12 Best Global Warming & Climate Change Books
Global Warming & Climate Change is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Global Warming & Climate Change audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Global Warming & Climate Change audiobooks below.
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Hothouse Earth
- By: Bill McGuire
- Narrator: Mike Cooper
- Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 09, 2022
- Language: English
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4.37(226 ratings)
4.37(226 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“Providing a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide acknowledges that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5degC dangerous climate-change guardrail. The upshot is“Providing a post-COP26 perspective on the climate emergency, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide acknowledges that it is now practically impossible to keep this side of the 1.5degC dangerous climate-change guardrail. The upshot is that we can no longer dodge the arrival of a disastrous, all-pervasive climate breakdown that will come as a hammer blow to global society and economy. Bill McGuire, Professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards, explains the science behind the climate crisis, painting a blunt but authentic picture of the sort of world our children will grow old in, and our grandchildren grow up in, a world that we catch only glimpses of in today’s blistering heatwaves, calamitous wildfires, and ruinous floods and droughts. Bleak though it is, the picture is one we must all face up to, if only to spur genuine action–even at this late stage–to stop a harrowing future from becoming a truly cataclysmic one.”
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A Christian’s Guide to Planet Earth
- By: Betsy Painter
- Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.3(20 ratings)
4.3(20 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDFrom conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian’s Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as practical, biblical ways we can careFrom conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian’s Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as practical, biblical ways we can care for the magnificent creation around us.
Drawing on science and Scripture, this hope-filled and accessible guide helps us navigate questions about caring for and respecting God’s world. With a focus on real-life solutions, this book explores answers to questions such as:
- What does the Bible say about food shortages, forests, and pollution?
- How can we make ethical choices about what we eat and what we wear?
- Why is reducing our carbon footprint a way of loving others?
- What do animals tell us about God’s design for the earth?
- What simple choices can we make to help recover God’s beauty in creation?
A Christian’s Guide to Planet Earth highlights the inherent grandeur of the natural world, stirring our hearts to care about the wild and wondrous things God has made. Each chapter concludes with practical tips on how to become better stewards of the Earth, including how to support efforts that make a positive difference in the world.
A Christian’s Guide to Planet Earth is ideal for:
- Anyone who wants to make a difference for the planet but doesn’t know where to start
- People interested in how stewardship of the water, air, land, and gardens relates to serving God and our neighbor
- Bible studies and church small groups
- Homeschooling families and networks
- Anyone who loves God’s beauty in nature
- People with questions about how changes to our earth affect the planet and our lives
Equal parts philosophical and practical, this guide provides us a deeper understanding of God’s love for His creation and the delightful, God-given privilege we have to enjoy it and care for it well.
Accompanying infographics are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Superpower
- By: Russell Gold
- Narrator: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.24(487 ratings)
4.24(487 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDMeet Michael Skelly, the man boldly harnessing wind energy that could power America’s future and break its fossil fuel dependence in this “essential, compelling look into the future of the nation’s power grid” (BryanMeet Michael Skelly, the man boldly harnessing wind energy that could power America’s future and break its fossil fuel dependence in this “essential, compelling look into the future of the nation’s power grid” (Bryan Burrough, author of The Big Rich).
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The United States is in the midst of an energy transition. We have fallen out of love with dirty fossil fuels and want to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar. A transition from a North American power grid that is powered mostly by fossil fuels to one that is predominantly clean is feasible, but it would require a massive building spree–wind turbines, solar panels, wires, and billions of dollars would be needed.
Enter Michael Skelly, an infrastructure builder who began working on wind energy in 2000 when many considered the industry a joke. Eight years later, Skelly helped build the second largest wind power company in the United States–and sold it for $2 billion. Wind energy was no longer funny–it was well on its way to powering more than 6% of electricity in the United States.
Award-winning journalist, Russel Gold tells Skelly’s story, which in many ways is the story of our nation’s evolving relationship with renewable energy. Gold illustrates how Skelly’s company, Clean Line Energy, conceived the idea for a new power grid that would allow sunlight where abundant to light up homes in the cloudy states thousands of miles away, and take wind from the Great Plains to keep air conditioners running in Atlanta. Thrilling, provocative, and important, Superpower is a fascinating look at America’s future. -
The Fate of Rome
- By: Kyle Harper
- Narrator: Kyle Harper
- Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 24, 2017
- Language: English
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4.22(1065 ratings)
4.22(1065 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first bookA sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power–a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague. A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered, endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit–in ways that are surprising and profound. Author bio: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425 and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
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On Fire
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrator: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.2(3196 ratings)
4.2(3196 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).
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An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism,” this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.
An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.
“Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.” –Greta Thunberg, climate activist
“If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies of Naomi Klein’s ‘On Fire’ and hand-deliver them to every eligible voter in America…Klein is a skilled writer.” –Jeff Goodell, The New York Times -
When Weather Changed the Course of History
- By: Caroline Winterer
- Narrator: Caroline Winterer
- Length: 54 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 27, 2021
- Language: English
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4(2 ratings)
4(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds ofOne Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Weather and climate have been shaping human history for thousands of years. Blizzards, hurricanes, droughts, dust storms, and floods: all of them have been turning points. Weather disasters seem so much bigger than we are, but they’re accurate barometers for telling us about what we value as human beings. This course will examine some of these major turning points (some of them based on controversial evidence!), from the ancient world, to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, to the Dust Bowl, to Hurricane Katrina. How have weather disasters shaped human history, and what can this tell us about how we think about climate change today? This audio lecture includes a supplemental PDF.
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Bicycling with Butterflies
- By: Sara Dykman
- Narrator: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 13, 2021
- Language: English
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3.91(882 ratings)
3.91(882 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDWinner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration–a round-trip adventure that included three countries and moreWinner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award
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Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration–a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets.
In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey. We’re beside her as she navigates unmapped roads in foreign countries, checks roadside milkweed for monarch eggs, and shares her passion with eager schoolchildren, skeptical bar patrons, and unimpressed border officials. We also meet some of the ardent monarch stewards who supported her efforts, from citizen scientists and researchers to farmers and high-rise city dwellers.
With both humor and humility, Dykman offers a compelling story, confirming the urgency of saving the threatened monarch migration–and the other threatened systems of nature that affect the survival of us all. -
The Star Builders
- By: Arthur Turrell
- Narrator: Arthur Turrell
- Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.88(245 ratings)
3.88(245 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom a young, award-winning scientist, a “thoughtful and illuminating” (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time–the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion,From a young, award-winning scientist, a “thoughtful and illuminating” (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time–the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy.
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The most important energy-making process in the universe takes place inside stars. The ability to duplicate that process in a lab, once thought impossible, may now be closer than we think. Today, teams of scientists around the world are being assembled by the boldest entrepreneurs, big business, and governments to solve what is the most difficult technological challenge humanity has ever faced: building the equivalent of a star on earth. If their plans to capture star power are successful, they will unlock thousands, potentially millions, of years of clean, carbon-free energy.
Not only would controlled nuclear fusion help solve the climate crisis, it could also make other highly desired technological ambitions possible–like journeying to the stars. Given the rising alarm over deterioration of the environment, and the strides being made in laser and magnetic field technology, powerful momentum is gathering behind fusion and the possibilities it offers.
In The Star Builders, award-winning young plasma physicist Arthur Turrell “offers an optimistic outlook for the future of fusion power and is adamant about the need to invest in it” (The New York Times). Turrell describes fascinating star machines with ten times as many parts as the NASA Space Shuttle, and structures that extend over 400 acres in an accessible and entertaining account, spotlighting the individuals, firms, and institutions racing for the finish line: science-minded entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, companies like Goldman Sachs and Google, universities like Oxford and MIT, and virtually every rich nation.
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A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean
- By: David Goodrich
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 13, 2020
- Language: English
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3.74(40 ratings)
3.74(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDRecently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway-an ancient ocean that onceRecently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway-an ancient ocean that once spread across half of North America. When the waters cleared a geologic age ago, what was left behind was vast flat prairie, otherworldly rock formations, and oil shale deposits. As Goodrich journeys through the Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park and across the prairies of the upper Midwest and Canada, we get a raw and ground-level view of where the tar sands and oil reserves are being opened up at an incredible and unprecedented pace. Extraordinary and unregulated, this “black goldrush” is boom and bust in every sense. In a manner reminiscent of John McPhee and Rachel Carson, combined with Goodrich’s wry self-deprecation and scientific expertise, A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean is a galvanizing and adventure-filled listen that gets to the heart of drilling on our continent.
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The Stickler’s Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation
- By: R. Philip Bouchard
- Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 23, 2021
- Language: English
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3.28(38 ratings)
3.28(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda. We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is oftenThe perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda.
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We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases that obscure or omit important facts. “Superfoods,” “right- and left-brained” people, and “global warming” may be snappy and ear-catching but are they backed by scientific facts? Lifelong educator R. Philip Bouchard is a stickler for this kind of thing, and he is well-prepared to set the record straight.
The Stickler’s Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation unpacks the many misuses of terms we see used every day, revealing how these popular “scientific” concepts fall short of real science. Find out why trees do not “store” carbon dioxide; a day is not actually 24 hours; DNA cannot provide a “blueprint” for a human being; and an absence of gravity is not the reason that astronauts float in space.
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The Climate Change Debate
- By: the Speech Resource Company
- Narrator: the Speech Resource Company
- Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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1(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFor decades climate scientists have been warning of the dangerous effects of the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They have urged a variety of measures that might prevent some of those disasters they claim to foresee. Others denyFor decades climate scientists have been warning of the dangerous effects of the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They have urged a variety of measures that might prevent some of those disasters they claim to foresee. Others deny the reality of human-caused climate change and believe that scientists’ warnings about the impact are exaggerated. Speeches are presented from both sides of the issue.
Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom
Al Gore and Newt Gingrich testify at US House hearings on climate changeDr. Heidi Collen, Environment & Public Works committee hearingBob Carter, University of Southern Queensland, AustraliaLord David Puttnam, “The Reality of Climate Change”John Coleman, founder of the Weather ChannelNoam Chomsky, MIT Center for International StudiesLord Christopher Monckton, 12th Annual Conference on Climate ChangeAl Gore, MaRS Discovery District, TorontoFreeman Dyson, professor of physics at Princeton UniversityWill Steffen, “Living with Climate Change”Donald Trump, “Jobs over Climate Change”Hillary Clinton & Al Gore, 2016 presidential campaignDr. Fred Singer, “Hot Talk and Cold Science”Leonardo DiCaprio, “Messenger of Peace” at United NationsSteve Milloy, “Junk Science”Barack Obama, Climate Change Conference in ParisDonald Trump withdraws from Paris AccordDr. James Hansen, professor at Columbia UniversityDr. Patrick Moore, “CO2 Emissions Are Good”Scott Denning vs. Roy Spencer, Heartland Institute Conference on Climate Change
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Climate Change
- By: Scientific American
- Narrator: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom increasingly severe storms to collapsing coral reefs to the displacement of Syrian citizens, in this audiobook we examine the effects of Earth’s changing climate on weather systems, ecosystems, and human habitability and what this meansFrom increasingly severe storms to collapsing coral reefs to the displacement of Syrian citizens, in this audiobook we examine the effects of Earth’s changing climate on weather systems, ecosystems, and human habitability and what this means for our future.
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