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James E. Lovelock · 184 pages
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Clinton E. Carlson, Dale L. Bartos, David H. Jackson, Dean E. Medin, Dennis M. Cole, Don J. Latham, Ervin G. Schuster, James Kerr Brown, Jeanne C. Chambers, John G. King, Kathleen Geier-Hayes, Michael J. Niccolucci, Norbert V. DeByle, Raymond J. Hoff, Renee O'Brien, Warren P. Clary · 402 pages
The Future Is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's Technologies
Bob McDonald · 303 pages
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · 355 pages
"Merchants of Doubt " tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades that link smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery · 357 pages
"The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global-warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public that has received patchy and mislea
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert · 217 pages
"New Yorker writer Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
Lauren Redniss · 266 pages
Focusing on the intricate nature of the world around us, as well as the personal relationship we all have to the weather, a National Book Award finalist and visionary writer combining personal stories with history, interviews, scientific research and full-color photos explores the transformative power of weather. --Publisher
Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
James Hansen · 336 pages
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Kristin Ohlson · 256 pages
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practicesand, especially, modern industrial agriculturehave led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elega
Ten Billion
Stephen Emmott · 216 pages
"Just 10,000 years ago, there were only one million humans on Earth. By 1800, just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion of us. By 1960, there were three billion. There are now over seven billion of us. By 2050, there will be at least nine billion other people--and, sometime near the end of this century, there will be at least ten billion of us. There is simply no known way to provide
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay · 384 pages
Provides an overview of the sustainable energy crisis that is threatening the world's natural resources, explaining how energy consumption is estimated and how those numbers have been skewed by various factors and discussing alternate forms of energy that can and should be used.
The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
Paul Gilding · 292 pages
According to the author, the Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. The author claims we have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's ecosystems
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint Of Everything
Mike Berners-Lee · 304 pages
The Right to Be Cold
Sheila Watt-Cloutier · 352 pages
A "courageous and revelatory memoir" (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate. For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her native Nunavik, a region that is part of the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. In Inuktitut, the language of I
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian M. Fagan · 304 pages
The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology
Frederick K. Lutgens, Edward J. Tarbuck, Dennis G. Tasa · 520 pages
For Introduction to Meteorology, Introduction to Weather and Climate, and Introduction to the Atmosphere courses in the departments of Geography, Physical Sciences, Meteorology, Earth Sciences, Geology, and Physics.
The Politics of Geoengineering
Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Christina Giannopapa, Ntorina Antoni · 216 pages
This book offers the first comprehensive social science perspective on geoengineering—technologies that deliberately intervene in Earth’s systems to counter climate change. It examines the political, legal, economic, and societal dimensions of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), combining SWOT analyses with regional perspectives from Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Co
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
Gabrielle Walker · 388 pages
This is a full and intimate portrait of the most mysterious continent on earth, and how it holds the key to all our futures.
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh · 196 pages
"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 level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
Bill Nye · 352 pages
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman · 516 pages
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein · 576 pages
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Al Gore · 407 pages
Presents a comprehensive plan for saving the environment by addressing population, technology, and education.