Global Warming 101

by Bruce Elliott Johansen

The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, fed by increasing fossil-fuel use world-wide, melting permafrost, slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia and Brazil, increasing wildfires,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313346909
• ISBN13: 9780313346903
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"