Climate Change Reader

A selection of books discussing the history of climate change and possible ways to fight climate change.
Updated September 19, 2022
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This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
WINNER 2014 - Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it's not about carbon--it's about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this...
The weather makers : how we are changing the climate and what it means for life on earth
Flannery, Tim F.
Paper Book
Watch a video trailer for The Weather Makers (Requires Flash Player. May take a few minutes to load.) Rarely has there been a time when the fate of every one of theearth's inhabitants has...
The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and...
An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
Gore, Al
Paper Book
An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that...
The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
Wallace-Wells, David
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America
Friedman, Thomas L.
Paper Book
Thomas L. Friedman's phenomenal number-one bestsellerThe World Is Flathas helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of...
Heat : how to stop the planet from burning
Monbiot, George
Paper Book
“We are the most fortunate generation that has ever lived. And we are the most fortunate generation that ever will.” —George Monbiot What George Monbiot means by this is that our civilization has leveraged the awesome power of fossil energy to create a world that only a short time...
Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet
McKibben, Bill.
Paper Book
The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet - and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need in order to make our civilization endure.   Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben...
Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet
Lynas, Mark
Paper Book
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'. Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they...
The revenge of Gaia : Earth's climate in crisis and the fate of humanity
Lovelock, James
Paper Book
In The Revenge of Gaia , bestselling author James Lovelock- father of climate studies and originator of the influential Gaia theory which views the entire earth as a living meta-organism-provides a definitive look at our imminent global crisis. In this disturbing new book, Lovelock...
The long emergency : surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
Kunstler, James Howard.
Paper Book
With his classics of social commentary "The Geography of Nowhere and "Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with "The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. The last two hundred...
The skeptical environmentalist : measuring the real state of the world
Lomborg, Bjørn
Paper Book
The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence....
The winds of change : climate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations
Linden, Eugene.
Paper Book
The Winds of Changeplaces the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilization and then repeatedly...
Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
Oreskes, Naomi.
Paper Book
Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."--Elizabeth Kolbert Merchants of Doubt has been praised--and...
Hot : Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Hertsgaard, Mark
Ebook
An "informative and vividly reported book" that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive (San Francisco Chronicle).   Journalist Mark Hertsgaard has reported on global warming for outlets including the New...
The long thaw : how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate
Archer, David
Paper Book
If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hold out (or until we decide to stop burning them), think again. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, predicts...
Cool it : the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming
Lomborg, Bjørn
Paper Book
Written by the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, this groundbreaking book transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.
The crash course : the unsustainable future of our economy, energy, and environment
Martenson, Chris
Paper Book
The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of...

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