Book Category: Science and Environment

Can the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the biggest impacts of climate change? Experts say it can be done. Here’s the technology that could get us there.

Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate change—his...

A leader among those working with climate despair, Britt Wray melds science and emotional insight to walk us down the pathway to hope. Rich with stories, her book is both readable and practical—a balm for those who have stared into the darkness and are seeking a realistic way through.

Having detailed the coming man-made climate disaster in her Pulitzer-winning The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert explores the costs of trying to repair the mess by more manipulation of Mother Nature. “By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic,” says the jacket.

By the founder of 350.org and dean of popular climate writing, this, his most recent book, offers us a perfect storm of the disasters that lie ahead if we don’t pay attention: artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation, and climate meltdown. Read and tremble.

If you want to know how bad it can get, McPherson’s your man. He has been warning of certain climate doom for decades. This slim volume is only one of many diatribes in which he has predicted climate clamp-down by 2026. Do the arithmetic and weep.

The sub-title has it right. If you want a comprehensive selection of countless ways we can address climate change, this is it; includes food, energy, buildings, land use, transporta­tion, and more. Loaded with concrete ideas. Google it to find an array of supportive links.

Truly one of my favorite people, Moore gave up an endowed chair in Moral Philosophy to combat climate change for the duration. Here she offers a luscious set of essays poignant and hefty, anguished and icy, passionate and inspiring. Read them and sing.

In this, the first book about climate change, McKibben argues that “Nature,” to which we have always been subordinate, has now become subordinate to us, and that we are not exercising this power wisely. The book paved the way for the term, “Anthropocene”.

Here’s the book that “outed” climate change into the public at large. Gore first got religion when he learned of the impact of CO2 on global heating. Scorned by conservatives, he has proven tragically right and remains a key climate pioneer.