Weather and Climate Change
- ISBN-10
- 0716627671
- ISBN-13
- 9780716627678
- Category
- Global warming
- Pages
- 47
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
Description
"Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. People and other living things experience these changes through the weather. In [this book], learn how weather happens and how global warming is changing it -- including global warming's effects on extreme weather." -- Back cover.
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