global warming

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Our world out of balance

understanding climate change and what we can do
2021
"[Introduces] children to the important topic of climate change with clear facts and positive solutions. Easy-to-follow 'Before' and 'After' segments help children understand complex topics like: air pollution, rising seas, plastics and increased waste, wildfires, and more"--OCLC.

World champions!

Max finally meets her hero, Albert Einstein, as she dashes across glaciers, visits the Great Barrier Reef, and flies a solar-powered jet in a race to stop Global Warming-before it's too late for Planet Earth. World Champions . . . GET OUTDOORS From racing across glaciers in Greenland and flying in a super fancy solar-powered jet to Hawaii, to visiting the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and hanging out with a robot named Leo, twelve-year-old genius Max and her friends live for adventure. TAKE ACTION Whenever there's a problem to solve, the kids work better together. So does an evil group of the rich and powerful, who will do whatever it takes to split the kids up-even as the planet is changing before their eyes. NEVER GIVE UP Max has one more surprise in her playbook, and if she's going to pull it off, she needs her team around her. Whoever said that kids can't save the world?.
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Climate change and Earth's population

2022
"Climate change is rapidly reshaping Earth in devastating ways. Since the mid-20th century, the planet has been warming at an unprecedented rate. This informative book is designed to educate young readers about climate change, a defining issue of their time. The text features real-world examples of young activists who are using their powerful voices to inspire change and true stories about scientists working on cutting-edge solutions. It encourages readers to draw connections between rising populations and climate change, explore solutions to this global issue, and advocate for change"--Provided by publisher.

How climate change works

2021
Presents information on the issue of climate change.

Under the sky we make

how to be human in a warming world
2021
"After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realised that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent: Agonising over the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas, how to find low-carbon love on Tinder, and even exploring her complicated family legacy involving supermarket turkeys"--Provided by publisher.
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False alarm

how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet
2020
"This book will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong--and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all"--OCLC.

What's climate change?

2018
Introduces the causes and effects of climate change and global warming, as well as why the reader should care about this issue.

Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change

2008
A three-volume set featuring more than 750 articles, arranged alphabetically by topic, exploring a wide range of topics related to global warming and climate change.

The marrow thieves

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world.

What was the Ice Age?

2020
An overview of the world as it was 20,000 years ago when glaciers covered the Earth and creatures, now extinct, like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.

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