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Our most widely respected environmental writer brings together the essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Readerprovides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert's groundbreaking essay "The Darkening Sea," Michael Crichton's skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot's biting indictment of those who are really using up the planet's resources, NASA scientist James Hansen's testimony before the U.S. Congress, and clarion calls for action by Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, and many others. The Global Warming Readeris a comprehensive resource, expertly edited by someone who lives and breathes this defining issue of our time.

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Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, and The Age of Missing Information. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as Outside, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books, and a former staff writer at the New Yorker.

Introduction	p. 9
Science
On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground	p. 19
The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature	p. 33
Carbon Dioxide Exchange between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO₂ during the Past Decades	p. 39
The Keeling Curve	p. 45
Statement of Dr. James Hansen	p. 47
Summary for Policymakers: The Science of Climate Change IPCC Working Group I	p. 55
The "Anthropocene"	p. 69
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change	p. 75
Target Atmospheric CO₂: Where Should Humanity Aim?	p. 81
Causes of the Russian Heat Wave and Pakistani Floods	p. 89
Politics
from Earth in the Balance	p. 97
"The Battle for Control of Reality" from The Heat Is On	p. 105
Remarks at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference	p. 127
"Is Your Stomach Too Full?" from Earth Odyssey	p. 135
The Science of Climate Change: Senate Floor Statement	p. 165
from State of Fear	p. 193
from An Inconvenient Truth	p. 209
from The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems	p. 211
Climate Generation:! The Evolution of the Energy Action Coalition's Strategy	p. 225
To Really Save the Planet, Stop Going Green	p. 233
Climate Rage	p. 239
This Is Fucked Up-It's Time to Get Mad, and Then Busy	p. 251
The Green Generation	p. 259
The Population Myth	p. 269
Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near	p. 275
Speech at Klimaforum	p. 285
Impact
from The End of Nature	p. 293
John 5:1-9	p. 299
Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action	p. 309
An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security	p. 319
"The Briefing" from Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers	p. 351
Images	p. 361
Climate Change and Agriculture	p. 365
Images	p. 373
The Darkening Sea: What Carbon Emissions Are Doing to the Ocean	p. 377
Nepal's Farmers on the Front Line of Global Climate Change	p. 401
References	p. 405
Index	p. 417
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The Global Warming Reader A Century of Writing About Climate Change

The Global Warming Reader A Century of Writing About Climate Change

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