Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and the Future (WorldLife Library Series)

Planet Earth is warming faster now than at any other time in the past 1,000 years, and global warming may be the greatest threat to ever face humanity. Counteracting it is our greatest challenge.

Mark Maslin explains what global warming is and presents incontrovertible evidence that it is really happening. He examines the impact that climate change will have on health, agriculture, water resources, coastal regions, forests, and wildlife. He also looks at the efforts being made to counteract the effects of global warming and the ways in which we can adapt.

Mark Maslin explains what global warming is and presents incontrovertible evidence that it is really happening. He examines the impact that climate change will have on health, agriculture, water resources, coastal regions, forests, and wildlife. He also looks at the efforts being made to counteract the effects of global warming and the ways in which we can adapt.

Paula Rohrlick; KLIATT - KLIATT

This is a wonderful series that features gorgeous and abundant full-color photos accompanied by informative texts by wildlife photographers and naturalists. Beavers, for example, is by a wildlife photographer who has written three previous books on beavers and has even been allowed by the New Jersey Dept. of Fish and Game to keep beavers in captivity for months at a time. He covers the characteristics of the beaver, dam building, seasons in a beaver's life, beavers and man, and suggestions on watching beavers, in succinct, fact-filled prose, accompanied by wonderful photos. Global Warming, by a lecturer at the Department of Geography of London's University College, lucidly defines global warming, provides a brief history, discusses who is producing the pollution, and describes the evidence and the impact, along with providing suggestions for what can be done. Illustrations explain concepts like the cooling factor and the great ocean conveyor belt, and there are striking photos of glaciers, hurricanes, and more. For all libraries. (WorldLife Library series) Category: Nature & Ecology. KLIATT Codes: JSA*-Exceptional book, recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2002, Voyageur Press, 72p. illus. maps. tables. index.,

Dr. Mark Maslin is the author of over 60 articles and books on past and future climate change. He has been involved in three major ocean drilling expeditions to the central North Atlantic, the Amazon delta and deep-sea fan complex, and the southwest African coast. He is a lecturer at the Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London.