Examining the ongoing changes in Earth's climate, this book explores possible causes, arguments for and against the existence of global warming, and looks at what the future may hold.

Heat : how we got here /Ian Sample -- The proof is in the science / Roger Di Silvestro -- Strange science / Thomas Sieger Derr -- Jounalistic balance as global warming bias / Jules Boykoff, Maxwell Boykoff -- The new extreme sport / William Burroughs -- Climate change : errors in temperature data mask evidence of warming -- studies -- As the Arctic melts, an ancient culture faces ruin / Charles Wohlforth -- A bit of icy Antarctica is sliding toward the sea / Richard A. Kerr -- The big thaw / Daniel Glick -- Human prints on warming / Bryn Nelson -- One expedition's story -- Global warming : the culprit? / Jeffrey Kluger -- A season a tad off color, and here's why / Avi Salzman -- Arid Arizona points to global warming as culprit / Juliet Eilperin -- Climate change means big changes in Puget Sound / Craig Welch -- A darkening sky / Charles W. Petit -- Abrupt climate change / Richard B. Alley -- Crossing the threshold / Peter Bunyard -- Dire warming warning for Earth's species / Jane Kay -- Northeast seen getting balmier / Michael Powell -- Risk to state dire in climate study / Miguel Bustillo -- Continental divide : why Africa's climate change burden is greater / Scott Fields -- Kyoto update / Lynn Elsey -- It's the emissions, stupid / Paul Tolmé -- Oil project goes underground for cleaner air / Gary Polakovic -- Carbon emissions trading is new weapon to battle global warming / Brad Foss -- Global warming and nuclear power / Richard A. Meserve -- Is hydrogen the solution? Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) -- The warming is global but the legislating, in the U.S., is all local / Jennifer 8. Lee. -- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.