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| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Assault on Reason Al Gore, 2008-01-01 A powerful indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a rallying cry for a return to reason-based policies at home and abroad. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Future Al Gore, 2013-01-29 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world: • Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels “Earth Inc.”—an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past. • The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of “the Global Mind,” which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases. • The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years—from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets. • A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet’s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species. • Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science—and are putting control of evolution in human hands. • There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth’s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide. From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths—no matter how “inconvenient” they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right. Praise for The Future “Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.”—Bloomberg “In The Future . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review “Historically grounded . . . Gore’s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.”—Publishers Weekly “Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.”—The Guardian |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Our Choice Al Gore, Albert Gore, 2009 An Inconvenient Truth explained the challenges of climate change. Now, Al Gore proposes the solutions. This YA edition of Al Gore's book has been specially edited for readers of around 11 plus - the young people who will, in fact, be dealing with global warming throughout their lives. Sections aimed specifically at adults have been omitted, in favour of clear text, appropriate photographs and easily understandable graphs. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Earth in the Balance Al Gore, 2013-09-13 Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book! |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: An Inconvenient Truth Albert Gore, 2008-11-11 The former vice-president details the factors contributing to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Cool It Bjorn Lomborg, 2007-09-11 Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: State of Fear Michael Crichton, 2005-10-25 In his latest New York Times bestseller, the master of the technological thriller pens this all-too-plausible tale. An intelligence agent races around the world to put the pieces of a frightening eco-terrorist conspiracy together before humankind is devastated by a series of global catastrophes. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Climate Change as Social Drama Philip Smith, Nicolas Howe, 2015-05-05 Climate Change as Social Drama looks at the cultural sociology of climate change in public communication. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Lomborg Deception Howard Friel, 2010-03-16 In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of areas—from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet—The Lomborg Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of today’s most urgent climate concerns. Friel’s book is the first to respond directly to Lomborg’s controversial research as published in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close reading of Lomborg’s textual claims and supporting footnotes reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed mainly by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has had it mostly right—even if somewhat conservatively right—all along. Friel’s able defense of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth against Lomborg’s repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive reading. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Climate Change and Post-Political Communication Philip Hammond, 2017-11-28 For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at the moment when the campaigners’ goals were being achieved, it seemed that the idea of getting the issue into mainstream discussion had been mistaken all along; that the consensus-building approach produced little or no meaningful action. That is the problem of climate change as a ‘post-political’ issue, which is the subject of this book. Examining how climate change is communicated in politics, news media and celebrity culture, Climate Change and Post-Political Communication explores how the issue has been taken up by elites as potentially offering a sense of purpose or mission in the absence of political visions of the future, and considers the ways in which it provides a focus for much broader anxieties about a loss of modernist political agency and meaning. Drawing on a wide range of literature and case studies, and taking a critical and contextual approach to the analysis of climate change communication, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental studies, communication studies, and media and film studies. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Seeing Green Finis Dunaway, 2015-03-01 This “smart, highly readable book” examines how the iconography of environmentalism has help shape—and limit—popular discourse (American Studies). American environmentalism is defined by its icons: from the “Crying Indian” who shed a tear over litter to Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. These kinds of images helped make environmental consciousness central to American culture. And yet these same images obscured critical environmental truths. Finis Dunaway examines this dual role in Seeing Green. Considering a wide array of images—from print magazines and television news to political posters and even cartoons—Dunaway shows how popular environmentalism has been entwined with mass media spectacles of crisis. He focuses on key moments in which media images provoked environmental anxiety while prescribing limited forms of action. Moreover, he shows how the media blamed individual consumers for environmental degradation and thus deflected attention from corporate and government responsibility. Ultimately, Dunaway argues, iconic images have impeded efforts to realize—or even imagine—sustainable visions of the future. Generously illustrated, this innovative book examines both the history of environmentalism and the power of the media to shape our politics. