Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been teaching and writing in the School of Communication at UNO since 1982. Johansen writes frequently about environmental subjects, including Global Warming in the 21st century (Praeger, 3 vols., 2006), The Global Warming Desk Reference (Greenwood, 2001), The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003), and Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues (Greenwood, 2004).

• IntroductionChapter 1: The BasicsChapter 2: Specific Issues in Global Warming ScienceChapter 3: Melting IceChapter 4: Rising SeasChapter 5: Plants, Animals, and Human HealthChapter 6: SolutionsGlossaryAnnotated BibliographyIndex

…this book takes a crucial, complex scientific field and makes it readily accessible to readers. I firmly think this book ought to be required reading for everyone on teh planet, and at the very least, I think a copy shoudl be in every high school classroom in this country. Anything less would be a disservice to our educational charges.

Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been teaching and writing in the School of Communication at UNO since 1982. Johansen writes frequently about environmental subjects, including Global Warming in the 21st century (Praeger, 3 vols., 2006), The Global Warming Desk Reference (Greenwood, 2001), The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003), and Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues (Greenwood, 2004).

• IntroductionChapter 1: The BasicsChapter 2: Specific Issues in Global Warming ScienceChapter 3: Melting IceChapter 4: Rising SeasChapter 5: Plants, Animals, and Human HealthChapter 6: SolutionsGlossaryAnnotated BibliographyIndex

…this book takes a crucial, complex scientific field and makes it readily accessible to readers. I firmly think this book ought to be required reading for everyone on teh planet, and at the very least, I think a copy shoudl be in every high school classroom in this country. Anything less would be a disservice to our educational charges.

Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been teaching and writing in the School of Communication at UNO since 1982. Johansen writes frequently about environmental subjects, including Global Warming in the 21st century (Praeger, 3 vols., 2006), The Global Warming Desk Reference (Greenwood, 2001), The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003), and Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues (Greenwood, 2004).

• IntroductionChapter 1: The BasicsChapter 2: Specific Issues in Global Warming ScienceChapter 3: Melting IceChapter 4: Rising SeasChapter 5: Plants, Animals, and Human HealthChapter 6: SolutionsGlossaryAnnotated BibliographyIndex

…this book takes a crucial, complex scientific field and makes it readily accessible to readers. I firmly think this book ought to be required reading for everyone on teh planet, and at the very least, I think a copy shoudl be in every high school classroom in this country. Anything less would be a disservice to our educational charges.