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Books on climate change and global warming cover the science, the current and potential consequences for both the natural world and human civilization, and what can and should be done by individuals, by governments at all levels, and by businesses of all types and sizes.

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Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming. By Eban Goodstein. Focuses on our connections with all forms of life. Provides an overview of the current global warming crisis, and explores the question of whether the scale of mass extinction we are beginning to witness in the 21st century has more ominous implications for human welfare than it did in the 20th century. Argues that if we are to hold global heating to a manageable level, we must stabilize emissions of global warming pollutants and invest tens of billions of dollars every year in clean-energy technology. More... | Eban Goodstein EcoSpeakers Info >>

Wild Weather. By Reese Halter. Weather can be wild and it is getting wilder. Global warming has been linked to a myriad of natural catastrophes, and the race is on to change the ways in which we interact with our planet. In the next decade, we will experience the greatest technological advancements in alternative and sustainable energy generation ever witnessed, as we move beyond our reliance on fossil fuels and begin to harvest the sun, wind and other clean renewable sources of energy. Explains the causes of wild weather and global warming. More... | Reese Halter EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Climate Change and Society. By Raymond Bradley. Good short text to introduce climate change. A geographer and paleoclimatologist with extensive field experience, Bradley verifies human induced climate change and explains the science that drives his work. More… | Raymond Bradley EcoSpeakers Info >>

Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites. By Raymond Bradley. Provides a unique, in-depth view of past, present and potential future climatic change in mountain regions, and in particular on the mechanisms which are responsible for this change. More… | Raymond Bradley EcoSpeakers Info >>

Discover Nature in the Weather: Things to Know and Things to Do. By Tim Herd. Explores the Earth's weather and explains the various phenomena associated with it, from the continuous movement of water in the hydrologic cycle to dangerous funnel clouds that appear during a storm. Provides a practical and entertaining guide to understanding. More... | Tim Herd EcoSpeakers Info >>

Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change. By Jim Motavalli. From the thawing Arctic to the rising shoreline of Manhattan, people are feeling the effects of global warming in ways hardly imagined just a few years ago. Feeling the Heat takes readers to the hot spots where global warming is not just a scientific debate but a matter of survival. More... | Jim Motavalli EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Greenhouse Trap: What We're Doing to the Atmosphere and How We Can Slow Global Warming. By Francesca Lyman. Excellent primer what we're doing to the atmosphere and what we can do about it. Explains some of the technical issues. More... | Francesca Lyman EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future. By Raymond Bradley. The Hadley and Walker Circulations are fundamental regulators of the Earth's energy budget. This book reviews current knowledge of Hadley and Walker circulation dynamics and their interactions with the major global monsoon systems, and it evaluates paleoclimatic records that shed light on variability of climate over time. More… | Raymond Bradley EcoSpeakers Info >>

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction. By Terry Tamminen. A hard look at the health, environmental, and national security costs hidden in every barrel of oil. While the petroleum industry is raking in huge profits, it is studiously avoiding measures that would lessen the hazards of its products. Using the successful lawsuits by state governments against big tobacco as a model, the author sets forth a bold strategy to hold oil and auto companies accountable and force industry reform. He also offers a blueprint for developing alternative energy sources based on California's real world experiences. More… | Terry Tamminen EcoSpeakers Info >>

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future. By Raymond Bradley. Provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. The concentration is on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. More… | Raymond Bradley EcoSpeakers Info >>

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary. By Raymond Bradley. A thorough, well referenced text indispensable to anyone involved in the study of past and current climate change and modeling. More… | Raymond Bradley EcoSpeakers Info >>

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown. By David Steinman. Draws the connection between personal health and a healthy environment and argues both that global warming is a greater threat to national security than terrorism and that a "sound environmental policy" will enhance our standing in the world and strengthen our economy. More… | David Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>

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