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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The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery
Paper Book
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever recorded, the most devastating hurricane in two hundred years, the hottest European summer on...
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Al Gore
Audiobook
Now available on audiobook is Al Gore's #1 New York Times bestseller about the dangers of global warming. Abridged. 3 CDs.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
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 With a new afterword It is...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
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...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
Paper Book
An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject...
Long emergency : Surviving the end of oil, climate change, and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
James Howard Kunstler
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...
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Bjørn Lomborg
Audiobook

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