Posted on 01/24/2006 12:29:59 PM PST by Mogengator
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.
However some have questioned whether climate change is the result of human activity and the United States has refused to sign the Kyoto protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, claiming its mandatory cuts would threaten economic growth.
"In the film, Mr. Gore guides audiences through indisputable evidence of the environmental impact of global warming," Rodale said in a statement.
"In the book, the former U.S. Vice President writes about global warming and shares his personal story about how the issue became of urgent importance to him."
Gore served two terms as vice president under President Bill Clinton before losing to Bush in the 2000 election despite winning the popular vote.
Why do I suspect he'll do a book signing in the middle of a spring blizzard... |
Lol, this reminds me of a scene from The Simpsons.
Lisa: Mom! Dad! Look, this biography of Peter Ueberroth is only 99c. And I found the new Al Gore book.
[holds it up]
Marge: "Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow."
Lisa: Yeah, I hope it's as exciting as his other book, "Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future".
Bart: I'm getting this book on UFOs.
["Unidentified Flying Outrage!"]
Did you know they're real, but there's a huge
government conspiracy to cover it up?
Lisa: Oh, that's just a paranoid fantasy.
[the man runs Lisa's book over the scanner]
[a signal travels down through the scanner, over wires, to a
satellite dish, up to a satellite, and down to the Pentagon]
[a man in uniform grabs a printout and dashes off to the White House]
Officer: Mr. Vice President! Someone finally bought a copy of your book, sir.
Al Gore: Well, this calls for a celebration.
[puts on a Kool 'n' the Gang record: "Celebrate good times..."]
I will.
It is only 'indisputable' because they cover their little ears and throw a tantrum and say they are not listening.
"You can out one of the books in your bathroom to be used as toilet paper .That would be recycling ."
I just can't insult my guests.
And seeing that book would make me ill.
Al Gore always look drunk to me.
I wonder why Tipper stays out of sight???
They look like a couple that really booze it up. Just my opinion, nothing to base it on but the way they look and act.
Al Gore can't just come out in the public and sanely make the fool of himself that he does.
Boy I am glad they filled us in on that. Who knew who this Gorbert character was? I heard the there is this Kerry guy who fought in Vietnam and was a real war hero....
Al's new book should be titled "Al Gore, unbalanced"
Nice timing for Gores latest book
Records Shatter As Arctic Weather Grips Europe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564175/posts
He is keeping his sales record going. . .
Gore Book Sales Tank, Supporters Claim Unfair Tactics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/794664/posts
Earth in the Lurch, Part Deux
What do you call consistently clapping off-beat?
An Algorerhythm!
This guy is so sad. He is always just one beat off reality. Leave it to Al to release a book on global warming as Europe is locked in record-breaking cold.
Where's the book signing--I want to avoid another massive blizzard.
Same *stuff*, different day.
And bogus data. His first book had a graph that had to be fake - no noise in the signal. Real data doesn't do that.
Al invented global warming.
Global warming in April? Well, yeah, that's usually what happens, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
24 January, 2006
Non-fiction:
History/Politics/Current Affairs
Former Vice President Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, about global warming (Gore has narrated a documentary of the same name, just screened at Sundance, directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Participant Productions), to Leigh Haber and Tami Booth at Rodale, for publication in April 2006, by Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency.
robin.shallow@rodale.com
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