List of climate change books
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This is a list of climate change books that describe, as a major theme, the effects of human activity on climate change.
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject that is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition.
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! Title ! Theme(s) and subtheme(s) ! Author(s) ! Year(s) ! ISBN(s) | |||||
| Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report
|Climate science, mitigation and impacts |Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |2024 |{{ISBN|978-92-9169-164-7}} | |||||
| What We Can't Burn: Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future | Climate change the energy transition climate activism | {{sortname|Eve|Driver}} {{sortname|Tom|Osborn|dab=entrepreneur}} | 2024 | {{ISBN|978-1-958510-03-2}} | |
| I’m A Climate Optimist: An Easy Guide to Lead a Sustainable Life[https://penguin.co.in/book/im-a-climate-optimist/ I'm A Climate Optimist by Penguin Random House] Penguin Random House.co.in | Climate Change | {{sortname | Aakash Ranison}} | 2023 | {{ISBN|978-0143460428}} (IN) |
| An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming | Global warming: skepticism about impact | {{sortname|Nigel|Lawson}} | 2008 | {{ISBN|978-0-7156-3786-9}} (UK); {{ISBN|978-1-59020-084-1}} (US) | |
| Atlas of Our Changing Environment | Climate change | {{sortname | United Nations Environment Programme}} | 2005– | |
| The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat | Climate change | {{sortname | Eric Roston}} | 2008 | {{ISBN|978-0-80271751-1}} |
| The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era | Global warming | {{sortname|Jeremy|Leggett}} | 1999 | ||
| This Changes Everything | Climate change: the impact of capitalism | {{sortname|Naomi|Klein}} | 2014 | {{ISBN|978-1-45169738-4}} | |
| The Chilling Stars | Climate change: cosmic rays as major contributor | {{sortname|Henrik|Svensmark}} and Nigel Calder | 2003; 2007 (updated) | {{ISBN|1-84046-815-7}} | |
| The Climate Book | Causes, effects and possible solutions to the climate crisis | {{sortname|Greta|Thunberg}} and many others | 2022
| {{ISBN|978-0-241-54747-2}} | ||
| Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change | Climate change: efficient energy use and renewable energy | {{sortname|Hunter|Lovins}} and Boyd Cohen | 2011 | {{ISBN|978-0-8090-3473-4}} | |
| Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options | Climate change mitigation and global energy security | {{sortname|Marilyn A.|Brown}} and Benjamin K. Sovacool | 2011 | {{ISBN|978-0-262-01625-4}} | |
| Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand | Climate change denial | Haydn Washington and John Cook; foreword by Naomi Oreskes | 2011 | {{ISBN|978-1-84971-336-8}} | |
| Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action | Global warming: "sustainability emergency" | {{sortname|David|Spratt|nolink=1}} and Philip Sutton | 2008 | {{ISBN|1-921372-20-6}} | |
| Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming | Global warming: high cost and low impact of countermeasures | {{sortname|Bjørn|Lomborg}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-0-307-26692-7}} | |
| The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud | Global warming: denial by reputable scientists | {{sortname|Lawrence|Solomon}} | 2008 | {{ISBN|978-0-9800763-1-8}} | |
| The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What’s Blocking Clean Power in the United States | Energy: four challenges and four solutions | {{sortname|Benjamin K.|Sovacool}} | 2008 | ||
| The Discovery of Global Warming | Global warming: history of scientific discoveries | {{sortname|Spencer R.|Weart}} | 2003 | ||
| Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
|Reference, scholarly work, list of solutions with estimated impact and costs |{{sortname|Paul|Hawken}} |2017 |{{ISBN|978-0-143-13044-4}} | |||||
| Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet | Climate change: statistics and causes | {{sortname|Bill|McKibben}} | 2010 | {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9056-7}} | |
| The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow | Energy: oil prices, economic growth, environmental law, renewable energy, and global recession | {{sortname|Peter|Tertzakian}} | 2009 | ||
| The End of Nature | Global warming: human manipulation of natural forces | {{sortname|Bill|McKibben}} | 1989 | {{ISBN|0-8129-7608-8}} | |
| Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths | Energy: counter-arguments to 13 propositions about US culture and the environment | {{sortname|Benjamin K.|Sovacool}} and Marilyn A. Brown (editors) | 2007 | ||
| Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy | Energy: renewable energy commercialization | {{sortname|Hermann|Scheer}} | 2006 | {{ISBN|1-84407355-6}} | |
| Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
|Climate change: modern developments |2019 | | |||||
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Climate change: causes and effects in various places on Earth | {{sortname|Elizabeth|Kolbert}} | 2006 | {{ISBN|1-59691-125-5}} | |
| Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy | Energy: energy efficiency, renewable energy, and natural gas | {{sortname|Mark|Diesendorf}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-0-86840-973-3}} | |
| Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis | Energy: oil depletion and global warming | {{sortname|Jeremy|Leggett}} | 2005 | ||
| Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada | Climate change: effects in Canada | Harold Coward and Andrew J. Weaver | 2004 | {{ISBN|978-0-88920442-3}} | |
| Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science | Global warming: dispute of scientific consensus on climate change | {{sortname|Ian|Plimer}} | 2009 | {{ISBN|0-7043-7166-9}} | |
| Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do | Global warming: evidence for dire consequences of inaction | {{sortname|Joseph J.|Romm}} | 2006 | {{ISBN|0-06-117212-X}} | |
| High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future | Global warming: industrial lobbyists in Australia | {{sortname|Guy|Pearse}} | 2007 | ||
| The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | Climate change: hockey stick graph | {{sortname|Michael E.|Mann}} | 2012 | {{ISBN|0-23115254-X}} | |
| The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science | Climate change: hockey stick graph and Climatic Research Unit email controversy | {{sortname|Andrew|Montford}} | 2010 | {{ISBN|978-1-906768-35-5}} | |
| Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America | Various themes: clean energy, globalization, and population growth | {{sortname|Thomas L.|Friedman}} | 2008 | ||
| How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change | Consumerism: reducing carbon footprint | {{sortname|Chris|Goodall}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-1-84407426-6}} | |
| The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate | Climate change: clean energy, advanced vehicles, energy security, and greenhouse gas mitigation | {{sortname|Joseph J.|Romm}} | 2004 | {{ISBN|1-55963-703-X}}; {{ISBN|1-55963-704-8}} | |
| An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | Global warming: speed and extent documented with text and images | {{sortname|Al|Gore}} | 2006 | {{ISBN|1-59486-567-1}} | |
| Klima Macht Geschichte: Menschheitsgeschichte als Abbild der Klimaentwicklung | Climate change | {{sortname|Kenneth J.|Hsu}} | 2000 | ||
| Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia | Climate change: government policy in Australia | {{sortname|Ian|Lowe}} | 2005 | ||
| Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Global warming: comparisons with tobacco smoking, acid rain, and the ozone hole | Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway | 2010 | {{ISBN|978-1-59691-610-4}} | |
| Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis | Climate change: solutions (concentrated solar power, cogeneration, and biochar) | {{sortname|Al|Gore}} | 2009 | ||
| Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate | Various themes: agriculture, diseases, and fossil fuels | {{sortname|William|Ruddiman}} | 2005 | ||
| Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option | Various themes: energy policy, and arguments against nuclear power | {{sortname|Ian|Lowe}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-1-86395-412-9}} | |
| The Real Global Warming Disaster (Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?) | Global warming: climate change denial from a denial perspective | {{sortname|Christopher|Booker}} | 2009 | ||
| Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change | Climate change: climate change denial from the perspective of climate change belief | {{sortname|Clive|Hamilton}} | 2010 | {{ISBN|978-1-84971-081-7}} | |
| The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we Can Still Save Humanity | Various themes | {{sortname|James|Lovelock}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|0-14-102597-2}} | |
| Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate | Climate change | {{sortname|Leonie|Joubert}} | 2007 | ||
| Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change | Climate change: Kyoto Protocol and Australian politics | {{sortname|Clive|Hamilton}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-0-9775949-0-0}} | |
| Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Climate change: effects from global temperature increasing by one to six degrees | {{sortname|Mark|Lynas}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-0-00-720905-7}} | |
| Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming | Global warming: effect on hurricanes | {{sortname|Chris|Mooney|Chris Mooney (journalist)}} | 2007 | ||
| Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity | Climate change: fossil fuels | {{sortname|James|Hansen}} | 2009 | {{ISBN|978-1-60819-200-7}} | |
| Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions | Various themes: energy security, energy efficiency, green energy, and sustainable transport | {{sortname|Joseph J.|Romm}} | 2010 | {{ISBN|1-59726-716-3}} | |
| Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges | Various themes: climate change, renewable energy commercialization, sustainable cities, and cradle-to-cradle design | {{sortname|Herbert|Girardet}} | 2007 | ||
| Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming | Global warming controversy: personalities and communication | {{sortname|Ross|McKitrick}} and Christopher Essex | 2002 | {{ISBN|978-1-55263-946-7}} | |
| Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (first edition) or Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate (second edition) | Various themes: technologies for reducing greenhouse gases | {{sortname|Chris|Goodall}} | 2008 (first edition); 2009 (second edition) | {{ISBN|978-1-84668-868-3}} | |
| Twisted: The Distorted Mathematics of Greenhouse Denial | Climate change: environmental skepticism | {{sortname|Ian G.|Enting}} | 2007 | {{ISBN|978-0-646-48012-1}} | |
| The Uninhabitable Earth. Life After Warming | Global warming | {{sortname|David|Wallace-Wells}} | 2019 | {{ISBN|978-0-525-57670-9}} (US) | |
| Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years | Global warming: natural causes | {{sortname|S. Fred|Singer}} and Dennis T. Avery | 2006 | {{ISBN|978-0-7425-5117-6}} | |
| The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change | Climate change: consequences of global warming | {{sortname|Tim|Flannery}} | 2005 | {{ISBN|1-920885-84-6}} | |
| The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet | Climate change: dangers from greenhouse gases from fossil fuels | {{sortname|Heidi|Cullen}} | 2010 | ||
| Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto | Various themes: climate change, urbanization, and biotechnology | {{sortname|Stewart|Brand}} | 2009 | {{ISBN|978-0-670-02121-5}} | |
| Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity | Climate change: differing views from various disciplines | {{sortname|Mike|Hulme}} | 2009 | {{ISBN|978-0-521-72732-7}} |
Fiction
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! Title !! Theme(s) !! Author(s) !! Year !! ISBN(s) | ||||
| [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helix-1-Trilogy/dp/1399937383/ref=sr_1_1?crid=264VS01RZ2ZY1&keywords=the+helix+yasmeen+cohen&qid=1668069491&sprefix=%2Caps%2C262&sr=8-1 The Helix]
|Cultivating our inner ability to create the world we want |{{sortname|Yasmeen|Cohen|nolink=1}} |2022 | {{ISBN|979-8-84881345-6}} | ||||
| The Forgotten Enemy | Climate change | {{sortname|Arthur C.|Clarke}} | 1949 | |
| Mother of Storms | Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion | {{sortname|John|Barnes|John Barnes (author)}} | 1994 | {{ISBN|0-312-85560-5}} |
| [https://www.greenstories.org.uk/fairhaven/ Fairhaven]{{cite episode |title=Genevieve Hilton - Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism |episode-link= |url=https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/brunchwithnoreen/episode/937854 |access-date=2024-03-27 |series=Brunch with Noreen |series-link= |first=Noreen |last=Mir |network=RTHK |station=Radio 3 |date=2024-02-29 |season= |series-no= |number= |minutes= |time= |transcript= |transcript-url= |quote= |trans-quote= |via= |language=}} | Innovators, engineers, and visionaries struggle against the odds to bring climate solutions to Southeast Asia and to the world. | {{sortname|Genevieve|Hilton|nolink=1}} (writing as {{sortname|Jan|Lee|nolink=1}}) and {{sortname|Steve|Willis|nolink=1}} | 2024 | {{ISBN|978-1-73908892-7}} |
See also
References
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- [http://climatechangeeducation.org/science/books.html Books on Global Warming, Climate Change Books], Climate Change Education.org