Is Our Climate Changing? (Global Questions) - Hardcover

Rooney, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749682175 ISBN 13: 9780749682170

Publisher: Franklin Watts, 2008

Synopsis

This series takes an in-depth look at some of the major social and political issues that feature on the front pages of today's newspapers

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About the Author

I write short books for short children and longer books for longer people. I've been writing fiction and non-fiction for young people, and non-fiction since the last millennium - luckily, the end of the last millennium and I'm not even nearly 1000 years old. I particularly enjoy reading and writing stories with a bit of a twist and, for older readers, an element of horror. I definitely have a Gothic streak. Writers I really admire include Minnie Gray, Oliver Jeffers, Shaun Tan, Edward Gorey, Tove Jansson, Marcus Sedgwick, Siobhan Dowd and Melvin Burgess. I love being a writer because (a) it gives me the chance to be enthusiastic about things and share my enthusiasm with other people (b) I get paid for telling lies and (c) I don't have to do as I'm told, unlike people with a real job. I like to listen to music when I'm writing, and usually pick a few pieces of music that go with each book and listen to them again and again - most of them are opera. Although I spend most of my time writing, I also spend some helping other people with their own writing - mostly young people, who are doing a degree at university. This is great fun as I get to read lots of stories by writers who are just starting. I live in Cambridge, which is a very ancient city in the east of England with lots of ornate and pointy buildings. It's very flat in Cambridge, so it's easy to go everywhere by bicycle, but it's also rather wet. If I could live anywhere at all, it would probably be in Venice, which is also flat, ancient and full of pointy buildings. It's even wetter than Cambridge, and people go everywhere by boat.

From Booklist

Part of the Global Questions series, this slender volume answers the title question in clearly organized chapters that will help report writers easily locate facts and definitions. Boxed quotes from climate-crisis experts enhance the lucid text, and arresting, well-chosen color photos personalize the urgent scientific issues in images of melting icebergs, flooded cities, and a ubiquitous polar bear balanced on a tiny island of ice. Closing chapters look to the future, outlining technology and lifestyle changes that could help slow global warming. Maps, resource lists, and a clear glossary further strengthen this solid title suitable for research or quick reference. Grades 4-8. --Gillian Engberg

About this edition

• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0749682175
• ISBN 13: 9780749682170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 46