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 51 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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    • 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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    • 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 264 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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    • 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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    • 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 34 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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    • 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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    • An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
    • By: Jon Gertner
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory....

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    • How Scientists Found the Connections between Climate and Life
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.

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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 We Got Here
    • By: Michael Cook
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 36 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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    • How Climate Made History 1300-1850
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 105 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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