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 An Inconvenient Turth: The local emergency of Gore's political career and what we can do to help him rejuvinate it! October 9, 2008
M. Barnes (West Sussex, England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you were hoping for a hard-hitting book on the science of climate change, think again. It is more a book of Gore's political views poorly portrayed in what can only be described as a childrens picture book, segregated by tales of Gore's personal anecdotes and childhood memories in order to detach from the truth of the issue at hand and to sympathise with a has-been politician. Gore's apocolyptic vision is widley known to be a false representation of the dangers of climate change by scientists and climatologists alike, and even the IPCC that he loves to qoute so much fail to credit his views on 20 foot sea level rises, unprecendented storms and newstrains of diseases. The only truth I found in the whole book was that CO2 (only one of many 'greenhouse gasses' of which water vapour makes the vast majority) does exacerbate global warming, albeit there is a large grey area between what is human induced climate change and what is a natural occurance. The truth of the issue is that man-made climate change is an open debate, one of rather 'cloudy' science that is still in its infancy. If you want distorted facts, misnformed statistics and mitigated morals, either to support your naiive views on climate change or just for an exhilirating piece of American fiction, this is the book for you!
Picture book September 12, 2008
Ms. J. Cooper (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cannot believe that there is a "Young adult" version of this book. For crying out load what is this one then?
I thought the film was poor, but the book, although it follows the film precisely, adds nothing at all to the debate or issue. A huge disappointment and I feel thoroughly conned.
I want to read serious pro material. I believe in understanding an issue. This fails to deliver real scientific facts, only media hysteria and if's and maybe's again.
Dreadful rot.
 Mind blowing! September 8, 2008
Road Rocket (Northern England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everybody should watch this. I'm a bit of a cynic at times but I was amazed at the effort put into this film and its effect on me. Certainly all schools should show this (or the younger age version) to their children. Nobody can be an ostrich anymore. This film is dynamite!
Al Gore (and associates) deserve all the money they make from this outstanding film report. What a pity he didn't make president and we have had to put up with the worse ever idiot president of the USA, Bush the Buffoon. But hey, even worse is on the horizon. McCain and an incredibly ludicrous woman called Palin, who believes the earth was created just six thousand years ago and Noah saved all the animals of the planet, and she doesn't believe in global warming. God help us - whatever God that is you support!
 If this book don't wake people up, nothing will July 2, 2008
Daniel Storey (Rochester, England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Politics makes its own facts October 28, 2007
Bruce (no fixed abode)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Not convincing. Hard not to come away with the feeling of a politicians sweaty handshake. I felt bamboozled.
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