| THE CLIMATE BOOK Greta Thunberg New York: Penguin Press, February 2023 |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-593-49230-7 | ||||
| ISBN 0-593-49230-7 | 446pp. | HC/BWI | $30.00 | |
PART ONE /  |
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| How Climate Works | ||
| 1.1 | "To Solve This Problem, We Need To Understand It" / Greta Thunberg | 2 |
| 1.2 | The Deep History of Carbon Dioxide | 6 |
| Peter Brannen / Science journalist, contributing writer at the Atlantic and author of The Ends of the World | ||
| 1.3 | Our Evolutionary Impact | 9 |
| Beth Shapiro / Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz | ||
| and author of Life As We Made It | ||
| 1.4 | Civilization and Extinction | 11 |
| Elizabeth Kolbert / Staff writer for the New Yorker and author, | ||
| most recently, of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future | ||
| 1.5 | "The Science Is As Solid As It Gets" / Greta Thunberg | 18 |
| 1.6 | The Discovery of Climate Change | 23 |
| Michael Oppenheimer / Atmospheric scientist, Princeton University's Professor of Geosciences | ||
| and International Affairs and long-time IPCC author | ||
| 1.7 | Why Didn't They Act? | 29 |
| Naomi Oreskes / Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of | ||
| Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University | ||
| 1.8 | Tipping Points and Feedback Loops | 32 |
| Johan Rockström / Director of the Potsdam Institute for | ||
| Climate Impact Research at Potsdam University | ||
| 1.9 | "This Is the Biggest Story in the World" / Greta Thunberg | 41 |
| PART TWO / |
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| How Our Planet Is Changing | ||
| 2.1 | "The Weather Seems To Be on Steroids" / Greta Thunberg | 48 |
| 2.2 | Heat | 50 |
| Katherine Hayhoe / Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at | ||
| Texas Tech University and author of Saving Us | ||
| 2.3 | Methane and Other Gases | 53 |
| Zeke Hausfather / Climate Research Lead at Stripe, | ||
| Research Scientist at Berkeley Earth | ||
| 2.4 | Air Pollution and Aerosols | 57 |
| Bjøn H. Samset / Senior Researcher at CICERO Center for International Climate | ||
| Research, and IPCC lead author, and expert on the effects of non-CO2 emissions | ||
| 2.5 | Clouds | 60 |
| Paulo Ceppi / Lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute | ||
| and the Department of Physics at Imperial College London | ||
| 2.6 | Arctic Warming and the Jet Stream | 62 |
| Jennifer Francis / Senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and | ||
| formerly Research Professor in Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University | ||
| 2.7 | Dangerous Weather | 67 |
| Friederike Otto / Senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute | ||
| at Imperial College London and co-lead at World Weather Attribution | ||
| 2.8 | "The Snowball Has Been Set in Motion" / Greta Thunberg | 72 |
| 2.9 | Droughts and Floods | 74 |
| Kate Marvel / Climate scientist at the Columbia University Center for | ||
| Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | ||
| 2.10 | Ice Sheets, Shelves and Glaciers | 76 |
| Ricarda Winkelmann / Professor of Climate System Analysis at the | ||
| Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Potsdam | ||
| 2.11 | Warming Oceans and Rising Seas | 79 |
| Stefan Ramstorf / Head of Earth Systems Analysis at the Potsdam Institute | ||
| and Professor of Physics of the Oceans at the University of Potsdam | ||
| 2.12 | Acidification and Marine Ecosystems | 84 |
| Hans-Otto Pörtner / Climatologist, physiologist, Professor and Head of | ||
| the Department of Integrative Ecophysiology at the Alfred Wegener Institute | ||
| 2.13 | Microplastics | 86 |
| Karin Kvale / Senior researcher at GNS Science and expert in modeling the | ||
| role of marine ecology in global biogeochemical cycles | ||
| 2.14 | Fresh Water | 88 |
| Peter H. Gleick / Co-founder and president-emeritus at the Pacific Institute, | ||
| member US National Academy of Sciences, hydroclimatologist | ||
| 2.15 | "It is much closer to home than we think" / Greta Thunberg | 90 |
| 2.16 | Wildfires | 96 |
| Joëlle Gergis / Senior lecturer in Climate Science at the Australian National | ||
