The Greenhouse Effect: Warming the Earth

By Darlene R. Stille

Book Overview

Describes the causes and effects of the greenhouse effect and how it might be stopped. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075651956X
• ISBN13: 9780756519568
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Compass Point Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

The whole circle of the overlook is closing itself !

The most important new of this week has to do with the progressive deterioration of our environment. We have an ethical debt with the nature, we must face the challenge, joining forces, ideologies and political barriers, because if we still continue overlooking this problem, our descendents will never forgive our indifference and negligence. The global consequences generated by the progressive temperature raising simply ignore the fact we are in the eve of new year, its warning has nothing to do with formal pronouncements of the highest government spheres. To try to conciliate the final purpose of the self sustained growing with elemental paradigms such as self determination of the nations, interference around the way every nation conceives its patterns of development seems to be an inscrutable dialogue. The problem is we are dealing with commons issues; tornados, raising in the level of altitude of the sea, alarming decrease around our level of comfortableness, no matter you live or where are you from; the slow and progressive vanishing of our environment is much more than an original sin or a devil prize to pay in order to achieve the happiness of the people around the world. We should leave aside the formal conventionalisms and decide ourselves once for all to understand the degree of this damage, to answer "the why" and then to assume "the how", because our tendency to overlook the problem is like to ignore the advance of an unhealthy disease, ignoring it certainly will not aid a bit to solve the problem; because the candid optimism in this case will not long forever and it will surely part of the problem in case we still shift the attention and searching in dark places, empty prayers in order to get the long expected solution; the pessimism will make its appearance and the expected nervous reactions will not be able to regard as an opinion and even though a solution. The book is an invaluable tool to explore, analyze and reflect about this problem that concerns with all those people who live in our little planet.