Reference Reviews

Reference for Students

Is Global Warming a Threat? Edited by David M. Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit, Mich.: Greenhaven Press Thomson Gale, 2007. 1 vol. 102 p. $23.96. ISBN 10: 0-7377-3687-8; 13: 978-0-7377-3687-8.

Al Gore's winning an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize keeps global warming on the forefront of news today. Some claim that we are having just another natural change such as from a former Ice Age and that human beings aren't causing any of these changes. There is no proven link between global warming and hurricane strength. Others think that carbon dioxide emissions must be rationed to reduce global warming. Was the U.S. right to reject the Kyoto Protocol? Can the U.S. stop global warming? Both sides of these issues are presented here for students to begin their debate or their further research.