@article{311588,
      recid = {311588},
      author = {Gore, Al,},
      title = {An inconvenient truth : the crisis of global warming /},
      publisher = {Viking,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {191 p. :},
      year = {2007},
      note = {Adaptation of: An inconvenient truth / by Al Gore. 2006.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/311588},
}