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Al Gore’s “Our Choice”: Climate change survival guide or more hot air?

Source: VentureBeat

Nov 04, 2009

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Al Gore’s new book “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” burst onto the scene yesterday, drawing glowing reviews, talking-head ire, and more than a few questions about his credibility, motivation and future as the self-appointed leader of an emerging environmental intelligentsia.

Al Gore will be speaking at VentureBeat’s upcoming GreenBeat conference, focused on the Smart Grid, on Nov. 18 and 19 in San Mateo. Get your tickets to see him speak live today at GreenBeat2009.com.

Instead of offering yet another review of his new book, here is a roundup of the choice words of other critics, to give you a sense of the range of opinions, and also the hype the book has sparked.

Newsweek may have offered the best, pithy analysis yet:

Our Choice is Al Gore at his best and his worst. It is authoritative, exhaustive, reasoned, erudite, and logical, a textbooklike march through solar and wind power, geothermal energy, biofuels, carbon sequestration, nuclear energy, the potential of forests to soak up carbon dioxide, energy efficiency, and

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