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There is unequivocal evidence that fossil fuels are thickening the Earth?s atmosphere and warming the planet. Typically, the issue of climate change in the international political arena has been clouded partly by unitary greed, but primarily by an anachronistic viewpoint associating wealth and political power with fossil fuel industrialization. However, history has shown that a state’s international political power is correlated to their ecological infra… More >>
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Planet Earth is warming faster now than at any other time in the past 1,000 years, and global warming may be the greatest threat to ever face humanity. Counteracting it is our greatest challenge. Mark Maslin explains what global warming is and presents incontrovertible evidence that it is really happening. He examines the impact that climate change will have on health, agriculture, water resources, coastal regions, forests, and wildlife. He also looks at the effor… More >>
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Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because of global warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalist Chris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on either side of this red-hot question through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already an intense scientific debate. In this fascinating and urgently important book, Mooney—a na… More >>
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