Product Description: The Current Controversies series examines today's most important social and political issues; each volume presents a diverse selection of primary and secondary sources representing all sides of the debate in question.; Title explores issues related to global warming, including whether it is a scientifically proven phenomenon, whether global warming skeptics are motivated by science, the predicted impacts of global warming, and what actions should be taken to address glo; Each anthology is composed of a wide spectrum of sources written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An award-winning writer of science books for children examines a topic that is on everyone's mind -- global warming -- and offers a book that answers many of the questions young readers are asking about climate change and its impact on the planet...read more

Product Description: Fletcher's 1st edition of "Climate Change: What the ScienceTells Us" places strong emphasis on the peer-reviewed literature inreporting the impacts of climate change on the ocean, terrestrialecosystems, the water cycle, human communities, dangerous weatherpatterns, and potential future Earth systems...read more

Product Description: Planet Earth is heating up, and so is the debate over why our climate is changing and what it means for the future of our energy sources, of our cities, of our children. Now TIME explores the science of global warming in an illuminating, beautifully illustrated book that ranges from polar ice caps to equatorial rainforests...read more

Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This—not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves—will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won’t simply redraw our coastlines—agriculture, electrical and fiber optic systems, and shipping will be changed forever. As icebound regions melt, new sources of oil, gas, minerals, and arable land will be revealed, as will fierce geopolitical battles over who owns the rights to them.In The Flooded Earth, species extinction expert Peter Ward describes in intricate detail what our world will look like in 2050, 2100, 2300, and beyond—a blueprint for a foreseeable future. Ward also explains what politicians and policymakers around the world should be doing now to head off the worst consequences of an inevitable transformation.

Product Description: Global warming, energy shortages, overpopulation — it's no wonder that as a society, we're in an apocalyptic mood. Out of an endless stream of gloomy prognoses for humanity's future, we have emerged with little inspiration and few concrete ideas for change...read more

Examines the causes and implications of global warming and discusses such topics as the role of everyday choices and the policy-making practices of governments and industries.

Product Description: In response to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the National Research Council appointed a committee operating under the auspices of the Naval Studies Board to study the national security implications of climate change for U.S...read more

The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific critique.  Saving a Million Species reconsiders the central question of that paper: How many species may perish as a result of climate change and associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The book:examines the initial extinction risk estimates of the original paper, subsequent critiques, and the media and policy impact of this unique studypresents evidence of extinctions from climate change from different time frames in the pastexplores extinctions documented in the contemporary recordsets forth new risk estimates for future climate changeconsiders the conservation and policy implications of the estimates.Saving a Million Species offers a clear explanation of the science behind the headline-grabbing estimates for conservationists, researchers, teachers, students, and policy-makers. It is a critical resource for helping those working to conserve biodiversity take on the rapidly advancing and evolving global stressor of climate change-the most important issue in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least prepared.

Product Description: Explains what global warming and the greenhouse effect are and how they are measured, and how these problems are creating temperature and climate changes in the world.

Product Description: Explains what global warming and the greenhouse effect are and how they are measured, and how these problems are creating temperature and climate changes in the world.