- Geology (96)
Best sellers
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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 Seph 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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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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What We Know About Climate Change: Updated with a new foreword by Bob Inglis (The MIT Press)
- By: Kerry Emanuel, Bob Inglis - foreword
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is an updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action. The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - most dramatically since the 1970s....
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science explained in basic terms
- By Amazon Customer on 01-04-19
By: Kerry Emanuel, and others
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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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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 Seph 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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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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What We Know About Climate Change: Updated with a new foreword by Bob Inglis (The MIT Press)
- By: Kerry Emanuel, Bob Inglis - foreword
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is an updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action. The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - most dramatically since the 1970s....
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science explained in basic terms
- By Amazon Customer on 01-04-19
By: Kerry Emanuel, and others
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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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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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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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Firmament
- The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
- By: Simon Clark
- Narrated by: Simon Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different....
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I wish all my teachers taught like this
- By Tower on 01-21-23
By: Simon Clark
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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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High Tide on Main Street
- Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
- By: John Englander
- Narrated by: John Englander
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Rising sea level is the most profound long-term aspect of climate change. Yet, the public is almost completely unaware of the magnitude of the problem....
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Informative and Helpful
- By Steven Byrd on 05-02-22
By: John Englander
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The Secret World of Weather
- How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Narrated by: Tristan Gooley
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A new way of understanding and predicting the weather by reconnecting with forgotten skills of close observation, deciphering how weather works not by the forecast but through interpreting the action of wind, cloud, fog, temperature, rain, and many other phenomena....
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Magical mystery tour
- By Amazon Customer on 01-07-23
By: Tristan Gooley
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Dragons in the Snow
- Avalanche Detectives and the Race to Beat Death in the Mountains
- By: Ed Power
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Power sets the listener down in the midst of a February 2017 blizzard that raked Utah's Uinta Range as nine snowboarders made their way into the backcountry for a day of intense adventure....
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It was an okay listen
- By Adriana on 05-27-22
By: Ed Power
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The Year Without Summer
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Good audiobook to fall asleep to
- By Ellen NB on 02-24-20
By: William K. Klingaman, and others
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Dark Winter
- How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell
- By: John L. Casey
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing....
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Global Warming Is A Hoax
- By Catamount on 11-20-17
By: John L. Casey
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Great information on the models, lacking on observational data
- By Kevin on 08-03-19
By: Andrew Blum
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The Real Global Warming Disaster
- Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
- By: Christopher Booker
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history....
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The message made my blood boil
- By George on 10-14-14
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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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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....
By: John D. Cox
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Perfect audio experience!
- By Gerald Albertson on 12-30-22
By: Brian Fagan
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College Level Meteorology
- By: AudioLearn Content Team
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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Climate Chaos
- Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
- By: Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A 30,000-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive....
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Interesting information but a little hard to get through
- By Joan on 01-24-23
By: Brian Fagan, and others
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A Brief History of the Earth's Climate
- Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change
- By: Steven Earle
- Narrated by: Mike Puttonen
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Great scientific explanation
- By yogi on 09-14-22
By: Steven Earle
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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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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- By: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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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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Whole Earth Discipline
- An Ecopragmatist Mainfesto
- By: Stewart Brand
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Stewart Brand (afterword)
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet....
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This book is incredible
- By cuban_merch87 on 11-03-16
By: Stewart Brand
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Land of Wondrous Cold
- The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
- By: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the 19th century to modern scientific breakthroughs....
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very good
- By Sib M on 02-17-22
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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
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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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Eaarth
- Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 9 hrs
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Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back—on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down....
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You'll get by with a lot of help from your friends
- By David on 02-10-11
By: Bill McKibben