| University and lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report | ||
| 2.17 | The Amazon | 99 |
| Carlos A. Nobre / Earth System scientist on the Amazon, Chair of the Science Panel | ||
| for the Amazon and the convener of the Amazonia 4.0 Project | ||
| Julia Arieira / Plant Ecologist and Earth system scientist at Brazil's Federal | ||
| University of Espirito Santo | ||
| Nathália Nascimento / Geographer and Earth system scientist at | ||
| Brazil's Federal University of Espirito Santo | ||
| 2.18 | Boreal and Temperate Forests | 102 |
| Beverly E. Law / Professor Emeritus (sic) of of Global Change Biology and | ||
| Terrestrial Systems Science at Oregon State University | ||
| 2.19 | Terrestrial Biodiversity | 106 |
| Adriana De Palma / World Economic Forum Young Scientist and | ||
| senior researcher at the Natural History Museum in London | ||
| Andy Purvis / Biodiversity researcher at the Natural History Museum in London; led | ||
| a chapter of the first IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services/TD> | ||
| 2.20 | Insects | 110 |
| Dave Goulson / Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex; author of over | ||
| 400 scientific articles on insect ecology and, among other books, Silent Earth | ||
| 2.21 | Nature's Calendar | 113 |
| Keith W. Larson / Ecologist researching environmental change in the Arctic | ||
| and Director of the Arctic Centre at Umeâ University | ||
| 2.22 | Soil | 116 |
| Jennifer L. Soong / Soil carbon scientist at Corteva; affiliate scientist at Colorado | ||
| State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | ||
| 2.23 | Permafrost | 118 |
| Örjan Gustafsson / Professor in Biogeochemistry at Stockholm University, | ||
| and elected Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | ||
| 2.24 | What Happens at 1.5, 2 and 4°C of Warming? | 122 |
| Tamsin Edwards / Climate scientist at King's College London, an IPCC lead | ||
| author and science communicator specializing in uncertainties in sea-level rise | ||
| PART THREE / |
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| How It Affects Us | ||
| 3.1 | "The world has a fever" / Greta Thunberg | 131 |
| 3.2 | Health and Climate | 134 |
| Tedros Adhamom Ghebreyesus / Director General of the | ||
| World Health Organization | ||
| 3.3 | Heat and Illness | 137 |
| Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera / Environmental epidemiologist, leader of the | ||
| Climate Change and Health research group at the University of Bern | ||
| 3.4 | Air Pollution | 140 |
| Drew Shindell / Climate Scientist and Distinguished Professor at Duke University's | ||
| Nicholas School of the Environment, author on multiple IPCC Assessments | ||
| 3.5 | Vector-borne Diseases | 143 |
| Felipe J. Colón-González / Assistant Professor at the Department of Infectious | ||
| Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine | ||
| 3.6 | Antibiotic Resistance | 147 |
| John Brownstein / Chief innovation Officer, Boston Children's Hospital; | ||
| Professor of Biological Informatics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School | ||
| Derek McFadden / Clinician scientist at the Ottawa Hospital; Junior Clinical Research | ||
| Chair in Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance at the University of Ottawa, Canada | ||
| Sarah McGough / Infectious disease epidemiologist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of | ||
| Public Health | ||
| Mauricio Santillana / Professor of Physics, Northeastern University, and | ||
| Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | ||
| 3.7 | Food and Nutrition | 149 |
| Samuel S. Myers / Principal research scientist, Harvard T. H. Chan School of | ||
| Public Health and Director, Planetary Health Alliance | ||
| 3.8 | "We are not all in the same boat" / Greta Thunberg | 154 |
| 3.9 | Life at 1.1°C | 158 |
| Saleemul Huq / Director of the International Center for Climate Change | ||
| and Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh | ||
| 3.10 | Environmental Racism | 162 |
| Jacqueline Patterson / Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm | ||
| Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black front-line climate justice leadership | ||
| 3.11 | Climate Refugees | 165 |
