Climate Change for Dummies - Elizabeth May

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Introduction 1 Part 1: Understanding Climate Change 5 Chapter 1: Covering the Basics of Climate Change 7 Chapter 2: Looking Closely at Greenhouse Earth 27 Chapter 3: Recognizing the Big Deal about Carbon 47 Part 2: Tracking Down the Causes 61 Chapter 4: Living in the Dark Ages of Fossil Fuels 63 Chapter 5: Getting Right to the Source: The Big Emitters 77 Chapter 6: Taking It Personally: Individual Sources of Emissions 91 Part 3: Examining the Effects of Climate Change 101 Chapter 7: Focusing on Not-So-Natural Disasters 103 Chapter 8: Risking Flora and Fauna: Impacts on Plants and Animals 121 Chapter 9: Hitting Home: Global Warming's Direct Effect on People 137 Part 4: Political Progress: Fighting Global Warming Nationally and Internationally 155 Chapter 10: Voting for Your Future: What Governments Can Do 157 Chapter 11: Beyond Borders: Progress on a Global Level 187 Chapter 12: Developing in the Face of Climate Change 201 Part 5: Solving the Problem 221 Chapter 13: Powering the World -- Renewable Green Energy 223 Chapter 14: Show Me the Money: Business and Industrial Solutions 249 Chapter 15: Activists without Borders: Nongovernmental Organizations 271 Chapter 16: Lights, Camera, Action: The Media and Climate Change 285 Chapter 17: Figuring Out How to Change before Global Warming Is Unstoppable 297 Part 6: The Part of Tens 315 Chapter 18: Ten (Plus One) Things You Can Do to Fight Climate Change 317 Chapter 19: Ten (Plus Three) Inspiring Leaders in the Fight 329 Chapter 20: Top Ten Myths about Climate Change Debunked 337 Chapter 21: Ten (Plus One) Online Climate Change Resources 345 Index 351