Overview
Global Warming is a seven-volume set that describes the most critical issues concerning this timely subject and explains in up-to-date detail the scientific principles involved. Each volume reviews the cause-and-effect relationships that impact the environment worldwide on daily, annual, and even longer time bases. Designed to complement science curricula, the books cover the spectrum of important climatic issues, helping the reader to build a solid foundation of knowledge with which to approach important topics related to global warming.
Climate Systems: Interactive Forces of Global Warming focuses on the scientific framework of Earth's complicated climate system; the interaction of the atmosphere, land, and oceans; the greenhouse effect; and the "hows and whys" of the scientific phenomenon known as global warming. Citing actual examples and multinational statistics, figures, and case studies, sidebars in the book enhance fundamental concepts and give the reader a sense of the urgency and enormity of the issue.
The volume includes information on
the carbon cycle
environmental awareness
the flow of energy
the future of global climate change study
global warming myths and facts
the greenhouse effect
motions in the atmosphere
ocean currents
plate tectonics
what scientists do not know about global warming
The book contains more than 50 color photographs and line illustrations, sidebars, a chronology, a glossary, a detailed list of print and Internet resources, and an index.
Synopsis
Global Warming is a seven-volume set that describes the most critical issues concerning this timely subject and explains in up-to-date detail the scientific principles involved. Each volume reviews the cause-and-effect relationships that impact the environment worldwide on daily, annual, and even longer time bases. Designed to complement science curricula, the books cover the spectrum of important climatic issues, helping the reader to build a solid foundation of knowledge with which to approach important topics related to global warming.
Climate Systems: Interactive Forces of Global Warming focuses on the scientific framework of Earth's complicated climate system; the interaction of the atmosphere, land, and oceans; the greenhouse effect; and the "hows and whys" of the scientific phenomenon known as global warming. Citing actual examples and multinational statistics, figures, and case studies, sidebars in the book enhance fundamental concepts and give the reader a sense of the urgency and enormity of the issue.
The volume includes information on
the carbon cycle
environmental awareness
the flow of energy
the future of global climate change study
global warming myths and facts
the greenhouse effect
motions in the atmosphere
ocean currents
plate tectonics
what scientists do not know about global warming
The book contains more than 50 color photographs and line illustrations, sidebars, a chronology, a glossary, a detailed list of print and Internet resources, and an index.
School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—The Earth's climate is caused by the interrelationship of a vast number of astoundingly complicated factors. Global warming and the resultant changes we are now experiencing is the result of human activities and choices. This volume concentrates on the science behind the current crisis. The many full-color charts, maps, and graphs aid in understanding the large concepts of the global-climate system, the carbon cycle, plate tectonics and its effects on climate change, local and planetary motions in the atmosphere, and ocean currents. A distinction is drawn between climate and weather, and the change in climate is viewed as a global issue. The author emphasizes the need for rapid and international cooperation in both the study of the problem as well as in changes in human behavior to try to take control of it. A thorough list of sources current through 2008 will aid researchers who wish to further explore this important subject. A lengthy list of Web sites and online sources will be helpful as well. This is an intricate and convoluted subject, but Casper does a good job of explaining the basic science behind the controversy.—Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NY