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Climate Change Book Review
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: the crisis of global warming, (Rodale - Viking, 2007), 191 pages
Great visuals (pictures, graphs, charts, maps). A complex story told with few words for an audience to whom the message is inconvenient.
As a communicator, give Gore the highest marks. He takes complex subjects, distills them to their simplest elements, orders them in a logical way, and presents them primarily through visual means with the subtle effect that the visual images remain long after the book has been put away. And, as all great communicators do, he repeats the story over and over, and through different media - slide shows, books, DVDs.
If there is a problem with the book, it is the simplification process. Some of the complexities in the climate are by-passed in the interests of telling a story well. Not every adverse climate event can be attributed solely to global warming. One must keep in mind that Gore sets out to tell a story. He does not pretend to be a scientist. If one is looking for the scientific complexities of climate, find another book.