Listed below is a sample of useful resources, which address some of the social and psychological issues of global warming, its effects, its mitigation and our adaptation.
BOOKS and PAPERS –
- Climate Change and the Coast – Bruce Glavovic from Massey University
- Climate Wars – Gwynne Dyer.
- Storms of My Grandchildren – James Hansen.
- This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein.
- Time of Useful Consciousness – Ralph Chapman from V.U.W.
- Why are we waiting: The Logic, Urgency & Promise of Tackling Climate Change – Lord Nicholas Stern.
- Climate Change, What Everyone Needs to Know – John Abraham.
- The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Colbert.
- The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy – Paul Gilding.
- Living in a Warmer World: How a Changing Climate Will Affect Our Lives – Jim Salinger.
- Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis – Tim Flannery.
- Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. – Tim Jackson.
- The Transition Handbook. Creating Local Sustainable Communities Beyond Oil Dependency. – Rob Hopkins.
- The End of Nature – Bill McKibben.
- Growth Shock – Robert Fanney.
- Oct – Nov 2015 NZ Geographic. Article – “Rising Seas”
- November 2015. National Geographic. Article – “Cool It”
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken. It deals with how a government can use taxation as a way of forcing business activity into climate supportive action.
- The Alarmist. 50 Years Measuring Climate Change - Dave Lowe.
- Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Copies available here
- Rethinking Climate Change - Disruptions, Implications and Choices. - The RethinkX group have published this report in which they look at - How Humanity Can Choose to Reduce Emissions 90% by 2035 through the Disruption of Energy, Transportation, and Food with Existing Technologies.
WEBSITES –
- The Climate Genn site has an excellent range of video clips including interviews with climate scientists.
- Debunking Climate Change myths http://www.skepticalscience.com/
- Multiple interesting articles on climate reality http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.co.nz
- A Tipping Point is a critical threshold at which a tiny change can dramatically alter the state of development of a system tipping past a point of no return. www.thetippingpoints.com
- James Hansen blogs, lectures etc. http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
- The Deep South Science Challenge, hosted by NIWA, is a research collaboration between Crown Research Institutes, universities and other research providers in NZ. http://www.deepsouthchallenge.co.nz/
- Animated history of CO2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0dXjmoA0dw&feature=youtu.be
- Popular site on global warming http://wattsupwiththat.com
- Arctic Methane Emergency Group. http://ameg.me/ and https://www.facebook.com/ArcticMethaneEmergencyGroup
- Psychological impacts of Climate Change https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-66-4-265.pdf
- Paul Beckwith - Climate System scientist. https://paulbeckwith.net/
- This site has an excellent range of resources including a list of Climate Change projects, libraries and repositories, free online sources for measuring your carbon footprint, apps to help you reduce your footprint and resources for assessing the greenness of your software.
MOVIES and WEBINARS –
- Wise Response NewZealand Seminar on Biophysical Limits To Growth - This webinar addresses the following question - Economic growth has become culturally, politically and institutionally engrained at a global scale. Is that sustainable? HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
- Interview with Paul Hawken about the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.
- ‘2 Degrees’ – Ange Palmer.
- ‘The Age of Stupid’ – Franny Armstrong.
- ‘Force of Nature’ – David Suzuki.
- ‘Cowspiracy’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
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