Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate

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Chronicle Books, 2003 - 48 pages
Global warming is perhaps the most prominent and urgent environmental issue of the past decade, continuing to make front-page headlines. Award-winning science and nature writer Laurence Pringle describes the cause of this worldwide trend, exploring its past, present, and potential future damage to our climate, ecology, and economy. He also offers solutions that may help avert a global disaster. With over 30 color photographs and an extensive glossary, here is an authoritative look at a timely topic that all children and adults must face—and soon.

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Contents

GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEGUN
4
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
10
SIGNS OF A WARMING EARTH
17
THE THREAT OF RISING SEAS
25
OBSTACLES TO CHANGE
33
THE GREATEST CHALLENGE
42
INDEX
48
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About the author (2003)

Laurence Pringle has been called "one of America's top nonfiction writers for young readers" by the Chicago Tribune. He lives in West Nyack, New York.

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