Global Warming

Before you begin, think about what aspects of global warming you want to research. Is your focus on greenhouse gases, anthropogenic warming, polar icecap melting, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), local effects, historical aspects, or solutions to global warming? You can use these terms as your keywords when searching our catalog, databases, or online.

Books at Park Forest Public Library:

1. Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action by David Spratt (363.73874 SPR)
2. Dead Heat: The Race against the Greenhouse Effect by Michael Oppenheimer (363.7387 OPP)
3. The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R. Weart (551.6 WEA)
4. Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World by Amy Seidl (363.738 SEI)
5. Earth, the Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp (621.042 KRU)
6. Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World by Gary Braasch (363.738 BRA)
7. The Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet by Edward Humes (333.72 HUM)
8. The Global Ecology (363.7 GLO)
9. Global Warming (Y 363.738 GLO)
10. Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (363.73874 GLO)
11. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do about It by Albert Gore (363.73874 GOR)
12. Is Global Warming a Threat (363.73874 IS)
13. On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear by Richard Ellis (599.786 ELL)
14. Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Albert Gore (577 GOR)
15. The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels (363.7387 MIC)
16. Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming by Chris Mooney (363.738 MOO)
17. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim F. Flannery (363.73874 FLA)
18. A World without Ice by H.N. Pollack (551.31 POL)

Databases:

EBSCO: Student Research Center, Points of View, EBSCOhost: MasterFILE, Newspaper Source Plus, Science Reference Center

Gale: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Science Resource Center

Try keywords like: Global Warming, Climate Change

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Internet Resources:

United States Global Change Research Program
http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts
Access the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States for comprehensive and authoritative information on the effects of climate change on the United States, now and in the future.

U.S. EPA: Climate Change
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
Access basic information and scientific studies on climate change.

IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Access reports on climate change, impacts, and mitigation.