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An inconvenient truth the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it

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Main Author: Gore, Albert, 1948-
Corporate Author: Melcher Media
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Global warming.
Global warming > Government policy > United States.
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric > Government policy > United States.
Environmental policy > United states.
Environmental protection.
Human ecology.
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Item Description:"Produced by Melcher Media"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:325 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN:1594865671 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Politician and businessman Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948. In 1969, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Harvard College. He represented Tennessee in the House of Representatives from 1977-1985 and the Senate from 1985-1993. He was Vice-President of the United States from 1993-2001. He is currently the president of Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, director on the board of Apple Inc., and senior advisor to Google Inc.

He lectures on the topic of global warming awareness and prevention and starred in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their efforts to educate others about climate change and to find ways to counteract it.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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