Recommended Climate Change Reports, Articles, Websites, Books, Films


1	Author	Title	Type	Date	Link	Key Messages
2	Bill McKibben	Global Warming's Terrifying New Math	Article	July, 2012	http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719	80% of fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground to avoid more than 2C warming
3	Carbon Tracker	Unburnable Carbon – Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?	Report	July, 2011	http://www.carbontracker.org/carbonbubble	Only 20% of total fossil fuel reserves can be burned unabated, leaving up to 80% of assets technically unburnable
4	Carbon Tracker & Grantham Research Institute	Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets	Report	2013	http://www.carbontracker.org/wastedcapital	Fossil fuel reserves already far exceed the carbon budget to avoid global warming of 2°C, but in spite of this, $674billion was spent last year to find and develop new potentially stranded assets.
5	Center for Climate and Energy Solutions	Weathering the Storm: Building Business Resilience to Climate Change	Report	July, 2013	http://www.c2es.org/initiatives/business-resilience	The state of resilience planning among a cross-section of global companies. Outlines steps companies can take to better assess and manage their growing climate risks.
6	Clean Air-Cool Planet and Forum for the Future	Getting to Zero: Defining Corporate Carbon Neutrality	Report	June, 2008	http://www.forumforthefuture.org/project/getting-zero-defining-corporate-carbon-neutrality/overview	Recommendations for companies that are considering making a carbon neutral claim – and which stakeholders can use to evaluate any claim.
7	Climate Counts	Assessing Corporate Emissions Performance through the Lens of Climate Science	Report	2013	http://carbonscore.climatecounts.org/
8	Donella Meadows	Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System	Article	1999	http://www.sustainer.org/pubs/Leverage_Points.pdf	A seminal article in systems thinking. Identifies 12 ways to intervene in a System, in increasing order of effectiveness.
9	James Hansen	What we owe our kids on climate	Article	December, 2013	http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/06/opinion/hansen-climate-last-chance	Science and the knowledge it brings is a gift only if we use it. Failing to act on our knowledge to protect future generations would be the gravest injustice of all.
10	Hansen J, Kharecha P, Sato M, Masson-Delmotte V, Ackerman F, et al. (2013)	Assessing ‘‘Dangerous Climate Change’’: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature	Journal Article	December, 2013	http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0081648	A cumulative industrial-era limit of ~500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted. Cumulative emissions of ~1000 GtC, sometimes associated with 2°C global warming, would spur “slow” feedbacks and eventual warming of 3–4°C with disastrous consequences.
11	International Energy Agency	World Energy Outlook 2012	Report	November, 2012	http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/publications/weo-2012/	Need to leave 2/3 of fossil fuels in ground to avoid more than 2C warming
12	IPCC	IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)	Series of Reports	2007	http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml#1	These reports are long and detailed. Summaries are available. The reports amalgamate what is know about climate Science, Impacts & Adaptation, and Mitigation. Updates approx. every 5 years. The next update (Fifth Assessment Report) is due later in 2013.
13	IPCC	IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)	Series of Reports	2013	www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5
14	Jonathan Rowson	A New Agenda on Climate Change: Facing Up to Stealth Denial and Winding Down on Fossil Fuels	Report	2013	http://www.thersa.org/action-research-centre/learning,-cognition-and-creativity/social-brain/reports/a-new-agenda-on-climate-change	This report makes a case for how Britain can take a leading role in addressing the global climate problem, based on a new agenda that faces up to pervasive ‘stealth denial’ and the need to focus on keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Our data indicates that about two thirds of the population intellectually accept the reality of anthropogenic climate change, but ‘deny’ some or all of the commensurate feelings, responsibility and agency that are necessary to deal with it. It is argued that this stealth denial may be what perpetuates the doublethink of trying to minimise carbon emissions while maximising fossil fuel production, and also what makes us expect far too much of energy efficiency gains in the face of a range of rebound effects that lead energy to be used elsewhere.
15	Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News	The Most Influential Climate Science Paper Today Remains Unknown to Most People	Article	February, 2013	http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140213/climate-change-science-carbon-budget-nature-global-warming-2-degrees-bill-mckibben-fossil-fuels-keystone-xl-oil	Summarizes the 2009 Nature paper "Greenhouse-Gas Emission Targets for Limiting Global Warming to 2C" by research team led by Malte Meinshausen, a climatologist at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact.
16	McKinsey	Cost Curves for GHG Mitigation	Series of Reports	Various	http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/sustainability/latest_thinking/greenhouse_gas_abatement_cost_curves	A fact base on emissions-reduction opportunities and their associated cost and investment needs.
