Reading List for Students
Gelbspan, Ross., The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate. Addison-Wesley, 1997. Written by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist about how the current oil industry has manipulated evidence to create uncertainty in the scientific community in order to slow down policy response to global warming.
Gore, A., An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. Rodale Press. 2006. This book is an easy read and is full of colorful images and packed with data on global warming.
Hannah, l., Midgley, G.F., Lovejoy, T., Bond, W.j., Bush, M., Lovett J.C. Scott, D., and Woodward, F.J., Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate. Conservation Biology 2002; 16: 264-268. This article discusses how models are used to predict changes in biodiversity due to climate changes. It also lists five key elements for conservation strategies at local levels.
Hassel, S.J., Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assesment Cambridge University Press 2004. This report provides an assessment of the Arctic response to global warming. It is through and has lots of colorful graphs and pictures.
IPCC 2001 Global Warming: New Scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Population and Developmental Review 2001; 27:203-208. A great summary on the most recent predictions by the IPCC on rising temperature, precipitation, ocean currents, climate variability and sea level rise.
Jensen, M.N., Consensus on Economical Impacts Remains Elusive. Science 2002; 299:38 A great high school level summary article on how scientist and economists debate the effects of climate change.
McKibben, B, The End of Nature, Random House, 1989. A great read on how serious global warming is and how we can make changes to our lives the help prevent climate change.
Norby, R.J., and Luo, Y., Evaluating Ecosystem Responses to Rising Atmospheric CO 2 and Global Warming in a Multifactor World. New Phytologist 2004; 162: 281-293. This article provides a through discussion on how science is conducted for climate change and ecosystem response. It highlights how data and models are fused to come up with future predictions.
Poff. N.L., Brinson, M.M., and Day, J.W., Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Climate Change. Pew Center on Global Climate Change Repot. 2002. This article examines the potential impacts of climate change on U.S. aquatic ecosystems over the next century. It is a well rounded resource for impacts of climate changes on aquatic systems.
Schneider, S.H., Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose. HarperCollins, 1997. Describes how the U.S. is behind in dealing with the responses to global warming.
Wuethrich, B., How Climate Change Alters Rhythms of the Wild, 2000 Science, 287:793-795. This is a summary of how animals are being affected by climate change. It is at a high school level.
O'Neill, B.C., and Oppenheimer, M., Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol. Science 2002; 296: 1971-1972 This article is a good high school read which highlights how important it is to follow the Kyoto Protocol or risk a complete shut down of ocean currents and devastation to coral reefs.
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