An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming: Teen Edition by Al Gore

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming: Teen Edition Reviews

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  Bettie

  
  Pretty sure that Al Gore's books are on a 'soon-to-be-banned' list in a drawer somewhere in 37v2's malfeasant gumment:
  
  
  Climate scientists preempt possible suppression from White House
  
  Read all you can before this happens.
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  Nancy

  Great book for young people about the urgent problem of global warming. Educating them about this crisis is critical going forward.
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  Colin Price

  An accessible text for younger readers, relying far more on pictures and text feature than actual words (cumbersome words, who needs them anyway). I'm sure for anyone who has been living in a cave and doesn't know even the basics of the climate crisis, this would be an okay primer, but it stops short of having any real teeth to motivate change ("Okay Mr. Gore, I won't stand with the refrigerator door open so I can conserve energy. Now let me get back to listening to my iPod while playing Xbox Live."). Overall, there are probably better ways to engage teens in the fight against climate change (and, you know, that pesky human extinction thing).
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  Karly

  This was a really interesting and eye-opening read. Especially since it was published in 2006 and Al Gore makes many (scary) predictions for the next 10-15 years...which is now. I’d like to read a follow up to this book to see where we landed with those predictions. Thankfully the last chapter was dedicated to how was can act on climate change and make changes in our lives to help save the planet.
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  Julie Suzanne

  Picked this up during speed dating with a book event that I was running with eighth graders. All of the kids were reading silently so I started reading this one and wanted to bring it home. I’ve never seen the documentary or read the adult version of this book, and it seems like something I should definitely have read. I do know about it…
  
  
  I would give the straightforward,, concise and effective explanation of Global Warming Five stars if it weren’t so old. I would love an updated version!
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  Sandy

  I thought this book had lots of information on the level that kids could understand. Not much else to say about it though. It only had a few pages devoted to talking about what we should do to fix the problems. It was published in 2006 and the information was up to 2005. There should be an updated version since it's now 2019.
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  Rafael Botelho

  Um bom livro para para os mais jovens perceberem este urgente problema (já o era em 2006).
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  Clifford

  A typical book written by a politician. Gore does not refute opposing opinions to his claims, but instead portrays them as misguided or bought and paid for by big oil. If this is the best argument that those who support anthropogenic climate change, then it is no wonder that people are starting to jump ship and abandon the religious fervor of man-made global warming. To support such a theory, you must embrace the detractors and demonstrate with evidence why their argument is wrong. Gore presents his claims and uses typical political rhetoric to support them instead of refuting them with solid facts. He does nothing to separate a natural global climate change from human influenced climate change and jumps to all climate change must be man-caused. Overall, he lacks a strong supporting argument to support his claim and uses anecdotal evidence. As of this date, many of the predicted results of global warming he claims will be evident are not even close to reality.
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  Sally Ahn

  In June 2017, U.S. President Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement signed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Many countries have criticized the decision, which America had high range in greenhouse gas emissions. However, there is a person in the U.S. who tried to push the Paris Agreement--Al Gore, the author of this book.
  
  Al Gore served as the 45th vice president of the United States and has been active as an environmental activist, focusing on global warming since his retirement. In 2007, he also won the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to resolving the global warming issue. (Source from Wikipedia)
  
  Al Gore is talking about global warming based on his own experiences and scientific Evidence. The photos show the problems caused by global warming all over the world. Later, I read that there were many photos taken by the photographer, but also many of them were taken by Al Gore himself. It must have been very hard to travel all over the world to take all the photos. Actually, I wasn't really interested in environmental issues. I just tried to save water, don't use lot of shampoo, recycle well, and turn off the lights when I’m not using. I know everyone can do this, and this may help the earth. But after seeing the missing glaciers in the Swiss mountains and the melting Arctic ice made me feel sorry for this. I’m living in the earth but if I’m not helping the earth, I think it is not the right thing to do.
  
  Al Gore said people think ‘not thinking’ is the easiest thing. It is more dangerous because people does not take the global warming issue seriously. For an example, when a frog is put in a hot boiling water, it jumps out immediately, but if the temperature gets slowly higher, the frog recognizes the danger after the water boils, but eventually it dies. I thought people could think more wisely than a frog, but people seemed to be a bit obtuse. And because I didn't know about global warming, I felt sorry to the earth.
  