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Bad Environmentalism Nicole Seymour, 2018-10-30 Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom Activists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys. Bad Environmentalism identifies contemporary texts that respond to these absurdities and ironies through absurdity and irony—as well as camp, frivolity, irreverence, perversity, and playfulness. Nicole Seymour develops the concept of “bad environmentalism”: cultural thought that employs dissident affects and sensibilities to reflect critically on our current moment and on mainstream environmental activism. From the television show Wildboyz to the short film series Green Porno, Seymour shows that this tradition of thought is widespread—spanning animation, documentary, fiction film, performance art, poetry, prose fiction, social media, and stand-up comedy since at least 1975. Seymour argues that these texts reject self-righteousness and sentimentality, undercutting public negativity toward activism and questioning basic environmentalist assumptions: that love and reverence are required for ethical relationships with the nonhuman and that knowledge is key to addressing problems like climate change. Funny and original, Bad Environmentalism champions the practice of alternative green politics. From drag performance to Indigenous comedy, Seymour expands our understanding of how environmental art and activism can be pleasurable, even in a time of undeniable crisis. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Heaven and Earth I. R. Plimer, 2009 Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of excessively high carbon dioxide. During past glaciations, carbon dioxide was higher than it is today. The non-scientific popular political view is that humans change climate. Do we have reason for concern about possible human-induced climate change? This book's 504 pages and over 2,300 references to peer-reviewed scientific literature and other authoritative sources engagingly synthesize what we know about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Importantly, in a parallel to his 1994 book challenging creation science, Telling Lies for God, Ian Plimer describes Al Gore's book and movie An Inconvenient Truth as long on scientific misrepresentations. Trying to deal with these misrepresentations is somewhat like trying to argue with creationists, he writes, who misquote, concoct evidence, quote out of context, ignore contrary evidence, and create evidence ex nihilo. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Our Choice Albert Gore, 2009 Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. In his best-selling book, An Inconvenient Truth, he wrote about the urgent need to address the problems of climate change, presenting comprehensive facts and information on all aspects of global warming in a direct, thoughtful and compelling way, using explanatory diagrams and dramatic photos to clarify and highlight key issues. Adopting the same lucid technique in Our Choice, he proposes solutions at every level of our lives, from the personal and local to the national and political to the area of international policy and law. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Insurmountable Risks Brice Smith, 2006 The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change.How much will nuclear energy cost relative to other means of getting rid of carbon dioxide emissions? What will be the risks of catastrophic accidents if we build reactors at the rate of one a week or more, cookie-cutter style, around the world? What about the risks of proliferation and terrorist attacks and nuclear waste? This is THE book providing a meticulously researched analysis of the risks of using nuclear energy to combat global warming. Were there no alternative, the severity of the threat facing humankind and other species from global climate change might warrant serious consideration of the risks of nuclear energy. But as Insurmountable Risks convincingly shows, there are far safer economical alternatives. A perfect factia; companion to the nuclear power debate at the heart of the 2008 Presidential campaign. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Climate Change Facts Yves Earhart, AI, 2025-01-30 Climate Change Facts presents a comprehensive examination of global climate transformation, systematically breaking down the complex science into understandable components while maintaining scientific rigor. The book uniquely combines current research data with practical analysis, offering readers a clear pathway through the intricate web of climate science, from basic mechanisms to potential solutions. The text progresses through three major sections, beginning with the fundamental physical processes of climate change, including detailed explanations of greenhouse gas effects and atmospheric chemistry. Compelling evidence from satellite data, ice core samples, and long-term temperature records demonstrates the clear link between industrial activities and rising CO2 levels. The second section delivers powerful insights into environmental impacts, showcasing how climate change manifests differently across regions through rising sea levels, ecosystem disruption, and ocean acidification. What sets this book apart is its methodical approach to presenting complex scientific concepts through practical examples and visual aids, making it accessible to readers with basic scientific literacy while maintaining academic integrity. The final section explores various mitigation strategies, evaluating both technological solutions like renewable energy systems and policy frameworks for addressing climate challenges. Throughout, the book maintains an objective, evidence-based stance, drawing from peer-reviewed research and current data to help readers form informed conclusions about our changing climate. