Climate Change

Descrição
Non-fiction books about climate change, global warming, paleoclimatology, and related topics
1
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
por Mark Lynas
550 membros
17 críticas
4
2 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven
2
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
por Brian Fagan
376 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven
3
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
por Brian Fagan
444 membros
8 críticas
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven
4
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850
por Brian M. Fagan
875 membros
12 críticas
3.8
2 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven
5
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
por Jared M. Diamond
12,217 membros
183 críticas
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven
7
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
por Elizabeth Kolbert
3,634 membros
163 críticas
4.1
Member
inge87
8
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
por Fred Pearce
255 membros
12 críticas
4
Member
kerrygiven
9
Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report
por James Balog
24 membros
½ 3.7
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: The book is certainly about climate change but it has many gorgeous photos as well.
10
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
por David Keys
349 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
bluepiano
11
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
por Gillen D'Arcy Wood
153 membros
7 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
12
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
por Callum Roberts
172 membros
4 críticas
4.2
Member
inge87
13
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
por Kristin Ohlson
151 membros
8 críticas
4.2
Member
inge87
Explicações
inge87: carbon sequestration
14
What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
por Greg Craven
66 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
kerrygiven
15
Storms of my grandchildren
por James Hansen
324 membros
12 críticas
3.8
Member
kerrygiven
16
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
por Brian Fagan
82 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
17
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
por Al Gore
2,497 membros
33 críticas
4
Member
kerrygiven
18
Global Crisis : War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
por Geoffrey Parker
351 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
inge87
19
Shifting shores : rising seas, retreating coastlines
por Jeff Hecht
4 membros
1 crítica
5
Member
aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith: Written for children, but jam-packed with very clear information for anyone.
20
The Discovery of Global Warming
por Spencer R. Weart
182 membros
11 críticas
3.8
Member
kerrygiven
21
Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World
por Todd McLeish
42 membros
1 crítica
3
Member
inge87
22
Climate Change Adaptation in New York City
por New York City Panel on Climate Change
4 membros
4
Member
aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith: How one coastal city is planning for climate change.
23
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
por Tim Flannery
1,494 membros
20 críticas
4.1
Member
kerrygiven
24
Confronting climate change in the U. S. Northeast: science, impacts, and solutions: executive summary
por Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment
1 membro
1 crítica
4
Member
aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith: An overview of how the Northeast US is likely to change as the planet warms. Not all of it is bad.
25
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
por Steven Mithen
47 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
27
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
por William Rosen
234 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
28
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
por Craig Childs
133 membros
2 críticas
3.8
Member
inge87
29
Climate Change: Picturing the Science
por Gavin Schmidt
74 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.4
Member
kerrygiven
30
The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
por Kirstin Dow
112 membros
1 crítica
½ 2.7
Member
kerrygiven
31
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
por Al Gore
415 membros
8 críticas
3.9
Member
kerrygiven
32
Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
por Bill McKibben
76 membros
1 crítica
2.8
Member
kerrygiven
33
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis
por Mark Lynas
137 membros
3 críticas
3.9
Member
kerrygiven
34
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
por Joseph Romm
82 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
Member
kerrygiven
35
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
por Michael E. Mann
125 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.5
Member
kerrygiven
36
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
por Mark Hertsgaard
198 membros
9 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
kerrygiven
37
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
por Heidi Cullen
185 membros
5 críticas
3.8
Member
kerrygiven
38
The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
por Mike Tidwell
67 membros
3 críticas
3
Member
kerrygiven
39
The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
por Peter D. Ward
92 membros
2 críticas
3.8
Member
kerrygiven
40
Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
por Andrew T. Guzman
35 membros
3.8
Member
kerrygiven
41
The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
por Paul Gilding
207 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
kerrygiven
42
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
por Christian Parenti
188 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
Member
kerrygiven
44
High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
por John Englander
22 membros
1 crítica
4.2
Member
kerrygiven
45
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
por Elizabeth Kolbert
995 membros
20 críticas
3.9
Member
kerrygiven,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I didn't find this one very interesting, but I've read a lot of things about climate change and this one didn't seem to add any detail I was looking for.
46
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
por Elizabeth Rush
227 membros
4 críticas
½ 4.4
48
Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes
por Bill McGuire
47 membros
1 crítica
4
49
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
por Courtney White
43 membros
1 crítica
4.2
50
Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
por Paddy Woodworth
26 membros
2
51
Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900-1600
por William C. Foster
7 membros
3
52
Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change: When the Ice Breaks
por Miyase Christensen
2 membros