Climate Change and Global Warming

Updated June 11, 2024
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Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
Vaillant, John
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing * Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize * Winner of the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize * Winner of the 2024 Lane Anderson Award *...
The red deal : indigenous action to save our Earth
Red Nation
Paper Book
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action.  Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original...
The thinking person's guide to climate change
Henson, Robert
Paper Book
Everybody can be a thinking person when it comes to climate change, and this book is a perfect roadmap.  Start a web search for "climate change" and the first three suggestions are "facts," "news," and "hoax." The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change is rooted in the...
The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable
Ghosh, Amitav
Paper Book
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the...
Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change
Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine...
Are we screwed? : how a new generation is fighting to survive climate change
Dembicki, Geoff
Paper Book
A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change. The Millennial generation could be first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change. It's also the last generation able to do something...
The madhouse effect : how climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy
Mann, Michael E.
Paper Book
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and...
The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here
Jahren, Hope, author.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation. Hope Jahren is an award...
The big fix : 7 practical steps to save our planet
Harvey, Hal
Paper Book
An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate--and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until...
The climate book
Thunberg, Greta
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed...
No one is too small to make a difference
Thunberg, Greta
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate crisis activist who has become the voice of a generation. 'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.' In August 2018 a fifteen...
The world as we knew it : dispatches from a changing climate
Brady, Amy
Paper Book
Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives--including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and more
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...
On fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MUST-READ book. Naomi Klein pairs a decade of her powerful writing on our acute environmental decline with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next; and inspiringly offers here a politically viable, just, sustainable path forward...

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