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What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate by Greg Craven Publisher Comments 7.2 million YouTube viewers can't be wrong: A provocative new way to look at the global warming debate. Based on a series of viral videos that have garnered more than 7.2 million views, this visually appealing book gives readers-be they global warming... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Climate Change: Picturing the Science by Gavin Schmidt Publisher Comments Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before the ramifications of shifting climate. Photographic spreads show retreating glaciers, sinking villages... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World by Brian (edt) Fagan Publisher Comments Written by three distinguished experts and overseen by a leading historian of climate change, Brian Fagan, The Complete Ice Age reveals how climate fluctuated wildly between severe glacial periods and warmer intervals, how long-extinct creatures once... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate by Stephen H. Schneider Publisher Comments It's been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can't we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World by Gary Braasch Publisher Comments Award-winning photojournalist Braasch presents this illustrated guide to the effects of climate change on the Earth and its inhabitants. The accompanying text offers an upbeat and intelligent account of how to lessen the effects of our near total... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock Publisher Comments Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In Surviving Gaia’s Revenge, the eminent scientist James... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Antarctica 2041: My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness by Robert Swan Publisher Comments Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041--the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review--and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity. In... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas Publisher Comments In astonishing and unflinching detail, a noted science journalist explains how Earths climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in global warming--and what can be done about it now.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp Publisher Comments 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 a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming.And in doing so, we will... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change (Earthscan Readers) by Lisa Schipper Publisher Comments Climate change is now upon us. While mitigation is essential to reduce the future severity of climate change, it will take time and some effects will inevitably continue for centuries. Consequently, more attention is now also being directed to adaptation... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $30.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rough Guide To Climate Change 1 (2ND 08 Edition) by Robert Henson Publisher Comments The Rough Guide to Climate Change is a complete, unbiased guide to one of the most pressing problems facing humanity. From the current situation and back ground science to the government sceptics and possible solutions, this book covers the whole subject.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and a deeply (and often surprisingly) pragmatic road map toward sustainability... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change (Books to Build a New Society) by Guy Dauncey Publisher Comments At last - a book that puts proven solutions to global warming in the hands of ordinary citizens, communities, businesses, power utilities, and local and national governments.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Warming the Complete Briefing 3RD Edition by John T Houghton Publisher Comments The best briefing on global warming the student or interested general reader could wish for.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack Publisher Comments A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relationship between people and ice has received little focus-until now. As one of the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report by James Balog Publisher Comments Using both time-lapse and conventional photography as well as digital video, the Extreme Ice Survey is the most extensive visual study ever conducted to illustrate the catastrophic melting of glacial ice. The result is a dramatic and timely demonstration... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Slipcase
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The Rising Sea by Orrin Pilkey Publisher Comments On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming by Michael Mann Synopsis The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been issuing the essential facts and figures on climate change for nearly two decades. But the hundreds of pages of scientific evidence quoted for accuracy by the media and scientists alike, remain... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How To Counter It (08 Edition) by Wallace S. Broecker Publisher Comments The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award-winning science writer, Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the problem of global warming—and offers a possible solution. Hailed by his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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