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Review title: This is science?
Product review: A friend brought me their copy of An Inconvenient Truth insisting i read it. I aquiesed, but then found that to be an impossible task. Why? Because Gore has produced a picture book, with more colorful images of Hurricane Katrina, the pacific tsunami, and melting ice than you'd find in a years worth of National Geographics. He even decides to save some space in the book for a whole section about Al the man, complete with cute pictures of baby Al and his parents, big Al and his kids, etc. Obviously, its very relevant material to a book on global warming.But the most damning thing of all, is that none of his work is cited. None of it. The back of the book lists ZERO reference material. What *is* cited, though? The pictures. A full two pages showing where all the pictures came from, but nothing to back up any of the snippets of text scattered through the book. An inconvenient truth indeed.
