Global climate change. 

 - xii, 205 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
 - The reference shelf ;  volume 85, number 5 .
 - Reference shelf ;  volume 85, number 5. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Scientific debate on climate change.  Scientists at odds ;  Former global warming supporter now shows data that refutes it /  2009: Second warmest year on record; end of the warmest decade /  Global warming: faster than expected? /  The last great global warming /  Climate change around the world.  Global warming and instability ;  A light in the forest /  Global warning /  Commodifying water in times of global warming /  China confronts global warming dilemma /  The shrinking glaciers of Kilimanjaro: can global warming be blamed? /  The politics of global warming.  Climate change policy and economics ;  Joint U.S.-China statement on climate change /  Hearing of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming US House of Representatives /  UN climate change conference extends Kyoto treaty /  Scientists, policymakers, and a climate of uncertainty /  A life measured in heartbeats /  Global warming conference: Bill McKibben's remarks /  Wildlife and a changing climate.  Plants and animals in the balance ;  Can evolution beat climate change? /  Elephant seals help find missing piece in global climate puzzle /  Why a hotter world will mean more extinctions /  Global warming's evil twin threatens West coast fishing grounds /  Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says /  The climate change conundrum: what the future is beginning to look like /  Dynamics of coral reef recovery /  Running hot and cold: are rainforests sinks or tabs for carbon? /  The oceans and weather.  In hot water: weather and global warming ;  After Sandy: why we can't keep rebuilding on the water's edge /  How climate change threatens the seas /  Amount of coldest Antarctic water near ocean floor decreasing for decades /  Blue crabs in Maine?: something fishy about global warming /  Oceans under surveillance /  Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean /  The coming Arctic boom /  Health and human factors.  What happens to us? ;  Climate change and health /  How we know global warming is real and human caused /  Soot is no. 2 global-warming culprit, study finds /  Smoke jumpers /  Monitoring EU emerging infectious disease risk due to climate change /  Bob Adelmann ;  Adam Voiland ;  John Carey ;  Lee R. Kump --  Jeff Tollefson ;  Michael Le Page ;  Astrid Bredholt Stensrud ;  Christina Larson ;  Phillip W. Mote and Georg Kaser --  US Department of State ;  Mario Molina ;  Karl Ritter and Michael Casey ;  Fred Powledge ;  Brian Cox and Robin Ince ;  Bill McKibben --  David Biello ;  Richard A. Lovett ;  Bryan Walsh ;  Pete Spotts ;  Neela Banerjee ;  Jordan Carlton Schaul and Michael Hutchins ;  Beth Polidoro and Kent Carpenter ;  Sharon Levy --  Bryan Walsh ;  Dan Vergano ;  NOAA ;  Pete Spotts ;  Quirin Schiermeier ;  David McFadden ;  Scott Borgerson --  World Health Organization ;  Tapio Schneider ;  Pete Spotts ;  Elizabeth Grossman ;  Elisabet Lindgren, Yvonne Andersson, Jonathan E. Suk, Bertrand Sudre, and Jan C. Semenza 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780824212162 (alkaline paper) 0824212169 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013031867 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Global warming.<br/>Climatic changes.<br/>Global environmental change.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC 981.8.G56  / G548 2013