carbon dioxide

This book allows students to appreciate that when it comes to understanding the world around us, tiny molecules can provide big explanations.

Explores the atmosphere's composition, its behavior, and how it affects life on Earth.

Discusses the human story of climate change, including the birth of climate denialism, the genesis of the fossil fuel industry's plans, and more.

Overview Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices?and, especially, modern industrial agriculture?have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world?s soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"?a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon?and potentially reverse global warming.

"We live in an energy-rich age, in which we can turn on a light with the flick of a switch or drive anywhere by turning a key. But, our vehicles, factories, and power stations, which create the electricity needed to light and heat our buildings, pump carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide overload from these human activities is making our planet hotter and hotter--and is causing the Earth's climate to change. Find out what scientists are doing to find sustainable new forms of energy that will secure our planet's future."--.

"We live in an energy-rich age, in which we can turn on a light with the flick of a switch or drive anywhere by turning a key. But, our vehicles, factories, and power stations, which create the electricity needed to light and heat our buildings, pump carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide overload from these human activities is making our planet hotter and hotter--and is causing the Earth's climate to change. Find out what scientists are doing to find sustainable new forms of energy that will secure our planet's future."--Provided by publisher.

This title describes how humans depend on the Earth.

Explains how to take effective action to stop climate change, discussing how to organize in one's community, church, or college and covering such topics as online grassroots campaigns, high-profile events, and political pressure.

An exploration of carbon dioxide that explains its importance to living things, its physical properties, where it comes from, how it is uses, its role in pollution and global warming, how to cut back on fossil fuel use, and other places it is found in the solar system.

Looks at the many machines that use oil, discusses the danger of dwindling supplies and the environmental hazards of burning oil, and considers alternatives to fossil fuels.