| Abrahm Lustgarten / Investigative reporter for ProPublica and the New York Times | ||
| Magazine, author of a forthcoming book about climate-driven migration in the US | ||
| 3.12 | Sea-level Rise and Small Islands | 169 |
| Michael Taylor / Caribbean climate scientist, IPCC lead author, Professor and dean | ||
| of the Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of the West Indies, Mona | ||
| 3.13 | Rain in the Sahel | 171 |
| Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim / Indigenous woman, geographer and coordinator of | ||
| the Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad; UN Sustainable | ||
| Development Goals advocate | ||
| 3.14 | Winter in Sápmi | 173 |
| Elin Anna Labba / Sámi journalist and writer working with Indigenous literatures | ||
| at Tjállgoahte in Jokkmokk, Sweden | ||
| 3.15 | Fighting for the Forest | 173 |
| Sônia Guajajara / Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist and | ||
| politician, and coordinator of the Association of Indigenous People of Brazil | ||
| 3.16 | "Enormous challenges are waiting" / Greta Thunberg | 180 |
| 3.17 | Warming and Inequality | 182 |
| Solomon Hsiang / Scientist and economist, Professor and Director of the | ||
| Global Policy Laboratory at UC Berkeley; co-founder of the Climate Impact Lab | ||
| 3.18 | Water Shortages | 162 |
| Taikan Oki / Global hydrologist, former Senior Vice-Rector of the | ||
| United Nations University, and an IPCC Coordinating Lead Author | ||
| 3.19 | Climate Conflicts | 188 |
| Marshall Burke / Associate Professor in the Department of Earth System | ||
| Science at Stanford University and co-founder of Atlas AI | ||
| 3.20 | The True Cost of Climate Change | 191 |
| Eugene Linden / Journalist and author; his most recent book on climate change | ||
| is Fire and Flood. Previously, The Winds of Change won a Grantham Award. | ||
| PART FOUR / |
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| What We've Done About It | ||
| 4.1 | "How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed?" / Greta Thunberg | 200 |
| 4.2 | The New Denialism | 204 |
| Kevin Anderson / Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the Universities of | ||
| Manchester, Uppsala, and Bern | ||
| 4.3 | The Truth about Government Climate Targets | 210 |
| Alexandra Urisman Otto / Climate reporter at the Swedish newspaper Dagens | ||
| Nyheter and co-author of Gretas resa (Greta's Journey) | ||
| 4.4 | "We are not moving in the right direction" / Greta Thunberg | 216 |
| 4.5 | The Persistence of Fossil Fuels | 219 |
| Bill McKibben / Founder of the environmental organizations 350.org and Third Act | ||
| and author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature and Eaarth | ||
| 4.6 | The Rise of Renewables | 224 |
| Glen Peters / Research Director at the Center for International Climate Research in | ||
| Oslo; member of the executive team of the Global Carbon Budget; an IPCC lead author | ||
| 4.7 | How Can Forests Help Us? | 230 |
| Karl-Heinz Erb / An IPCC lead author, Director of the Institute of Social Ecology | ||
| and Associate Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna | ||
| Simone Gingrich / Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Ecology, | ||
| University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna | ||
| 4.8 | What about Geoengineering? | 233 |
| Niclas Hällström / Director of WhatNext?, President of the ETC Group, and senior | ||
| affiliate at Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University | ||
| Jennie C. Stephens / Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at | ||
| Northeastern University, and author of Diversifying Power | ||
| Isak Stoddard / PhD candidate in Natural Resources and Sustainable | ||
| Development at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University | ||
| 4.9 | Drawdown Technologies | 235 |
| Rob Jackson / Earth scientist at Stanford University and Chair of the | ||
| Global Carbon Project | ||
| 4.10 | "A whole new way of thinking" / Greta Thunberg | 240 |
| 4.11 | Our Imprint on the Land | 244 |
| Alexander Popp / Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact | ||
| Research and leader of a research group on land-use management | ||
