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  • ISBN-10: 1119703107
  • ISBN-13: 9781119703105
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Get clear about why climate change is so complicated and discover how you can help reverse it

More and more frequent extreme weather events occur each year, and planet Earth is in danger of developing more climates where life whether animal, vegetable, or human is unsustainable. Climate Change For Dummies explains how rising temperatures, shrinking lakes, rising oceans, and shifting weather patterns affect your life on a daily basis. And of course the book goes a step further and offers suggestions about how you can take steps to limit your impact on the environment and help to reverse climate change.

This straightforward guide demystifies the impact of climates No. 1 enemy carbon dioxide and breaks down the many sources of this damaging but inescapable gas. From there, the book reveals how rising CO2 levels affect the weather, water levels, plant and animal species around the world, the food you eat, and your health. But the situation isnt hopeless! Climate Change For Dummies outlines actions governments, industries, and you can take to fight global warming and turn the tide to live in a cooler world. Discover details about

              * Short- and long-term effects of climate change

              * How some actions contribute to climate change and others reduce it

              * The many options for renewable energy and the pros and cons of nuclear energy

              * Actions nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are taking to draw attention to the climate crisis

              * The debate around whether climate change even needs to be addressed

Climate change wont be easy to overcome, but when youre armed with the facts, you can do your best to make a difference. Let Climate Change For Dummies point you in the right direction.
Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
1(1)
Foolish Assumptions
2(1)
Icons Used in This Book
3(1)
Beyond This Book
3(1)
Where to Go from Here
4(1)
Part 1: Understanding Climate Change 5(56)
Chapter 1 Covering the Basics of Climate Change
7(20)
Getting a Basic Overview - Global Warming 101
8(4)
Heating things up with GHGs
8(1)
Investigating other causes of global warming
9(3)
Tapping into The Roots of Global Warming
12(1)
Fueling global warming
12(1)
Heating up over deforestation
13(1)
Examining the Effects of Global Warming around the World
13(9)
The United States and Canada
14(2)
Latin America
16(1)
Europe
17(1)
Africa
18(1)
Asia
18(1)
Australia and New Zealand
19(1)
Small islands
20(1)
Polar regions
20(2)
Positive Politics: Governments and Global Warming
22(2)
Making a difference from city hall to the nation's capital
22(1)
Working with a global government
23(1)
Helping developing countries
23(1)
Solving the Problem
24(3)
Changing to alternative energies
24(1)
Getting down to business
25(1)
Making it personal
26(1)
Chapter 2 Looking Closely at Greenhouse Earth
27(20)
Examining Greenhouse Effect 101
28(2)
Focusing On Carbon Dioxide: Leader of the Pack
30(9)
Looking at the carbon cycle
31(5)
Investigating humanity's impact on the carbon cycle
36(3)
Checking Out the Other GHGs
39(8)
Methane (CH4)
40(2)
Nitrous oxide (N2O)
42(1)
Hexafluoro-what?
42(1)
Other players on the GHG bench
43(4)
Chapter 3 Recognizing the Big Deal about Carbon
47(14)
Considering Other Causes of Global Warming
48(3)
Solar cycles - Irradiance and Milankovitch
49(1)
Cloud cover
49(1)
Long-term climate trends
50(1)
Making the Case for Carbon
51(6)
Geologic and prehistoric evidence
52(1)
Modeling and forecasting
53(2)
A few degrees is a lot
55(1)
Going, going, gone...The tipping point
