Climate change

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"Eyewitness Climate Change explains why human activities are making the planet heat up--and how we know for sure that this is the case. The book explores the effects of the changing climate, from more frequent hurricanes and wildfires to melting ice caps and rising sea levels. It shows how scientists predict how the climate will change in the future and what actions we can all take to combat climate change"--

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Title Statements

Full title :Climate change / author, John Woodward.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.
Edition:American edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):DK Publishing
Place of Publication:New York, New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:72 pages : : color illustrations, color maps ; : 29 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780744036817, 074403681X
oclc:on1268958099
LC Classification:GE
Dewey Decimal:363.738/74

Earth's climate -- The greenhouse effect -- Checks and balances -- Natural climate change -- Human impact -- Burning the forests -- Fossil fuels -- Our carbon culture -- Adding to the problem -- Heatwaves and droughts -- Melting ice -- Warming oceans -- Oceanic research -- Living with the heat -- Plight of the polar bear -- Climate models -- This century -- What scares the scientists? -- Who is most vulnerable? -- Adapting to climate change -- Combating climate change -- Cutting the carbon -- Nuclear power -- Renewable enery -- Power for the people -- Energy efficiency -- Green transport -- Your carbon footprint -- Greenhouse-gas producers.

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Climat -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. --… Climatic changes Climatic changes -- Juvenile literature Effet de serre (Météorologie) -- Ouvrag… Environmental protection Environmental protection -- Juvenile li… Environnement -- Ouvrages pour la jeune… Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Juven… Illustrated works Informational and educational works Juvenile works