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HISTORY / BACKGROUND
Changing climate [map]
National Geographic Society, 2007.
Climate change in the 21st century
Stewart J. Cohen with Melissa W. Waddell, 2009.
[The] complete Ice Age: how climate change shaped the world
Brian Fagan, ed., 2009.
Earth under fire: how global warming is changing the world
Gary Braasch, 2007.
Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change
Elizabeth Kolbert, 2006.
Global warming: understanding the forecast
David Archer, 2007.
Global warming in the 21st century
Vols 1-3, Bruce E. Johansen, 2006.
[The] long thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate
David Archer, 2009.
Under a green sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future
Peter D. Ward, 2007.
[The] weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth
Tim Flannery, 2005
[The] world system and the Earth system: global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic

Alf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, eds., 2007
EFFECTS on NATURE
Climate and ecosystems
David Schimel, 2013.
Climate change and biodiversity
Thomas E. Lovejoy & Lee Hannah, eds., 2005.
[The] flooded earth: our future in a world without ice caps
Peter D. Ward, 2010.
Forecast: the consequences of climate change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley
Stephan Faris, 2009.
Heatstroke: nature in an age of global warming
Anthony D. Barnosky, 2009.
On thin ice: the changing world of the polar bear
Richard Ellis, 2009.
[A] world without ice

Henry Pollack, 2009
SOLUTIONS
Cool cuisine: taking the bite out of global warming
Laura F. Stec with Eugene C. Cordero, 2008.
Degrees that matter: climate change and the university
Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton, 2007.
Down to the wire: confronting climate collapse
David W. Orr, 2009.
Earth, the sequel: the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming
Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, 2008.
[The] ethics of climate change: right and wrong in a warming world
James Garvey, 2009.
Global warming and the political ecology of health: emerging crises and systemic solutions
Hans A. Baer and Merrill Singer, 2009.
Heat: how to stop the planet from burning
George Monbiot, 2007.
[The] hot topic : what we can do about global warming
Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King, 2008.
How to cool the planet: geoengineering and the audacious quest to fix Earth's climate
Jeff Goodell, 2010.
[An] inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
Al Gore, 2006.
Our choice: a plan to solve the climate crisis
Al Gore, 2009.

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