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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    • 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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    • 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 52 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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    • 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 406 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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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 265 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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    • 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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    • A View from the Future
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
    • Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Paul B. Wignall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing rat....

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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 55 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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    • 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 38 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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    • 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 17 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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    • How We Got Here
    • By: Michael Cook
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • What truths lie in the black void between the stars? It’s late September 2019 when a young astronomer working at the Haleakala Space Observatory ...

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    • In Search of Future Fossils
    • By: David Farrier
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • What will the world look like in 10,000 years - or 10 million? What kinds of stories will be told about us? In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future....

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    • 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story....

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    • Essays on War and Climate Change
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation....

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    • The History of the Earth’s Drastic Climate Change at the End of the Pleistocene Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Steve Knupp
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-25
    • Language: English
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    • As a basic definition, it may be said that an Ice Age is simply a period of time during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. These sheets have advanced and retreated, at times taking over the entire planet, and conversely disappearing nearly altogether.

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    • How Earth's History Shaped Human History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 609 ratings
    • 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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    • The World Shaped by Us
    • By: Diane Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet....

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