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Green Tyranny Rupert Darwall, 2019-03-26 Rupert Darwall’s Green Tyranny traces the alarming origins of the green agenda, revealing how environmental scares have been deployed by our global rivals as a political instrument to contest American power around the world. Drawing on extensive historical and policy analysis, this timely and provocative book offers a lucid history of environmental alarmism and failed policies, explaining how “scientific consensus” is manufactured and abused by politicians with duplicitous motives and totalitarian tendencies. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming Laurie David, Cambria Gordon, 2008 The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming is the comprehensive resource readers can look to for understanding why global warming happens and how we can all work together to stop it. Irreverent and entertaining, packed with essential facts and suggestions for how to effect change, the book offers a message of hope. Kids and adults alike can help prevent the full consequences of global warming-we all have a part to play. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change Lee Zimmerman, 2020-03-24 The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how climate change has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that of the overt denialists. Suggesting that we understand that normalized denial as a form of cultural trauma, the book explores how the dominant ways of figuring knowledge about global warming disarticulate that knowledge from the trauma those figurations both represent and reproduce, and by which they remain inhabited and haunted. Its early chapters consider that process in representations of climate change across a range of disciplines and throughout the public sphere, including Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Barack Obama’s speeches and climate plans, and the 2015 Paris Agreement. Later chapters focus on how literary representations especially, for the most part, participate in such disarticulations, and on how, in grappling with the representational difficulties at the climate crisis’s heart, some works of fiction—among them Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker—work against that normalized rhetorical violence. The book closes with a meditation centered on the dream of the burning child Freud sketches in The Interpretation of Dreams. Highlighting the existential stakes of the ways we think and write about the climate, Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change aims to offer an unfamiliar place from which to engage the astonishing quiescence of our ecocidal present. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of psychoanalysis, environmental humanities, trauma studies, literature, and environmental studies, as well as activists and others drawn to thinking about the climate crisis. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Science and the Politics of Openness Brigitte Nerlich, Sarah Hartley, Sujatha Raman, Alexander Smith, 2018 The phrase 'here be monsters' or 'here be dragons' is commonly believed to have been used on ancient maps to indicate unexplored territories which might hide unknown beasts. This book maps and explores places between science and politics that have been left unexplored, sometimes hiding in plain sight - in an era when increased emphasis was put on 'openness'. The book is rooted in a programme of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled: 'Making Science Public: Challenges and opportunities, which runs from 2014 to 2017. One focus of our research was to critically question the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: We Are the Weather Jonathan Safran Foer, 2019-09-17 The New York Times–bestselling author offers an accessible, immediate, life-changing study of climate change and a call to action to combat the dilemma. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response? The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves—with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast. Winner of the 2020 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Financial Times Best Books of 2019 The Guardian Best Food Books of 2019 Fast Company Best Climate Books of 2019 |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming Christopher C. Horner, 2007-01-01 An exposâe of some of the more controversial agendas behind global warming argues that poor-quality science and dishonest politics are contributing to the intentionally disporportionate and self-serving levels of fear. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: SUMMARY - An Inconvenient Truth By Davis Guggenheim And Al Gore Shortcut Edition, 2021-06-21 * Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will learn why and how mankind is changing the planet's climate in a sustainable way, with unpredictable consequences. You will also learn : why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is so dangerous; why mankind has not yet taken the true measure of the danger; how temperature increases are permanently changing very complex climate systems and ecosystems; that the ice at the poles is in danger of disappearing in the near future, with dramatic consequences for society; what you can do at your level to reduce the damage. You have probably heard about global warming. However, it is difficult to form an opinion in this area. Contradictory statements follow one another, the consequences on the Earth and human beings are unclear, the reforms initiated by governments are timid and piecemeal. What should we think? Is the emergency really declared? Is global warming natural or man-made? Does humanity still have time to take the necessary measures? The former vice-president of the United States and famous defender of ecology, Al Gore, answers these questions. Are you ready to take the right measure of the situation? