By James E. Hayford “Jim Hayford” (Virginia Beach, VA) –
  

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This review is from: The Earth’s Weather: Changing Patterns and Systems (Earth’s Processes) (Paperback)

As a retired Navy pilot, I thought I would “brush-up” on how the world’s weather systems had changed since I had stopped flying in 1980, so I chose the book based on it’s title. It is written for a grade-school student and not a high-school graduate or beyond. Chapters include; What is weather?, What is an air mass?, What creates weather?, and What is hazardous weather?. Nothing about the world’s weather patterns such as monsoon regions, micro-bursts, and etc. Very disappointing, Jim in Virginia BeachThe Earth’s Weather: Changing Patterns and Systems (Earth’s Processes)

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“May 19, 2008: The National Academies have released the 2008 edition of “Understanding and Responding to Climate Change,” a free booklet designed to give the public a comprehensive and easy-to-read analysis of findings and recommendations from our reports on climate change.”

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change_2008_final.pdf <== here's a good description.
http://www.funnyweather.org/ <== this is a more lighthearted link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect <== and one with too much detail.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10125 <== Michael Oppenheimer, a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change and professor at Princeton

http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/global-warming-history.htm <== btw this is not a new idea.
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/ <== why was 1998 hot?

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/perspectives.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/ <== not regulated by the government.
http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/change.htm <== good article, and temp graphs.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105692
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111511

http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=86846
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/climate.html
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/earth_temp.html
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsUSClimateActionReport.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070202-global-warming.html
http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4085

http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/

I suggest you take the other side, and do some number-running. For the essay you could walk the reader through the process and the logic.

If you take the weight of the atmosphere, (about 14.6 pounds per square inch of the earth) and divide it by the population of the earth.

You get 830,000 tons of atmosphere per person. As a goodly percentage of the people in the earth have a difficult time heating the air within their home, is it plausible that the population of the earth could warm the entire atmosphere?