Global climate change.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Former global warming supporter shows data that refutes it -- Second warmest year on record; end of the warmest decade -- Global warming : faster than expected? -- The last great global warming -- Climate change around the world -- A light in the forest -- Global warning -- Commodifying water in times of global warming -- China confronts global warming dilemma -- The shrinking glaciers of Kilimanjaro : can global warming be blamed? -- The politics of global warming -- Joint U.S.-China statement on climate change -- Climate change in the political arena -- U.N. climate change conference extends Kyoto treaty -- Scientists, policymakers, and a climate of uncertainty -- A life measured in heartbeats -- Global warming conference : Bill McKibben's remarks -- Wildlife and a changing climate -- Can evolution beat climate change? -- Elephant seals help find missing piece in global climate puzzle -- Why a hotter world will mean more extinctions -- Global warming's evil twin threatens coast fishing grounds -- Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says -- The climate change conundrum : what the future is beginning to look like -- Dynamics of coral reef recovery -- Running hot and cold : are rainforests sinks or tabs for carbon -- The oceans -- After Sandy : why we can't keep rebuilding on the water's edge -- How climate change threatens the seas -- Amount of coldest Antarctic water near ocean floor decreasing for decades -- Blue crabs in Maine? : something fishy about global warming -- Oceans under surveillance -- Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean -- The coming Arctic boom -- The human factor -- Climate change and health -- How we know global warming is real and human caused -- Soot is no. 2 global-warming culprit, study finds -- Smoke jumpers -- Monitoring EU emerging infectious disease risk due to climate change.