Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
Is the World Getting Hotter?
By Bill McKibben
The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States: Draft Report to Congress Printing Office in two volumes
edited by Joel B. Smith, edited by Dennis A. Tirpak
US Environmental Protection Agency, forthcoming from the US Government
State of the World 1988: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
by Lester R. Brown, by William U. Chandler, by Alan Durning, by Christopher Flavin, by Lori Heise, by Jodi Jacobson, by Sandra Postel, by Cynthia Pollock Shea, by Linda Starke, by Edward C. Wolf
Norton, 237 pp., 9.95 (paper)
A Matter of Degrees: The Potential for Controlling the Greenhouse Effect
by Irving M. Mintzer
World Resources Institute, 60 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The End
by Larry Ephron
Celestial Arts Press, 240 pp., $8.95
For most Americans, last summer was one of the hottest on record. Some experts said the heat may have been a sign of what to expect from the 'greenhouse effect'—the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the result of burning fossil fuels. The carbon dioxide traps the sun's infrared radiation close to the planet's surface and causes the temperature to rise. Other experts said no: last summer's heat was simply weather.
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