Gas Trees and Car Turds: Kids' Guide to the Roots of Global Warming
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155591666X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 40 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This colorfully illustrated book makes carbon dioxide, an invisible odorless gas responsible for global warming and plant growth, into something that can be imagined and understood by children.
Elizabeth Conover said Excellent, original way to explain global warming to kids and adults. Put on your oxygen shoes! Kirk Johnson is well known and loved for making physical science seem not only real, but funny and engaging. Look no further to understand why planting trees helps reduce greenhouse gases, how much carbon your car produces on an average trip, and how carbon becomes carbon dioxide (see-oh-too) and vice vers
Johnson is vice president and chief curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Kirk R. Bonnell earned her degree in environmental, population, and organismic biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991. He received his PhD in geology and paleobotany from Yale University in 1989, and did postdoctoral research in the rainforests of northern Australia before coming to Denver in 1991, where
For the last 19 years, she has used art, science, and enthusiasm to connect people of all ages to the natural world.. About the AuthorKirk R. Johnson is vice president and chief curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Bonnell earned her degree in environmental, population, and organismic biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991. Mary Ann Bonnell is the lead naturalist for the Parks and Open Space Department in Aurora, Colorado. He received his PhD in geology and paleobotany from Yale University in 1989, and did postdoctoral research in the rainforests of northern Australia before coming to Denver in 1991, where he directed the installation of