World View of Global Warming

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Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World is a comprehensive look at the world wide effects of climate change. In dramatic photographs, maps and quotes from world climate science leaders, this one-of-a-kind book shows how the earth is being changed right now. Earth Under Fire ends with a vision of how we can slow global warming and improve the lives of people everywhere.

Praised by Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Prize winning head of the IPCC, and many other climate scientists.

Chosen one of the 50 Best Environmental Books and Media by Vanity Fair

UPDATED SECOND PRINTING, now on sale. Paperback, as current as the Obama Presidency, available in March.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch, is an engaging and empowering look at the science of climate and how kids can learn by becoming citizen scientists.

It was written especially for middle schoolers and their teachers, with clear explanations of what scientists do, what the words mean, how kids can observe nature like scientists, and how some kids are using their knowledge to reduce their carbon footprint. A special page shows how much carbon dioxide can be reduced as kids work together to reduce climate change.
This book replaces fear and dread over global warming with knowledge and the assurance that actions can be taken that help everyone and the world.

Winner of
AAAS/Subaru Best Science Book of 2008 Award (Middle Grades)
School Library Journal's Best Books of 2008
"NSTA Recommends" National Science Teachers Assn.

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Polar bears threatened by thaw across the Arctic

Ecosystems shift up mountainsides

China, rousing giant of global warming

Ocean inundates island nations

Global Warming's Effects Stretch from the Extremes of the World to Human Cultures

The Most Important Things You Can Do about Rapid Climate Change:

1. Understand the Problem
2. Do Something Today to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This Web site will help you learn the connection between human-made Carbon Dioxide and rapid climate changes and negative effects around the world. The hard fact is that despite what many nations, companies, cities and people are starting to do to reduce their global warming emissions, the world is putting more CO₂ into the air than ever before. The current amount is 385 parts per million (ppm) -- higher than ever in the past 800,000 years.

At the same time, renowned American climatologist Dr. James Hansen of NASA says we already have too much CO₂ and other greenhouse gases in the air: "If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted ... CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."

This is scary and controversial, but Dr. Hansen and others believe we must act fast-- as a world of concerned people and leaders taking every action we can to limit greenhouse emissions. 350.org is a new movement of citizens from around the world which I recommend for its clarity of purpose and worthy goal.

 

With this warning to an international science meeting in February 2004,  David A. King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government, brought the issue of global warming into sharp focus.

The World View of Global Warming project is documenting this change through science photography from the Arctic to Antarctica, from glaciers to the oceans, across all climate zones.  Rapid climate change and its effects is fast becoming one of the prime events of the 21st century. It is real and it is accelerating across the globe.  As the effects of this change combine with overpopulation and weather crises, climate disruptions will affect more people than does war.

	Locations documented since April 1999.  Site updated June 2008. Text and photography Copyright © 2005 - 2008 by Gary Braasch. World View of Global Warming is funded by donations and grants. If you would like to contribute, please click HERE.
	Photographers' Perspectives on Global Warming October 14 - November 6, 2005 was shown at JW Gallery, Brooklyn. Posters from this exhibit are available. Please email your request.

This project would be impossible without scientists and observers around the world who have provided hundreds of scientific contacts and papers. See Background, Advisors, and Reference for documentation, funders and major advisors, without whom I could not complete the work. This project is privately supported and I seek donations through Blue Earth Alliance.

"Polar Thaw," a 30-print exhibit of photographs from locations of Arctic and Antarctic climate warming, is available for museums, science centers and funded public venues.

World View of Global Warming is a project of the Blue Earth Alliance, Seattle Washington, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization.  The project is supported entirely by donations, grants, and license fees for the photographs.  Information about how to contribute is on the Blue Earth web site, or contact Gary Braasch.  Thank you.

This project is featured in The Nieman Reports, Harvard University, Winter 2002,
in a special section on Environmental Reporting. Link to PDF version

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