Annotated Bibliography
Flannery, Tim F. The Weather Makers. Melbourne, Australia: Text Publishing Company, 2005. This book lived up to the promise of making the massive topic of global warming and human induced climate change accessible. It strikes far more on the complexities of the 1.13 degree Fahrenheit than that simple number would suggest are possible.
Ayres, Ian. Super Crunchers. New York: Random House, 2007. The breadth of application for super crunching of data sets covered here is amazing. While the content does not delve into climate change, its examination of consumer markets, economics, policy science, medical industry, education, and a number of other subjects make it engrossing. The challenge will be to further examine how super crunching has been and can be applied to climate policy decision making.
Bernstein, et al, "Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report." An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Report adopted section by section at IPCC Plenary XXVII, Valencia, Spain, November 12-17, 2007. This document cannot be overvalued as a tool for comprehensive, objective understanding of the best and worst case scenarios of carbon emissions on our global environment. The findings of the IPCC have been underutilized by media in the past two years and can become a primary resource for teachers of mathematics and other fields.
Polya, G. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1945. This book has been a continued inspiration for me and also informative to each paper that I have written within the Institute approach for the Pittsburgh Teachers Institute. It is an essential for math teachers.
Wargo, John. Green Intelligence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. The breadth of study and significance of content allows the reader to absorb a great deal in a short time, which is essential to make a foray into this ever-developing field of study. While the tone of the content is measured and objective, the emphasis given to dealing with climate change is sincere and could be summed up with Benjamin Franklin's adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Doucet, Clive. Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual. British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2007. Though I make only a scant reference to this novel in my research unit above, it has done a great deal to inform my sense of connection between climate change and municipal politics. Doucet, as a city councilor in Ottawa, opens many avenues of thought as I consider my own city's governance and the lessons I can provide to students.
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