Climate Change (Global Viewpoints)

Examine important aspects of the worldwide environmental issues of global warming through an anthology of essays. Includes black-and-white photographs, sidebars, table of contents and world map. Chapter Book: 4 chapters. This critical, crucial volume explores the politics and effects of global climate change. The first chapter presents essays from global resources that discuss the debate of climate change; is it real? One essay asserts that the United States is failing to address the very real existence of climate change. Chapter two discuses the impact of global climate change. Readers will learn about South America's Amazon basin and its loss of species and habitats. Chapter three discusses developing nations and climate change. Chapter four helps readers evaluate what is being done to combat climate change. Stellar essay sources include RoyalSociety.org, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Working Group II, and the United Nations Environment Programme. Discusses controversies surrounding global warming such as whether the threat actually exists, how our climate is changing, what can be done to reduce the greenhouse effect, and how our lives will change