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1. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2018)
“This is, for my money, the best single source primer on the state of climate change.” New York Magazine”The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane.” The Daily Beast”A must read.” The GuardianThe essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know is a clear eyed overview of the science, conflicts, and implications of our warming planet. From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic’s Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone’s “100 people who…
2. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (2017)
New York Times bestseller The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world“At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded…
3. The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change: Second Edition (2019)
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 first, up to date on the second, and anything but the last. Produced by one of the most venerable atmospheric science organizations, it is a must-read for anyone looking for the full story on climate change. Using…
4. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change (The Politically Incorrect Guides) (2018)
*Updated to include new section on the Green New Deal!* Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. gives a voice — backed by statistics, real-life stories, and incontrovertible evidence — to the millions of "deplorable" Americans skeptical about the multibillion dollar "climate change" complex, whose claims have time and time again been proven wrong. #4,782 in…
5. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2015)
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 status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that…
6. Introduction to Modern Climate Change (2016)
This is an invaluable textbook for any introductory survey course on the science and policy of climate change, for both non-science majors and introductory science students. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent science from the latest IPCC reports, and many illustrations include new data. The new edition also reflects advances in the political debate over climate change. Unique amongst textbooks on climate change, it combines an introduction to the science with an introduction to economic and policy issues, and is tightly focused on anthropogenic climate change. It contains…
7. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2015)
Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a…
8. The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (2019)
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is mandated by law “at least every four years … to submit to the President and the Congress an assessment regarding the findings of … the effects of global change, and current and major long-term trends in global change.” This year, the report was released in the wake of a series of some of the most devastating hurricanes in American history, as well as the horrific California wildfires. As the report says, “The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent…
9. What We Know about Climate Change: updated edition (The MIT Press) (2018)
An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action. #456,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #464 in Rivers in Earth Science #524 in Weather (Books) #643 in Environmental Engineering (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?…
10. How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Experimental Futures) (2014)
During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility.The disparate efforts…
Best Climate Change Books That Will Hook You
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Dealing with Climate Change : Policies and Measures in IEA Countries, 2002 Edition.
Author(s): OECD
Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Oct. 2002, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2148105
Dealing with Climate Change : Policies and Measures in IEA Countries, 2001 Edition.
Author(s): OECD
Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Oct. 2001, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2148075
The Clean Energy Age: A Guide to Beating Climate Change
Author(s): BF Nagy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Year: 8 Oct 2018, Size: 8 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2329350
The Rise and Fall of the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change
Author(s): Rex J. Fleming
Publisher: Springer, Year: 2020, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2394271
Real Option Analysis and Climate Change: A New Framework for Environmental Policy Analysis
Author(s): Benoit Morel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2407272
Coping Mechanisms for Climate Change in Peri-Urban Areas
Author(s): S. Manasi, K. V. Raju
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408302
Adaptations of Coastal Cities to Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Endemic Hazards
Author(s): Frederic R. Siegel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408818
Handbook of Climate Change Resilience
Author(s): Leal Filho, Walter
Publisher: Springer, Year: 2020, Size: 64 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2458344
Climate Change and Arctic Security: Searching for a Paradigm Shift
Author(s): Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot
Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2020, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2468008
Climate Change and the White World
Author(s): Prem Shankar Goel, Rasik Ravindra, Sulagna Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 17 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2468153
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to USA Today, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.