Physical Description:print xii, 205 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher:Ipswich, Mass. : H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services, 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Scientific debate on climate change -- Scientists at odds -- Former global warming supporter now shows data that refutes it / rBob Adelmann -- 2009: second warmest year on record; end of the warmest decade / Adam Voiland -- Global warming: faster than expected? / John Carey -- The last great global warming / Lee R. Kump -- Climate change around the world -- Global warming and instability -- A light in the forest / Jeff Tollefson -- Global warning / Michael Le Page -- Commodifying water in times of global warming / Astrid Bredholt Stensrud -- China confronts global warming dilemma / Christina Larson -- The shrinking glaciers of Kilimanjaro: can global warming be blamed? / Phillip W. Mote and Georg Kaser - The politics of global warming -- Climate change policy and economics -- Joint U.S.-China statement on climate change / US Department of State -- Hearing of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming US House of Representatives / Mario Molina -- UN climate change conference extends Kyoto treaty / Karl Ritter and Michael Casey -- Scientists, policymakers, and a climate of uncertainty / Fred Powledge -- A life measured in heartbeats / Brian Cox and Robin Ince -- Global warming conference: Bill McKibben's remarks / Bill McKibben -- Wildlife and a changing climate -- Plants and animals in the balance -- Can evolution beat climate change? / David Biello --Elephant seals help find missing piece in global climate puzzle / Richard A. Lovett -- Why a hotter world will mean more extinctions / Bryan Walsh -- Global warming's evil twin threatens West coast fishing grounds / Pete Spotts -- Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says / Neela Banerjee -- The climate change conundrum: what the future is beginning to look like / Jordan Carlton Schaul and Michael Hutchins -- Dynamics of coral reef recovery / Beth Polidoro and Kent Carpenter -- Running hot and cold: are rainforests sinks or tabs for carbon? / Sharon Levy -- The oceans and weather -- In hot water: weather and global warming -- After Sandy: why we can't keep rebuilding on the water's edge / Bryan Walsh -- How climate change threatens the seas / Dan Vergano -- Amount of coldest Antarctic water near ocean floor decreasing for decades / NOAA -- Blue crabs in Maine? Something fishy about global warming / Pete Spotts -- Oceans under surveillance / Quirin Schiermeier -- Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean / David McFadden -- The coming Arctic boom / Scott Borgerson -- Health and human factors -- What happens to us? -- Climate change and health / World Health Organization -- How we know global warming is real and human caused / Tapio Schneider -- Soot is no. 2 global-warming culprit, study finds / Pete Spotts -- Smoke jumpers / Elizabeth Grossman -- Monitoring EU emerging infectious disease risk due to climate change / Elisabet Lindgren, Yvonne Andersson, Jonathan E. Suk, Bertrand Sudre, and Jan C. Semenza.
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