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List of books and articles about global warming online. The book summarizes pertinent aspects of geology, earth science, and climate science in easytoread terms. Indeed, we are interested in listing books from other parts of the world on climate change and global warming solutions, based on sound science especially if they are available. The real global warming disaster by christopher booker. Three free ebooks on global warming and climate change. Lead authors brief biographies for the four lead authors of climate change reconsidered ii. This ebook is written to show the many ways we can reduce our wasteful outputs and contains lots of practical advice. This is a calamity of unprecedented proportions and a point of no return for the industrial civilization.
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