CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

by Tyler Volk

Book Overview

An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.

The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are just the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515210
• ISBN13: 9780262515214
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher