Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World Book

Earth in the Hot Seat is a stunning, magazine-like presentation that celebrates the Earth and clearly explains the dangers and challenges of global warning. This beautiful volume is also a showcase for National Geographic Society’s environmental mission programs. Librarians and teachers will appreciate a book that explains the science of this global threat succinctly and visually, and is a call-to-arms to help the Earth. Readers will enjoy many fun features, from climate connections in global hotspots, to amazing before and after snapshots, to questionnaires answered by climate scientists and celebrities.

The look of Earth in the Hot Seat is modeled on National Geographic Magazine design, with superb photography taking the reader to the heart of the matter. The "Bulletins" format offers easy-to-read reports from scientific and environmental frontiers. Global warming is defined in a manageable way, evidence is examined, and consequences are projected. The text explores both global and local approaches to climate change, with personal accounts and real-life stories. The book also includes a quiz and tips on how to calculate and reduce your personal carbon footprint.

Award-winning author Marfé Ferguson Delano combines beautiful writing, scientific explanation, and long experience of the National Geographic Society to produce an outstanding environmental book for children. This is a landmark work to educate, entertain, and most of all, inspire the next generation of the Earth’s custodians.

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The cover the photo of a polar bear clinging to a tiny fragment of iceberg is heartrending, but inside, this book lays out more dispassionately the evidence for global warming and the part that human activity plays in it. Five chapters lay out the signs and evidences of a warming world. The science of climate change began perhaps in 1955, when a young scientist discovered that CO in the atmosphere was constant throughout the world, and began a lifelong study to measure it. Scientists have decided that more than half of the huge amount of human-produced CO ends up in the atmosphere, and that CO rise parallels temperature rise. Subsequent chapters of the book are devoted to what humankind can expect in a warming world and steps that must be taken to avert catastrophe for humans and the planet. Bulletins interspersed at intervals give striking examples and data. The illustrative photos are fully up to National Geographic high standards. This fine book, reasonably priced and carefully researched, is a prime example of how a well-made book can consolidate and outline information in a way that is infinitely more accessible and useful than the clutter on the Internet. With global warming very much in the news, this book will be invaluable in every school library. Additionally an extensive bibliography and list of additional resources, including of course online sites, can extend the student's research as far as he or she wishes to take it. Reviewer: Marilyn Brien