17	Partnership for Resilience and Environmental Preparedness (PREP)	Value Chain Climate Resilience: A guide to managing climate impacts in companies and communities	Report	July, 2012	http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/prep-value-chain-climate-resilience	The climate is changing and impacts on businesses and communities are already being felt. This guide was developed to address the risks and opportunities that climate change impacts pose to businesses and the communities on which they depend.
18	Paul Gilding	Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement?	Blog Post	March, 2013	http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/victoryathand.html	A remarkably optimistic article: "There are signs the climate movement could be on the verge of a remarkable and surprising victory."
19	PricewaterhouseCoopers	PwC Low Carbon Economy Index 2012: Too late for two degrees?	Report	2012	http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/sustainability/publications/low-carbon-economy-index/index.jhtml	Need to decarbonize global economy 5% per year every year until 2050 to achieve 2C warming. Not once since 1950 has the world achieved that rate of decarbonisation in a single year, but the task now confronting us is to achieve it for 39 consecutive years.
20	World Bank	Turn Down the Heat - Why a 4 degree C Warmer World Must be Avoided	Report	November, 2012	http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/11/18/Climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-this-century	Warns we’re on track for a 4°C warmer world marked by extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise.
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1	Name	Link	Description
2	Center for Climate and Energy Solutions	http://www.c2es.org/	An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and climate change. The successor to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
3	Climate Central	http://www.climatecentral.org/	An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.
4	Climate Progress	http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/	New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called this “the indispensable blog”. I agree. Climate science, policy and solutions.
5	Climate Reality Project	http://climaterealityproject.org/	Dedicated to unleashing a global cultural movement demanding action on the climate crisis.
6	Global warming skeptics	http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_warming_skeptics
7	Grist	http://grist.org/climate-energy/
8	How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming	http://grist.org/series/skeptics/	A series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming.
9	Inside Climate News	http://insideclimatenews.org/	InsideClimate News is a Pulitzer prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan news organization that covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped.
10	NASA Climate Change Resources	http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resource_center	A wonderful collection of resources about climate change
11	Real Climate	http://www.realclimate.org/	A commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.
12	Shrink That Footprint	http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/	Shrink That Footprint is a resource for squeezing more life out of less carbon. Some great information on how to understand, calculate and reduce your carbon footprint. Includes a carbon footprint calculator that works for the UK and US; parts of it can be useful for other countries.
13	Skeptical Science	http://www.skepticalscience.com/	This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
14	Skeptical Science: Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming	http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming.htm	A very useful page from a great website.
15	Skeptical Science: The human fingerprint in global warming	http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-fingerprint-in-global-warming.html	A very useful page from a great website.
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1	Author	Title	Date	Link	Review	On Amazon.com	On Amazon.ca
2	Ajit Varki and Danny Brower	Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind	2013	http://cmm.ucsd.edu/varki/denial/home.html		http://www.amazon.com/Denial-Self-Deception-False-Beliefs-Origins/dp/1455511919	http://www.amazon.ca/Denial-Self-Deception-False-Beliefs-Origins/dp/1455511919
3	Al Gore	Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis	2009	http://ourchoicethebook.com/		http://www.amazon.com/Our-Choice-Solve-Climate-Crisis/dp/1594867348	http://www.amazon.ca/Our-Choice-Solve-Climate-Crisis/dp/1594867348
4	Amory Lovins et al.	Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era	2011	http://www.rmi.org/reinventingfire		http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Fire-Business-Solutions-Energy/dp/1603583718	http://www.amazon.ca/Reinventing-Fire-Business-Solutions-Energy/dp/1603583718
5	Bill McKibben	Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist	2013	http://www.billmckibben.com/oilandhoney.html
6	Dennis and Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers and Bill Behrens	The Limits to Growth	1972
7	George Marshall	Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change	2014	http://www.climateconviction.org/
8	George Monbiot	Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning	2006	http://www.monbiot.com/2006/11/07/heat/		http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Stop-Planet-From-Burning/dp/0896087794	http://www.amazon.ca/Heat-Stop-Planet-From-Burning/dp/038566222X
9	John Ehrenfeld and Andrew Hoffman	Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability	2013	http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22399		http://www.amazon.com/Flourishing-Frank-Conversation-about-Sustainability/dp/0804784159	http://www.amazon.ca/Flourishing-Frank-Conversation-about-Sustainability/dp/0804784159
