title: The Weather Makers
text: The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change (2005) is a book by Tim Flannery.
  
  The book includes 36 short essays predicting the consequences of global warming.  The book reviews the evidence about historical climate change and attempts to put our era into context.  The book asserts that if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to increase at current rates, the resulting climate change will cause mass species extinctions.
  
  The book received much critical acclaim, and has won a major literary prize.
  
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  Non-fiction books
  Climate change