Climate Change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global w ...more

New Releases Tagged "Climate Change"

The Forest on the Edge of Time
I Am the Ghost Here
Vigil
Nadia Islam, on the Record
Wild Dark Shore
Vigil
What We Can Know
A Guardian and a Thief
Dream State
Playground
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Light Pirate
All the Water in the World
Bewilderment
Two Degrees
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Land of Milk and Honey
Termination Shock
Juice
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The Ministry for the Future
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Flight Behavior
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodFlight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
The Best Climate Change Fiction
43 books — 26 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,082 books — 1,227 voters

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinNature's Last Dance by Natalie KyriacouMerchants of Doubt by Naomi OreskesThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Best Climate Change Books
292 books — 179 voters
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 215 voters


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