observations

Offers a detailed background of the science of climatology and explains how carbon dioxide and water vapor interact to regulate the earth's thermostat arguing that scientific evidence shows that use of fossil fuels has accelerated global warming.

Michael Sims draws on poetry, science, literature, and mythology to explore the celestial events that form a day on Earth, explaining how and why the phenomena occur and what they meant to humans before they had the ability to understand them.

Presents sixty images from outer space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, depicting planets, stars, gas clouds, galaxies, and remote quasars, with essays that explain the science behind the pictures and discuss the significance of the discoveries made by the telescope.