Elvir Malikic Andrew Hutton Professor Sperry English 1101 Fall 2010 19 November 2010

Annotative Bibliography

Houghton, J. T. Global Warming: the Complete Briefing. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Describes how climate changes will accelerates the spread of disease primarily because warmer global temperatures enlarge the geographic range in which disease carrying animals, insects and microorganisms as well as the germs and viruses they carry can survive. Analysts believe that, as a result of global temperature rises, diseases that were previously limited only to tropical areas may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas. Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality : the Erring Ways of Climatology. Berlin: Springer, 2005. Discusses how a warmer climates heat up ocean waters, and how warm ocean water fuel hurricanes. Also Scientists have long predicted that global warming will lead to more intense storms. As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes as we saw in this in 2004 and 2005.

Long, Douglas. Global Warming. New York: Facts on File, 2004. States that the melting ice caps will throw the global ecosystem out of balance. The ice caps are fresh water, and when they melt they will desalinate the ocean. The desalinization of the gulf current will disrupt ocean currents, which regulate temperatures. The stream shutdown or irregularity would cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Roleff, Tamara L.. Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.Discusses how some areas of Earth will become wetter due to global warming, other areas will suffer serious droughts and heat waves. Africa will receive the worst of it, with more severe droughts also expected in Europe. Water is already a dangerously rare commodity in Africa, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming will exacerbate the conditions.