  I really enjoyed reading this book, and I would like to recommend this book to people living on earth, especially students, who will live in the earth in the future.
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  Bryson Hough

  In this book by Al Gore, it explains global warming. It explains how it began and ways we can stop it. This book does a good job of figuring out why we have major problems with our atmosphere. While he explains the problems he in geniusly explains ways that we can stop or slow down the production of greenhouse gasses. As he explains the ways he also explains how he learned to make it different and more able to relate and make your experiences with it.
  
  I think that the person that would like this book is either someone who is trying to understand what Global warming is and how it started or people who are even very deep into the subject already. I believe this because as the book goes on it brings up some very good points that no one would have thought about while reading about this topic. Overall this is a good book for someone who doesn't want to learn through the textbook but someone who wants to learn from a certain viewpoint.
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  SIEUL

  If we say that I erased the part of the front page that said ' the crisis of global warming ' , can you guess what the inconvenient truth mean? I couldn't guess with out the subtitle. After reading this book, I got to think about global warming more. But before reading this book, I still thought about global warming but it was not much as now. I think I know why this book is so popular and this book taught me and now I know that global warming is very serious and dangerous. Also, My mom says this book is also good and the reason is it has graphs (Not just any graphs. Scientific detailed graphs). So my mom says this book shows us how graphs used for and how it is important to me. This book includes details and it talks about his story. I enjoyed reading this book and once again this book taught me well. Sometimes it was hard to understand but I understood the basics he talks about. So I gave this book four stars.
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  Steve Kingsbury

  Living in 2022 it is interesting to read what former Vice President Al Gore wrote in 2005 regarding global warming. He and the scientific community were and continue to be absolutely correct, we are at a crossroad were we must act responsibly. Simply glancing through this book a potential reader could arrive at an inaccurate conclusion regarding the depth of knowledge presented. The reality is that this book concisely presents the facts at a high level of understanding so that the reader can easily see the cause and effect of man on our environment.
  
  In 2005 Mr Gore didn't provide much in the way of solutions, a lot has changed in the past nearly two decades. Now there are many solutions that have been developed and a number have been successfully implemented. We have a long way to go still and not a lot of time to succeed in saving our planet.
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  Meredith Ritchie

  Found this book on my high school's shelf while doing inventory and I am impressed by how approachable it is! It is written for kids/teens. The text is minimal; there are lots of charts and pictures. He references many outside resources. Although I had a basic understanding of climate change (and yes, I did already believe in climate change before reading the book), this books clarified some questions. It is a quick read- I could have probably read it in just a couple hours. Overall, I would recommend!
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  Suthakhar Ponnambalam

  This book is a starter for anyone looking to understand how global warming has impacted us and continue to do so. It is written in a simple language that even kids can understand. It also has a lot of images that can give a visual representation of the effects of global warming. The only downside I would say is there is a lack of text. But that does not bring down the message it tries to convey. CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND ITS HAPPENING NOW.
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  Chris Meads

  This book is geared more for the younger people but it tells a concise and truthful reality of global warming. It is easy to read and the chapters are short. It does show what the US and the rest of other world is and is not doing to prevent any more damage to global warming. It is real and we all need to do something about it.
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  Matt

  Read this in light of the upcoming COP26 after spotting it on a shelf. It is fine, and definitely suitable for a younger audience, but a little on the basic side and I didn't learn anything new from reading it.
  Still, a worthwhile reminder that the effects of climate change are many, varied and often impact the poorest most.
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  Connie T.

  A well-written overview of the global warming crisis. As others have mentioned this is not a text-heavy tome but I feel that works to the book's advantage. An abundance of photos, graphs, and diagrams, along with brief explanations, bring home the scary message that climate change is real.
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  Jennifer Stout

  A lesson in the global destruction of the Earth. I can see this being used by science teachers as a project for not just students but parents as well. We all need to change our habits so that the Earth will be here for future generations.
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  Kate Seader

  An accessible primer on global warming for early teens. The technology referenced is out of date and population was pointed to as a cause for global warming, which is not the case. We have the resources for our population, they are hoarded and wasted by the wealthy.
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  Erinn

  Good for teens; too simplistic for a well educated adult.
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  Regina

  Excellent
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  Lauren

  Pretty pictures. Not much text. Exactly how young are the teens they are wanting to read this?