Climate change Books and other Literature

[Triassic]

I’m currently reading a book about climate change called “The Uninhabitable Earth”.

 

Can anyone recommend any other well written and factually correct books or literature on climate change?

 

Thanks 

[Ed Davies]

Thin Ice by Mark Bowen. My longer comments.

[Triassic]

So there’s only two of us reading up about climate change?

 

 

[SteamyTea]

I read stuff, more the academic papers.

I shall look at my bookshelf and see what I have.

A lot of it is obvious though and then just goes into a well crafted rant.

What would be good is some more basic science stuff.

Thinking that showing people why CO₂, and other gases, actually changes the thermodynamics of the atmosphere.

Some basic statistics would help to.  Too many people think that a temperature rise is just like turning the heating up.  They don't grasp how a different climate regime changes the variability.

 

[Triassic]

9 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

i read stuff, more the academic papers.

Academic papers, excellent, feel free to list them.

 

I’m at the point where I agree with Greta, we need to take action now, so if you're unsure about climate warming you need to read up about it and start taking action.

 

https://skepticalscience.com/97-consensus-study-hits-million-downloads.html

 

 

 

[Ed Davies]

I recently read Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker in response to @SteamyTea's recommendation after he saw my Thin Ice blog post referenced above. It was a good recommendation.

 

It's about climate change some 600 million years ago and only tangentially relevant to modern AGW but still a good read and helpful background on the scientific process whereby ideas get tested and slowly incorporated into scientific knowledge, how pre-historic climate is deduced and the general physics and chemistry of the carbon cycle and its effect on climate.

[Jeremy Harris]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

Too many people think that a temperature rise is just like turning the heating up.  They don't grasp how a different climate regime changes the variability.

 

 

Very true.  I shared an office with a climate scientist (from the Hadley Centre) for about a year.  We had lots of interesting chats about climate change and one thing that stuck in my memory was the significant increase in energy in a warmer atmosphere, and the impact that has on weather systems.  It doesn't take much of a change to make weather events a great deal more extreme than we're used to, and I suspect it may be these greater extremes of weather that have the biggest impact on our lives.

[Ed Davies]

Regarding “…and other Literature”, here are a few climate blogs I read:

 

https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/

https://tamino.wordpress.com/

http://www.realclimate.org/

https://climatesight.org/

http://kevinanderson.info/blog/home-2/

https://michaelmann.net/blog

 

To be honest, there's not a lot of interesting stuff on many of these any more. All the important stuff has already been said over and over and now it's just a matter of details and playing word games with deniers.

[joth]

Uninhabitable Earth was the first book in the recently formed Climate Change reading group at work, others since then are Drawdown and Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air.

(I'm behind on them all, but trying to follow the group notes)

[Ed Davies]

32 minutes ago, joth said:

Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

 

For not-really-climate but relevant alternative energy reads there's also The Switch by Chris Goodall. “How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all”. It's often forgotten that climate is not the only reason [¹] to get off fossil fuels, just the most urgent one.

 

[¹] maybe not even the most important reason in the long term.

[epsilonGreedy]

3 hours ago, Triassic said:

So there’s only two of us reading up about climate change?

 

 

I spend a lot of time reading about the lack of climate change but did not respond earlier because I suspect contrarian material that doubts thermogeddonist culture would not be welcome.

 

The actual present convulsions of the earth's weakening magnetic field and after that the issue of plastic choking the worlds oceans are issues I spend more time worrying about.  

[Triassic]

17 minutes ago, epsilonGreedy said:

The actual present convulsions of the earth's weakening magnetic field 

I’ve often wonder about the effect of warming on a magnetic field ?

 

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207270

 

https://phys.org/news/2014-05-earth-magnetic-field-important-climate.html

 

 

Edited July 28, 2019 by Triassic

[epsilonGreedy]

8 minutes ago, Triassic said:

I’ve often wonder about the effect of warming on a magnetic field ?

 

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207270

 

 

An interesting association which indicates how much we have yet to learn about climate change. Re. the weakening magnetic field, I am more concerned about damaging solar rays bringing down the worlds communication networks.