In kid - friendly language, the authors incorporate the work of nearly forty - five scientists into easily - understood reads, ranging from Dr. Camille Parmesan's information on the Edith's checkerspot butterfly, to Dr. Lloyd Keigwin, who studies
ancient ocean mud cores.
These clues include the earlier spring arrivals of migrating birds, earlier blooming of wildflowers and Washington DC's cherry trees, melting glaciers and icecaps, micro-fossils from cores of
mud from the
ocean floor, and bubbles of
ancient air retrieved from cores of glacial ice.