Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate

By Laurence Pringle

Book Overview

It's not your imagination: Earth is getting warmer. Global warming is perhaps the most prominent environmental issue of the past decade. Award-winning writer Laurence Pringle describes the causes of this worldwide trend, exploring its past, present, and potential future damage to our climate, ecology, and economy. He also offers practical solutions that will help avert a global disaster of our own making. With over thirty striking color photographs, here is an incisive, clear, authoritative look at a timely topic that all children and adults must faceand soon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587170094
• ISBN13: 9781587170096
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

Global Warming

This book is about what is happening on our world. Global warming can lead to global disaster. Discover how this worldwide warming trend beagan, what problems it is causing, and how it can be reversed.This book talkes about how each day earth is geting warmer and that humans are warming earth's atmosphere by their every day activities.As a result,the polar ice is melting, and the sea level are racing nearly about two feet in this century. Warming climates are also causing more frequentand violent thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.These effects of climate changes will almost certainly increase and accelerate. The author examines the causes of this worldwide warming trend, from the burning of the heattrapping gases into the atmosphere to the destruction of forests. Scientists explore the present and future damage to the world's climate, ecology, and economy. Scientists offer parctical solutions that could avert a global disaster of our own making. BY:Wendy B.