Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World

by Marfe Ferguson Delano

Earth in the Hot Seat is a stunning, magazine-like presentation that celebrates the Earth and clearly explains the dangers and challenges of global warning. This beautiful volume is also a showcase for National Geographic Society’s environmental mission programs. Librarians and teachers will appreciate a book that explains the science of this global threat succinctly and visually, and is a call-to-arms to help the Earth. Readers will enjoy many fun features, from climate connections in global hotspots, to amazing before and after snapshots, to questionnaires answered by climate scientists and celebrities.

The look of Earth in the Hot Seat is modeled on National Geographic Magazine design, with superb photography taking the reader to the heart of the matter. The "Bulletins" format offers easy-to-read reports from scientific and environmental frontiers. Global warming is defined in a manageable way, evidence is examined, and consequences are projected. The text explores both global and local approaches to climate change, with personal accounts and real-life stories. The book also includes a quiz and tips on how to calculate and reduce your personal carbon footprint.

Award-winning author Marfé Ferguson Delano combines beautiful writing, scientific explanation, and long experience of the National Geographic Society to produce an outstanding environmental book for children. This is a landmark work to educate, entertain, and most of all, inspire the next generation of the Earth’s custodians.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Ningyu Wu]

This book is talk about the geography of the earth. the earth have lots of wonderful things like the energy, plant, animal, mountain lots of things. This book is tell me all of those things. First, we talk about the natural disaster, the natural disaster is too many tree like flood, fire disaster, Wind disaster,
earthquake, lots of things about the natural disaster. The natural disaster is the disaster made by the earth, it can broken the house or broken any things It causes significant losses to human economic property. The second one is the plant and the animal, this things is very normal it can be in the ocean it can be in the forest it can be in the sky it can be in the mountains. the plant and animal is same with the people they all need the cell to made and they all have the original, but they have the different too, like the animal have three types the Carnivore, Herbivore and Sperm animal. the people is Sperm animal. The tigers, lion, cougars all is Carnivore. The cow, chicken, sheep all is the Herbivore
. The Herbivore is mean the animal is any eat the plant. The Carnivore is mean the animal is any eat the meat. The Sperm animal is mean the animal is eat plant and the meat.This book is powerful because it let me konw the earth.

[Ellie H · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was pretty good. It had a lot of information on climate change and global warming. It is not a sixth grade level book, but maybe a fifth or fourth grade level book. There are many images with captions that help you understand or get an image of what they are talking about. There is no glossary however, so if you come upon challenging words, you will need to look them up. I will rate this book three stars because it was not my favorite, but it was not bad either.

[Cindy Dobrez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whether or not you believe in the threat of global warming, this book will inspire you to do what you can to take better care of our one and only home. Earth in the Hot Seat is slim but powerfully written in a style that speaks straight to the reader and encourages action. Unplug those vampire appliances? Huh? Those are the ones that keep sucking up energy even when they are not in use. Five chapters first detail the signs and science behind the climate changes we are experiencing and then move to offering solutions and encouraging action from each of us. The chapters are separated by an attractive and informative "bulletins" double page spread that includes fact boxes, an interview with an environmental activist or scientist, and a thermometer chart that gets hotter as the book progresses and lists the impact on our planet from each rising degree. If your carbon footprint is as large as mine is, here's a first step to making a difference: read this book!

[Kristin R · Rating 4 out of 5]

Try this new non-fiction book to learn about our Earth, global warming and how this is effecting our environment. These changes may seem small, but they are having a huge impact. You can also learn what small things you can do every day to help. This is well written with beautiful photographs and a bibliography for other topical books.

[Jacqueline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! This belongs in every school and public library. Should inspire young readers to become scientists and search for clean fuel alternatives.