56(1)
Eyeballing the Consequences of Continued Carbon Dioxide Increases
57(6)
What happens when the mercury rises
58(1)
Cutting back on carbon
58(3)
Part 2: Tracking Down The Causes 61(40)
Chapter 4 Living in the Dark Ages of Fossil Fuels
63(14)
From Fossils to Fuel - How Fossil Fuels Came to Be
64(2)
Examining the Different Types of Fossil Fuels
66(7)
Coal
67(1)
Oil
68(3)
Natural gas
71(2)
Fueling Civilization's Growth: Adding to the Greenhouse Effect
73(4)
A growing world population's impact
73(1)
Growing economies also play a role
74(3)
Chapter 5 Getting Right to the Source: The Big Emitters
77(14)
Power to the People: Energy Use
77(7)
Producing electricity
78(1)
Using up energy in buildings
79(2)
Powering industry
81(3)
The Road to Ruin: Transportation and GHGs
84(3)
Cheap goods at a high price to the climate
85(1)
Keep on truckin'
85(2)
Draining the Carbon Sinks: Land Use
87(4)
Timber! Deforestation
87(1)
Down on the farm: Agriculture and livestock
88(3)
Chapter 6 Taking It Personally: Individual Sources of Emissions
91(10)
Driving Up Emissions: Transportation and GHGs
92(3)
Driving
93(1)
Flying
94(1)
Using Energy around the House
95(4)
Controlling the climate in your home
96(2)
Operating electric appliances
98(1)
You Are What You Eat: Food and Carbon
99(1)
Wasting Away
99(2)
Part 3: Examining The Effects Of Climate Change 101(54)
Chapter 7 Focusing on Not-So-Natural Disasters
103(18)
H2 Oh No: Watery Disasters
104(9)
Rising sea levels
104(2)
Melting mountain glaciers
106(3)
Putting a brake on the Gulf Stream
109(2)
Rainfall (or lack thereof)
111(1)
Flooding
111(2)
Freshwater contamination
113(1)
Stormy Weather: More Intense Storms and Hurricanes
113(1)
Forest Fires and Wildfires: Trees and Grasses as Fuel
114(2)
Considering the costs
115(1)
Recognizing how they start and how to prevent them
115(1)
Turning Up the Heat
116(1)
Examining the Negative Side Effects of Positive Feedback Loops
117(4)
Chapter 8 Risking Flora and Fauna: Impacts on Plants and Animals
121(16)
Understanding the Stresses on Ecosystems
122(2)
Ecosystems can adapt to some climate change
122(1)
Some species have limitations for adapting
123(1)
Warming the World's Waters: Threats to the Underwater World
124(6)
Under the sea
125(4)
Lakes, rivers, wetlands, and bogs
129(1)
Risking Earth's Forests
130(3)
Tropical
131(1)
Boreal
131(2)
Preparing for Mass Extinctions
133(4)
Life's no beach: Endangered tropical species
134(1)
Thin ice: Polar bears and other polar animals
135(2)
Chapter 9 Hitting Home: Global Warmings Direct Effect on People
137(18)
Focusing on the Health Scare - Outbreaks and Diseases
138(5)
Dengue fever
139(1)
Lyme disease
140(1)
Other diseases and problems worsened by global warming
140(3)
Putting Pressure on the Fields
143(2)
Affecting farmers
143(1)
Hurting the global food supply
144(1)
Paying the Price for Global Warming
145(4)
Highways, waterworks, and the other stuff humans build
146(1)
An unfair split: Costs to the industrialized and developing nations
147(2)
Feeling the Heat First: Unequal Effects
149(8)
Northern Hemisphere communities
150(2)
People in poverty
152(1)
Women (and children)
152(3)
Part 4: Political Progress: Fighting Global Warming Nationally And Internationally 155(66)
Chapter 10 Voting for Your Future: What Governments Can Do
157(30)
If They Had a Million Dollars ... (Wait - They Do! - Funding Measures
159(5)
Creating incentives
160(1)
Planning for emissions trading
161(3)
Putting Programs into Place
164(7)
Research
164(1)
Education and awareness
165(1)
Adaptation
166(5)
Cleaning Up Transportation
171(3)
Bringing back the bike
171(1)
Investing in public transportation
172(1)
Greening cars
172(1)
Dealing with personal vehicles
173(1)