| 4.12 | The Calorie Question | 248 |
| Michael Clark / Environmental scientist at the University of Oxford, | ||
| focusing on food systems' contribution to climate, biodiversity and well-being | ||
| 4.13 | Designing New Food Systems | 252 |
| Sonja Vermuelen / Director of Programs at CGIAR, and Associate at | ||
| Chatham House | ||
| 4.14 | Mapping Emissions in the Industrial World | 256 |
| John Barrett / Professor in Energy and Climate Policy, University of Leeds, | ||
| government advisor to DEFRA, and an IPCC lead author | ||
| Alice Garvey / Research at the Sustainability Research Institute, | ||
| University of Leeds | ||
| 4.15 | The Technical Hitch | 260 |
| Ketan Joshi / Freelance writer, analyst and communications consultant, who has | ||
| previously worked for a variety of Australian and European climate organizations | ||
| 4.16 | The Challenge of Transport | 265 |
| Alice Larkin / Vice-Dean and Head of School of Engineering and a Professor of | ||
| Climate Science and Energy Policy at the Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester | ||
| 4.17 | Is the Future Electric? | 271 |
| Jillian Anable / Co-director of the University of Oxford's CREDS (Centre for | ||
| Research in Energy Demand Solutions) | ||
| Christian Brand / Co-director of UK Energy Research Centre and Associate | ||
| Professor at University of Oxford. Author of Personal Travel and Climate Change. | ||
| 4.18 | "They keep saying one thing while doing another" / Greta Thunberg | 278 |
| 4.19 | The Cost of Consumerism | 281 |
| Annie Lowrey / Staff writer at the Atlantic, covering economic policy, | ||
| and author of Give People Money | ||
| 4.20 | How (Not) To Buy | 285 |
| Mike Berners-Lee / Professor at Lancaster University's Environment Centre, | ||
| Director of Small World Consulting Ltd and author of There Is No Planet B | ||
| 4.21 | Waste Around the World | 290 |
| Silpa Kaza / Senior urban development specialist in the World Bank's Urban, | ||
| Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice | ||
| 4.22 | The Myth of Recycling | 295 |
| Nina Schrank / Senior campaigner for the Plastics Team at Greenpeace UK | ||
| 4.23 | "This is where we draw the line" / Greta Thunberg | 301 |
| 4.24 | Emissions and Growth | 306 |
| Nicholas Stern / Professor of Economics and Government Chair of | ||
| The Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Politica Science | ||
| 4.25 | Equity | 308 |
| Sunita Narain / Director-General of the Centre for Science and Environment, a | ||
| not-for-profit public interest and advocacy organization based in New Delhi | ||
| 4.26 | Degrowth | 310 |
| Jason Hickel / Economic anthropologist, author and Professor at the Institute for | ||
| Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona | ||
| 4.27 | The Perception Gap | 313 |
| Amitav Ghosh / Author of sixteen works of fiction and non-fiction, the first | ||
| English-language writer to receive India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award | ||
| PART FIVE / |
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| What We Must Do Now | ||
| 5.1 | "The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves" / Greta Thunberg | 324 |
| 5.2 | Individual Action, Social Transformation | 328 |
| Stuart Capstick / An environmental social scientist based at Cardiff University | ||
| And Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations | ||
| Lorraine Whitemarsh / Professor of Environmental Psychology, University of Bath; | ||
| Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations | ||
| 5.3 | Towards 1.5°C Lifestyles | 210 |
| Kate Raworth / Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab and | ||
| Senior Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute | ||
| 5.4 | Overcoming Climate Apathy | 337 |
| Per Espen Stoknes / A psychologist, TED Global speaker and Co-director | ||
| of the Centre for Sustainability at the Norwegian Business School | ||
| 5.5 | Changing Our Diets | 340 |
| Gideon Eshel / Professor of Environmental Physics at Bard College, New York | ||
| 5.6 | Remembering the Ocean | 344 |
| Ayana Elizabeth Johnson / Marine biologist, co-founder of the policy think tank | ||
