Climate Change

DK Eyewitness Books

by John Woodward

The world's most trusted nonfiction series is now available with a CD of clipart included in the hardcover edition that compliments a fact-filled title full of spectacular photographs and illustrations.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Nature, Climate Change

72 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Sophie Crane]

The Best book I have seen on Climate Change for Children. Tells them all they need to know and more with good pictures and clear information.

[Joan]

This was an excellent book. The problem is the verb. This WAS excellent in 2008. Now it is really out of date. I plan on mentioning it to the library when I return the book. Maybe Eyewitness has updated this title and they should buy that. Obviously in many ways this is still excellent. I picked up and memorized some facts from this book that are fundamental information that I just never bothered to learn, such as the names of the different levels of the atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exophere) and the five largest molecules in the atmosphere and the chemical makeup of them. It had lots more information and a lot of good basic information. Unfortunately, some of their information is simply out of date, such as the ranking of the largest emitters on earth and the proportion of coal being used these days. There is a fair amount of material that is out of date, such as the costs of renewable energy and solar energy in particular has crashed the last few years where it is competitive with or even cheaper than conventional fossil fuels. Of course the major political change is the Paris Conference in 2015. That was so important that it alone requires library books for children to be updated!
Bottom line: Top quality back in the day. Out of date today.

[Dan Castrigano]

OK. Outdated because it's from 12 years ago. (Carbon at 380 ppm then, at 416 or so now.) A couple things I didn't know in there, like exactly how all the solar energy bounces around in the atmosphere. Refreshed a few things for me - like positive and negative feedbacks, tipping points, and the fact that the Kyoto Protocol was in 1997. (This was pre-Paris Accord.) It was pretty light in its tone on taking action, but it is a book about delivering information easily to children - so that's OK.

[theperksofbeingmarissa ;)]

A very informative book on climate change based on data up to 2008. Woodward did a good job explaining how the Global South are more likely to suffer from the actions of the Global North. (The author used the term "developing countries" which is outdated, so I am choosing to use ,hopefully, current and correct terms. Always open to critique if these are not the correct terms!)

On page 45, the author briefly speaks about Hurricane Katrina. Woodward writes, "...many people lost their lives, the city sank into lawlessness, with looters stealing from damaged buildings and violent gangs roaming the streets." Looters? Violent gangs? Sounds racially coded, especially if you recall the public perception and treatment of the Black residents affected by Hurricane Katrina.

[Shilo Quetchenbach]

This is a very informative book, with everything you need to know about climate change presented in a clear and easy-to-understand manner. Kiddo (9) is very interested in climate change so we read this as a bedtime book. It had a lot of diagrams to illustrate the many processes involved in climate change.

The other reviews that say it is out of date are themselves out of date as this edition has been updated with new information (in 2019). It gathers everything kiddo and I have gleaned about climate change from all of our other books, plus additional info we had not seen, into an easy to read format.

[Heidi]

This book is written at the middle school level. If it can explain all the aspects of climate change- and what we can do about it- at a level tweens and young teens can understand, then it should be able to be understood by adults who need to stop being in denial.

[Mrs. Ruigrok]

For people who love these non-fiction books FULL of information, this book is for you! Likely best suited to students in upper elementary/middle school grades. This book was first published in 2008 , which is the copy I have. So if you are using it for research, you may want to check the stats/facts to date!

[Nancy]

Non-fiction for children about the global warming our world. DK Publishers has terrific pictures with breif captions to keep attention and interest sharp.