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee! |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Climate Chronicles Joe Bastardi, 2018-01-02 A revealing look by someone who has loved the weather since his first memory--and has worked in the field for over 40 years--at what is really inside the man-made climate change agenda. The author shows through countless examples, the exploitation, politicization, and weaponization of weather and climate in an effort to promote an agenda that runs counter to the foundations this nation was built on. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: New Tools for Environmental Protection National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, 2002-07-13 Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the quick fixes have been achieved and the main sources of pollution are shifting from large point sources to more diffuse sources that are more difficult and expensive to regulate. The political climate has also changed in the United States since the 1970s in ways that provide impetus to seek alternatives to regulation. This book examines the potential of some of these new tools that emphasize education, information, and voluntary measures. Contributors summarize what we know about the effectiveness of these tools, both individually and in combination with regulatory and economic policy instruments. They also extract practical lessons from this knowledge and consider what is needed to make these tools more effective. The book will be of interest to environmental policy practitioners and to researchers and students concerned with applying social and behavioral sciences knowledge to improve environmental quality. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Chew on This Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser, 2013-02-26 Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn’t survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald’s? It’s true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant. Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, it’s moving into our schools. One out of every five public schools in the United States now serves brand name fast food. But do kids know what they’re eating? Where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good? When Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book, Fast Food Nation, was published for adults in 2001, many called for his groundbreaking insight to be shared with young people. Now Schlosser, along with co-writer Charles Wilson, has investigated the subject further, uncovering new facts children need to know. In Chew On This, they share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken ‘nugget’ really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Why We Disagree about Climate Change Mike Hulme, 2009-04-30 Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change. In this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an 'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of our place in the world. Why We Disagree About Climate Change is an important contribution to the ongoing debate over climate change and its likely impact on our lives. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Island of Knowledge Marcelo Gleiser, 2014-06-03 Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited. These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves. Telling the dramatic story of our quest for understanding, The Island of Knowledge offers a highly original exploration of the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in history, from Plato to Einstein, and how they affect us today. An authoritative, broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning, The Island of Knowledge is a unique view of what it means to be human in a universe filled with mystery. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Madhouse Effect Michael E. Mann, Tom Toles, 2016-09-27 The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant, colorful escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars. The Madhouse Effect portrays the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that human activity has changed Earth's climate. Toles's cartoons collapse counter-scientific strategies into their biased components, helping readers see how to best strike at these fallacies. Mann's expert skills at science communication aim to restore sanity to a debate that continues to rage against widely acknowledged scientific consensus. The synergy of these two climate science crusaders enlivens the gloom and doom of so many climate-themed books—and may even convert die-hard doubters to the side of sound science. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Summary: An Inconvenient Book BusinessNews Publishing,, 2017-01-30 The must-read summary of Glenn Beck's book “An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems”. This complete summary of An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck, a conservative American political commentator, presents the author's parody of Al Gore's similarly titled documentary, discussing some of the biggest issues faced by American society. With biting humour and a straightforward approach, Beck questions how the left-wing media portrays societal issues, and proposes his own take on some significant problems, from inner-city poverty to climate change. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand society's most pressing issues from a different angle • Expand your knowledge of politics and sociology To learn more, read An Inconvenient Book and discover Glenn Beck's take on some of American society's most pressing issues. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Common Sense Government Al Gore, 2010-10-20 The federal government is ailing and needs a cure. The cure lies in embracing a principle long known to the American people but little recognized by Washington—until now: common sense. In this pathbreaking report, Vice President Al Gore, presiding over the National Performance Review, at the request of President Clinton, charts a fundamental shift in how government conducts itself. This report understands that a government that recognizes who its real customers are, works with them to understand their needs, and puts them first, not last, is a government that deserves to govern. