Recent Books on The Threat to the Planet • Field Notes From a Catastrophe:Man ,Nature and Climate Change. Elizabeth Kolbert, Boomsbury 2006 Meet some of the world’s leading climate researchers who explain the dangers in non- technical language without sacrificing scientific accuracy. • , Thin Ice Mark Bowen,Henry Holt. The story of the heroic work of Lonnie Thompson in extracting information on climate change from some of the most forbidding and spectacular places on the planet. • The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, by Tim Flannery, Atlantic Monthly Press. Emphasizes the effect of man- made climate change on other life on the planet. Continuing with business-as-usual could l cause 60% of today’s species to become extinct. • An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What we Can Do About It. Al Gore A beautifully illustrated and extremely exciting discussion of the critical issues in global warming and a program of action for citizens concerned with reducing the impacts of the human contribution to the crisis. New Childrens Book on Global Warming: • The North Pole Was Here:Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World Andrew Revkin, NY Times eco-journalist, (Kingfisher Books,2006) Many full color photographs, archival reproductions and photos of previous excursions make for a dynamic layout. Recommended for grades 6-9.