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
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
State of Fear
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
Solar
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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