Global Warming

Global warming is a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants ...more

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Flight Behavior
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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
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Solar
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

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