Gore to publish book on global warming

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-01-24T174420Z_01_N24233070_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-GORE-DC.XML

Gore to publish book on global warming


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's second book about global warming will be published in April with the title "An Inconvenient Truth," his publisher Rodale Books said on Tuesday.

Gore, the Democrat who lost to George W. Bush in the disputed 2000 presidential election, has been a long-standing campaigner on environmental issues.

The book is tied to a documentary of the same title about Gore's environmental campaigning which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. It follows up on Gore's successful 1992 book "Earth in The Balance."

Many scientists say global warming is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and will cause more intense storms, droughts and floods. Current levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the past 650,000 years, research from Antarctic ice cores shows.

[sasha031]

1. it will be a must read

how different things might of been if Al Gore was in charge...

[sarcasmo]

2. Reading the first one right now. A very smart man, President Gore.

[medeak]

3. also a movie.. he was at Sundance over the weekend

talking about movie on global warming he's producing

[Mabus]

5. Gore didn't produce the movie

It was a documentary initiated by Laurie David (Larry's wife), Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vols. I & II, etc.) and Participant Production (Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, among others). From what I understand Gore agreed to participate because he saw it as a chance to spread the word about global warming to a larger audience.

[Mabus]

6. FYI: From Sundance Film Festival website

Extreme poverty, intractable wars, virulent disease, hatred of all stripes–these are a few of the scourges we live with today. And yet global climate change trumps them all; for if it's not addressed, all life on the planet will be devastated, regardless of geography, class, race, or creed. The Inconvenient Truth is the gripping story of former Vice President Al Gore, who became interested in this startling issue while at college 30 years ago, and now devotes his life to reversing global warming. Traveling the world, he has built a visually mesmerizing presentation designed to disabuse doubters of the notion that climate change is debatable. The heart of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia lecture itself, where Gore indisputably correlates CO2 emissions with exponentially rising temperatures, already responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like ice-cap melting, drought, and rising sea levels. Interwoven with this riveting public address are intimate moments revealing the poetic, searching side of Gore as he struggles to define his purpose in the aftermath of the 2000 election. This is activist cinema at its very best, for it serves to popularize and demythologize a problem long obscured by those most threatened by the solution. With humor and searing intelligence, Gore outlines crucial steps we must take to avert impending disaster and proves that inaction is no longer an option–in fact, it's immoral.— Caroline Libresco


Executive Producers : Jeff Skoll, Davis Guggenheim
Producers : Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Burns
Coproducer : Lesley Chilcott
Editors : Jay Cassidy, Dan Swietlik

http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/Default.aspx

[llmart]

4. I read the first one when it came out.....

and that's when I became aware of how knowledgeable and articulate this guy is.

Oh, and Reuters, by the way, Gore did not lose to Bush. He won.

[ramapo]

7. Nice he found his voice

He was too silent during his campaign on environmental issues and the Clinton administration didn't do anything great either although they certainly shine in comparison to the current regime.

[AlGore-08.com]

8. Kicking it up for President Gore

:patriot: :kick: :patriot:

[Dr Fate]

9. A President who writes books...

...would be great to have.

[lovuian]

10. Whoo Hoo Gore!!!

Lov ya!!!