| Publication |
Massachusetts, Candlewick Press, 2009.
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| Description |
xiv, 304pCream and Brown Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Offers a look at the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.
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| Contents |
Buzz about global warming
Earth and the carbon connection:
Earth's carbon cycle and you
Ocean in the sky
Greenhouse story
Grand discovery
Time's gateways
Markers of change
Energy blast from the past
Endangered habitats:
Unraveling world
Peril at the poles
Australia's great stumpy reef?
Warning from the golden toad
Liquid gold: Changes in rainfall
Weather gone wild
Rising ocean
Leveling the mountains
What's to Come?:
Model worlds
Dangerous commitment
Fleeing climate change
Three tipping points
Civilization: big city verses small town
Ozone hole: a success story
Kyoto protocol
What to believe?
Engineering solutions
So what's the story with fuel?
Soar with the wind-bask in the sun
What about nuclear?
Hybrids, miniCATs, and contrails
We took action
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| Standard Number |
9780763636562 Hb.
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