Redefining Long-Term Investments
174(4)
Considering the lack of progress
175(1)
Focusing on the good news
175(1)
Recognizing the countries leading the way
176(2)
Laying Down the Law
178(4)
Improving building regulations
178(1)
Regulating energy use
179(1)
Taxing the polluters
180(2)
Identifying Some Success Stories
182(5)
Cities and towns
182(1)
States, provinces, and territories
183(2)
Countries
185(2)
Chapter 11 Beyond Borders: Progress on a Global Level
187(14)
Understanding Why Global Agreements Are Important
188(1)
Examining the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
189(4)
Recognizing what the Convention does
190(1)
Establishing a game plan
191(1)
Dividing up the parties
192(1)
Looking At the Paris Agreement
193(5)
Setting targets
193(3)
Adding flexibility
196(1)
Ratifying climate pacts
197(1)
Introducing the World's Authority on Global Warming: The IPCC
198(3)
Getting to know the IPCC
199(1)
Reading the reports
199(2)
Chapter 12 Developing in the Face of Climate Change
201(20)
Identifying Challenges Faced by Developed and Developing Nations
202(2)
Promising Developments: Looking at Progress in China, Brazil, and India
204(9)
China
205(3)
Brazil
208(3)
India
211(2)
Choosing Sustainable Development
213(10)
Understanding what sustainable development is
213(1)
Expressing what developing countries can do
214(2)
How industrialized countries can help
216(5)
Part 5: Solving The Problem 221(94)
Chapter 13 Powering the World - Renewable Green Energy
223(26)
Addressing Energy Demand
224(3)
Being more efficient
224(2)
Combining heat and power
226(1)
Changing How to Handle Fossil Fuel's Emissions
227(4)
Capturing and storing carbon dioxide
228(2)
Considering carbon capture cons
230(1)
Reducing Energy Demand
231(1)
Investigating Renewable Energy Options
232(13)
Blowin' in the wind
233(2)
Here comes the sun
235(3)
Heat from the ground up
238(1)
Hydropower
239(1)
Ocean power
240(1)
From plants to energy
241(1)
Nothing wasted
242(3)
Exploring Another Nonrenewable Energy Source: Nuclear Power
245(4)
Understanding nuclear power
245(1)
Looking at the positives
246(1)
Weighing the negatives
246(3)
Chapter 14 Show Me the Money: Business and Industrial Solutions
249(22)
Processing and Manufacturing Efficiently
250(4)
Taking steps to conserve energy
251(1)
Using energy efficiently
252(1)
Considering individual industries
253(1)
Trading Carbon between Manufacturers - The Carbon Market
254(2)
Constructing Greener Buildings
256(2)
Cutting back on heating and cooling
256(1)
Exploring energy alternatives
257(1)
Certifying new buildings
257(1)
Identifying Corporate Success Stories
258(1)
Recognizing Corporate Nonsuccess Stories
259(2)
Focusing on Support from the Professional Service Sector
261(3)
Banking on the environment
261(1)
Stranding assets and liabilities
262(1)
Insuring against climate change
263(1)
Making it legal
264(1)
Looking At Farming and Forestry
264(7)
Supplying biofuels
265(1)
Improving land management
265(3)
Reducing rice farms' emissions
268(3)
Chapter 15 Activists without Borders: Nongovernmental Organizations
271(14)
Understanding What NGOs Do
272(6)
Educating people
272(1)
Keeping watch
273(1)
Getting the word out
274(1)
Working with industry and government
275(3)
Meeting This Generation
278(2)
The importance of youth
279(1)
Groups that speak up
279(1)
Getting Involved
280(5)
Seeking out groups
280(1)
Helping out
281(4)
Chapter 16 Lights, Camera, Action: The Media and Climate Change
285(12)
Growing News Coverage
285(3)
Bias and balance: Distorting the story
286(1)
Consider the source: Being an informed media consumer
286(2)
Focusing on Science on the Red Carpet
288(5)
Movies: Facts and (science) fiction
288(3)
For the kids (and adults, too)
291(1)
Following the stars