10	Jonathon Poirritt	The World We Made: Alex McKay’s Story from 2050	2013	http://ca.phaidon.com/store/general-non-fiction/my-world-your-future-9780714863610/		http://www.amazon.com/The-World-We-Made-McKays/dp/0714863610	http://www.amazon.ca/The-World-We-Made-McKays/dp/0714863610
11	Kerry Emanuel	What We Know About Climate Change	2012	https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-we-know-about-climate-change	"Kerry Emanuel's book What We Know About Climate Change is one of the best [books on climate change] and is certainly the shortest. In less time than it takes to eat dinner, the respected atmospheric scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor filters out the noise and presents clearly the essence of the issues that surround global warming."—The Plain Dealer	http://www.amazon.com/About-Climate-Change-Boston-Review/dp/0262018438	http://www.amazon.ca/About-Climate-Change-Boston-Review/dp/0262018438
12	Michael Mann	The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines	2012	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hockey_Stick_and_the_Climate_Wars		http://www.amazon.com/The-Hockey-Stick-Climate-Wars/dp/023115254X	http://www.amazon.ca/The-Hockey-Stick-Climate-Wars/dp/023115254X
13	Naomi Klein	This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate	2014	http://thischangeseverything.org/
14	Paul Gilding	The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World	2012	http://paulgilding.com/the-great-disruption		http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Disruption-Climate-Shopping/dp/1608193535	http://www.amazon.ca/The-Great-Disruption-Climate-Shopping/dp/1608193535
15	Per Espen Stoknes	What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming: Towards a NEW PSYCHOLOGY of Climate Action	2015	http://www.chelseagreen.com/what-we-think-about-when-we-try-not-to-think-about-global-warming
16	Tim Flannery	The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth	2006	http://www.theweathermakers.org/		http://www.amazon.com/The-Weather-Makers-Changing-Climate/dp/0802142923	http://www.amazon.ca/The-Weather-Makers-Changing-Climate/dp/0802142923
17	Tim Jackson	Prosperity Without Growth	2009
18	Tom Rand	Waking the Frog: Solutions for our Climate Change Paralysis	2014
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1	Name	Year	Link	Description	Tags
2	An Inconvenient Truth	2006
3	A personal and a global view of energy and climate. Saul Griffith (part 1 )		http://blip.tv/slowtv/a-personal-and-a-global-view-of-energy-and-climate-saul-griffith-p1-3544261	Speaking at the University of Sydney, scientist, engineer and entrepeneur Saul Griffith lays out the energy requirements of a single person in a developed country - using his own behaviour as the model - using it as a basis for a discussion of the incredible challenges involved in replacing fossil-fueled energy with renewable and low-carbon forms.
4	A personal and a global view of energy and climate. Saul Griffith (part 2 )		http://www.themonthly.com.au/video/2013/03/24/1364105156/personal-and-global-view-energy-and-climate-saul-griffith-p2	Speaking at the University of Sydney, scientist, engineer and entrepeneur Saul Griffith lays out the energy requirements of a single person in a developed country - using his own behaviour as the model - using it as a basis for a discussion of the incredible challenges involved in replacing fossil-fueled energy with renewable and low-carbon forms.
5	Chasing Ice
6	Do The Math	2013	http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie/
7	Do The Math	2013	http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/do-the-math/	Alternate link to watch this movie
8	How Global Warming Works		http://www.howglobalwarmingworks.org/	These 5 videos explain how global warming (or climate change) works in as few as 52 seconds. Their most detailed video is less than 5 minutes long.
9	Interstellar	2014
10	Last Call	2013	http://www.lastcallthefilm.org/	The documentary Last Call tells the story of the rise and fall, and of today’s rebirth of one of the most controversial and inspiring environmental books of all times - The Limits to Growth. It follows the events through the book’s mentors – Aurelio Peccei and Jay Forrester – and the authors – Dennis and Donella Meadows, Jørgen Randers and Bill Behrens. All different personalities united by their care for future generations.
11	Passive House Revolution				Efficiency, Housing, Solutions
12	Surviving Progress	2011	http://survivingprogress.com/	Surviving Progress is a 2011 Canadian documentary film loosely based on A Short History of Progress, a book and a 2004 Massey Lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse.
13	The Age of Stupid
14	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind		http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_how_i_harnessed_the_wind.html	At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed his life.
15	This Changes Everything	2015	http://thischangeseverything.org/the-documentary/	This Changes Everything is an invitation to viewers to consider the seemingly impossible: that the changes the climate crisis demands of us may not be a punishment to fear, but a chance to rebuild our broken political and economic systems into alternatives that improve our quality of life, well-being and connectedness to one another.
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1	There are a countless number of resources available about climate change and global warming. This document is my attempt to list the ones that I find most useful, and that I recommend, for understanding the scope of the problem, and the range of solutions. It is highly selective, and is not meant to be a comprehensive. I do welcome suggestions to enhance this list. Please email suggestions to canoedunk "at" gmail.com
2	I am also started to add some resources that fall into the category of "telling a new story" about where we are going as a culture. Let me know what you think!
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