Living in a warmer world
By: by Jim Ollhoff
Series: Climate change
Publisher: ABDO Pub. Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edina, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781616134532
Subjects: Climatic changes; Juvenile literature; Global warming
Description: Describes the possible effects of increases of a few degrees in the world's average temperature, including warmer weather, floods, risks to forests and agricultural land, increased deserts, severe storms, threats to wildlife, and disease.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A few degrees make all the difference; title: Heat; title: Flooding; title: Vulnerable forests; title: Growing deserts; title: Farmland loss; title: Hurricanes and storms; title: Animal relocation and extinction; title: Disease; title: Worst case scenario: runaway global warming; title: A warmer world.