Greenhaven Press"s Confronting Global Warming series explores current and future challenges facing the planet due to climate change. The series covers the full range of climate change impacts-including water, population, nature, and health and disease-and the various essential components of any solution, such as energy production and alternative energy, the role of the government, the role of industry, and the role of the individual. Each volume examines the current status of the topic being covered, highlights key future challenges, explores potential or proposed solutions for dealing with the results of climate change, and presents the pros and cons of such solutions.Confronting Global Warming features all original content written expressly for this full-color series. Volumes also include a descriptive table of contents, a glossary, a bibliography, a subject index, and full-color photos, maps, and illustrations. Titles in the Confronting Global Warming series offer users a well-rounded view of global warming, providing context for how society has dealt with climate change thus far and encapsulating debates about how it will confront issues related to climate in the future.