Introduction |
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Part 1: Understanding Climate Change |
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Chapter 1 Covering the Basics of Climate Change |
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Getting a Basic Overview - Global Warming 101 |
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Heating things up with GHGs |
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Investigating other causes of global warming |
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Tapping into The Roots of Global Warming |
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Heating up over deforestation |
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Examining the Effects of Global Warming around the World |
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The United States and Canada |
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Australia and New Zealand |
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Positive Politics: Governments and Global Warming |
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Making a difference from city hall to the nation's capital |
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Working with a global government |
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Helping developing countries |
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Changing to alternative energies |
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Chapter 2 Looking Closely at Greenhouse Earth |
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Examining Greenhouse Effect 101 |
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Focusing On Carbon Dioxide: Leader of the Pack |
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Looking at the carbon cycle |
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Investigating humanity's impact on the carbon cycle |
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Checking Out the Other GHGs |
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Other players on the GHG bench |
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Chapter 3 Recognizing the Big Deal about Carbon |
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Considering Other Causes of Global Warming |
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Solar cycles - Irradiance and Milankovitch |
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Making the Case for Carbon |
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Geologic and prehistoric evidence |
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Going, going, gone...The tipping point |
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Eyeballing the Consequences of Continued Carbon Dioxide Increases |
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What happens when the mercury rises |
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Part 2: Tracking Down The Causes |
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Chapter 4 Living in the Dark Ages of Fossil Fuels |
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From Fossils to Fuel - How Fossil Fuels Came to Be |
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Examining the Different Types of Fossil Fuels |
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Fueling Civilization's Growth: Adding to the Greenhouse Effect |
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A growing world population's impact |
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Growing economies also play a role |
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Chapter 5 Getting Right to the Source: The Big Emitters |
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Power to the People: Energy Use |
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Using up energy in buildings |
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The Road to Ruin: Transportation and GHGs |
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Cheap goods at a high price to the climate |
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Draining the Carbon Sinks: Land Use |
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Down on the farm: Agriculture and livestock |
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Chapter 6 Taking It Personally: Individual Sources of Emissions |
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Driving Up Emissions: Transportation and GHGs |
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Using Energy around the House |
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Controlling the climate in your home |
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Operating electric appliances |
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You Are What You Eat: Food and Carbon |
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Part 3: Examining The Effects Of Climate Change |
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Chapter 7 Focusing on Not-So-Natural Disasters |
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H2 Oh No: Watery Disasters |
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Melting mountain glaciers |
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Putting a brake on the Gulf Stream |
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Rainfall (or lack thereof) |
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Stormy Weather: More Intense Storms and Hurricanes |
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Forest Fires and Wildfires: Trees and Grasses as Fuel |
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Recognizing how they start and how to prevent them |
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Examining the Negative Side Effects of Positive Feedback Loops |
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Chapter 8 Risking Flora and Fauna: Impacts on Plants and Animals |
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Understanding the Stresses on Ecosystems |
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Ecosystems can adapt to some climate change |
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Some species have limitations for adapting |
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Warming the World's Waters: Threats to the Underwater World |
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Lakes, rivers, wetlands, and bogs |
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Preparing for Mass Extinctions |
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Life's no beach: Endangered tropical species |
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Thin ice: Polar bears and other polar animals |
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Chapter 9 Hitting Home: Global Warmings Direct Effect on People |
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Focusing on the Health Scare - Outbreaks and Diseases |
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Other diseases and problems worsened by global warming |
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Putting Pressure on the Fields |
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Hurting the global food supply |
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Paying the Price for Global Warming |
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Highways, waterworks, and the other stuff humans build |
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An unfair split: Costs to the industrialized and developing nations |
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Feeling the Heat First: Unequal Effects |
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Northern Hemisphere communities |
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Part 4: Political Progress: Fighting Global Warming Nationally And Internationally |
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Chapter 10 Voting for Your Future: What Governments Can Do |
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If They Had a Million Dollars ... (Wait - They Do! - Funding Measures |
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Planning for emissions trading |
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Putting Programs into Place |
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Cleaning Up Transportation |
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Investing in public transportation |
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Dealing with personal vehicles |
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Redefining Long-Term Investments |
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Considering the lack of progress |
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Focusing on the good news |
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Recognizing the countries leading the way |
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Improving building regulations |
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Identifying Some Success Stories |
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States, provinces, and territories |
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Chapter 11 Beyond Borders: Progress on a Global Level |
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Understanding Why Global Agreements Are Important |
