Climate History

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    • How a Changing Climate Drove Human Evolution and the Rise of Civilization
    • By: Francis Chapelle
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Moreland
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Human history mirrors the history of climate change. Human origins, for example, can be traced to five million years ago when the climate of East Africa became progressively hotter and drier. This caused the lush tropical jungles to disappear and be replaced by arid plains and savannahs....

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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand....

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    • A History of An Idea
    • By: David N. Livingstone
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • A panoramic work of scholarship, The Empire of Climate maps the tangled histories of an idea that has haunted our collective imagination for centuries, shedding critical light on the notion that everything from the wealth of nations to the human mind itself is subject to climate's imperial rule.

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    • Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change
    • By: Steven Earle
    • Narrated by: Mike Puttonen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and much more dangerous....

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    • Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history....

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    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • How Climate Changed Civilization
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do....

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    • Inside the World of Spring Migration
    • By: Kenn Kaufman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers. One such place is along Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
    • By: Christopher Dewdney
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • 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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    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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    • How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
    • By: Philipp Blom
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe....

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    • Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
    • By: Adam Welz
    • Narrated by: Jason Keller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth, The End of Eden explores climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
    • By: Mary Robinson, Caitríona Palmer - with
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Climate Justice is an urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward....

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    • By: Andri Snær Magnason, Lytton Smith - translator
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Based on interviews and advice from leading glacial, ocean, climate, and geographical scientists, and interwoven with personal, historical, and mythological stories, this book is a rich and compelling work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change....

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    • Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
    • By: Lee McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 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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    • Reflections on Patriotism
    • By: Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner
    • Narrated by: Dan Rather
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,261 ratings
    • In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist Dan Rather celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like....

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