num_pages: 48
description: Acclaimed Caldecott Artist Molly Bang teams up with award-winning M.I.T. professor Penny Chisholm to present the fascinating timely story of fossil fuels.What are fossil fuels and how did they come to exist? This engaging stunning book explains how coal oil and gas are really buried sunlight trapped beneath the surface of our planet for millions and millions of years.Now in a very short time we are digging them up and burning them changing the carbon balance of our planet's air and water. What does this mean and what should we do about it?Using simple language and breathtaking paintings Bang and Chisholm present a clear concise explanation of the fossil-fuel energy cycle that began with the sun and now runs most of our transportation and energy use in our world.Readers will be mesmerized by this engaging fourth book in the award-winning Sunlight Series by Bang and Chisholm.
language: English
title: Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth
publisher: The Blue Sky Press