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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America
by Thomas Friedman
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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)

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The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
by Wally Broecker
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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)

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Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
by Climate Central
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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)

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Climate Change Impacts on the United States - Overview Report: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
Climate Change Impacts on the United States - Overview Report: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
by Nast
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This Assessment has involved thousands of Americans in an ongoing national dialogue about climate change and its impacts.... (read more)

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Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point
Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point
by Subhankar Banerjee
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"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)

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Very Short Introductions #118: Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions #118: Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
by Mark Maslin
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An accessible and authoritative introduction to global warming, covering all its implications in terms of health, agriculture, and natural disasters.... (read more)

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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
by Curt Stager
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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)

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The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
by Hans-werner Sinn
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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)

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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
by Eugene Linden
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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)

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Climate & History: Studies in Past Climates & Their Impact on Man
Climate & History: Studies in Past Climates & Their Impact on Man
by T M Wigley
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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)

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The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists
The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists
by Roy W. Spencer
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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)

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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by Al Gore
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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)

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Coming Climate Crisis?: Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix
Coming Climate Crisis?: Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix
by Claire Parkinson
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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)

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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
by George Monbiot
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“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)

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Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development
Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development
by Richard Stewart
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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)

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Heaven and Earth: Global Warming... (09 Edition)
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming... (09 Edition)
by Plimer
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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)

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Politically Incorrect Guides)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Politically Incorrect Guides)
by Christopher C. Horner
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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)

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The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (New York Times Book)
The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (New York Times Book)
by Andrew Revkin
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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)

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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps
The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps
by Peter D. Ward
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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)

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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
by Chris Mooney
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"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)

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