Climate Change/Further Reading

Non-technical works Broecker, Wallace S. and Robert Kunzig: Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It. Hill and Wang, 272 pp. ISBN-10: 0809045028, ISBN-13: 978-0809045020 Fagan, Brian: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. Bloomsbury Press, 304 pp. ISBN-10: 159691601X, ISBN-13: 978-1596916012. Flannery, Tim: The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. Grove Press, 400 pp. ISBN-10: 0802142923, ISBN-13: 978-0802142924. Kolbert, Elizabeth, 2006: Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York, NY, Bloomsbury. ISBN: (978-)1-59691-125-3 McDonough, William and Michael Braungart, 2002: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things. North Point Press. Hillman, Mayer, Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan, 2007: The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Change. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press. Textbooks Burroughs, William James, 2001, Climate Change: A multidisciplinary approach, Cambridge Univ. Press, 320 pp. ISBN: 0521567718. Hartmann, D. Global Physical Climatology Peixoto & Oort, Physics of Climate Holton, J. Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, 4th Ed. Archie Duncanson. "Ecology Begins at Home" 190399845X. Free downloadable version is available. Contains many methods to reduce your footprint on planet Earth. Sophie Uliano. "Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life" 0061575569. Women way to solve everyday problems with reducing impact on planet and improving heath. Anita Evangelista. "How to Live Without Electricity and Like It". 0966693213. Provides great insights into low-tech solutions for everyday problems. Giles Slade. "Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America" 0674022033. Gives overview of history of technologies embedded in everyday life of modern society and wasteful culture. Richard Heinberg. "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies". 0865714827. Interesting philosophical outlook on history of technological civilization and it's possible fate. Human Footprint video by National Geographic Channel Elizabeth Royte. "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale And Why We Bought It". 1-59691-371-1. History and problems of bottled water with comprehensive review of issues with tap water and additional filters. "Food, Inc. How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer — And What You Can Do About It". 978-1-58648-694-5. Great insight into modern industrial food production system. Scientific Literature Hansen et al., 2005. Science 308[3] Hegerl, Gabriele C., Thomas J. Crowley, William T. Hyde and David J. Frame, 2006: Climate sensitivity constrained by temperature reconstructions over the past seven centuries. Nature 440(7087), pp. 1029-1032. doi:10.1038/nature04679 Oreskes, Naomi, 2004. Science 306(5702), DOI: 10.1126/science.1103618. Pacala S, Socolow R, 2004: Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies. Science 305(5686), pp. 968-972. LINK