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference Rebecca Huntley, 2020-07-02 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG 'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to understanding ourselves and each other as we face the climate crisis. Let's take down the walls that divide us. Collectively, with compassion and courage, we can make real change happen.' KYLIE KWONG 'Explains whether and how we will choose to solve the climate problem. Immensely important analysis in a great read.' PROFESSOR ROSS GARNAUT Why is it so hard to talk about climate change? While scientists double down on the shocking figures, we still find ourselves unable to discuss climate change meaningfully among friends and neighbours - or even to grapple with it ourselves. The key to progress on climate change is in the psychology of human attitudes and our ability to change. Whether you're already alarmed and engaged with the issue, concerned but disengaged, a passive skeptic or an active denier, understanding our emotional reactions to climate change - why it makes us anxious, fearful, angry or detached - is critical to coping on an individual level and convincing each other to act. This book is about understanding why people who aren't like you feel the way they do and learning to talk to them effectively. What we need are thousands - millions - of everyday conversations about the climate to enlarge the ranks of the concerned, engage the disengaged and persuade the cautious of the need for action. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Hot Talk, Cold Science S. Fred Singer, David R. Legates, Anthony R. Lupo, 2025-09-30 The revised and expanded third edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science forms the capstone of the distinguished astrophysicist Dr. S. Fred Singer’s lucid, yet hard scientific look at climate change. And the book is no less explosive than its predecessors—and certainly never more timely. Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data and the failures of climate models, as well as the impact of solar variability, clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate—plus factors that could mitigate any human impact on world climate. Singer’s masterful analysis decisively shows that the pessimistic, and often alarming, global-warming scenarios depicted in the media have no scientific basis. In fact, he finds that many aspects of increased levels of CO2, as well as any modest warming, such as a longer growing seasons for food and a reduced need to use fossil fuels for heating, would have a highly positive impact on the human race. As alarmists clamor to impose draconian government restrictions on entire populations in order to combat climate change, this book reveals some other startling, stubborn contradictory facts, including: CO2 has not caused temperatures or sea levels to rise beyond historical rates. Severe storms have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1970—neither have heat waves nor droughts. Global climate change is not harming coral reefs. Any increases in CO2 concentrations across huge time spans haven't preceded rising global temperatures, they’ve followed them by about 600 to 800 years—just the opposite of alarmist claims. Carbon taxes and other solutions to the global warming crisis would have severe consequences for economically disadvantaged groups and nations. Alarmist climate scientists have hidden their raw temperature data and deleted emails—then undermined the peer-review system to squelch debate. In sum, despite all the hot talk—and outright duplicity—there is no climate crisis resulting from human activities and no such threat on the horizon. With the assistance of renowned climate scientists David R. Legates and Anthony R. Lupo, Singer’s Hot Talk, Cold Science is an essential, clear-headed book of scope and substance that no one who claims to value science, the environment, and human well-being can afford to ignore. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Earth in the Balance Albert Gore, 1992 A new edition of the vice president's groundbreaking environmental treatise argues that the engine of human progress now threatens to destroy the earth unless humans can create a more sustainable solution from within the framework of society. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Summary: The Assault on Reason BusinessNews Publishing,, 2017-01-30 The must-read summary of Al Gore's book: “The Assault on Reason”. This complete summary of The Assault of Reason by Al Gore, prominent American political activist and former Vice President, presents his argument that the public and political sphere has degraded into a place that is hostile to reason. He suggests rational debate and clear thinking, instead of campaigns and discussions based on fear and secrecy. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand how the public debate sphere can lose its rationality • Expand your knowledge of American politics and society To learn more, read The Assault on Reason and discover Al Gore's view that reasoned debate should always be prioritised over misuses of fear and faith. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: The Greatest Hoax James M. Inhofe, 2012 Inhofer presents his perspectives and opinions on the proposed carbon tax and energy regulations currently part of the global warming debate among members of the Congress and the U.S. government. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Ethics Louis P. Pojman, 2006 In this time-proven introduction to ethics, Dr. Louis Pojman, renowned professor of philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy, fellow of Cambridge University, and author of numerous books, challenges you to consider your own moral standpoints in the context of many seminal ethical theories. |
| summary of an inconvenient truth by al gore: Hot Money Naomi Klein, 2021-08-26 In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In Hot Money Naomi Klein lays out the evidence that deregulated capitalism is waging war on the climate, and shows that, in order to stop the damage, we must change everything we think about how our world is run. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world. |
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