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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about rising levels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sea level rise by the end of the century. Found in the book “ Energy and Man: A Symposium ” Provenance: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s Primer on Climate Denial Illustrates 5 Myths That Fuel Rejection of Science

DeSmogBlog

A study of California’s fires in 2018 – another hot, dry year – when the town of Paradise burned, estimated the damage , including health costs and economic disruption, at about $148.5 In a politically polarized society, individuals may feel pressured to make decisions based on what their social group believes. In the U.S.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. C we are still facing half a metre of sea level rise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sea level rise.

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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

DeSmogBlog

It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices.