Global Warming

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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Flight Behavior
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
State of Fear
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

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