Climate Change Future

In 2002, an Antarctic ice shelf that had survived for about 10,000 years broke apart in roughly five weeks. Scientists had expected the ice to go one day. What stunned them was the speed. That collapse is the clearest picture we have of a tipping point: a part of the planet that holds steady for a long time, then changes fast, and doesn’t easily change back. Earth’s Tipping Points is a clear, sourced guide to climate change and its tipping points for readers with no science background. It explains what these thresholds are, how scientists find them, which ones are closest, and what has ...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times...

A sweeping account of how the Arctic became the next arena of global conflict as the great powers battle over trade routes, resources, and military dominance from Greenland to Siberia—by award-winning Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar. As polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control." —David Mitchell “A testament to the...

Audiobook narrated by Gibson Frazier "As If We Were Staying is more than a memoir; it’s an antidote to despair—a vision for how to commit to hope on a planet where the outlook feels increasingly dire."—Ari Shapiro, journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Best Strangers in...

Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late. A warning and a rallying-cry. 'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris Packham A global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our...

When Denver breaks under climate collapse, 61-year-old Claire Cutler loses it all—and joins a gran caravan to quit surviving and start living. The crash doesn’t come all at once, across the whole country. For Claire Cutler and her bad-influence friend Lisa, it starts the day Colorado goes bankrupt. They're both laid off from their state jobs. The New Dust Bowl has emptied the Plains. Climate refugees flood into Denver. There’s no housing, no food, no work—and no help coming. When Claire sends her dual-citizen granddaughter to safety in Canada, something breaks in her. Her last tie ...

The future isn't arriving one trend at a time. It's arriving all at once. Right now, five massive forces are accelerating simultaneously: artificial intelligence is rewriting how we work, climate change is reshaping where and how we live, demographic shifts are upending economies, geopolitical realignment is redrawing the global order, and macroeconomic pressures are transforming what prosperity even means. Individually, each of these would be enough to define a generation. Together, they're about to collide in ways almost nobody is preparing for. The Next Ten Years doesn't just list ...

A timely exposé of the ludicrous and cruel obsessions of Silicon Valley’s oligarchs. “In an era when billionaire space races and AI hype dominate headlines, More Everything Forever arrives as a much-needed reality check.” —The Atlantic Tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos...

Modern military thriller meets hard science fiction in this harrowing narrative where nations face off across the planet and up in space. When climate change pushes the United States to the brink of civil war, China tries to take advantage of the countrywide chaos by launching an assault in force. The Chinese Communist Party finds that the most powerful nation in the world can still defend her title in spite of the deadly domestic disturbances. A cold war sets in, which turns hot again when the terrestrial superpowers clash over the ability to harvest asteroid-bound precious metals in space...

Climate change is reshaping the water systems that societies depend on, turning warming into failed rains, falling aquifers, and rising floods. This book connects the physical science of a changing water cycle to the management, governance, and finance decisions that determine whether water remains secure. - Understand how a warming atmosphere intensifies and reorganizes the global water cycle - Analyze the detection, attribution, and projection of hydrological change under deep uncertainty - Discover why water scarcity, drought, and groundwater depletion are accelerating worldwide - ...

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest...

*Now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal* A taut, psychological thriller from Iain Reid, “one of the most talented purveyors of weird, dark narratives in contemporary fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books). Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving...

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions with...

Corruption permeates the highest echelons of government and academia, and climate change policy has become a weapon to control every facet of our lives: from the cars we drive to the food we eat to the homes we own, and even the families we raise. This is the true story of a NOAA scientist who was an unwitting pawn in the global climate change agenda. When he uncovered a conspiracy orchestrated by high-level officials, his career and personal life were threatened by some of the world’s most powerful figures.

“Gripping…Ackerman and Stavridis stage a harrowing global conflict that pits military might against an appetite for justice… equal parts haunting and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet...

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has...

Changes in CO2 occur after, not before, temperature changes! This means that CO2 is not the cause of climate change, the rise or fall of temperatures, but rather a consequence of them. CO2 changes after temperatures because CO2 is the gas of life. Life is made of carbon. The higher the temperatures, the greater the presence of life and the more CO2 living organisms release into the environment. When the ice age begins, life declines and consequently, so does CO2. CO2 is essential for life. Plants and trees feed on the carbon taken from CO2, thanks to photosynthesis. When CO2 decreases, it ...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents an important examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at...