world where most of the countries…
on “The New Atomic Age We Need” ↗…climate change or its effects. The split seems mostly generational; my parents and other parents around their age seem to not really care (there are still dinner table debates about whether Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a scam or not), but as my other-millennial friends are becoming parents, the vast majority of them do care, because this issue has been so front-of-mind for people my age. We're hyperaware of the…
on “The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable” ↗