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Examining the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change |
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Recognizing what the Convention does |
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Looking At the Paris Agreement |
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Introducing the World's Authority on Global Warming: The IPCC |
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Chapter 12 Developing in the Face of Climate Change |
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Identifying Challenges Faced by Developed and Developing Nations |
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Promising Developments: Looking at Progress in China, Brazil, and India |
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Choosing Sustainable Development |
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Understanding what sustainable development is |
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Expressing what developing countries can do |
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How industrialized countries can help |
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Part 5: Solving The Problem |
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Chapter 13 Powering the World - Renewable Green Energy |
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Changing How to Handle Fossil Fuel's Emissions |
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Capturing and storing carbon dioxide |
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Considering carbon capture cons |
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Investigating Renewable Energy Options |
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Exploring Another Nonrenewable Energy Source: Nuclear Power |
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Understanding nuclear power |
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Chapter 14 Show Me the Money: Business and Industrial Solutions |
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Processing and Manufacturing Efficiently |
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Taking steps to conserve energy |
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Considering individual industries |
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Trading Carbon between Manufacturers - The Carbon Market |
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Constructing Greener Buildings |
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Cutting back on heating and cooling |
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Exploring energy alternatives |
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Identifying Corporate Success Stories |
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Recognizing Corporate Nonsuccess Stories |
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Focusing on Support from the Professional Service Sector |
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Banking on the environment |
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Stranding assets and liabilities |
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Insuring against climate change |
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Looking At Farming and Forestry |
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Improving land management |
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Reducing rice farms' emissions |
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Chapter 15 Activists without Borders: Nongovernmental Organizations |
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Understanding What NGOs Do |
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Working with industry and government |
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Chapter 16 Lights, Camera, Action: The Media and Climate Change |
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Bias and balance: Distorting the story |
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Consider the source: Being an informed media consumer |
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Focusing on Science on the Red Carpet |
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Movies: Facts and (science) fiction |
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For the kids (and adults, too) |
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Worldwide Warming: Climate Change Blogs |
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Bestselling Books: Reading between the Lines |
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Chapter 17 Figuring Out How to Change before Global Warming Is Unstoppable |
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Making the Changes in Limited Time |
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Staying within the carbon budget: Is it possible? |
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Getting to net zero - Is it possible? |
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Staying below "1.5 to stay alive" - Is it possible? |
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Addressing What Needs to be Done |
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Forecasting a path to 1.5 degrees |
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Predicting what disruption of fossil fuels looks like |
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Recognizing the cost of disruption |
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Considering other benefits to disruption |
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Ending the Dominance of Fossil Fuels as Humanity's Main Source of Energy |
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Changing the ways humans use energy and power to get things done |
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Changing what political leaders see the best interests of humanity |
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Understanding How Disruption Can Be Accelerated |
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Getting There from Here: A Conversation among Citizens |
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Part 6: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 18 Ten (Plus One) Things You Can Do to Fight Climate Change |
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Upgrading Major Appliances |
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Making Your Daily Living More Energy Efficient |
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Going Vegetarian or Vegan (Sort of) |
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Supporting Clean, Renewable Energy |
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Being a Smart Investor and Encouraging Smart Disinvestment |
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Getting (or Making) a Green Collar Job |
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Helping To Make Change Where You Live |
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Chapter 19 Ten (Plus Three) Inspiring Leaders in the Fight |
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Chapter 20 Top Ten Myths about Climate Change Debunked |
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Knowing That a Debate Doesn't Exist among Scientists |
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Recognizing That Human Activity Has Caused Current Global Warming |
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Looking into the Danger of Increased Carbon Dioxide Concentrations |
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Discovering the Truth about Sunspots |
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Understanding That Scientists Don't Exaggerate to Get More Funding |
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Grasping the Misconceptions about the Science of Global Warming |
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Thinking It's All Your Fault |
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Considering You Can't Do Anything about It |
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Pinning the Blame on Developing Countries Isn't Realistic |
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Living with Climate Change - and Doing Something about It |
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Chapter 21 Ten (Plus One) Online Climate Change Resources |
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Three Other Kid-Friendly Sites |
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
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Climate Analysis Indicators Tool |
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Canada's Environment and Climate Change |
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The U.K.'s Climate Challenge |
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Environmental Protection Agency |
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The International Energy Agency |
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Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change |
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Index |
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