"Our Choice": Al Gore's New Book Follows On "Inconvenient Truth"

Former Vice President and climate crisis crusader Al Gore will release a new book in March called Our Choice, which will lay out a "blueprint" for solving the climate crisis, according to a press release from the book's publisher.

"Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. Our Choice will answer that call," the release says.

Our Choice is a follow up to Gore's last book, An Inconvenient Truth.

Read the full release below:

EMMAUS, PA, and NEW YORK, NY, March 24, 2009--Today Vice President Gore announced that his next book, Our Choice, will be published by Rodale in the US and by other publishers internationally on November 3, 2009. Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, Our Choice utilizes Mr. Gore's forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and activist to comprehensively describe the real solutions to global warming. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore continues to make sense of the pressing issues we face and Our Choice will unquestionably inspire and rally those ready to fight for solutions that were deemed impossible only a short time ago.

Said Vice President Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that it must and can be solved.  Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. Our Choice will answer that call."

Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award® winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led more than thirty "Solutions Summits" with top scientists, engineers and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail.  Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth's climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.

As they did with An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore will donate 100% of the proceeds of the book to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit, non-partisan group dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis and how to solve it. Our Choice will feature 100% recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, and will be carbon neutral.

"Rodale is honored to continue our relationship with Vice President Al Gore," said Rodale Inc. President and CEO Steven Pleshette Murphy. "We were proud to publish An Inconvenient Truth and very much look forward to bringing Our Choice to the growing audience of committed citizens who are seeking solutions to the climate change crisis. In the spirit of our longtime mission, we are dedicated to creating the greatest possible platform for Vice President Gore's work and message."

Comments

[power1]

Al Gore is a smart con-artist. I do want to read his new book so I can how he proposes to fix a problem that doesn't exist.

[Da Centrist]

Don't worry power1 since we have to save the whole planet from this horrible climate crisis we'll help you too, just be quiet and stay out of our way.

[Clevella]

A problem that doesn't exist? Like god!!

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

will the UniBomber get a signed copy?

[bannorhill]

Maybe Al will read it and listen to his own advice by:

Scraping the gas guzzling SUVs he drives and get a Prius.

Stop flying in a private jet.

Stop using 10 times the energy used by a typical American home.

In other words stop his hypocrisy.

[Clevella]

It is not the messenger you should be obsessing over, but the message...­.

[fumes]

bull twinkies

[bannorhill]

If the message was so important shouldn't the messenger adopt a lifestyle consistant with the solution.

[rkimball]

undisputable evidence in his new book, of course, on why we should further tax the few remaining working americans struggling to feed their families. if he could, he would find a new way to tax those that just lost their homes & jobs.

[Clevella]

There you go again, the old TAX canard....

[tjfdownsouth]

I think that is a valid argument since he repeatedly proposes a "Carbon Tax" to convince(penalize) us to live like he thinks we should.

[winstonian22]

The book is titled "How To Lose An Election to a Guy Your Party Universally Dismissed as D u m b"

[HonorJusticeTruth]

Mr. Gore's issue was that he didn't know how to act ordinary. Many Americans really do dislike smart people. If you speak intelligently and have a grasp of the subject, you are viewed with suspicion. Bush on the other hand appealed to "everyman", those people who find troglodytes to be role models.

[Exusian]

Nothing like an Al Gore story to bring out the mouth-breathers.

[howcome]

and those of us that know his scam is bringing him millions

[Exusian]

Like I said, mouth-breathers.

[Clevella]

Prove it!

[melmoid]

As a scientist reading "Earth in the Balance" years ago when Al Gore was a senator, I was amazed how well it reflected good science. I didn't think a politician could write such a book. Of course the concerns he raised then are still in the forefront now and getting worse.

[power1]

100% of the proceeds going to Al Gore's wallet.

[power1]

Al Gore's book: "Global Warming, the lie that made me millions"

[melmoid]

What planet did you beam in from -- maybe Venus since that is the way earth is heading thanks to the phenomena you don't believe in.

[fumes]

how pray tell can the earth ever be like venus?

i'm waiting...

[HonorJusticeTruth]

Did you just arrive from Uranus? Intelligent earthlings know better.

[howcome]

another addition the NYT bestseller FICTION book list

[melmoid]

Very good--you deserve a 10 on the snarkogram. Alas you just go to prove that ordinary people cannot be expected to understand something like evolution or climate change.

[slowhand0728]

100% of the proceeds going to research I hope!

[sarabono]

Cap and Trade won't work without the two largest countries - China and India - agreeing to the regime.

If the USA caped 100% of our carbon emissions today, (like overnight), China would swamp our efforts within 90 days. China is adding a new coal fired power plant, without scrubbers and other pollution control equipment, at the rate of one plant every every 14 days.

A much more useful proposal, would be to have a world standard for allowable pollution emissions from power plants. The same should be true for automobiles and other identified pollution sources.

[DomainDiva]

Is a persons carbon footprint directly proportional to their weight?

[HonorJusticeTruth]

No more than other things are proportional to hand or foot size, other than gloves and shoes.

[slowhand0728]

LOL Thanks

[klondiker]

I don't think so. There are many factors that determine one's carbon footprint, including where you live, what you drive, where your food comes from, your use of electricity, etc, etc. An overweight person could be living a much more greener lifetsyle in other ways.

[HonorJusticeTruth]

I love Al but I hope he is using recycled copies of his other books as the source for the paper for this one. :-)

[Boneszy]

Anyone else shocked at how awful he is looking now???