ISBN:

• 9780002008495
• 0002008491

Edition: First Canadian edition.

Description: xvii, 279 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title: Weather makers : how we are changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction: what is climate change?
• Part I: The atmosphere - Everything is connected
• The great aerial ocean
• The greenhouse gases
• Ice ages and sunspots
• Time's gateways
• Born in the deep-freeze
• The long summer
• Digging up the dead
• Part II: One in ten thousand - Magic gates, El Nino and La Nina
• Peril at the poles
• 2050: the great stumpy reef?
• A warning from the golden toad
• Rainfall
• Extreme weather
• Rising waters
• Part III: The science of prediction - Model worlds
• Danger ahead
• Retreating up the mountains
• How can they keep on moving?
• The three tipping points
• The end of civilization?
• Part IV: People in greenhouses - The story of ozone
• The road to Kyoto
• Cost, cost, cost
• People in greenhouses shouldn't tell lies
• Last steps on the stairway to Heaven?
• Part V: The solution - Bright as sunlight, light as wind
• Nuclear?
• Hybrids, minicats and contrails
• Over to you
• Glossary
• Selected bibliography
• Find out more
• Climate change checklist
• Acknowledgements
• Illustration credits
• Index.

Control Number: 288892

Subjects:

• Climatic changes -- Juvenile literature.
• Climatic changes.
• Environmental degradation -- Juvenile literature.
• Environmental degradation.
• Global warming -- Juvenile literature.
• Global warming.