 | The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.43 A wise and passionate introduction to just about everything we know, and need to know, about the science of climate change.
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 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Short, lucid, and utterly gripping; a great piece of investigative writing from a leading journalist.
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 | The Rough Guide to Climate Change (Rough Guides Reference Titles) by Robert Henson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.84 One of the best general overviews of the science, the arguments, and the options that we currently face.
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 | The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge by Kirstin Dow
Buy used from: £2.05 Presenting the argument visually rather than verbally, this is a powerful set of pictorial and graphic statements of the likely consequences of pursuing business as usual.
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 | Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change by Paul Brown
Buy new: £10.97 / Used from: £2.26 Well-written and beautifully designed, this takes a thematic approach to the various issues at stake.
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 | Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.31 A visionary activist puts forward his argument for a 90% cut in greenhouse gas emissions. Politically impossible, perhaps, but the argument remains sound.
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 | An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it by Al Gore
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £0.95 The book of the film (as well as of the Nobel Peace Prize); Gore makes his case with passion and conviction, and any 'errors' it contains are errors of emphasis rather than substance.
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 | The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern
Buy new: £26.89 / Used from: £18.87 Deeply researched, authoritative, and surprisingly readable, Stern makes the economic case that the world cannot afford not to begin to stabilise its CO2 emissions.
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 | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
Buy used from: £3.99 This comes from the alarmist wing of the climate change spectrum, but it is nonetheless a passionate and disturbing vision of a world in the grip of runaway warming.
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 | Greenhouse: The 200 Year Story of Global Warming by Gale Christianson
Buy used from: £0.01 An excellent introduction to the history of climate science, this takes us from the outset of the Industrial Revolution to the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.
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 | The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate by Andrew E. Dessler
Buy new: £17.48 / Used from: £16.18 Covering the political and cultural confusion that currently passes for climate change debate, this is a sometimes depressing reminder of the widespread political misuse of science and statistics.
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 | Historical Perspectives on Climate Change by James Rodge Fleming
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £12.20 Fleming offers a brief historical overview of the development of climate change science, as well as some acute reflections on uncertainty and the scientific method.
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 | Granta 83: This Overheating World (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Buy used from: £0.01 A varied and insightful collection of writerly pieces on the subject of our warming world, including contributions from Bill McKibben, Thomas Keneally and Mark Lynas.
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 | Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman
Buy new: £10.20 / Used from: £6.67 Rudimann argues that humans have been influencing Earth's climate for far longer than 200 years - more like 8,000 years, in fact, ever since the development of irrigation agriculture.
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 | Climate Change What it Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and ... and Comparative Environmental Policy Series) by JFC DiMento
Buy new: £14.20 / Used from: £7.53 Another valuable anthology, with up-to-date entries covering science, politics and press coverage, as well as conflicting public attitudes to the issue of climate change.
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