Tells about the greenhouse effect, recycling, and what you can do to help fight global warming.

"Enter the dark Antarctic winter, where a pair of emperor penguins share the task of keeping their young one alive--and discover how fighting climate change is key to their survival." --Book jacket.

This Book Will Save the Planet is a vital and timely illustrated study of the climate crisis that tells us exactly what we can do to help save the world we live in.

Discusses why global warming happens, the ways in which it impacts our planet, and how we can work together to stop it.

Current information about the causes and effects of climate change, how people are working to reduce it, and ways kids and their families and schools can join the fight.

"Planet Earth is warming, causing climates to change. People and other living things experience these changes through the weather. In [this book], learn how weather happens and how global warming is changing it -- including global warming's effects on extreme weather." -- Back cover.

This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating...