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• Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Philippe Daniel Tortell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2004), by Robert L. Bradley (PDF with commentary at IEA)
• Death of the PostHuman ("Essays on Extinction v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Claire Colebrook (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Global Environment Outlook, GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019), ed. by Paul Elkins, Joyeeta Gupta, and Pierre Boileau (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Heather M. Davis and E. Turpin (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), ed. by E. Turpin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment (2 volumes, 2017-2018), by U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009- )
  • Volume I (Climate Science Special Report): illustrated HTML at globalchange.gov
  • Volume II (Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States): illustrated HTML and PDF files at globalchange.gov
• Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ed. by Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Cleaner Energy, Cooler Climate: Developing Sustainable Energy Solutions for South Africa (2009), by Harald Winkler (PDF with commentary at OpenUCT)
• Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ucar.edu)
• Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004), by Susan Hassol (PDF files in Norway)
• Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)

• Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (2006), ed. by Hans-Joachim Schnellnhuber, contrib. by Tony Blair (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (2013-) (full serial archives)

• Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Preparing for an Uncertain Climate (2 volumes (OTA-O-567 and OTA-O-568); 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: PDF at Georgetown
  • Volume II: PDF at Georgetown

• Why Scientists Disagree on Global Warming (Arlington Heights, IL: Pub. for the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change by the Heartland Institute, c2015), by Craig D. Idso, R. M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer (PDF with commentary at heartland.org)

• Global Change Research and NASA's Earth Observing System (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities Around the World Make Sense of Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Atmosphere of Pressure: Political Interference in Federal Climate Science (Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists; Washington: Government Accountability Project, 2007), by Timothy Quinn Donaghy, Jennifer Freeman, Francesca Grifo, Karly Kaufman, Tarek F. Maassarani, and Lexi Shultz (PDF with commentary at ucsusa.org)

• A Global Warming Primer: Answering Your Questions About the Science, the Consequences, and the Solutions (online edition, c2017), by Jeffrey O. Bennett (illustrated HTML with commentary at globalwarmingprimer.com)
• Why Scientists Disagree on Global Warming (Arlington Heights, IL: Pub. for the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change by the Heartland Institute, c2015), by Craig D. Idso, R. M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer (PDF with commentary at heartland.org)
• The Greening of Global Warming (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Robert O. Mendelsohn (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), by Jonathan H. Adler (PDF files at cei.org)
• Global Warming: The Science and the Politics (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 1997), ed. by Laura Jones (illustrated HTML at lexi.net)
• Impasses of the Post-Global ("Theory in the Era of Climate Change v2"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), ed. by Henry Sussman (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities press)
• Telemorphosis ("Theory in the Era of Climate Change v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), ed. by Tom Cohen (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (Chicago: Heartland Institute, c2008), by S. Fred Singer (PDF at heartland.org)
• Governing Climate: The Struggle For A Global Framework Beyond Kyoto (Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development, c2005), ed. by Taishi Sugiyama (PDF with commentary at iisd.org)
• Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (ca. 2005), ed. by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada (PDF at The Corner House)
• Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset Indulgences for Your Climate Sins (Amsterdam: Carbon Trade Watch, 2007), by Kevin Smith (PDF at carbontradewatch.org)
• Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future (Washington: World Bank, 2015), by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, and Tom Kerr (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990), by Cheryl Simon Silver and Ruth S. DeFries (page images with commentary at NAP)
• An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security (2003; released 2004), by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004), by Susan Hassol (PDF files in Norway)
• Preparing for an Uncertain Climate (2 volumes (OTA-O-567 and OTA-O-568); 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: PDF at Georgetown
  • Volume II: PDF at Georgetown
• The Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays?, ed. by Peter Hayes and Kirk R. Smith (HTML at UNU Press)

• The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Barry Scott Zellen (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities Around the World Make Sense of Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (2006), ed. by Hans-Joachim Schnellnhuber, contrib. by Tony Blair (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• The Greening of Global Warming (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Robert O. Mendelsohn (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Climate Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (1997), ed. by Julian Morris (PDF with commentary at IEA)
• Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (2006), by Larry Lohmann, ed. by Niclas Hallstrom, Olle Nordberg, and Robert Osterbergh (PDF at The Corner House)

• The Greening of Global Warming (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Robert O. Mendelsohn (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming (1991), by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (Washington: U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2014), ed. by Jerry M. Melillo, Terese Richmond, and Gary Wynn Yohe (PDF files with commentary at globalchange.gov)
• The U.S. Global Change Research Program: An Assessment of the FY 1991 Plans, by National Research Council (page images with commentary at NAP)

• In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (first published in French in 2009; English translation 2015), by Isabelle Stengers, trans. by Andrew Goffey (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

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