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Title Climate change / editor: Justin Healey
Published Rozelle, N.S.W. : Spinney Press, 2003

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Description 44 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
regular print
Series Issues in society ; v 184
Issues in society (Balmain, N.S.W.) ; v 184
Contents Chapter 1. Climate change: causes and effects: Climate change, the global picture -- Atmosphere and climate change -- Climate change: projections for Australia -- Is the Earth's climate really hotting up? -- The greenhouse effect -- How do we know that much global warming is attributable to human activities? -- How do households contribute to global warming? -- Potential climate change impacts on Australia -- Fauna feeling the heat from climate change -- Illness rife in warmed-up world: scientists -- Health benefits of mitigating global warming in Australia -- Chapter 2. Australia's climate change debate: Latest greenhouse accounts -- Greenhouse figures are 'a snow job' -- How to measure changes in the air -- Global greenhouse challenge: the way ahead for Australia -- Australia would lose under Kyoto -- The Kyoto Protocol is dead, now for the more sensible alternatives -- Australia's reluctance to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is hurting business; Australia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol, and implements it how, exactly? -- The smokescreen hiding our real greenhouse effort -- Kyoto still emission impossible -- Plenty of reasons for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol -- Little to gain from staying out of Kyoto
Summary Despite international pressure, Australia and the USA have refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. This book looks at the key issues in this global debate over the future of our planetc, including the causes and effects of climate change; the Greenhouse Effect; global warming; water supply; and arguments for and against
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page 43
Audience Senior secondary and tertiary students
SUBJECT United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9). http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92029491 Protocols, etc (1997 December 11)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9). Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99009211
Subject Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- Australia.
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects.
Author Healey, Justin, editor
ISBN 1876811935