Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scientific debate on climate change. Scientists at odds ; Former global warming supporter now shows data that refutes it / Bob Adelmann ; 2009: Second warmest year on record; end of the warmest decade / Adam Voiland ; Global warming: faster than expected? / John Carey ; The last great global warming / Lee R. Kump -- Climate change around the world. Global warming and instability ; A light in the forest / Jeff Tollefson ; Global warning / Michael Le Page ; Commodifying water in times of global warming / Astrid Bredholt Stensrud ; China confronts global warming dilemma / Christina Larson ; The shrinking glaciers of Kilimanjaro: can global warming be blamed? / Phillip W. Mote and Georg Kaser -- The politics of global warming. Climate change policy and economics ; Joint U.S.-China statement on climate change / US Department of State ; Hearing of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming US House of Representatives / Mario Molina ; UN climate change conference extends Kyoto treaty / Karl Ritter and Michael Casey ; Scientists, policymakers, and a climate of uncertainty / Fred Powledge ; A life measured in heartbeats / Brian Cox and Robin Ince ; Global warming conference: Bill McKibben's remarks / Bill McKibben -- Wildlife and a changing climate. Plants and animals in the balance ; Can evolution beat climate change? / David Biello ; Elephant seals help find missing piece in global climate puzzle / Richard A. Lovett ; Why a hotter world will mean more extinctions / Bryan Walsh ; Global warming's evil twin threatens West coast fishing grounds / Pete Spotts ; Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says / Neela Banerjee ; The climate change conundrum: what the future is beginning to look like / Jordan Carlton Schaul and Michael Hutchins ; Dynamics of coral reef recovery / Beth Polidoro and Kent Carpenter ; Running hot and cold: are rainforests sinks or tabs for carbon? / Sharon Levy -- The oceans and weather. In hot water: weather and global warming ; After Sandy: why we can't keep rebuilding on the water's edge / Bryan Walsh ; How climate change threatens the seas / Dan Vergano ; Amount of coldest Antarctic water near ocean floor decreasing for decades / NOAA ; Blue crabs in Maine?: something fishy about global warming / Pete Spotts ; Oceans under surveillance / Quirin Schiermeier ; Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean / David McFadden ; The coming Arctic boom / Scott Borgerson -- Health and human factors. What happens to us? ; Climate change and health / World Health Organization ; How we know global warming is real and human caused / Tapio Schneider ; Soot is no. 2 global-warming culprit, study finds / Pete Spotts ; Smoke jumpers / Elizabeth Grossman ; Monitoring EU emerging infectious disease risk due to climate change / Elisabet Lindgren, Yvonne Andersson, Jonathan E. Suk, Bertrand Sudre, and Jan C. Semenza