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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850

by Brian M. Fagan

"< The Little Ice Age > could do for the historical study of climate what Michel Foucault's classic Madness and Civilization did for the historical study of mental illness: make it a respectable subject for scholarly inquiry." -- Scientific American . The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate... (more)

The Revenge of Gaia

Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity

by James Lovelock

The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living superorganism, regulating its internal environment much as an animal regulates its body temperature. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a ... (more)

Ice Age (Penguin Press Science S.)John and Mary Gribbin

Ice Age (Penguin Press Science S.)

by John and Mary Gribbin

The Theory That Came In From The Cold.

Atmosphere and Weather (Weather and Climate)

Atmosphere and Weather (Weather and Climate)

Weather and Climate is a brand new series that explores what causes our weather - why the world's weather is constantly changing, why different countries have different weather patterns, how meteorologists forecast weather and the effect the weather has on our lives. Atmosphere and Weather looks at the importance of weather in everyday life. It explains the role of the Sun in the Earth's weather, where wind comes... (more)

DK Eyewitness Guides: Weather (DK Eyewitness Guides)

DK Eyewitness Guides: Weather (DK Eyewitness Guides)

by Brian Cosgrove

Be an eyewitness to how the weather works - from how clouds form and why it rains, to what causes a ferocious hurricane or a roaring tornado that strikes without warning. Also see a machine that measures the wind and find out why the climate may change in the future.

We Are the Weather Makers

by Tim Flannery

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

by Brian M. Fagan

How the earth’s previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara—a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide—a preview of today’s global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe,... (more)

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

by Richard B. Alley

Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Here Alley offers the first popular account of the wildly fluctuating... (more)

Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

by Brian M. Fagan

In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Niños ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered through a record freeze as the American West was hit with massive floods and snowstorms; in the western Pacific, meanwhile, some island nations literally went bone dry and had to have water flown in on transport planes.Such effects are not new: climatologists now know the El Niño... (more)

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

by Tim F. Flannery

Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on record, and one of the worst storm seasons ever experienced in Florida. With one out of every five living things on this planet... (more)

Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston

Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston

by Isaac Monroe Cline, Erik Larson

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what... (more)

The Lorax

by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Illus. in full color. "The big, colorful pictures and the fun images, word plays and rhymes make this an amusing exposition of the ecology crisis."-- School Library Journal.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker , for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going... (more)

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Leading researchers discuss what is now known about the effects of climate change on the natural world. They examine recent trends in and projections about climate change; ways that particular organisms are responding to climate change; conservation challenges, including social and policy issues; and more. "This book will be a milestone in the emerging discipline of climate change biology. No issue is more... (more)

Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (8th Edition)

Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (8th Edition)

by Tom L. McKnight, Darrel Hess

For introductory Physical Geography courses. The only text to focus thematically on landscape appreciation, this best-seller fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. Its clear, user-friendly writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy appeal to a wide variety of students. This edition includes the newly revised and expanded Student Animations CD that helps students... (more)

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

by Brian M. Fagan

Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer , Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows... (more)

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media

by Patrick J. Michaels

Why is news about global warming always bad? Why do scientists so often offer dire predictions about the future of the environment? In Meltdown, climatologist Patrick J. Michaels says it’s only natural. He argues that the way we do science today—when issues compete with each other for monopoly funding by the federal government—creates a culture of exaggeration and a political community that then takes credit for... (more)

Anasazi America: 17 Centuries on the Road from Center Place

Anasazi America: 17 Centuries on the Road from Center Place

by David E. Stuart

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100 spectacular towns integrated the region through economic and religious ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads. It took... (more)

Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future

Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future

by John D. Cox

As scientists carefully search for clues in the sun and storm patterns from our distant past, they are gradually writing a new history of Earth's climate. It is now apparent that alterations in our climate can happen quickly and dramatically. Physical evidence reveals that centuries of slow, creeping climate variations have actually been punctuated by far more rapid changes. While this new paradigm represents a... (more)

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

by W. F. Ruddiman

The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new book argues that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a result of the earlier discovery of agriculture. The "Ruddiman Hypothesis"... (more)

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by Brian M. Fagan

Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity

by James Lovelock

by John and Mary Gribbin

by Brian Cosgrove

by Tim Flannery

by Brian M. Fagan

by Richard B. Alley

by Brian M. Fagan

by Tim F. Flannery

by Isaac Monroe Cline, Erik Larson

by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

by Elizabeth Kolbert

by Tom L. McKnight, Darrel Hess

by Brian M. Fagan

by Patrick J. Michaels

by David E. Stuart

by John D. Cox

by W. F. Ruddiman