Climate History

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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 45 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 14 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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    • 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 252 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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    • 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 46 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 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 out of 5 stars 20 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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    • A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
    • By: James Morton Turner
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition.

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

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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 35 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 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 36 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 We Got Here
    • By: Michael Cook
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
    • By: Adam Welz
    • Narrated by: Jason Keller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth, The End of Eden explores climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems....

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    • The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
    • By: Christopher Dewdney
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • 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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    • A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
    • By: Annie Proulx
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change....

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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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    • A New Story
    • By: Charles Eisenstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction....

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    • Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age
    • By: Akshat Rathi
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity.

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