| Urban Ocean Lab, co-editor of All We Can Save, and co-creator of How To Save a Planet | ||
| Simone Gingrich / Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Ecology, | ||
| University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna | ||
| 5.7 | Rewilding | 348 |
| George Monbiot / Writer, filmmaker, and environmental activist; author of a | ||
| weekly column for The Guardian as well as various books and videos | ||
| Rebeca Wrigley / Founder and Chief Executive of Rewilding Britain, who has | ||
| worked in conservatism and community development for thirty years | ||
| 5.8 | "We now have to do the seemingly impossible" / Greta Thunberg | 354 |
| 5.9 | Practical Utopias | 360 |
| Margaret Atwood / Booker Prize-inning author of more than fifty | ||
| books of fiction, poetry and critical essays | ||
| 5.10 | People Power | 364 |
| Erica Chenoweth / Political scientist, Professor at Harvard University | ||
| 5.11 | Changing the Media Narrative | 369 |
| George Monbiot / Writer, filmmaker, and environmental activist; author of a | ||
| weekly column for The Guardian as well as various books and videos | ||
| 5.12 | Resisting the New Denialism | 372 |
| Michael E. Mann / Atmospheric Sciences at Penn State, IPCC contributor, | ||
| and author of many books including The New Climate War | ||
| 5.13 | A Genuine Emergency Response | 375 |
| Seth Klein / Team lead with the Climate emergency Unit and author of | ||
| A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency | ||
| 5.14 | Lessons from the Pandemic | 378 |
| David Wallace-wells / New York Times opinion writer and magazine columnist; | ||
| author of The Uninhabitable Earth | ||
| 5.15 | "Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice" / Greta Thunberg | 386 |
| 5.16 | A Just Transition | 390 |
| Naomi Klein / Journalist and bestselling author; UBC Professor of Climate Justice and | ||
| Co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia | ||
| 5.17 | What Does Equity Mean To You[?] | 396 |
| Nicki Becker / Law student and climate justice advocate from Argentina | ||
| Co-founder of Jovenes por clima; active in Fridays for Future MAPA | ||
| Disha Ravi / Indian climate and environmental justice activist and writer | ||
| Hilda Flavia Nakabuye / Climate and environmental rights activist who founded | ||
| Uganda's Fridays for Future movement | ||
| Laura Verónica Muñoz / Ecofeminist from the Colombian Andean mountains | ||
| involved in Fridays for Future, Pacto X el Clima, and Unite for Climate Action | ||
| Ina Maria Shikongo / Mother, climate justice activist and poet active in the | ||
| Fridays for Future International movement | ||
| Ayisha Siddiqa / Pakistani-American storyteller, climate justice advocate and | ||
| Co-founder of Polluters Out and Fossil Free University | ||
| Mitzi Jonelle Tan / Full-time climate justice advocate based in the Philippines | ||
| involved with Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines and Fridays for Future | ||
| 5.18 | Women and the Climate Crisis | 402 |
| Wanjira Mathai / Kenyan environmentalist and activist, and Vice-President | ||
| and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute | ||
| 5.19 | Decarbonization Requires Redistribution | 405 |
| Lucas Chancel / Co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the | ||
| Paris School of Economics, and Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po | ||
| Thomas Piketty / Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics, | ||
| and author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture | ||
| 5.20 | Climate Reparations | 410 |
| Olúfémi O. Táwò / Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, | ||
| and author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture | ||
| 5.21 | Minding Our Relationship with the Earth | 415 |
| Robin Wall Kimmerer / SUNY Distinguished Teacher of Environmental Biology, | ||
| founder and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment | ||
| 5.22 | "Hope is something you have to learn" / Greta Thunberg | 421 |
| What Next? | 424 | |
| Index | 437 | |
| Illustration Credits | 444 | |
| A Note on the Cover | 446 | |
| Ed Hawkins / Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading | ||
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