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Ask HN: Good Books on Climate Change?
I am taking on a special information diet of sorts and part of my process is to consume long-form materials on current events instead of perusing articles that I'll forget about the next day. What books are good scientific, political, and economic overviews of climate change?
- mooreds 7y agoI loved "Climate Wars" by Gwynne Dyer: https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Wars-Fight-Survival-Overheats/dp/1851688145 https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Wars-Fight-Survival-Overheats... If you are looking for a fictional take, check out "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi: https://www.amazon.com/Water-Knife-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/080417153X https://www.amazon.com/Water-Knife-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/08041...
- shoo 7y agoNot a book, but a paper that frames things in terms of a global cumulative emissions budget: Friedlingstein & others -- "Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets" Not directly about climate change, but about renewable energy: Mackay -- https://www.withouthotair.com/ https://www.withouthotair.com/ Not about how to fix climate change, but an exploration of some factors as to why we're not working to address the problem (propaganda from business groups...): Higgs -- Collision Course not about climate change, but the general problem of how environmental limits, resource depletion, cumulative pollution limits population growth and the dynamics of different ways population could crash or oscillate or level off: meadows & others -- the limits to growth McKenzie Funk -- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
- jyu 7y agoSomeone else suggested this book, a summary of hundreds of scientific climate change papers projected environmental global and local effects categorized by each celsius degree increase. It covers broad stroke scientific, political, and economic changes due to climate change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees:_Our_Future_on_a_Hotter_Planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees:_Our_Future_on_a_H... Project Drawdown ranks different projects based on impact to climate change: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions https://www.drawdown.org/solutions
- gadders 7y agoThe Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skeptical-Environmentalist-Measuring-State-World/dp/0521010683 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skeptical-Environmentalist-Measurin...