292(1)
Worldwide Warming: Climate Change Blogs
293(1)
Bestselling Books: Reading between the Lines
294(3)
True stories
294(2)
Fiction and fairytales
296(1)
Chapter 17 Figuring Out How to Change before Global Warming Is Unstoppable
297(18)
Asking Tough Questions
297(1)
Making the Changes in Limited Time
298(3)
Staying within the carbon budget: Is it possible?
299(1)
Getting to net zero - Is it possible?
300(1)
Staying below "1.5 to stay alive" - Is it possible?
300(1)
Addressing What Needs to be Done
301(2)
Forecasting a path to 1.5 degrees
301(2)
Understanding Disruption
303(5)
Predicting what disruption of fossil fuels looks like
303(1)
Recognizing the cost of disruption
304(2)
Considering other benefits to disruption
306(2)
Ending the Dominance of Fossil Fuels as Humanity's Main Source of Energy
308(3)
Changing the ways humans use energy and power to get things done
308(1)
Changing what political leaders see the best interests of humanity
309(2)
Understanding How Disruption Can Be Accelerated
311(1)
Getting There from Here: A Conversation among Citizens
312(3)
Part 6: The Part Of Tens 315(36)
Chapter 18 Ten (Plus One) Things You Can Do to Fight Climate Change
317(12)
Greening Your Car
318(1)
Upgrading Major Appliances
319(1)
Buttoning Up Your House
319(1)
Making Your Daily Living More Energy Efficient
319(3)
At home
320(1)
On the road
320(1)
At work
321(1)
Going Vegetarian or Vegan (Sort of)
322(1)
Reducing Food Waste
322(1)
Supporting Clean, Renewable Energy
323(1)
Being a Smart Investor and Encouraging Smart Disinvestment
324(1)
Getting (or Making) a Green Collar Job
324(2)
Helping To Make Change Where You Live
326(1)
Spreading the Word
327(2)
Chapter 19 Ten (Plus Three) Inspiring Leaders in the Fight
329(8)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
330(1)
Angela Merkel
330(1)
Mia Amor Mottley
331(1)
Bill McKibben
331(1)
George Monbiot
331(1)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
332(1)
Elizabeth Wathuti
332(1)
Greta Thunberg
333(1)
Michael Mann
333(1)
Katharine Hayhoe
334(1)
James Hansen
334(1)
Bill Gates
335(1)
Nandita Bakhshi
335(2)
Chapter 20 Top Ten Myths about Climate Change Debunked
337(8)
Knowing That a Debate Doesn't Exist among Scientists
338(1)
Recognizing That Human Activity Has Caused Current Global Warming
339(1)
Looking into the Danger of Increased Carbon Dioxide Concentrations
340(1)
Discovering the Truth about Sunspots
340(1)
Understanding That Scientists Don't Exaggerate to Get More Funding
341(1)
Grasping the Misconceptions about the Science of Global Warming
341(1)
Thinking It's All Your Fault
342(1)
Considering You Can't Do Anything about It
343(1)
Pinning the Blame on Developing Countries Isn't Realistic
343(1)
Living with Climate Change - and Doing Something about It
344(1)
Chapter 21 Ten (Plus One) Online Climate Change Resources
345(6)
National Geographic
346(1)
Three Other Kid-Friendly Sites
346(1)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
347(1)
Climate Analysis Indicators Tool
347(1)
Canada's Environment and Climate Change
347(1)
The U.K.'s Climate Challenge
348(1)
Environmental Protection Agency
348(1)
The International Energy Agency
349(1)
Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change
350(1)
Index 351
Elizabeth May is the former leader of the Green Party of Canada. She founded and served as the Executive Director of the Sierra Club Canada from 1989 to 2006. May has been the Member of Parliament in Canada since May 2011.

John Kidder was a founding member of the Green Party in British Columbia. He has been a cowboy, miner, fisher, range management specialist, technology entrepreneur, small farmer, and governance practitioner since then.

The authors married on Earth Day 2019.