Climate Change: Resources & Information
Books on Climate Science (etc)
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing John Houghton
Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach William James Burroughs
The Rough Guide to Climate Change Bob Henson
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction Mark Maslin
The Long Thaw David Archer
Six Degrees Mark Lynas
The Weather Makers Tim Flannery
Carbon Calculator Mark Lynas
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air David MacKay (free as pdf from www.withouthotair.com)
And if you’re really serious…
Climate System Modeling Kevin E. Trenberth (editor) (Paperback available, 2010)
Additional Resources: for general information
• The Royal Society
– a general introduction to climate science is at http://royalsociety.org/climate-change-summary-of-science
• an attempt to address some of the controversial issues: http://royalsociety.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4294972967
– The New Scientist magazine: special report “Climate change: A guide for the perplexed”
• http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
– The Carbon Brief website: http://www.carbonbrief.org/
Additional Resources: for detailed information
• the Met Office (Hadley Centre), who run the best big, detailed climate models in the UK
• http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/index.html
• the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) http://www.ipcc.ch/ .
– the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of Working Group 1 (on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change)
• http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html .
– The whole report is also downloadable from the site at http://www.ipcc.ch (but only as individual chapters), as are the SPMs for WG 2 (Impacts) and WG 3 (Mitigation)…
Additional Resources: re Controversies
• For much more detailed and really well-informed discussion of climate change controversies, I strongly recommend the Realclimate web-log site at http://www.realclimate.org/
• Most of the main postings here are by really good & knowledgeable people, though you need patience to wade through all the comments. Check the index to see the tremendous range of subjects covered here…
Additional Resources: what you can do…
• General:
o www.actonco2.direct.gov.uk , www.newforestnpa.gov.uk, www.greeningcampaign.co.uk
• Energy efficiency & conservation
– http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/, http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/energy, http://www.carboncalculator.com
• Top Tips
– http://www.carbonneutral.com/pages/toptips.asp, http://www.cred-uk.org/CentralContent.aspx?intCID=4
• Carbon Emissions Offsetting
– http://www.climatecare.org/, http://www.carbonneutral.com/,
• For information on research about what to do about CC
• Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research http://www.tyndall.ac.uk