Climate Change Secondary

Booklist

An Inconvienient Truth: The planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (by Al Gore)

An informative and compelling book written by the former Vice-President of the USA, Al Gore. This is a simple and well told account of how the world and its leaders need to wake up to climate change and do something before it is too late.

Carbon Counter - Calculate your carbon footprint (by Mark Lynas)

Find out how to calculate your own carbon footprint with this book and then compare it to global averages around the world. A great way to find out how your daily routine and lifestyle choices impact on the environment and how making a few changes can make a big difference to our world.

Climate Change Begins at home: Life on the Two-Way Street of global Warming (by Dave Reay)

This book asks the reader to make a difference on their own. Reay believes that rather than waiting for the world's governments and large industries to make a change, we could all do our little bit to make a big difference.

Funny Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out (by Kate Evans)

The main scientific musings and principles about climate change by Britain's leading cartoonist.

Global warming: The Last Chance for Change (by Paul Brown)

This visually stunning and informative book steps aside from the usual heavily scientific publications in this arena and attempts to get its message across in a simple but hard-hitting way.

Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning (by George Monibot)

This book by one of the world's leading political and environmental academics discusses how we can halt the effects of climate change by changing the way we live. Monibot attacks those who deny that there is a problem and trys to convince us that we need to do something to save the planet and ultimately ourselves.

High Tide: News from a Warming World (by Mark Lynas)

This book takes a look at the impacts of climate change already being seen in today's world and how people are dealing with this in their everyday lives.

How to Live a Low-carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change (by Chris Goodall)

An informative book that helps you to calculate your carbon footprint and helps you to reduce it.

I count (Stop Climate Chaos)

A guide that tells you in simple terms how you can make a difference and help to stop climate chaos.

Six degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (by Mark Lynas)

Here we are confronted with what our world could be like in the future if climate change is not tackled properly. Lynas creates an all too real world created by a rise in temprature of just a few degrees and the outcome we are confronted with is one of devastation. Look ahead with this book to 2100 as the effects of global warming ripple across the globe and forever change the face of the world as we know it.

The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge (by Kirstin Dow)

With more than 50 full colour maps and graphics this resource highlights the possible impacts of climate change on the world and investigates what efforts are being made to combat this growing problem.

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (by Nicholas Stern)

Written by the Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank, this book focuses on the economics of the climate change problem. This is a good resource for economic students and everyone involved in tackling the problem.

The Rough Guide to Climate Change (by Robert Henson)

This book tackles the full story of the current climate change issue. It gives an in-depth look into all aspects of the problem and explains the main arguments from both supporter and sceptics. It provides an unbiased and detailed account of the scientific history of global warming and offers some predictions for the future of our planet's climate.

The Rough Guide to Ethical Living (by Duncan Clark)

This guide gives you all the answers to living a more ethical life in today's world. It provides information on how to be a responsible consumer and reduce your carbon footprint by making more ethical choices in life.

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