FILM: CLIMATE: Trying to Get Us to Change Course

An Inconvenient Truth. Davis Guggenheim, Director. Paramount Classics, Hollywood, CA, 2006. 97 minutes. DVD, $29.99. www.climatecrisis.net/ An Inconvenient Truth. The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. By Al Gore. Rodale, New York, 2006. 328 pp. Paper, $21.95, C$28.95. ISBN 9781594865671. In the film and accompanying book, Gore summarizes the case for taking action to alleviate the threats posed by human-induced changes in the climate.