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  • Less Heat, More Light

    A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change

    by John D. Aber ...
    A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a systemClimate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientists have been driven to devise increasingly complex models of the climate system. This book ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    Less Heat, More Light

    A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change

    by John D. Aber ...
    Narrated by David Stifel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a systemClimate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scientists have been driven to devise increasingly complex models of the climate system. This book ... Read more

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    How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

    Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth’s atmosphere, is something we can easily ... Read more

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  • Firmament

    The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us

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    Compelling . . . Clark's enthusiasm shines through on every page' Sunday Times*'*An engaging and lively history' Financial Times__________A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different.In Firmament, atmospheric scientist and science communicator Simon Clark ... Read more

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  • What We Know About Climate Change, second edition

    by Kerry Emanuel ...
    A renowned climatologist—and political conservative—assesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific ... Read more

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  • The Physics of Climate Change

    “Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency. Here you’ll find the facts, the processes, the physics of our complex and changing climate, but delivered with eloquence and urgency. Lawrence Krauss writes with a clarity that transcends mere politics. Prose and poetry were never better bedfellows.” —Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Solar and ... Read more

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  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    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 how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

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  • How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate

    The book to spark action on the defining challenge of our time In our post-truth world, there's only one place to turn to if we want to live in reality: science. And the research on climate change is clear: It's real, it threatens us all, and human activity is the primary cause. This essential handbook dismantles all the most pernicious misunderstandings spread by deniers and replaces them with ... Read more

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  • Earth System Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tim Lenton ...
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    When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is ... Read more

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  • The Long Thaw

    How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate

    Why a warmer climate may be humanity’s longest-lasting legacyThe human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world’s leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever.If ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

    Everyone's Guide to The Science of Climate Change

    by Steven Earle ...
    "Give[s] . . . policymakers and concerned citizens a more thorough understanding of climate science and renewed conviction . . . on leaving fossil fuels behind." —Tom Green, Senior Climate Policy Advisor, David Suzuki FoundationA Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global ... Read more

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  • What Really Causes Global Warming?

    Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion?

    A thought-provoking look at the unsettled science of global warming—from a former volcanologist, geophysicist, and US Geological Survey scientist.Thousands of scientists are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that recent global warming is being caused by emissions of greenhouse gases and that we must act immediately to reduce these emissions or else we may render Earth unlivable for our ... Read more

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