Book Review
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
By Al Gore
Rodale Press, 2006. 328 pp.
ISBN: 1-59486-567-1, $28.95

While the issue of climate change has been given worldwide attention since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, it has never been profoundly realized as impending or of great concern until publication of the book An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, former vice president and former Democratic candidate for president of the United States. Beyond his prominent political identity, Al Gore is a longtime advocate of environmental protection who organized the first Congressional hearings on global warming in the late 1970s. In his first book, Earth in the Balance, he started to spell out potential climate change issues. In An Inconvenient Truth, which was released as a movie as well, Gore shows the impacts of climate change resulting from human activities, and the ignorance of human beings regarding this change, in......

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