Discusses the greenhouse effect, the consequences of a warming world, and possible ways to protect the environment.
This is the so-called greenhouse effect. The greater the concentration of these greenhouse gases, the more pronounced will be the effect.
This book lays out how the makeup of Earth's atmosphere can affect everything living beneath it, and how human activities - from cutting down trees to burning fossil fuels - are changing the climate worldwide.Glaciers are melting.
Review of the greenhouse effect and climatic change, including a definition of the issue; the relationships between atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate; sources of carbon dioxide such as forest fuels...
Embedded in this story are factual descriptions of the relevant science for readers to give analytic thought to global warming. Alex Cook is the pseudonym for Clyde R. Burnett, a retired physics professor and atmospheric scientist.
The Greenhouse Effect: Issues for Policy Makers
A Warmer World: The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
Students explore this crucial topic in a wide variety of formats, from hands-on science activities and experiments to a simulation game, analysis of articles, a story about an island threatened...
Examines evidence that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be changing the earth's climate. Also discusses how and why scientists study climatic changes.
The Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change, and U.S. Forests
... 151, 157 Pimm, Stuart 111–112 plantations 109 plant decomposition 11 Plantinga, Andrew 57–58 polar bears 143–144, ... r. reflection, of solar radiation 6–9, 27, 120 reforestation 91,93,97–98 refuges (wildlife) 158–166 regulation of ...