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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning ... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change by Wally Broecker Publisher Comments Wally Broecker is one of the world's leading authorities on abrupt global climate change. More than two decades ago, he discovered the link between ocean circulation and climate change, in particular how shutdowns of the Great Ocean Conveyor--the vast... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future by Climate Central Publisher Comments Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Climate Change Impacts on the United States - Overview Report: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change by Nast Publisher Comments This Assessment has involved thousands of Americans in an ongoing national dialogue about climate change and its impacts.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point by Subhankar Banerjee Publisher Comments "One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has... (read more) Your price: $35.95 New - Hardcover
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Very Short Introductions #118: Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Maslin Publisher Comments An accessible and authoritative introduction to global warming, covering all its implications in terms of health, agriculture, and natural disasters.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager Publisher Comments We are living at the dawn of the Age of Humans, but how long that age will last and how extreme its changes will be have yet to be determined. And it will be the lifestyle choices we make in this century that will affect that future more than those... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming by Hans-werner Sinn Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Climate & History: Studies in Past Climates & Their Impact on Man by T M Wigley Publisher Comments This highly successful book is a collection of twenty papers, specially written by research workers in the many relevant disciplines. First published in 1985, it was the first major survey of both the methodology of climatic reconstruction and the... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy W. Spencer Synopsis The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore Publisher Comments Re-released on the heels of Al Gores #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth, comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller, Earth in the Balance. First published in 1992, it helped place the environment on the national agenda; now... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Coming Climate Crisis?: Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix by Claire Parkinson Synopsis Respected NASA climatologist Claire Parkinson brings much-needed balance and perspective to the highly contentious issue of climate change. Offering a knowledgeable overview of global warming, the author lays out a compelling argument that our... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot Publisher Comments “A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people.”—Naomi Klein “The most powerful treatise yet on the gravity of global warming. . . . I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change.”—The... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development by Richard Stewart Publisher Comments Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming... (09 Edition) by Plimer Synopsis In this controversial new book Australia's leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate--and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and Earth engagingly and comprehensively synthesizes what... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Politically Incorrect Guides) by Christopher C. Horner Publisher Comments This latest installment in the P.I.G. series provides a provocative, entertaining, and well-documented expose of some of the most shamelessly politicized pseudo-science we are likely to see in our relatively cool lifetimes.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (New York Times Book) by Andrew Revkin Publisher Comments Now in paperback, current events get in-depth treatment in this exciting series produced in collaboration with the New York Times. First-person narratives world-renowned newspaper's award-winning journalists tell the stories behind headlines. Beginning... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps by Peter D. Ward Publisher Comments No matter what efforts we make to halt global warming, sea level rise will be an unavoidable part of our future. In The Flooded Earth, species extinction expert Peter D. Ward describes in intricate detail what our world will look like in 2050, 2100, 2300,... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris Mooney Publisher Comments "Storm World . . . skillfully anatomizes the scientific and political debate over hurricanes and global warming . . . Mooney convincingly portrays that debate as a classic paradigm shift in progress."Washington Post Are hurricanes increasing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.24 Used - Trade Paper
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