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Cover of The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis

The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis

Owen R. Liu; Barbara Tinker (2015)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages ()
SeriesGalactic Academy of Science #
SettingGalactic Academy with focus on environmental science
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Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

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educationaltimelyengaging mysteryscientifically grounded

Tropes

academic SFscientific mysteryenvironmental themeEnsemble Cast

Themes

Environmentalismscientific collaborationeducationplanetary health

Synopsis

"Something strange is going on during Anita and Benson's field trip to a greenhouse. Their guide is making wild claims about carbon dioxide and their science teacher, Mr. Fazmel, has mysteriously disappeared. That's when Quarkum Phonon, a dude from the future, sends Anita and Benson on a Galactic Academy of Science mission to learn about the origins of climate change and the ways communities around the world are dealing with its impact. With stops around the world--from a Hawaiian volcano to Greenland and from Bangladesh to Kenya--Anita and Benson sift through the evidence for and impact of climate change. On their return home, the students face the question: what can a couple of kids do to address the problem of climate change?"--Page 4 of cover.