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An Inconvenient Truth.


An Inconvenient in·con·ven·ient  
adj.
Not convenient, especially:
a. Not accessible; hard to reach.

b. Not suited to one's comfort, purpose, or needs: inconvenient to have no phone in the kitchen.
 Truth

Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)
Albert Gore Jr., Gore
 

Rodale Press

733--3rd Avenue, NY, NY 10017-3204

1594865617 $21.95 rodalestore.com

The long-held notion that climate change happens very slowly is starting to change as the public grows to realize it's happening quickly--and has, as Gore maintains, become a planetary plan·e·tar·y  
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.

2.
a.
 emergency not being addressed. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution.  And What We Can Do About It defines, charts and discusses this emergency providing hard-hitting chapters of evidence and scientific fact. From turning points in realization and experience and evidence to discussions of changes, An Inconvenient Truth is a 'must' read for any concerned about the environment.
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Title Annotation:An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency F Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Publication:The Bookwatch
Article Type:Book review
Date:Aug 1, 2006
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