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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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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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Not so moral money?

Business Green

Kirk is right to argue that we have a remarkable track record of resilience and ingenuity. Leaving aside whether or not pretty much the entire scientific, political, and financial establishment is populated by "nutjobs", Kirk is guilty of a long-standing error about the nature of risk. It is six years.

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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 Climate-Friendly is Liz Truss’s Cabinet?

DeSmogBlog

Braverman’s Head of Communications David Scullion is deputy political editor of The Critic magazine, which regularly publishes articles attacking climate action by Craig Mackinlay , a Conservative backbencher who runs the NZSG with Baker. In 2015, she said fracking was “good for UK economy, self sufficient energy needs & environment”.

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Renewable Energy World

It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”. Nuclear is also low-carbon, but expensive and politically problematic.) The Conversation , CC BY-ND. Over many decades, the U.S.