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This book is an unorthodox groundbreaking scientific study on natural climate change and its contribution to ongoing multi-centennial global warming.
The book critically reviews the effect of the following on climate:
-Milankovitch cycles
-abrupt glacial (Dansgaard-Oeschger) events
-Holocene climate variability
-the 1500-year cycle
-solar activity
-volcanic eruptions
-greenhouse gases
-energy transport
Applying the scientific method to available evidence...
2) Climate Change: An Archaeological Study: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Responded to Global Warming
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How prehistoric humans coped with the end of the last Ice Age-and catastrophic global warming.
Global warming is among the most urgent problems facing the world today. Yet many commentators, and even some scientists, discuss it with reference only to the changing climate of the last century or so. John Grainger takes a longer view and draws on the archaeological evidence to show how our ancestors faced up to the ending of the last Ice Age, arguably...
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The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary trajectory of human society in a way that will preserve the planet and improve the human condition. The book's thesis is that the inevitability of change is driven by resolution of energy gradients through the operation of two fundamental laws of nature: The Principle...
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As temperatures rise, declines in agricultural production and freshwater supply will diminish US carrying capacity by 2/3, and rising sea levels will impact the country's most densely populated regions. A frightening survey of what's to come, American Exodus argues that mankind can survive the coming century of climate chaos if we act quickly to preserve our shelter of last resort.
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