- Geology (121)
Bestsellers
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Over-acting voice actors
- By John on 11-09-17
By: Carl Sagan
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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Two versions on Audible
- By stephiemav42 on 03-10-21
By: Erik Larson
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- By Russ on 05-08-21
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Category Five
- Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
- By: Porter Fox
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms.
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Boring
- By UM on 10-21-24
By: Porter Fox
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When the Ice Is Gone
- What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
- By: Paul Bierman
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Changes in Greenland reverberate around the world, with ice melting high in the arctic affecting people everywhere. Bierman explores how losing Greenland's ice will catalyze devastating events if we don't change course and address climate change now.
By: Paul Bierman
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- By: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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As time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson....
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Very important exposé of corporate greed.
- By Carl Howard on 02-09-18
By: Dick Russell, and others
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....
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Over-acting voice actors
- By John on 11-09-17
By: Carl Sagan
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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Two versions on Audible
- By stephiemav42 on 03-10-21
By: Erik Larson
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Excellent science based
- By Russ on 05-08-21
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Category Five
- Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
- By: Porter Fox
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms.
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Boring
- By UM on 10-21-24
By: Porter Fox
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When the Ice Is Gone
- What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
- By: Paul Bierman
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Changes in Greenland reverberate around the world, with ice melting high in the arctic affecting people everywhere. Bierman explores how losing Greenland's ice will catalyze devastating events if we don't change course and address climate change now.
By: Paul Bierman
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- By: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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As time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson....
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Very important exposé of corporate greed.
- By Carl Howard on 02-09-18
By: Dick Russell, and others
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Storms of My Grandchildren
- The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe
- By: James Hansen
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen - the nation's leading scientist on climate issues - speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming....
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This is a must read
- By Brad on 01-17-10
By: James Hansen
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College Level Meteorology
- By: AudioLearn Content Team
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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AudioLearn’s College Level Courses presents Meteorology. Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of meteorology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics....
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Works well as an audiobook
- By Kau on 08-16-21
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Our Fragile Moment
- How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
- By: Michael E. Mann
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course....
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.A listen for everyone.
- By Deborah Ulrich on 06-15-24
By: Michael E. Mann
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Climategate
- A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam
- By: Brian Sussman
- Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Notorious intercepted emails documenting scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years....
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Best climate change book so far!
- By Derek D B on 01-19-18
By: Brian Sussman
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The Weather Detective
- Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this first-ever English translation of The Weather Detective, Peter Wohlleben uses his long experience and deep love of nature to help decipher the weather and our local environments....
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Don't bother unless you live in the UK
- By Lucy Barnett on 02-25-19
By: Peter Wohlleben
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Reading the Glass
- A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
- By: Elliot Rappaport
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is crucial to the safety of vessels and their crews. In Reading the Glass, he offers a sailor’s-eye view of the moving parts of our atmosphere....
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Weather and Sailing!
- By T. Adams on 01-20-24
By: Elliot Rappaport
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- By: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared....
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Tim Samaras Would be Proud
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-18
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No Miracles Needed
- How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
- By: Mark Z. Jacobson
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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Find out what you can do to improve the health, climate, and economic state of our planet. Together, we can solve the climate crisis, eliminate air pollution, and safely secure energy supplies for everyone....
By: Mark Z. Jacobson
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Origins
- How Earth's History Shaped Human History
- By: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- By aaron on 08-02-20
By: Lewis Dartnell
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Unsettled, Updated and Expanded Edition
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- By: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.
By: Steven E. Koonin
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Weather 101
- From Doppler Radar and Long-Range Forecasts to the Polar Vortex and Climate Change, Everything You Need to Know About the Study of Weather
- By: Kathleen Sears
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Learn the science behind weather and weather prediction in this clear and straightforward new guide....
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Entertaining but lightweight
- By PME on 09-28-17
By: Kathleen Sears
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We Are the Weather
- By: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity....
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Disappointing
- By Max Dennison on 12-09-19
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Tambora
- The Eruption That Changed the World
- By: Gillen D'Arcy Wood
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years....
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An unexpected pleasure
- By Anonymous User on 09-04-16
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18 Miles
- The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
- By: Christopher Dewdney
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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18 Miles is a kaleidoscopic and fact-filled journey that uncovers our obsession with the atmosphere and weather - as both evocative metaphor and physical reality. Chris Dewdney entertains as he gives listeners a long overdue look at the very air we breathe....
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10% science, 90% other stuff
- By Daniel W. Fox, Jr. on 10-09-20
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Weather for Dummies (2nd Edition)
- By: John D. Cox
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Look up! When you look to the sky, do you wonder why the sun is so bright or why the clouds are white or why the sky is blue? Then Weather for Dummies is your resource to fuel your curiosity about the weather....
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Wasn't crazy about it.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-24
By: John D. Cox
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Climate Change
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Mark Maslin
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This Very Short Introduction audiobooks draws on the very latest science from the 2021 IPCC Report, examining the evidence that climate change is already happening and discussing its potential catastrophic impacts in the future....
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Ehh
- By Samuel Mebane on 09-19-24
By: Mark Maslin
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Global Warming
- The Great Deception
- By: Guy K. Mitchell Jr.
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do the UN and certain politicians in the US and Western Europe continue to promote the fraudulent global warming hypothesis? With regards to the UN, it is all about the money—money for research and to affect socio-economic change....
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fact based assessment of hoax
- By Preston T on 01-24-24
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Rain
- A Natural and Cultural History
- By: Cynthia Barnett
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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A natural history of rain, told through a lyrical blend of science, cultural history, and human drama....
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Mostly a cultural history
- By serine on 02-10-16
By: Cynthia Barnett
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A breakout best seller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara....
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Good book but unpracticed, disjointed narration.
- By Paul on 09-12-10
By: Brian Fagan
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
- Man, Nature, and Climate Change
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to irreversibly change our climate....
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Very well done!
- By Danny J. Lesandrini on 04-21-06
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The Weather Machine
- A Journey Inside the Forecast
- By: Andrew Blum
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet....
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Overall boring
- By Anonymous User on 08-03-20
By: Andrew Blum
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The Madhouse Effect
- How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
- By: Michael E. Mann, Tom Toles
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism....
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Great Information
- By Joe on 01-31-20
By: Michael E. Mann, and others
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The Little Ice Age
- How Climate Made History 1300-1850
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming....
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Good but…
- By lucastoli on 07-14-22
By: Brian Fagan
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Hot Talk, Cold Science (Third Edition)
- Global Warming's Unfinished Debate
- By: S. Fred Singer
- Narrated by: Axel Bosley
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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The revised and expanded third edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science forms the capstone of the distinguished astrophysicist Dr. S. Fred Singer’s lucid, yet hard scientific look at climate change. And the book is no less explosive than its predecessors—and certainly never more timely.
By: S. Fred Singer