An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it / Al Gore.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Rodale Press, [2006]Copyright date: Description: 325 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594865671
  • 9781594865671
  • 9780747589068
  • 0747589062
Other title:
  • Planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.73874 22
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56 G67 2006
NLM classification:
  • 363.738 G666i
Online resources:
Contents:
Effects and consequences of global warming: climate crisis -- The atmosphere and greenhouse gases -- Temperatures and ocean warming -- Shrinking of glaciers -- Floods and precipitation changes -- Increased storms, hurricanes, droughts -- Effects on the Poles: Antarctica and the Arctic regions -- Effects on the oceans -- Effects on forests and deforestation -- Rivers and the consequences of irrigation -- Vectors for emerging infectious diseases -- Effects of energy and the new technologies -- The Politicization of global warming -- Global stewardship.
Awards:
  • Quill award for history/current events/politics, 2006
Summary: With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked.
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With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked.

Effects and consequences of global warming: climate crisis -- The atmosphere and greenhouse gases -- Temperatures and ocean warming -- Shrinking of glaciers -- Floods and precipitation changes -- Increased storms, hurricanes, droughts -- Effects on the Poles: Antarctica and the Arctic regions -- Effects on the oceans -- Effects on forests and deforestation -- Rivers and the consequences of irrigation -- Vectors for emerging infectious diseases -- Effects of energy and the new technologies -- The Politicization of global warming -- Global stewardship.

Quill award for history/current events/politics, 2006

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