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Leading environmental policy experts and scientists explain the phenomenon of global warming, and present recommendations for global action to counter the threat. They discuss the biotic consequences of global warming, the effects on physical systems such as the soil and water supplies, the global greenhouse gases, and public policy responses. The recommendations include curbing the production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane,...

This documentary addresses the major environmental challenges of our century by investigating a forgotten gas from Earth's past. With up to 20 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide, methane emissions could threaten life on earth. From the Arctic Ocean to Siberia to the Antarctic, what impact will this greenhouse gas have on our climate? Join scientific teams from the U.K., Russia, Denmark, Canada, France, and the U.S. as they study the effects...

In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global Warming: Myth or Reality? Marcel Leroux seeks to separate fact from fiction in this critical debate from a climatological perspective. Beginning with a review of the dire hypotheses for climate trends, the author describes the history of the 1998 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many subsequent conferences....

Publisher description: If the predictions of many atmospheric scientists on global warming are realized, the mean change in temperature of the earth's surface will rise by several degrees--a warming that is likely to trigger a series of changes affecting the hydrologic regimes of entire regions. These predictions have serious implications for the future of food production and global food security, which depend on the predictability of the climate...

An expose of some of the more controversial agendas behind global warming argues that poor-quality science and dishonest politics are contributing to the intentionally disproportionate and self-serving levels of fear.

Over the past 100 years, the mass consumption of fossil fuel, especially in America, has contributed to a dangerous global warming that is now beginning to adversely impact our lives and promises to do far greater damage if we continue to ignore its warning signs. This cautionary documentary offers a guide to the impacts of global warming on the U.S. and gives measures that can be taken to reverse this trend.

Explains the frightening implications of the destruction man has caused to earth's environment and offers possible solutions to the problems by altering human behavior.

This text emphasises not only the importance of global warming in the environmental change process, but also introduces students to the science required to analyse these changes accurately.