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Clean Sky: The Global Warming Story by Robyn C. Friend and
Judith Love Cohen tells the story of the global warming challenge and
some of the things we can do to meet it. This challenge presents unique
opportunities to create new technology and new industries that can make
large changes in the way we use the Earth's resources. Since a large
part of the greenhouse gases are emitted during electric power generation,
one exciting new solution focuses on using hydrogen fuel and storing
the carbon dioxide deep underground while generating the electricity.
And there are other necessary solutions to implement. Our youngest generation
needs to know how they can participate in saving their present and future
home.
Great
Review from Bioscience Magazine
BioScience
October 2008 – American Institute of Biological Sciences
- Growing environmental concern has recently spiked as a result of our
gradual understanding and acknowledgment of global warming. The term
itself has become part of the lexicon in both scientific and political
arenas. Major socioeconomic decisions affecting not just the United
States but the world have already been made, and will increasingly be
made, on the basis of judgments about global warming. The topic is rife
with controversy. Nonetheless, an introduction to global warming for
children can take a direct and scientific approach. A Clean Sky:
The Global Warming Story (ages 9 to 12) does just that. It is
an appealing 48-page primer on global warming that young readers will
enjoy. The book provides an objective understanding of a complex issue
without adopting political overtones. Robyn C. Friend and Judith Love
Cohen (an aerospace engineer) are accomplished writers of children's
books on a variety of empowering subjects. Their approach to global
warming is to discuss it from a can-do perspective: first explain the
nature of the problem – how does global warming take place over
time? – and then offer some possible solutions to fix it. For example,
the term "greenhouse gases" is adequately defined along with
the need to curb emissions, then terminology such as "carbon capture"
and "geological storage" is introduced as alternative methods
for reducing greenhouse gases. The result is a book that is both rational
and engaging – optimism served objectively.
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