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Book

Understanding climate change

Call Number

  • J 363.7387 DELA (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago : World Book, [2019]

Physical Description

48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Audience

Ages 5-11.

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.

Contents

  • The Greenhouse effect
  • Global warming
  • Climate change in Earth's past
  • Life on a warming planet
  • Controversy and consensus
  • The future.

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