He writes measured, matter-of-fact prose, letting facts and. The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives - and this affects young people.
O'Connor rephrases Gore's arguments in briefer, simpler language without compromising their flow, plainly intending to disturb readers rather than frighten them. He explains that the natural cycle of the Earths climate has been disturbed by noxious gas building up around the atmosphere and will continue to raise if we don't act soon. 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. Director David Guggenheim's, 'An Inconvenient Truth' is a documentary about former American politician Al Gore informing citizens on the causes and effects of Global Warming. 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. Parents need to know that this book on global warming contains almost exactly the same information as the documentary An Inconvenient Truth.A few images - like those from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - are disturbing, but the really upsetting part for kids will be that they get 166 pages of dire scientific evidence followed by just one brief chapter (15) of ways people can impact the. The overall aim is to gear the content to the people who will in fact be dealing with global warming for the rest of their lives.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. insurance implications, investing in energy and political material)and the text) will be omitted in favour of clear text, appropriate photographs and easily understandable graphs. It’s been 15 years since former vice president Al Gore sounded the climate change alarm bell with his Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
For this young adult edition, the text has been edited down from 320 to 192 pages, with younger readership in mind, so sections aimed specifically at adults (e.g. In this young adult edition of An Inconvenient Truth, adapted from his acclaimed book and film, he writes about the urgent need to solve the problems of climate change, presenting 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. Kp boken An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming av Al Gore (ISBN 9780670062720) hos. Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. Praise For An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming Using easy-to-grasp graphics and revealing before-and-after photos, Gore 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. The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives - and this affects young. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a true planetary emergency and we need to understand that we are facing a crisis. The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives - and this affects young people above all. The film, which was published as a book by the same name, used PowerPoint slides of statistical models, photographs of melting glaciers, animation, and a.