The world's climate has always been changing, but climate change in the past has been mostly gradual, with some rapid events. Today's warming is relatively sudden and rapid, and linked to the way in which humans are treating the planet they live on. This matters because the future of life on Earth, no less, depends on our understanding of the problem and the actions we take. This book is one in the Question It! series for readers upwards of age 10, which explores globally important topics relating to the environment in a balanced and objective way, encouraging readers to adopt a questioning approach to the issues involved. Titles in the 6-book series are: Climate Change, Food, Natural Habitats, Oil, Population and Water.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Question It .

This book has been graded for interest at 11-13 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published in 2020 by Hachette Children's Group .

Philip Steele is an experienced author of history books for children.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: It's time to debate: climate change
• 2: What is climate change?
• 3: Why does climate change?
• 4: Gases that keep us warm
• 5: The Greenhouse Effect
• 6: Overload
• 7: Debate: Is it a myth that humans are causing global warming?
• 8: Climate detectives
• 9: Silly seasons, weird weather
• 10: Debate: Surely the Antarctic ice spread disproves global warming?
• 11: Climate modelling
• 12: Threatened environment
• 13: Human cost
• 14: Climate conflict?
• 15: Debate: Surely there must be a quick fix?
• 16: Campaigns and treaties
• 17: Putting on the brakes
• 18: Debate: Is there one law for the rich and another for the poor?
• 19: Cleaner options
• 20: Be prepared
• 21: Debate: Is the real problem with the way we choose to live?
• 22: Glossary
• 23: Further information
• 24: Index