Climate Change and Global Warming
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Climate Solutions: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why: A Citizen's Guide (Chelsea Green Guides)
by Peter Barnes  Publisher Comments In 2006, NASA's top climate scientist warned that we have at most a decade to turn the tide on global warming. After that, James Hansen said, all bets are off. Temperature rises of 3 to 7 degrees Farenheit will "produce a different planet." If Hansen is...
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn 
Publisher Comments How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings...
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Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change
by William H. Calvin Publisher Comments Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there’s no question that...
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The Hot Topic: What We Can Do about Global Warming
by Gabrielle Walker Publisher Comments Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years
by S Fred Singer Synopsis In this New York Times bestseller, authors Singer and Avery present the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Using historic data from two millennia of recorded history combined with...
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore
Publisher Comments An Inconvenient Truth — Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance — is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of...
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjorn Lomborg Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered...
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Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth Ofglobal Warming
by Mark Bowen Publisher Comments From acclaimed writer and physicist Mark Bowen, Censoring Science tells the true story of the Bush administrations censorship of the worlds preeminent climatologist, and the science behind global warming that they do not want you to know. The facts dont...
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by William F. Ruddiman Publisher Comments The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new...
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas Publisher Comments Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High...
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
Powells.com Staff Pick Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Powells.com Staff Pick Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat--And How to Counter It
by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig Publisher Comments The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award winning science writer, Fixing Climatetakes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher...
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The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe
by Mayer Hillman Publisher Comments Praise for The Suicidal Planet "If anyone knows a better way to save the planet from runaway global warming, they better speak up."- Fred Pearce, author of When the Rivers Run Dry "Mayer Hillman . . . has come up with solutions that are hard to...
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
by Eugene Linden Publisher Comments The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the...
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Discovery of Global Warming (03 Edition)
by Spencer R. Weart Publisher Comments In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused...
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Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Its Likelihood, Character and Significance
by Michael Maccracken Publisher Comments While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are generally projected to be slow and smooth, there are increasing indications that the intensity and impacts of climate change on the environment and society could, at least...
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High Tide: The Truth about Our Climate Crisis
by Mark Lynas Publisher Comments "President Bush and his Administration have risen to the global warming challenge with responses ranging from obfuscation to pretense to outright denial...I'd like to issue each and every one of them a challenge. Come with me--see what I have seen--and...
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Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, New Edition (Science Encyclopedia)
by David Longshore Publisher Comments The science, history, and culture of tropical cyclones around the globe have evolved considerably since the award-winning first edition of Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones was published nearly 10 years ago. Improved forecasting...
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