World climate change
a wake-up call


from Reggie Norton


A booklist and other useful information

General

Climate in the 21st Century. World Meteorological Organisation. Edited by William Burroughs. Cambridge University Press.2003.

Weather . A Visual Guide. Bruce Buckley, Edward J.Hopkins, Richard Whitaker. The Readers Digest Association.2004.

The Change in the Weather. People, Weather, and the Science of Climate. Williams K.Stevens. Delacorte Press,1999.

Book of the Weather. Philip Eden. Continuum. 2003.

Climate. The force that shapes our world - and the future of life on Earth.
Published by Rodale and written by advisers to the WWF.

Global Warming/ Climate Change.

High Tide. News from a Warming World. Mark Lynas. Flamingo. 2004.

The Discovery of Global Warming. Spencer R. Weart. Harvard. 2003.

Boiling Point. How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists have Fueled the Climate Crisis- and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. Ross Gelbspan. Basic Books. 2004.

The NO-NONSENSE guide to Climate Change. Dinyar Godrej. New Internationalist. Verso.2001.

Beating the Heat. Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming. John J. Berger. Berkeley Hills Books. 2000.

This Overheating World. Granta 83.Autumn 2003.

How We Can Save the Planet. Mayer Hillman with Tina Fawcett. Penguin Books. 2004. IF YOU ONLY BUY ONE BOOK BUY THIS; ONLY £5.

The Breakdown of Climate. Human Choices or Global Disaster. Peter Bunyard. Floris Books.1999.

Red Sky at Morning. America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. With a New Afterword on Climate Change. James Gustave Speth.Yale Nota Bene. 2004.

Dead Heat. Global Justice and Global Warming. Tom Athanasiou & Paul Baer. Seven Stories Press. 2002.

Global Warming. The Complete Briefing. John Houghton. Cambridge University Press. 2nd Edition. 1997.

Books on How to Change the Way You Live.

101 Solutions. The DIY Guide to Climate Change. Available free from The Greenhouse Trust, 42-46, Bethel Street, Norwich, Norfolk. NR2 INR AND can be downloaded from The Greenhouse

Save Our Planet. 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth. Diane MacEachern. A Dell Trade Paperback.1990.

Stormy Weather. 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change. Guy Dauncey with Patrick Mazza. New Society Publishers.2001.

United Nations Environment Programme Books.

Tunza. Acting For a Better World. UNEP. 2003.

GEO YEAR BOOK 2003.

GEO YEAR BOOK. An Overview of Our Changing Environment. 2004.

Global Environment Outlook 3 Earthscan. 2002.

Vital Climate Graphics. The Impacts of Climate Change. For Overhead Projector and with CD. 2000

Theology.

Earth Spirituality, Jesus at the Centre. Edward P. Echlin. New Alresford: John Hunt. 1999/2002.

The Cosmic Circle. Jesus and Ecology. Edward P. Echlin. The Columba Press. 2004.

Passion for the Earth. Sean McDonagh,SSC 1999.

Why are we deaf to the Cry of the Earth. Sean McDonagh,SSC. 2001.

The Death of Life - The Horror of Extinction. Sean McDonagh,SSC. 2004

Care for Creation. Human Activity and the Environment. Sister Marjorie Keenan, RSHM. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City. 2000

From Stockholm to Johannesberg. An Historical Overview of the Concern of the Holy See for the Environment. 1972-2002. Vatican City 2002.

Miscellaneous

Energy Beyond Oil. Paul Mobbs. Matador Publishing. 2005.

Where on Earth are We Going ? Maurice Strong. Texere. 2001.

Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. Jared Diamond. Allen Lane. 2005. Great book. Read chapters 14, 16 and pages 555-560 at least. Highly recommended.

The Climate of Man I,II & III. Three articles in the New Yorker of April 25, May 2 & May 9, 2005. Well worth reading.


Videos

The Day the Ocean Boiled. Channel 4 Equinox. Dox Productions. Possibly only transcript available from Dox Productions.

Global Dimming. Horizon. BBC2. Video, possibly not available, but transcript downloadable from BBC website.

Websites.

STOP CLIMATE CHAOS. This is the new coalition of agencies campaigning which was launched on 1st September, 2005.

Operation Noah. The Churches Together In Britain and Ireland’s campaign on climate change. This is the organisation I belong to. I’m on the Executive Committee. A very good site.

Campaign Against Climate Change. Organising demos against climate change. Next one on the 3rd December 2005.

Climate Prediction. Much information. (In the US join the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, etc.)

The Worldwatch Institute/ Produces State of the World Report and Vital Signs each year.

World Resources Institute. Good source of information.

Global Commons Institute. This is the site of Contraction and Convergence.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office.

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Research institute; good source of information.

The Pew Center on Climate Change.

Heat is Online. News and reports. Produced by Ross Gelbspan, one of whose books I recommend above.

Carbon calculator, to help you calculate yours

The Guardian. They cover the news very well.

The Man in Seat 61. HOW TO GET ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WITHOUT FLYING.

The BBC website is excellent.

Climate Action Network. A worldwide network. Low-Impact Living Initiative.

New Economics Foundation. Think tank working to construct a new economy centered on people and the environment.

Good Energy. Find a domestic supplier of 100% renewable electricity.

New Scientist.