Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Greenhouse effect -- Global warming -- Climate change in Earth's past -- Life on a warming planet -- Controversy and consensus -- The future.
Summary:
"The climate has changed many times throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year history. But such changes have never happened as quickly as those happening today. In [this book], learn how the climate is changing, how scientists study that change, and why most of them think human activities are causing it."--Back cover
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