Climate History

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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: 27-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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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: 18-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • An Untold History
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Peter Frankopan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 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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    • Reframings
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world....

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    • How Science Can Set Us Straight on Our Past, Present and Future
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • We have never had so much information at our fingertips, and yet most of us simply don't understand how our world really works. Professor Vaclav Smil is not a pessimist or an optimist, he is a scientist, and this book is a much-needed reality check on a wide range of topics....

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    • A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....

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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: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • How Degrowth Will Save the World
    • By: Jason Hickel
    • Narrated by: Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause....

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    • A History
    • By: Richard J. King
    • Narrated by: William Hope
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Richard King's enormously engaging and curious book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone....

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    • A Story of the Future
    • By: David Wallace-Wells
    • Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible....

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    • How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....

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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: 16-04-2024
    • 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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    • How the Ocean Shapes Our World
    • By: Helen Czerski
    • Narrated by: Helen Czerski
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet, physicist Helen Czerski dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine, examining the messengers, passengers and voyagers that live in it, travel over it, and survive because of it....

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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: 03-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
    • By: James Lovelock
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth....

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    • Exploring the Roof of the World
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Nick Holbek
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet....

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    • Is the Obsession with 'Climate Change' Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?
    • By: Christopher Booker
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This original audiobook considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history....

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    • Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies
    • By: Dougald Hine
    • Narrated by: Dougald Hine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is the book that grew out of Dougald’s attempt to answer that question....

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    • Political Engagement and Saving the Planet
    • By: Barry Jones
    • Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • What Is to Be Done is a long-awaited work from Jones on the challenges of modernity and what must be done to meet them....

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