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[Glennie]

For any who might be interested, I have started reading The Hurricane Code by James Aura science-based climate fiction.

[Keira]

Hi I'm new here and honestly I don't really know how Goodreads works, I just wanted to ask you wonderful folk for recommendations of books that give you the cold hard facts about the current climate, I'm not talking essays or speeches, I just want the harshest telling of the facts. I've read Greta Thunberg's book, as well as this not a drill and how to save the world for free so I'm not short on the inspiration (or rage ) needed to drive my activism - I just really want a book that takes me into the nitty-gritty of it (that preferably isn't full of big science words I can't understand)
Thank you!!

[Esther]

That one is only reading list too. Enjoyed the author's other books, this one looks a bit different
Glennie wrote: "For any who might be interested, I have started reading The Hurricane Code by James Aura science-based climate fiction."

[Esther]

Hi, I suggest you take a look at the bookshelf of this group. Several good books on the subject there, including The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Keira wrote: "Hi I'm new here and honestly I don't really know how Goodreads works, I just wanted to ask you wonderful folk for recommendations of books that give you the cold hard facts about the current climat..."

[Chris]

Hi Keira,

Try out:

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
or
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
or perhaps some Naomi Klein, like
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

I could possibly arrange a free copy of
Operation Sustainable Human: A four-step scientific guide to combat climate change

If you'd like?



Keira wrote: "Hi I'm new here and honestly I don't really know how Goodreads works, I just wanted to ask you wonderful folk for recommendations of books that give you the cold hard facts about the current climat..."

[Keira]

Thank you both, I will check out all of them, ordinarily, I would jump at the chance of a free copy, but since they are planting trees I will definitely buy that last one!

[Luci]

One of these days I'm going to tackle No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann. I understand there's nothing else like it. But it's huge and our library doesn't have it and our inter library system is not back running again, so maybe this summer.

[Mathew]

Hi All, hope you are keeping well. Sorry to barge into the discussion but I'm new to goodreads - I came across this group as I am marketing my new book 'CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO'.

So I wanted to connect with you all - of course to plug my new book (sorry about that) but also in the 2 years I have been writing it I have been through at least 150 climate change books and thousands of technical papers etc - so if anyone wants recommendations on a particular topic - I'm happy to help out (I also run on blog on these topics www.net-zero.blog).

Also I would be super interested to hear which have been the most useful books you guys have read - there is always more being added to my reading list.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Margaret]

Recently finished The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Definitely recommend it.

[Mathew]

The Uninhabitable Earth is a very good read - well written - Wallace Wells get criticized for cherry picking the worse outcomes from the scientific literature though - but i really like the way he sets out the physical impacts of climate change in a clear order and links the science into personal stories

[Claire]

Mathew wrote: "The Uninhabitable Earth is a very good read - well written - Wallace Wells get criticized for cherry picking the worse outcomes from the scientific literature though - but i really like the way he ..."
Does Wells offer any practical, immediate solutions to reducing the affects of climate change now?

[P.L.]

Other authors do offer solutions. Solutions can be individual or collective, personal or political, direct or indirect, obvious or not, mundane or fancy, small scale or large scale. We must do everything we can.

Pete Kalmus tackles the "what can we do" in his climate nonfiction.

It's hard to imagine any one author covering all of the issue as there is so much to it. I'm a climate fiction author, for example, and my focus is on the real science behind the catastrophic changes underway.

Other authors focus on the extremity of climate events (hurricanes, drought, etc). Other authors focus on individual stories of people persevering during this challenge. Etc.

But authors who offer solutions certainly exist. I suggest looking up Kalmus (author) and see if his books are up your alley.

[Mathew]

I offer solutions in my book (Climate change and the road to Net-Zero)- for individual action, corporates, and governments - alongside mapping out what the technology transition needs to look like, what it will cost (spoiler net-zero will end up cheaper), and what the total impact is if we don't act. Plus the history of the climate divide and how we overcome it.

Other books which do the solutions well are Berners-Lee No planet B, and Sustainable Energy without the hot-air by David Mackay if you are into the engineering side.

[Jack]

Reading Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas, a very interesting read so far.

[Peter]

Iceapelago 2091, the sequel to my cli-fi novel Iceapelago, will be published in early September.

Am happy to provide an advanced copy to anyone who would like to post a review.

Summary: It’s thirty years since the collapse of the Gulf Stream and the arrival of the tsunamis from La Palma and the Eriador Ridge off Ireland’s Continental Shelf that created Iceapelago; thirty islands that were once Ireland. The survivors struggle in pre-medieval conditions to secure food and medicines ahead of Winter Day when tundra conditions lock down Iceapelago for months on end. The Commander, the titular head of Iceapelago, tries his best to manage rising dissent and dissatisfaction. He is supported by some but not all of the elected leaders, the Sixes and Sheriffs from the islands. An Arctic storm that arrives on the eve of Winter Day causes havoc.

See: www.iceapelago.com

[P.L.]

Matthew and Jack: Thank you.

Hi Peter,

I'll review it. Shoot me a message to exchange contact info.

My cli fi is always open to more reviews. Just had a good promo week with 3000+ downloads of the first - in - series and 70 sales of the sequel. No reviews, though.

"Aerovoyant" pulls up the title. Science fantasy based on earth history. I'm a retired planetary scientist.