Books, References and Links

This list will be updated as we go along. I’m sure that readers will have excellent suggestions and I will add any that seem appropriate.

Suggested books

       Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Gared Diamond

       What’s the Worst that Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate, by Greg Craven

       Our Choice, A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore

       Also by Al Gore: Climate Change: Picturing the Science

       The Flooded Earth by Peter Ward -- explaining the
effect of carbon dioxide and ice cap melting on the rise of sea levels and the destruction of much agricultural land and coastal cities/populations.

       Also by Peter Ward: The life and death of Planet Earth

Interesting Links

Naomi Klein: Why Climate Change Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues

http://www.alternet.org/water/150180       "Climate change challenges everything conservatives believe in. So they're choosing to disbelieve it, at our peril."

From my friend Arden: Suggested presentations on www.ted.com .

·        www.ted.com/talks/peter_ward_on_mass_extinctions.html  makes the case that the past mass extinctions were caused by carbon dioxide build ups and Hydrogen Sulfide releases, not just extraterrestrial body impacts. 

 www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html  talks about GDP being a poor national measure of well-being. Also, that the Declaration of Independence calls for the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (not the pursuit of GDP).

 http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/juan_enriquez_wants_to_grow_energy.html Juan talks about bioenergy and global warming and the destructive path we are on. He also has a TED eBook on evolution going forward.

 http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html  talks about population growth with excellent graphics.

Articles

Here's an article about the GOP and science: "3/4ths of Senate GOP Doesn't Believe in Science"

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150340

Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense by John Rennie. Scientific American –November 30, 2009