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Gore's 1992 book 'Earth in the Balance,' this volume displays an earnest, teacherly tone, but it's largely free of the New Age psychobabble and A-student grandiosity that rumbled through that earlier book. It does not pretend to grapple with climate change with the sort of minute detail and analysis displayed by three books on the subject that came out earlier this spring ('The Winds of Change' by Eugene Linden, 'The Weather Makers' by Tim Flannery and 'Field Notes From a Catastrophe' by Elizabeth Kolbert), 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.

#AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (BOOK) MOVIE#

He has revived the slide presentation about global warming that he first began giving in 1990 and taken that slide show on the road, and he has now turned that presentation into a book and a documentary film, both called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' The movie (which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday) shows a focused and accessible Gore - 'a funnier, more relaxed and sympathetic character' than he was as a candidate, said The Observer, the British newspaper - and has revived talk in some circles of another possible Gore run for the White House.ДЄs for the book, its roots as a slide show are very much in evidence. Gore's passionate warnings about climate change seem increasingly prescient. Gore as 'Ozone Man' - if the Clinton-Gore ticket were elected, he suggested, 'we'll be up to our neck in owls and out of work for every American' - but with the emerging consensus on global warming today, Mr. And even Hollywood movies like the kiddie cartoon 'Ice Age: The Meltdown' and the much sillier disaster epic 'The Day After Tomorrow' take climate change as a narrative premise.Д®nter - or rather, re-enter - Al Gore, former vice president, former Democratic candidate for president and longtime champion of the environment, who helped to organize the first Congressional hearings on global warming several decades ago.ДЇourteen years ago, during the 1992 campaign, the current president's father, George Herbert Walker Bush, dismissed Mr.

News & World Report article noted that dozens of evangelical leaders had called for federal legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and that 'a growing number of investors are pushing for change from the business community' as well. A year ago, the National Academy of Sciences joined similar groups from other countries in calling for prompt action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.ДЄ Time magazine cover story in April declared that 'the climate is crashing and global warming is to blame,' noting that a new Time/ABC News/Stanford University poll showed that 87 percent of respondents believe the government should encourage or require a lowering of power-plant emissions. And despite efforts by the Bush administration to shrug it off as an incremental threat best dealt with through voluntary emissions controls and technological innovation, the issue has been making inroads in the collective imagination, spurred by new scientific reports pointing to rising temperatures around the world and melting ice fields in Greenland and Antarctica. There has been broad agreement over the fundamentals of global warming in mainstream scientific circles for some time now. As flawed as science in the courtroom can become, keeping science out of courts is even worse.Lately, global warming seems to be tiptoeing toward a tipping point in the public consciousness. But who decides what's accurate? A judge? A jury? And how? It's a gray and messy area, and there aren't any grand truths to clean it all up. But the judge wasn't banning 'An Inconvenient Truth' - just insisting that scientific inaccuracies be corrected. The obvious response to this analogy is, of course, that there's no scientific basis for ID or creationism, while there's plenty of evidence for manmade climate change. On the other hand, when the UK government recently told teachers that they shouldn't teach intelligent design and creationism as science, I wasn't complaining. From my own perspective, there's something disturbing about a court acting as a movie critic, then turning its recommendations into legal requirements. Not being an expert on UK law or politics, I don't know how this fits with the country's free speech laws and traditions. A British judge has ruled that Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth can't be shown in schools unless accompanied by materials explaining the film's inaccuracies.

An inconvenient truth (book)