Key Resources on Climate Change

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• Ten key books on the climate crisis
• Environmental organization websites, government agencies with relevant information on climate change, activities
• What would the world look like if the average temperature increases by 4 degrees (C)?

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Main

Hengeveld, Henry et al. ed. An Introduction to Climate Change: a Canadian Perspective. Environment Canada. Ottawa: Ministry of Public Works and Government Services. 2005. Also available at www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/scienceofclimatechange(link is external) A very good overview of the scientific background to the issue.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth. (DVD) Paramount Pictures, 2006. www.climatecrisis.net(link is external) The former American Vice-President’s presentation on global warming. The website has a downloadable education guide.

The following two books lay out the case for global warming and give suggestions for action:

1. Monbiot, George. Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. Toronto: Doubleday, 2006(link is external)
   Lynn McDonald’s discussion of this book.
2. Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How We are Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life On Earth. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006.
   Lynn McDonald’s discussion of this book.

Other Resources

• The website for the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(link is external)
• “The Stern Report”(link is external) A very important report from the UK on climate change
• Action in the United States on climate change
• Ontario government’s website on climate change: www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/air/climatechange/index.php(link is external)
• biblio.pacinst.org/biblio/ (link is external)A good climate change resource library search engine
• www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fgwscience2006.asp (link is external)An annotated bibliography on climate change for 2006

Ten key books on the climate crisis

• Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking 2005.
• Flannery, Tim. The Weathermakers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. New York: Atlantic Monthly 2005; and Now or Never: Why We Need to Act Now to Achieve a Sustainable Future. Toronto: Harper Collins 2009.
• Gore, Al. The Assault on Reason. New York: Penguin 2007.
• Hansen, James. Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and our Last Chance to Save Humanity. New York: Bloomsbury 2010.
• McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House 1989.
• Mitchell, Alanna. Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2009.
• Monbiot, George. Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. Canadian edition Toronto: Doubleday 2006.
• Simpson, Jeffrey, Mark Jaccard and Nick Rivers, Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge. Toronto: Douglas Gibson Books 2007.
• Weaver, Andrew. Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World. Toronto: Penguin 2008.

Environmental organization websites, government agencies with relevant information on climate change, activities

• National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (no longer available)
• Pembina Institute(link is external)
• Climate Action Network Canada(link is external)
• Sierra Club Canada(link is external)
• Greenpeace Canada(link is external)
• David Suzuki Foundation(link is external)
• Science for Peace(link is external)
• Post Carbon Toronto(link is external)
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)(link is external)
• Earth Charter(link is external)
• Alternatives Journal(link is external)