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Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming
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Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming
by Eban Goodstein

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A call for political action to save the natural world. The central idea in Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction is simple: Unchecked, global warming threatens to destroy one of every two animals, birds, plants, reptiles, forests, fish and...
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Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past (MacMillan Science)
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Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past (MacMillan Science)
by Chris Turney

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Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea levels. This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline of a new Hollywood blockbuster but it’s actually what...
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A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
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A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
by William D Nordhaus

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As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues...
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High Tide: The Truth about Our Climate Crisis
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High Tide: The Truth about Our Climate Crisis
by Mark Lynas

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"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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The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet
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The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet
by Jonathan Harrington

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We live in a world of excess. We consume too much of everything-food, clothes, cars, bricks and mortar. Our bingeing is often so extreme that it threatens our own health and well being. And we are not the only ones who are getting sick. The Earth-which...
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What We Know about Climate Change (Boston Review Books)
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What We Know about Climate Change (Boston Review Books)
by Kerry Emanuel

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An introduction to the science of climate change and the scientific consensus on global warming: how higher levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will lead to increased power and intensity of hurricanes, more rapidly advancing deserts, and other...
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery

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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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Hell and High Water: Global Warming --  The Solution and the Politics -- And What We Should Do
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Hell and High Water: Global Warming -- The Solution and the Politics -- And What We Should Do
by Joseph J Romm

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Global warming is the story of the twenty-first century. It is the most serious issue facing the future of humankind, and American energy and environmental policy is driving the whole world down the path of global catastrophe. Hell and High Water is...
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The Rough Guide to Climate Change (Rough Guide to Climate Change)
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The Rough Guide to Climate Change (Rough Guide to Climate Change)
by Robert Henson

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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....
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Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You!
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Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You!
by Laurie David

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Time magazine has declared global warming a planetary emergency, adding to the calls of a huge chorus of scientists that there is only a little time left to save our planet. Stop Global Warming turns headlines into action, providing testimony of leading...
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
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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...
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The Heat is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription
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The Heat is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription
by Ross Gelbspan

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This book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the...
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Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
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Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
by Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index....
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Politically Incorrect Guides)
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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....
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The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World (New York Times Book)
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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

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Now in paperback, current events get in-depth treatment in this exciting series<BR>produced in collaboration with the New York Times. First-person narratives<BR>world-renowned newspaper's award-winning journalists tell the stories behind<...
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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
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Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
by Chris Mooney

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Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because of global warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalist Chris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on either side of this red-hot question through the 2006 hurricane...
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Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe
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Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe
by David (edt) Cromwell

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Climate change is a pressing reality. From hurricane Katrina to melting polar ice, and from mass extinctions to increased threats to food and water security, the link between corporate globalization and planetary blowback is becoming all too evident...
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Thin Ice : Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains (05 Edition)
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Thin Ice : Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains (05 Edition)
by Mark Bowen

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"One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."--Bill McKibben, "The New York Review of Books""<BR>"The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been...
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Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now!)
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Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World (Think Now!)
by James Garvey

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This book explores the philosophical implications of and for this hugely topical contemporary debate....
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Human Impacts on Weather and Climate
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Human Impacts on Weather and Climate
by William R Cotton

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Written for undergraduates, graduates in atmospheric and environmental science, this text examines impacts on the Earth's climate....
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