Climate Management: Solving the Problem (Global Warming (Facts on File))

Global Warming is a seven-volume set that describes the most critical issues concerning this timely subject and explains in up-to-date detail the scientific principles involved. Each volume reviews the cause-and-effect relationships that impact the environment worldwide on daily, annual, and even longer time bases. Designed to complement science curricula, the books cover the spectrum of important climatic issues, helping the reader to build a solid foundation of knowledge with which to approach important topics related to global warming.

Global warming is one of the most controversial issues worldwide. Scientists are divided in their opinions about the effects of global warming because many interrelated factors make it difficult both to pinpoint specific effects and enact changes. One conclusion is that human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, contribute to climate change as significantly as do natural events, such as shifting ocean currents. Climate Management: Solving the Problem explores public and government involvement in combating global warming and reviews conservation programs that have been developed by countries, international institutions, private organizations, and individuals. Multinational statistics, figures, case studies, and sidebars are provided to give the reader a sense of the urgency and enormity of the issue.

The book contains more than 30 color photographs and line illustrations, sidebars, a chronology, two appendixes on climate issues, a glossary, a detailed list of print and Internet resources, and an index. Global Warming is essential for high school students, teachers, and general readers who wish to learn about important climatic issues and their impact on the environment and society worldwide.

Julie Kerr Casper, Ph.D., has been an Earth scientist for the Bureau of Land Management, a leading U.S. agency promoting a more healthful and better-managed environment, for more than 30 years. She holds a degree in Earth science from the University of Utah and is the author of the multivolume Natural Resources set from Chelsea House and many science-oriented magazine articles for students and teachers.