An inconvenient truth : the crisis of global warming
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An inconvenient truth : the crisis of global warming
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- Label
- An inconvenient truth : the crisis of global warming
- Title remainder
- the crisis of global warming
- Statement of responsibility
- Al Gore
- Subject
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- Climatic changes
- trueGlobal warming -- Government policy
- trueSocial issues -- Environment | Climate
- Environmental protection
- Global warming
- trueClimate change
- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Juvenile literature
- trueNature Writing -- Environmental Issues
- trueGreenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Government policy
- Environmental protection -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- Climatic changes -- Juvenile literature
- truePolitics and global affairs -- Environmental issues and policies
- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
- trueEnvironmental sciences
- trueEnvironmental protection
- trueClimatology
- trueHuman ecology
- United States
- Global warming -- Juvenile literature
- Juvenile works
- trueGlobal warming
- trueEnvironmental policy
- trueGreenhouse effect, Atmospheric
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
- trueAtmosphere
- trueBooks to movies
- trueScience -- Environmental science | Global warming
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 glaciers and ice shelves are disappearing all over the globe with alarming speed, pointing to profound climate changes and increased danger from rising sea levels in the near future. O'Connor rephrases Gore's arguments in briefer, simpler language without compromising their flow, plainly intending to disturb readers rather than frighten them. He writes measured, matter-of-fact prose, letting facts and trends speak for themselves but, suggesting that "what happens locally has worldwide consequences," he closes with the assertion that we will all have to "change the way we live our lives." Like the film, this title may leave readers to look elsewhere for both documentation and for specific plans of action, but as an appeal to reason it's as polished and persuasive as it can be
- Award
- Green Prize for Sustainable Literature: Adult Nonfiction, 2007.
- Awards note
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 363.73874
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- juvenile
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